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You arrive at the hotel on your own.
A transfer to the hotel is available for an additional fee and must be booked in advance: an individual transfer from the train station/airport (from 2,300 rubles/car).
Guaranteed hotel accommodation after 14:00. You can leave your belongings in the luggage room of the hotel.
From 9:00 to 13:00 (before departure for the program), a representative of the company with a sign "About Petersburg" will meet you in the lobby of the hotel. You can approach at any convenient time in this interval.
He will answer all your questions, provide updated tour programs and offer additional excursions that you can purchase at will.
Important information:
- Tourists staying at the hotels "izzzi 3* at Gostiny Dvor", "Azimut Hotel St. Petersburg" and "Moscow" go on excursions from the hotel.;
- tourists staying at the A Hotel Fontanka come to the Azimut Hotel (43/1 Lermontovsky Ave., adjacent building) for a meeting and departure for excursions;
- Tourists staying at the Yard Residence Apart-Hotel can meet at the Moscow Hotel (Alexander Nevsky Square, 2) for a 5–minute walk.
13:00 Meeting with the guide in the hotel lobby.
Bus sightseeing tour.
This tour is a meeting with the enchanting beauty of the ceremonial center of the Northern Capital. You will see the famous architectural ensembles of the Senate and St. Isaac's Squares, which will appear before you in all their radiance and brilliance. You will visit the Palace Square, the main square of St. Petersburg.
Its architectural ensemble was created over the course of a century and a half and was finally formed in the 1930s thanks to two talented architects – Carlo Rossi and Auguste Montferrand.
During a walking tour of the square, you will learn the history of the creation of the General Staff, the Winter Palace and the Alexander Column.
Excursion to the Hermitage.
The Hermitage occupies a very special place among the art museums of the world. It began as a private collection of Empress Catherine II and remained closed to the general public for a long time. In the middle of the 19th century, the museum became public.
Now his collections number more than 3.5 million exhibits. Among them are masterpieces by Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, Impressionist paintings, antique sculpture, Egyptian antiquities, a real mummy and much more.
End of the program: hotel.
Program duration: ~ 6 hours.
