Tours to St. Petersburg

Tours to St. Petersburg

Our 2014 tours to St. Petersburg are offered as land only. We ask that you arrange your own airfare and we will meet you at the Saint Petersburg airport and handle everything else. You can easily book the discount tickets yourself through our own discount internet ticket office. The airline tickets we offer are the cheapest available on the web. Please browse our discount air tickets section to learn more.

St. Petersburg travel

Welcome to St. Petersburg, the former capital of Tsarist Russia and one of the most most beautiful and romantic cities on earth. Founded by Tsar Peter the Great in 1703, the city is situated on the banks of the Neva River and the Gulf of Finland making it one of the Western most cities in Russia both geographically and culturally. The city has gone through dramatic, historical events including the Decembristuprising, the murder of Tsar Pavel, the palace intrigues of Catherine the Great, the assassination Tsar Alexander II, the influence of Rasputin on the Russian royal family and his mysterious murder, the Revolution of 1905 and the October Revolution of 1917 which brought the communists to power. During the Second World War, the city then known as Leningrad, went through a harrowing two and a half year blockade and siege by the Nazi invaders resulting in the deaths of over 1 million of its citizens. Today, Saint Petersburg is Russia's second largest city with a population of over 5 million. It is also known as the center of Russian art, culture and literature – former citizens have includedPushkin, Gogol, Tchaikovsky and Dostoevsky just to name a few. The entire city center is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is full of beautiful palaces and monuments including the Winter Palace. The city is also known as the Venice of the North because of its location on various islands in the Neva River and its many canals and bridges. St. Petersburg is home to the world famous Hermitage Museum which contains one of the world's largest collections of art including works by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Titian, Rembrandt, Matisse, Picasso as well as many other old masters and impressionists. We are sure that you will find St. Petersburg one of the most if not the most fascinating places you have ever visited. Your Saint Petersburg tour is guaranteed to be unforgettable. Welcome to this most beautiful and mysterious of cities
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