Saint Petersburg in 2 days

We will start with a panoramic sightseeing tour by car that will show you the face of Saint Petersburg: its famous palaces, riverbanks, bridges, canals, and everything that forms the inimitable silhouette of this city. This is the first step in the journey you will take to get to know all the gems of Russia’s Venice of the North. During this tour you will see:
- Nevsky Prospect
- Mariinsky Theatre
- Field of Mars
- Saint Isaac’s Cathedral
- Church of the Savior on Blood (with an excursion inside the church)
- Senate and Synod building
- The Imperial Academy of Arts building, etc.

After lunch, getting to know the Winter Palace, where the famous Hermitage Museum is located. Here you can find a lot of masterpieces from all over the world, and it is fairly hard to imagine a trip to Saint Petersburg without a visit to this museum. Our guide will accompany you through the Winter Palace’s main halls, and tell you about the most significant pieces of art. The Hermitage is an enormous museum, and looking at the entire collection would take more than one week. Therefore, we will only focus on the most important masterpieces.

In the morning – transfer to Tsarskoye Selo (the town of Pushkin) by car, followed by an excursion to this ensemble of parks and palaces, including a visit to the legendary Catherine Palace, where the famous Amber Room is located. The beauty of this palace attracts tourists from all over the world during the whole year.
 

After lunch we will head to the town Pavlovsk (5 kilometers from Pushkin), where we will visit the residence of Paul I, one of the most mysterious Russian emperors. Despite the fact that the palace of Pavlovsk is less known than Catherine Palace, it is worth visiting because of its amazing history and a cozy "English-style" landscape garden right in front of it.