The Central Saint Petersburg is the oldest part of the city after the Peter and Paul Fortress.
The CBS is also a main traffic hub, with tramways, trolleybuses, buses, marshrutkas, and the Moscow Rail Terminal.
Sadovaya Street is a main street in downtown with high traffic, home to Yusupov Palace, Apraksin Dvor department store, and crossing the Sennaya Square; a main square,[1] with entertainment, commercial and many shops.
On the other side of the cathedral is the Decembrists Square, next to the Admiralty building, and the location of the Bronze Horseman.
Arts Square is home to the Russian Museum, the Mikhaylovsky Theatre, the Large Concert Hall (Bolshoi Zal) of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Pushkin monument and is not far from the Church of the Savior on Blood.