Weekend in St. Petersburg

4 days / 3 nights

Day 1

Arrival in St. Petersburg

Transfer to the hotel (without guide)

Day 2

Breakfast at the hotel

Meeting with your guide.

10:00 - 14:00 City tour of Classical St. Petersburg. You will see a unique architectural phenomenon called the Historic Center of St. Petersburg, which was entirely included in the list of World Heritage Sites. This was one of the first cases in UNESCO's practice when the status of monument was granted to a huge landscape, where hundreds of thousands of people live. You will see the monumental St. Isaac's Cathedral, the Admiralty, the Neva River with its granite-clad banks, the Sphinxes brought from Egypt on the University Embankment and aristocratic palaces facing the Neva, the Spit of Vasilyevsky Island with the Rostral Columns, the Peter-and Paul-Fortress, the Winter Palace and the Palace Square, the Summer Garden and the Field of Mars, the Mikhailovsky Castle, the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood, picturesque palaces of Nevsky Prospekt, Kazan and Smolny Cathedrals.

Optional:

Visit to the Hermitage Museum. The State Hermitage Museum is a world-known museum of art and culture. Its collections, only a small part of which is on permanent display, comprise over three million items. The exhibition halls feature works of Italian Renaissance artists, including Giorgione, Titian, Veronese, and Leonardo da Vinci; Italian and Spanish fine art including Tintoretto, Velázquez and Murillo; Dutch Golden Age and Flemish Baroque painting, including the large collections of Van Dyck, Rubens and Rembrandt, and many other paintings and sculptures. The collections occupy a large complex of six historic buildings along Palace Embankment, including the Winter Palace, a former residence of Russian emperors.

Duration of the tour including transfers: 4 hours

Free time

Overnight stay at the hotel

Day 3

Breakfast at the hotel

Meeting with the guide.

10:00 - 13:00 City tour of New Points of Interest & Landmarks in St. Petersburg. We will take a tour of the new sights of St. Petersburg and see Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt with a stop at the Great Cathedral Mosque. Then we continue to Austrian Square and Leo Tolstoy Square. We allow us some time to feel sad at the monument of Weeping Angel - a memorial to the medics who died during the coronavirus pandemic. The sculpture is made in the form of a sad angel, who is sitting on a bench with his head down. Next, we will see Krestovsky Island and Gazprom Arena - St. Petersburg's newest soccer stadium, which hosted matches of the 2018 FIFA World Cup and matches of the 2021 European Championship. We continue to see the 462-meter-tall Lakhta Center Tower, which has become the northernmost skyscraper in the world. Next to the Lakhta Center we will see the Monument to Peter the Great saving drowning people near Lakhta. The installation of the sculpture was timed to the 350th anniversary of the birth of Peter the Great, the founder of St. Petersburg. According to legend, Peter once saved drowning fishermen on this very spot. After that, the emperor caught a cold and, perhaps, that is why he passed away.

Return to the hotel.

Free time

Overnight stay at the hotel

Day 4

Breakfast at the hotel

Check-out of the hotel

Transfer to the hotel (without guide)

Program sequence is subject to change due to organizational reasons!The starting times specified in the program are advisory and may change depending on the transport situation and the entrance time confirmed by the museum!

Rates and availability need to be reconfirmed!