Walking tour "Stone decoration of St. Petersburg"

Tour along the route from the University Embankment, through the spit of Vasilievsky Island, Palace Embankment along Bolshaya Morskaya Street to St. Isaac's Square.

The route includes acquaintance with all genetic types of rocks: sedimentary (limestones: Pudozh stone, for example, in the facades of the first buildings of St. Petersburg, including their hydrothermal varieties - calcareous tuffs - travertines in the bases of the rostral columns, sculptures of the main entrance of the Admiralty), sandstones (Bolshaya Morskaya Street, 22); igneous - ancient granites of different ages - plagiomicrocline Valaam, Serdobol plagiogranites, with essentially microcline, the calling card of our stone city - rapakivi, etc.; rocks of the main composition - gabbro (Bolshaya Morskaya Street, 35); metamorphogenic: serpentinites (Bolshaya Morskaya St., 14), garnet gneisses (Nevsky Ave., 1), Shoksha quartzite sandstones, marbles (the monument to Nicholas I on St. Isaac's Square, St. Isaac's Cathedral), etc.