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City sightseeing tour

Descriptions:

The city sightseeing tour includes all major attractions of St. Petersburg. During the tour guests will be driven along the square of Arts, the Russian museums, the Cathedral of Our Savior on the Blood, Griboedov canal, Nevsky prospect, the Palace square, the Winter Palace, the spit of the Basil Island, the Menshikov Palace, the Senate square, the Bronze Horseman, St. Isaac's Cathedral, St. Isaac's square, The Palace Embankment, The Field of Mars, The Summer Garden, cruiser Aurora, Smolny Cathedral.

Tour to the Hermitage Art Museums with visit to the Treasure Gallery

The State Hermitage is situated along the embankment of the River Neva, right in the heart of St Petersburg. The leading role in this unique architectural ensemble is played by the Winter Palace, the residence of the Russian tsars that was built to the design of Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli in 1754-62.

The tour covers the highlights of the main collections including Italian Renaissance, Dutch art, Impressionists & Post-impressionists. It also the living quarters of the Royal family of the Romanov's.

Tour to Our Savior on the Split Blood Cathedral

The Resurrection Temple (Saviour on Spilt Blood) was being raised between 1883 and 1907 at the spot where Alexander the First was mortally wounded. The temple incorporated a slew of decorative elements typical of numerous Moscow and Yaroslav temples of the 17th centure that had been so refined both in form and shape. The temple can be truly regarded as a museum of the Russian mosaic art at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries, and thus as the world's masterpiece in this capacity.

Tour to the St. Isaac's Cathedral

St. Isaac's Cathedral is a remarkable architectural monument of the Late Classicism. It was St.Petersburg principal cathedral before 1917. Being raised for forty years between 1818 and 1858 by the design of August Monferrand, Isaac's Cathedral is one of the world's largest dome buildings with the dome diameter spanning for about 21.8 m. A magnificent view of the city heart opens up for visitors from the cathedral's upper colonnade at a height of 43 meters.

Visit to park ensemble and the Monplaisir Palace in Peterhof

The world-famous palace, fountain and park ensemble of Peterhof is an outstanding landmark of Russian artistic culture of the 18-19th centuries. Founded in the very beginning of the eighteenth century by Emperor Peter the Great not far from his new northern capital St Petersburg, Peterhof was intended to become the most splendid official royal summer residence.

Tour to Tsarskoe Selo with visit to the Catherine Palace and Amber room

The history of Tsarskoe Selo goes back to the beginning of the 18th century, when in 1708 Peter the Great presented the estate “Saari Mojs” (in future “Saarskoe Selo”) to his wife Catherine Alekseyevna.

The art collection of the Catherine Palace includes more than 20,000 objects, many of them extraordinary, such as Russian and Western European paintings from the 17th to 19th centuries, furniture designed by Chippendale, Jacob, Roentgen, Russian and Western European bronze and porcelain collection and the world-famous Amber Room.