Hermitage Museum complex" was a creation of Catherine's that allowed all kinds of festivities to take place in the palace, the theatre and even the museum of the Hermitage. This helped solidify the Hermitage as not only a dwelling place for the Imperial family, but also as an important symbol and memorial to the imperial Russian state. Today, the palace and the museum are one and the same. In Catherine's day, the Winter Palace served as a central part of what was called the Palace Square. The Palace Square served as St. Petersburg’s nerve center by linking it to all the city's
Restelo Hermitage its rectangular window and southern doorway is covered with a star-shaped ribbed vaulted ceiling. The altar is decorated with Mudéjar azulejo tiles, the original of which is housed in the "Museu do Azulejo" ("Museum of Azulejo"). Restelo Hermitage The Hermitage of Restelo (), alternately Chapel of Saint Jerome (), is a hermitage in the civil parish of Santa Maria de Belém, in the municipality of Lisbon. The religious architecture has Manueline and revivalist Neo-manueline elements, consisting of a single-nave structure with a vaulted ceiling and surrounded by a modernist landscape, as evidenced by a preoccupation with choice of plants and