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 Palace Square, Alexander column  The Winter Palace |
Day 1 I offer you to spend the first part of the day in the State Hermitage Museum - the second largest (after Louvre in France) museum in the world. Visiting the State Rooms of the Imperial residence, departments of West European painting (such masterpieces as works by Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Gainsborough, Rembrandt, and much more) and get acquainted with one of the best collections of masterpieces by impressionists, post-impressionists, Matisse and Picasso After the Hermitage you will make a general sightseeing tour of St. Petersburg, visiting the most famous historic sights such as Palace Square, Decemberist (Senate) Square, the famous Bronze Horseman (this monument to Peter the Great has become one of the most widely known symbols of St. Petersburg), St. Isaac's Square (visiting St. Isaac's Cathedral - the largest in Russia, able to accept 12000 people and climbing the colonnade of St. Isaac's - to get the bird's eye view of the city), the Admiralty, the outstanding architectural ensemble of the Spit of Vassilievsky Island, going to Petrograd side - another island of the city, visiting Peter and Paul Fortress (the very first construction of the city, Petersburg's birthplace, the exposition of the museum includes Sts Peter and Paul Cathedral the burial vault of the Imperial Family - the Romanovs, the very first church of St. Petersburg and a number of expositions devoted to St. Petersburg history and everyday life, among them the political prison, that used to be located in the Fortress), the Field of Mars, Michalovsky Castle, Michailovsky Palace, Square of Fine Arts, the famous Nevsky Prospect (the main street of the city) and many other outstanding architectural and historic sights. |
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Day 1 Meet at the airport/train station. Transfer to your hotel. Day 2 I offer you to devote this day to the Panoramic tour of St.Petersburg by car, including stops and short walks in the most picturesque and famous places of our city and inside visits to Peter and Paul Fortress - the birthplace of St.Petersburg and burial vault of all the Romanov-tsars, the icon of St.Petersburg skyline St.Isaac's Cathedral and Church on the Blood, the world's largest museum of mosaics. Your impressions of St.Petersburg will not be full without a river and canal boat tour - you can choose a comfortable Bayliner Capri powerboat and see twice more than from a regular boat. Day 3 I offer you to start this day with a trip outside the city to Peterhof. Driving there by car you'll get to see a lot of interesting sights (e.g.Strelna Palace of the Russian President) as well as everyday life flow in regular resinetial areas. In Peterhof the tour will focus on the unique fountain gardens (Upper and Lower Gardens), and you'll visit one of the smaller museums - Monplaisir Palace of Peter the Great or Royal Kitchens and Baths or Catherine Block. You'll return to St.Petersburg city centre by hydrofoil across the Gulf of Finland. A general tour of the State Hermitage Museum in the afternoon.
Day 4 I offer You to spend this day outside St. Petersburg, visiting the town of Pushkin first to tour the Cathrine Palace and Park ensemble and then Pavlovsk, located just a few km away from Pushkin. Day 5 Departure transfer to the airport/train station.
|  Egyptian Sphinx on the Neva River  One of the Hermitage buildings |
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