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Interior of St Isaac's Cathedral

Built in 1710, the first church of St. Isaac's was made of wood. The interior of the church is as impressive as its exterior. The interior fascinates because of the magnificence of its form. The profusion of frescoes, mosaics and sculptures, combined with marble, semiprecious stones, gold and a variety of colours are really impressive! The pillars, the other elements of the altar, and the two chapels of the cathedral were decorated with 400kg of gold, 1,000 tons of bronze, 16,000kg of malachite and more than 11 square meters of Badakhshan Lapis. For the wall and floor decoration, black Caucasus

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St. Isaac´s Cathedral

This is a powerful building.. St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg is large and can accommodate 2,000 people. It took 40 years to construct and has a bit of Spanish remains: the scaffolds are from a Spanish engineer. The cathedral is decorated with 112 columns. The inside must be worth a lot. Among the vast amount of marble, malachite an lights, a precious environment is created, and it looks as though not one detail is missing. Today the cathedral is a museum. To see the cathedral well, I recommend you do it from a little further away. In fact, across the street is a park where you can see

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