The most beautiful city in northeast Europe, the pearl of the former Tsarist empire, welcomes its tourists with a vast offer of palaces with an architecturally and remarkable interior design.
Water: There are no water restrictions in St. Petersburg. Also, there is no boil notice- tap water is safe to drink. Charging stations: Several St. Pete recreation … There is certainly no city in Russia that is so fascinating with its history and stories as St. Petersburg. Probably also because the port city of the Baltic Sea managed to impress spectacularly many Western elements against the background of old and conservative Russia. In fact, history says that St. Petersburg was built and designed precisely to offer the image of modern Russia. The founder of the city, Tsar Peter the Great, the most important ruler in the history of the empire, wanted to build up a modern city, like Amsterdam, where he had studied in his youth to move the capital from Archaic Moscov. So it appeared on the Petrograd map in 1703, which was erected from the Neva swamps, a city that over the course of history had an important role in the development of Russia due to its strategic position and not only. Here Napoleon, for example, did not succeed during his expansion to the East, in which a large part of Russia, including Moscow, passed through the fire and the sword. The city’s history, which currently has about 6 million inhabitants, is a landmark that you need to keep in mind when trying to understand why St. Petersburg is one of the most attractive cities in the northern continent and Russia’s most sought after. From the tourist point of view, the main attraction is the so-called old city, a large perimeter, tiled with palaces, churches and buildings with a simian architecture. The old town can be aggressive and, depending on the availability to enter all the museums and churches, it can become a journey stretching from one day to one week. The right time to visit St. Petersburg is definitely the summer, or let’s say from May to September. Then the day is very long, the dusk keeps until after 23.00, and after three or four hours it lights up again. There are white nights that bring much charm to the north of the continent, and temperatures can be quite friendly. There is also the reverse of the medal, in winter, when the stones are cold, and at 16.00 it is already dark.
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St Petersburg Russia travel guide featuring unique video and 360° panoramas of beautiful St. Petersburg. Sightseeing and entertainment information, special … Regardless of the route you proposed, you will reach the city’s zero kilometer, which is the Nevski Prospekt Boulevard, the main artery that draws a line with many lanes, dividing the metropolis into two. It’s a kind of Oxford Street in London, or the Champs Élysée in Paris, a boulevard full of shops, cafes, restaurants and terraces, somehow strategically placed among several museums or churches. The easiest way to check all of the targets on or near Nevski Prospekt is to purchase a map. The authorities of St. Petersburg have understood the importance of tourism for their city and are trying hard to provide them with a climate as friendly as possible to those who come to leave their money here. So, from the desire to limit language barriers, too few American, Western or Asian people are able to understand Pushkin’s language, tourist information centers were located in the center of the city, where you can get directions in English. There are also maps in both languages, Russian and English, and the closeness of the World Football Championship in 2018 has led to the signing of the metro stations and the main road arteries in both Cyrillic and Latin alphabet. There are big steps ahead of the Russians, otherwise, it’s almost impossible to get along with them. Repeated to this chapter are taxi drivers, even those of Uber, but the dialogue with them can be reduced to presenting the written address on a paper in Russian, so you can reach your destination. With or without an extra cost, it depends how honest the driver wants to be. However, in Russia and implicitly in St. Petersburg, domestic transport is one of the few things that can be said to be cheap. Of course, because of gasoline, which costs somewhere at 0.5 euros a liter.
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Full of palaces and churches
Returning to the Nevski Prospekt, the main street of the city, close to it or even situated on it are some important tourist attractions: the Nevski Monastery, the Vorontsov Palace, the Kazan Cathedral, the Cathedral of the Resurrection, which is a somewhat faithful copy of the famous Saint Basil Church near the Kremlin. Also on Nevski Prospekt is the sumptuous building of Grand Hotel Europe, but also a large mall Passage. People with an Orthodox majority, the Russians are churchyards, they have many places of worship, gold-plated cupola, and jobs that can take good hours. The Russian youth is no longer killing the church and is doing the fun. And St. Petersburg has what to offer in this area, even in the central area. Many clubs and discos open in the summer every day of the week make the audience aware that beyond the traditional vodka, they can also find and socialize with local blondes whose legs can make envious even Roxana Ciuhulescu. In Russia, the drink and beautiful women will never miss, an aspect that will seriously weigh in the equation of organizational success that is announced to be at the 2018 World Cup.
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Hermitage is the pearl of the crown
The architecture of St. Petersburg’s collection buildings has nothing in common with Russian architecture. And he would not have it, because their creator is an Italian, Bartolomeo Rastrelli, to whom he specifically called to give a European note to the city. Rastrelli is the architect of many historic buildings in the city, but the candy on the cake is Hermitage, considered one of the world’s most beautiful museums. It is also in the old town at one of the Nevski Prospekt’s heads. A truly impressive construction that has a broad market in front of which is Alexander’s column, raised to honor Napoleon. Hermitage houses many high-value artworks, and passionate people can spend a whole day indoors. 60,000 pieces are exhibited in about 1,000 halls, while 3 million objects are kept in reserve. Access is between 10.30 and 18.00 (Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday) and between 10.30 and 21.00 (Wednesdays and Fridays). Monday is closed, and on the first Thursday of the month, access is free. Tickets cost from 300 to 700 rubles, depending on the package you choose.
