St. Petersburg Travel Guide
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Central Nevskii Prospekt is a grand-scale thoroughfare cutting right through the heart of the city. The rough triangle (to the north of Nevskii) formed by the street's central stretch, the Fontanka canal and the Neva is crammed full of St Petersburg's main cultural attractions and a good number of its restaurants and places of entertainment. … Read St. Petersburg introduction
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Isaakievskii Sobor (St. Isaac's Cathedral)
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During the first part of the 19th century, 11,000 serfs drove 25,000 wooden planks into the ground creating the foundation for what would become St Isaac's Cathedral. More than 100 kilos of pure gold was used to gild the dome and the 112 …
Mama Roma
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One of the most popular venues for Italian cuisine. Friendly, hands-on management makes it worthy of its excellent reputation, and although the menu is largely unoriginal, the food is as good here as anywhere else and comes in generous …
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No matter how much time you allow for your visit to this city it will not be long enough. The architecture is breathtaking and the Hermitage needs a week to really do it justice, try to include ... more
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Introduction
St Petersburg has been dubbed the Venice of the North for its palace-lined waterways. It managed to escape the architectural incursions of Stalinism and its grandiose relics of tsarist days are largely intact. Sculpted by islands and the sinuous Neva River, the city is a vista of geometric …
Not to miss
Summer Garden This is perhaps St Petersburg's loveliest and oldest park. Laid out for Peter the Great with fountains, pavilions and a geometrical plan to resemble the park at Versailles, it became a stomping ground for 19th-century ladies (and gentlemen) of leisure. Though changed now, its …
Facts for the Traveller
Population : 5000000 Area : 600km² Longitude / Latitude : 30.26417 / 59.89444 Currency : Russian Ruble (RUB) Weights & Measures system : Metric
Getting there & Getting around
Getting there St Petersburg is Russia's second largest air hub, although it lags far behind Moscow in terms of the number of long-haul connections. It's well-connected throughout Europe and the former Soviet Union, but from Asia, Australasia and the Americas you'll usually have to change …
History
Recent History Happily, in the new millennium these problems are starting to be left behind. Vladimir Putin's election to the presidency in March 2000 has upped the city's profile (he's spent most of his life in St Petersburg and is very fond of the city), and its infrastructure and architectural …
Weather
St Petersburg experiences a maritime climate similar to the Baltic nations, having lighter winters and slightly cooler summers than other regions of Russia further east and inland. The real climatic culprit is the chilly Gulf of Finland wind, which makes a warm hat and scarf a necessity. Summary …
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Overview
Conceived in the soul of a visionary emperor, St. Petersburg is Russia's adopted child. With its strict geometric lines and perfectly planned architecture, so unlike the Russian cities that came before it, St. Petersburg is almost too European to be Russian. And yet it is too Russian to be …
Where to eat & what to do
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Popular Attractions in St. Petersburg
- 1.Gatchinskii Dvorets (Gatchina Palace)
- 2.Isaakievskii Sobor (St. Isaac's Cathedral)
- 3.Dvenadtsat' Kollegi (Twelve Colleges)
- 4.Peterhof
- 5.Museum of Hygiene (Muzei Gigieny)
- 6.Buddhist Temple (Buddiiskii Khram )
- 7.Kunstkamera
- 8.Tsarskoe Selo
- 9.Mednyi Sadnik (The Bronze Horseman)
- 10.Smolnyi Institut (Smolnyi Institute)
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