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Saint Petersburg

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Short description of Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg (Санкт-Петербург) was founded by Peter the Great on Baltic marshland and built as a European capital facing away from old Russia, a city of granite embankments, canals and long straight prospects. The Winter Palace holds the Hermitage, whose collection runs from Scythian gold to Matisse across a thousand rooms. Along the canal behind it stands the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood, its exterior a mass of coloured domes and its interior lined entirely with mosaic. The imperial summer palaces at Peterhof and Tsarskoye Selo lie half an hour out. In midsummer the sky never fully darkens.

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Recommended length of stay

Minimum3 days
Optimal4 days
Maximum7 days

Travel seasons at a glance

Best time to visit: May – September

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All highlights and sightsBeta

  1. Peterhof and the Grand Cascade fountains (May - October)(Day trip)
  2. State Hermitage Museum in the Winter Palace
  3. Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood
  4. Historic centre of Saint Petersburg (UNESCO World Heritage)
  5. Catherine Palace and the Amber Room at Tsarskoye Selo(Day trip)
  6. Saint Isaac's Cathedral and its colonnade
  7. Nevsky Prospekt
  8. Peter and Paul Fortress
  9. Kazan Cathedral
  10. Russian Museum
  11. White nights and the raised drawbridges (June - July)
  12. Bronze Horseman on Senate Square
  13. Cruiser Aurora at its permanent mooring
  14. Mariinsky Theatre
  15. Yusupov Palace and the Rasputin rooms
  16. Faberge Museum in the Shuvalov Palace
  17. Canal boat trip through the Griboyedov and Moyka
  18. Spit of Vasilyevsky Island and the rostral columns
  19. Kunstkamera
  20. Alexander Nevsky Lavra and the Tikhvin Cemetery
  21. Summer Garden
  22. Smolny Cathedral and its bell tower view
  23. New Holland Island
  24. Pavlovsk Park(Day trip)
  25. Gatchina Palace and its park(Day trip)
  26. Naval Cathedral at Kronstadt(Day trip)
  27. Oranienbaum palace and park at Lomonosov(Day trip)
  28. Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art
  29. Pyshki counters and the Soviet-era canteens

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