Of course, Hermitage is the most representative museum of St. Petersburg, because beyond the creations of the Russians, it hosts works of foreign artists, but it is not the only one. From the list of art and architecture lovers, there is no missing St. Isaac’s Cathedral, the Smolny Monastery, the Admiralty Building, Summer Garden with the Summer Palace, the Russian Museum, the National Voting Museum, Yusupov Palace, where Rasputin was assassinated many other locations. There are all sorts of organized tours, which make it easier for them to take part in a tourist package, but they can also visit individually. The public transport network is well-established in St. Petersburg. Judging by the metropolis through its artistic side, St. Petersburg struggles with any great capital of Europe.
The boundary quarters, the image of the gray Russia
Beyond the architectural brilliance of the center or the so-called old city, St. Petersburg is still a Russian city, dominated by huge construction workers’ neighborhoods, large boulevards, many lanes, apartment blocks in which the population brought to socialism from the villages. It is the Bolshevik concept present in all the member states of the former communist bloc. The Russians also have their groceries on the ground floor, hairdressers, grocery stores. They even have stray dogs in the streets of neighborhoods outside of the center. Although originally conceived as a European capital, the city of St. Petersburg underwent major changes at the beginning of the last century, when Lenin took power in Russia and instituted communism. After Lenin’s death, the city was renamed Leningrad in his memory. It became St. Petersburg after the fall of communism in 1990 when the former USSR began.
The spectacle of bridges, fascinating on Neva
The easiest links are via Istanbul (Turkish Airlines) or Moscow (Aeroflot), with tickets costing just over 300 euros. Wizz Air flies directly from Budapest to St. Petersburg. Petersburg and has tickets and 100 euros. An accessible variant is also Air Moldova, from Chisinau, with tickets around 200 euros. A visa is required to enter Russia. This is quite easy. A passport valid for a minimum of six months, a photograph, a copy of the first page of the passport, a Russian invitation, usually provided by the hotel, medical insurance and a completed online form, are required. The fee costs 46 dollars to be paid to ING in US banknotes. The file is filed at the consulate and the visa is issued for up to ten days.
In Russia is paid with rubles. Prices are a little higher than at us, but not inaccessible. It depends on everyone who wants to lie down. Restaurants are generally expensive, but there are other alternative foods to eat, fast food. In the summer, alcoholic drinks are sold in supermarkets only until 22.00. Accommodation in St. Petersburg are for all your pockets. In the center, hotels are expensive (500 euros per night), but there are plenty of hotels and in secondary areas, where a room can be rented for 150 lei. It’s important to be near the subway. Shared transportation is cheap, a metro journey costing 45 rubles.
The city is served by Pulkovo Airport, 22 km from the city. The transfer to the center is provided by buses 39 and 39 A, but also by some marshrutka minibuses, K39. Metro stations in the city are real works of art, but beyond that, they are at a considerable distance below the ground. I do not know exactly at what depths were built, however, timed after the clock, descend or climb, depending on the situation, on the escalator, fixed two minutes and 45 seconds. So it’s pointless to run after the subway, hoping you’ll catch him in the station. Among the attractions that are worth visiting, but not in the center, but more to the outskirts, are the magnificent Peterhof and Tsarskoe Selo, another imperial complex. Most of the sites are visited with money, but access is not very expensive, most costing around 300-350 rublesIn the square in front of Hermitage in the evening, young people from the city gather to listen to the music of street artists. There are also vintage carriages that can walk tourists. St. Petersburg is also called “North Venice,” because it is crowded with many canals and has 20 tipping bridges that rise at night to transport goods on the Neva River to the Gulf of Finland. Obviously, the show of bridges was attracted to the tourist side, through cruises that are made on dishes where dinner can be served.
Putin was vice-mayor of the city St. Petersburg is the city where Vladimir Putin, the current president of Russia, began to emerge. In the writings, Putin appears to be born in St. Petersburg, although according to some sources he was born in Georgia. He was a KGB agent, first in Leningrad, and then sent to Dresden in the former GDR, and after 1990 he returned home, receiving a councilor of the mayor of St. Petersburg in international relations. Basically, he began his political ascension, later becoming Vice City Mayor, then Prime Minister of Russia and then President. It is said that while he was deputy mayor of the city, Putin was taking care of collecting funds from underworld groups operating in the city, being recognized as a tough and unscrupulous guy.
Fortress Peter and Paul, beautiful panorama
Fort Peter and Paul, on an island, was the first construction built by Peter the Great. Built for military purposes, it later became a jailhouse for Russian political prisoners, with people like Tolstoy, Dostoevsky or Maksim Gorki being imprisoned over the years. From the fortress you can surprise a beautiful panorama over the river over the palaces. To get inside, you must cross over St. John’s Bridge, which leads to St. John’s Gate or Ivan’s Gate. In the middle of the fortress is the Church of Saints Peter and Paul, which has a spiral tower of 122 meters high and a golden angel on the top. The cathedral is recognized as a place of eternal rest for all Russia, by Peter the Great to Alexander III. At the base of the fortress there are very popular beaches, which in the summer would be filled with the locals set on the sun and have fun. Stadium of 672 million dollars St. Petersburg also boasts a top stadium, the Krestovsky arena, which has a capacity of 68,000 seats. His construction started in 2007, but the project was amended several times, and the budget exploded, reaching 41.7 billion rubles (672 million euros), according to Russian media. The stadium, which is a jewel, was inaugurated this year in April and hosted the Confederate Cup final, and in 2018 it will play four group matches, one of the eighth, one semifinal and the finals. Also, Krestosky Stadium is on the list of those who will have matches at Euro 2020. There is a metro station that reaches the stadium, an important facility for fans who will go to the World Cup matches.
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