Independent check-in.
Guaranteed hotel accommodation after 15:00.
You can leave your belongings in the hotel's luggage room until 15:00.
Country bus tour to Oranienbaum with a guided tour of the Grand Menshikov Palace.
Meeting with the guide at the Gostiny Dvor metro station.
Departure for the tour at 12:50.
Oranienbaum, a palace and park complex in Lomonosov, a satellite city of St. Petersburg, is located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, ten kilometers west of Peterhof. The residence of the all–powerful A.D. Menshikov, Grand Duke Peter Fyodorovich – Emperor Peter III, Catherine II, and then members of the royal family is a beautiful palace and park ensemble, the uniqueness of which lies in the fact that this is the only complex of palaces and parks of the 18th century that has come down to us unchanged, because it was not occupied. fascists during the Great Patriotic War.
We will drive along the Peterhof Road, the main "perspective" of imperial residences, grand ducal manors and dachas, take a walk through Oranienbaum Park, where there are no cascades and fountains, but there is a "charming system of terraces elegantly descending to the parterre in front of the sea and whimsically playing with the winding lines of its railings", we will visit the Bolshoy Menshikov Palace with an excursion..
The duration of the tour is 6 hours.
Transportation is provided for a country tour.