University Embankment is a 1.2 km long embankment on the right bank of the Bolshaya Neva, on Vasilievsky Island in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Starting at the Spit of Vasilievsky Island, it spans between Palace Bridge and Blagoveshchensky Bridge. Quay with Sphinxes, a quay in front of the Imperial Academy of Arts, is remarkable for the two ancient sphinxes that were brought from Egypt to Russia at the height of Egyptomania in 1832. The quay was completed in 1834.
Unesco: Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments
RR: 10 Countries RR (20)
Date: Dec 27
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