St. Peterburg
City Tour
TOUR HIGHLIGHTS
Join us on a 3-hour coaching tour
of a city, rightfully described as
«Northern Venice» or «Pearl of
the Baltic»; Drive along the
«Great Perspective» world famous
today as Nevsky Prospect lined
with marble palaces of Russian
royalty and aristocracy, with most
fashionable boutiques and art
salons arranged in old settings
of the 18th century, trading rows
and arcades, with impressive
classical and Renaissance
cathedrals and churches as its
backdrop, enjoy this 4.5 km long
thorough-fare cut through woods
and marshes from the Admiralty
with the city’s symbol (2 ship) on
top of its gilded spire to the
Monastery of Alexander Nevsky, one
of four Russia’s Lavras with its
magnificent Trinity Cathedral and
its cemetery where Dostoevsky,
Tchaikovsky and other world
celebrities were buried;
-Stop over at an excellent picture
opportunity with a stunning
panorama along the Neva’s
embankments, by the city’s
Rostral Columns you will have a
view of the 5 buildings of the
State Hermitage Museum and the
fortress of St.Peter and Paul -
the cradle of Russia’s new
capital, the first public museum
of the country - the Chamber of
Curiosities, founded by Peter the
Great and the 4th world’s largest
domed structures - St.Isaac
Cathedral with «The Bronze
Horseman» unveiled in Senate
Square. Drive by Summer Garden
with the oldest royal stone palace
and breathtaking collection of
Italian statues and sculpture set
in a natural environment of linden
trees and ponds with ducks and
swans, all surrounded by cast iron
fence whose beauty is frequently
described as every kilo of cast
iron being worth a kilo of gold;
-Stop in the Field of Mars with
the eternal flame lit in the
center of the monument to victims
of revolutions and wars, take
pictures of the Resurrection
Cathedral on the Spilt Blood at
its background, one of the most
unusual monuments of Russian
Orthodox architecture built on the
spot where Alexander II was
assassinated;
-Drive through the Square of Arts
which is a perfect classical
ensemble of the city;
-Stop to enjoy an overwhelming
beauty of the third largest square
in the world - the Palace Square
with the Alexander Column at its
center being the world’s biggest
free-standing architectural
monument, nearly 50 meters high
to the top of the cross and over
600 tons in weight, the Alexander
Column has become surprisingly
harmonious element of the Palace
Square together with the
Triumphal Arch of the general
Staff building on its one side and
the Winter Palace complex on
another;
-Have a 30 min walking tour on the
grounds of St.Peter and Paul
Fortress with the Cathedral of St.Peter
and Paul being a visual monument
to Russia’s military glory and a
sepulchre of the Romanovs
including the recently reburied
holy remains of Nicolas II and his
family.
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