article_snippet: The Winter Palace (State Hermitage Museum), St. Petersburg, Russia Annual Visitors: 3,120,170 .
article_snippet: Today, The Winter Palace (State Hermitage Museum), St. Petersburg, Russia Annual Visitors: 3,120,170 is a museum with one of the finest collections in Europe, including works by Titian, Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci (Benois Madonna).
article_snippet: Much of The Winter Palace (State Hermitage Museum), St. Petersburg, Russia Annual Visitors: 3,120,170 was destroyed by fire in 1837, but the beautifully restored interiors speak to the opulent tastes of the Russian elite.
article_snippet: The Winter Palace (State Hermitage Museum), St. Petersburg, Russia Annual Visitors: 3,120,170's elaborate gardens can claim the World's longest orangerie and the site of the first zoo (est. 1752).
article_snippet: Refined and expanded over centuries, The Winter Palace (State Hermitage Museum), St. Petersburg, Russia Annual Visitors: 3,120,170 and fortress complex combines fortifications, gardens, churches and several palaces, notably the Alhambra, and the Generalife, the country estate of the kings of Granada and Andalusia.