Legendary, beautiful, wonderful… This is St. Petersburg – Russia’s “Venice of the North” – distant and enchanting, attractive and fascinating. This is the city where you can find what you have wanted for a long time, it is the place in this big world where your dreams come true!

St. Petersburg was founded on the Neva River by Tsar Peter the Great, on May 16, 1703. Surely, the city is considered not very old, but it certainly has a rich and powerful history, the study of which can help you understand that many of the most important dates in world and Russian history are related to Saint Petersburg.

They say that the city is the cultural capital of Russia, and no one can deny this fact. At a glance, one realizes that culture permeates the entire city, leaves its mark on all spheres of life in St. Petersburg.
First of all, the appearance of the city – its architectural grandeur, luxurious parks, attractive streets, avenues and alleys, many rivers and canals, the view of the Gulf of Finland – gives us an idea of ​​the great scale and grandeur of St. Petersburg. .
Secondly, the huge number of cultural institutions (museums and art galleries, palaces of culture, theaters, concert and musical halls, cinemas, etc.) give many diverse positive impressions that give us an idea of ​​the great potential capacity of art to influence our life making it better, richer, brighter.

No matter if you are coming to St. Petersburg alone or with your family and friends, be it for vocation or business, you should definitely visit some of the best highlights of St. Petersburg. Do not miss the opportunity to walk along the most famous avenue of the city, Nevskii Prospect, where you will see many beautiful and historical buildings, the wonderful sculptures of the Anichkov Bridge, the picturesque Griboedov Canal…
A city tour by bus will help you get to know other avenues and streets with their beautiful landscapes. A night tour of the city will give you the opportunity to see all the beauty of the city illuminated and to see a well-known and attractive point of attraction: the city’s bridges open.
If you are tired of roads and traffic jams, take a boat tour on the rivers and canals of St. Petersburg. It will allow you to enjoy the wonderful views of the city while afloat.

After that, you will undoubtedly want to visit a famous place.

There are a wide variety of famous museums in St. Petersburg, and the first to visit are: the Hermitage (or the Winter Palace), which is so huge that you can hardly see all the treasures kept there even in several years. , the Russian Museum, which is one of the largest picture galleries in the world, the Peter and Paul Fortress located on Zayachiy Island, which was erected for defense purposes and is now a historical museum.

Regardless of your religion, you must visit the splendid Orthodox cathedrals of Saint Petersburg that present architectural and decorative masterpieces, starting with Kazansky Cathedral with its mighty semicircle of columns, Saint Isaac’s Cathedral, which is one of the largest domed buildings of the world. and that it has a colonnade that allows you to observe the city center and the Spas-na-Krovi Cathedral with its unique exterior decorations.

And don’t miss the opportunity to go to the illustrious suburbs of Saint Petersburg, such as Peterhof with its famous cascades of fountains located in front of the Great Peterhof Palace, the Pavlovsk Ensemble with its vast park where you can feed the squirrels in summer, Pushkin where you can still the spirit of the time of the great poet remains.

In fact, it is impossible to list all the values ​​of this great magnetic city, it is much better to see everything with your own eyes. Saint Petersburg always welcomes any tourist with open arms!