Manege, former riding academy

Конногвардейский манеж

Built for the Imperial Horse Guards fronting on Saint Isaac's Square, in 1804-07 to Quarenghi's austere Neoclassical design. The Horse Guards Boulevard takes its name from the building. The Manege is a low, rectangular block with arched openings and lunettes. Look like a 'mimics a 5th-century BC Athenian temple with a portico of eight Doric columns bearing a pediment and bas reliefs'. The marble statues of the Dioscuri standing beside their horses were patterned by sculptor Paolo Triscornia after the Fontana dei Dioscuri in Rome. Until to the late 1970s, the Saint Petersburg Manege has housed the city's main exhibition hall.

• Built 1807

• museum

Address

Konnogvardeyskiy bulvar, 2

Getting there

: 70, 100 or: 5, 22 to stop 'Улица Якубовича'

Hours

Closed · opens 11 am tomorrow

Weekly hours

Mon	11 am–8 pm
Tue	11 am–8 pm
Wed	11 am–9 pm
Thu	11 am–8 pm
Fri	11 am–8 pm
Sat	11 am–8 pm
Sun	11 am–8 pm

Phone

+7 812 6111100

Website

manege.spb.ru (opens in a new tab)