Gatchina — this small city is Leningrad Oblast's largest after Saint Petersburg and boasts a magnificent palace, which is part of Petersburg's UNESCO World Heritage Site network
Ivangorod — the Russian half of a city split in two at the fall of the USSR, across the river is Narva and two big medieval castles stare each other down from each city across the Narva River, the new border of Russia and Estonia
Lodeynoye Polye — home to a pretty cathedral and the Alexander Svirsky Monastery
Priozersk — a popular dacha town with a big medieval Karelian castle
Staraya Ladoga — an incredible gem of a sleepy village, this is the first capital of Russia, founded in the eighth century, which was for its first 200 years one of the most important ports in Eastern Europe; boasts some very old churches with twelfth century frescoes painted by Russian Master Andrei Rublev and Russia's first kremlin, built by the first Russian Tsar, the Rus Viking Rurik
Where To Stay & Best Hotels in Leningrad Oblast - updated May 2024
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