St Petersburg Walking Tour

Informazioni generali

Destinazione
San Pietroburgo, Russia

Il programma nel dettaglio

Our tour will begin on Nevsky Prospect, the main thoroughfare of St. Petersburg and the city’s most beautiful and important avenue. It is the commercial and social heart of the city; an animated place full of shops and cafes where the inhabitants of the city love to walk and have fun. We will admire some of its most important buildings, such as the Anichkov, Stroganov and Beloselsky-Belozersky palaces; the Gostiny Dvor Department Store; the Eliseev, Mertens, and Singer houses; and the Anichkov Bridge. Nevsky Prospect is also home to some of the most important churches in St. Petersburg: the Lutheran Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, the Catholic Church of St. Catherine, the Armenian Church of St. Catherine, and the imposing neoclassical colonnade of Our Lady of Kazan Cathedral.

We will walk in front of the sumptuous Grand Hotel Europe on our way to discovering the Arts Quartier, and around the majestic Mikhailovsky Palace, which hosts the Russian Museum. Located in the same square are Mikhailovsky Theatre, the Theatre of Musical Comedy, the Philharmonic, and the imposing façade of the Ethnographic Museum. A short distance from Nevsky Prospect the multi-coloured onion domes of the Church of the Saviour on Blood soar above Griboyedov canal. As we follow the Moika River, surrounded by delightful painted facades, we will arrive at the former Winter Palace, today the Hermitage Museum.

Crossing the Neva by the Palace Bridge will offer a splendid view of the Hermitage, the Strelka with its Rostral Columns, and the Peter and Paul Fortress. We will pass along the majestic Neva next to the Admiralty and its famous spire - one of the symbols of the city - in front of the historical buildings of the University, the Menchikov palace, Kunstkamera, and the Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts. We will then arrive at Senate Square, where the famous mounted statue of Peter the Great, named the "Bronze Horseman", is situated. After that we will go around the imposing St. Isaac’s Cathedral with its majestic granite columns and gilded dome, ending our promenade on the elegant street Bolshaya Morskaya, near Nevsky Prospect.


Duration: 9 hours.

Start/opening time: At 10am.

End/closing time: At 1pm.