Koporye Fortress

Leningrad Oblast · Russia

Koporye Fortress, Russia
Photo: Андрей Бобровский, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
May to September
Budget
$
Accessibility
not-accessible
Coordinates
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A ruined medieval stronghold on a rocky escarpment west of Saint Petersburg, its round towers and arched gate rising above a ravine. Built by the Novgorod Republic to hold the Baltic approaches.

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