Mysterious Saint-Petersburg Sightseeing Tour including The Peter & Paul Fortress

Itinerary
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Stop At: Nevsky Prospekt, St. Petersburg, Northwestern District

Take a 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.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Rostral Columns, St. Petersburg, Northwestern District

You have 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 theState Hermitage Museum, the Admiralty and St.Isaac's Cathedral.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Palace Square (Dvortsovaya Ploshchad), St. Petersburg, Northwestern District

You visit the most splendid architectural masterpieces of St.Petesurg: Fine Arts Square with the Russian Museum, the magnificent Church of Resurrection on Spilled Blood, Field of Mars, the Alexanderinsky Drama Theater, Smolny Cathedral, Senate & Synod classical buildings, the Bronze Horseman and much more. Enjoy the beauty of the third largest square in the world - the Palace Square with the Winter Palace and the Alexander Column.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Peter and Paul Fortress (Petropavlovskaya Krepost), St. Petersburg, Northwestern District

During this tour you also visit The Peter & Paul Fortress, wich is the oldest construction in Saint-Petersburg. The Peter and Paul Fortress had been created for fortification purposes, but was used as a political prison. Peter and Paul Cathedral is a unique sample of Russian 18th-century architecture that has reached us. It had for almost two centuries served as a burial-place for Russian emperors. The last Russian tsar - Nicholas II - and his family were buried in the cathedral's small St. Catherine chapel in 1998.

Duration: 1 hour