Catherine Palace is located in the town of Tsarskoye Selo Pushkin. The palace was once the summer residence of the Russian tsars. Now a museum, displaying over years of history and elaborately decorated Rococo-style architecture. The palace is most famous for its baroque style and neoclassical interior that exemplifies Russian wealth and extravagance.
Our choice was Peterhof Grand Palace. In the palace grounds there are 64 elaborate fountains and more than more than bronze statues, bas-reliefs and other decorations. People mainly visit the lower park famous for its a range and diversity of fountains, the Grand Cascade being the most decadent running from the Grand Palace to the Marine Canal.
We caught an Uber to Peterhof Grand Palace as it was only a couple of pounds each and seemed the simpler option at the time and then the Hydrofoil back to the city.
This option ended up being around 1, roubles each. If you are not on a tight budget then the Hydrofoil from the Neva river embankments of the Lower park in Peterhof is super easy. Depending on the attraction you wish to see at the Peterhof Grand Palace you will be presented with an associated fee.
The most popular attractions are listed below. Tickets to the Lower Park can be purchased online on the official website of Peterhof. There are four mainline railway stations serving inter-city and international trains. Two are historic buildings in the very centre of the city, while the others are a short metro ride from Nevsky Prospekt and the downtown area.
To get between Moscow and St Petersburg or vis versa the easiest way is by train. You can either catch a day train that will take about 4 hours or save some money on accommodation and take an overnight train. The train was modern and more comfortable than our Vietnam train experience. Pulkovo is the airport in St Petersburg and is split into two terminals.
Pulkovo-2 is where most of the international traffic arrives at Pulkovo-1 is mostly a domestic airport. You have the option of Aeroport Express, Marshrutka minibus shuttle services or one of the city buses N39 or N There are two passenger ports you can arrive into, one for sea passengers Sea Station Morskoy Vokzal and one for river passengers River Station Rechnoy Vokzal in the far south-east of the city.
Peter Line ferries from Helsinki, Stockholm and Tallinn. The station has no metro stations located nearby and you will need to catch a bus to get to the city centre.
The River Station welcomes river cruises from Moscow and the Russian North, and is located in the far south-east of St. Petersburg on Prospekt Obukhovskoy Oborony. The closest metro station to the River Station is Proletarskaya Metro Station which is about a 10 minute walk away. There is an increasing amount of coach options form international destinations to St Petersburg, the most popular bus options from Baltic States or Helsinki. The city does have a Central Bus Station, although many international routes are operated by non-Russian companies which use their own bus stops.
These stops are generally close to either railway stations or major hotels. Some bus companies you can use to get to St Petersburg are:. What a roller-coaster that was! As for the length of your stay, I would say that even if you are short of time, you will need at least 3 full days just to see the basics of St Petersburg. And you have to be a very active person to do that.
You will need days to see more at a relaxed pace. Of course, everybody is different and you can easily spend more than a week here. St Petersburg is big and spread out, many famous attractions like the Catherine palace or Peterhof are situated in the suburbs that are about an hour drive from the city center and from each other. So, just a trip to Peterhof will take most of your day, the same is true for the Catherine palace.
Wanting his new city to be similarly based around the sea, he initially forbade bridges, even though a variety of officials and even his own physician died while navigating the treacherous Neva in small boats.
It is this style of building, with its white columns, arched windows and pastel-coloured walls typically begrimed by the harsh climate that gives the city much of its atmosphere of picturesque decay. Built in the s with a baroque yellow-and-white facade, the inside of the mansion was adorned with European furnishings and works by artists including Raphael, Van Dyck and Rembrandt. The family trained hundreds of them as artists, craftsmen and performers each year, and its theatrical troupe was the foremost in the nation.
Urban planning mistakes continue to plague the city to this day, albeit with less momentous consequences. St Petersburg once had more than miles of tram lines , the largest such network in the world — but many of these have been torn up since the Soviet breakup. Meanwhile, the downtown has its own problems, even though the entire historic centre is a Unesco world heritage site. According to the architectural preservation group Lively City, 10 to 15 historic buildings are lost each year, ruined in bad-faith renovations or simply torn down to make way for new-builds.
The authorities have even been found to be complicit in prohibited demolitions. The building was once the home of the great admiral Nikolai Mordvinov and is protected as a monument of regional significance. But the bete noir of local activists is the Lakhta Centre , a new headquarters for the state gas champion Gazprom that is planned to be the tallest building in Europe upon completion in — in a city with no other skyscrapers.
Many activists still see this as a defeat, since the Gazprom tower will nonetheless alter the skyline that is visible from the promenades that line every river and canal. Standing on the highway at Pulkovo airport on the southern edge of the city, it is possible to see the spire of the cathedral in the Peter and Paul Fortress, more than 10 miles away.
And this is very deeply rooted.
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