The Hermitage Museum
Spread across six magnificent buildings including the grand Winter Palace, the Hermitage holds around three million works of art — you'd need years to see them all!
Saint Petersburg is one of the most beautiful cities on Earth, a place where grand palaces, glittering canals, and centuries of history come together in a truly spectacular way. Tsar Peter the Great ordered it built from scratch on a marshy river delta in the early 1700s, and it went on to become the magnificent heart of the Russian Empire for two centuries. Walking through its streets today still feels like stepping inside a fairy tale.
Water is everywhere here. Rivers and canals wind between the city’s many islands, earning Saint Petersburg its nickname as the northern cousin of Venice. You can cruise beneath elegant bridges while golden domes and pastel-coloured facades reflect in the water all around you.
The city is packed with incredible things to discover. One museum alone holds around three million works of art, a church dazzles visitors with millions of hand-laid mosaic tiles, and a palace garden sends hundreds of golden fountains soaring into the sky entirely by the force of nature. Saint Petersburg is simply unforgettable.
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Saint Petersburg was built on a swampy delta of the Neva River by Tsar Peter the Great in 1703 and served as Russia's imperial capital for over 200 years.
Saint Petersburg has so many rivers, canals, and islands woven through it that the city is sometimes called the 'Venice of the North.'
Spread across six magnificent buildings including the grand Winter Palace, the Hermitage holds around three million works of art — you'd need years to see them all!
This breathtaking church is covered in thousands of tiny colourful mosaic tiles that tell stories from the Bible in the most dazzling way.
Built on a tiny island in the Neva River, this fortress was the very first building constructed in Saint Petersburg and once served as a famous prison.
Saint Petersburg's grandest boulevard is lined with beautiful old buildings, cosy cafés, and stunning theatres stretching for nearly five kilometres.
This enormous golden-domed cathedral is one of the largest in the world, and visitors can climb to the top for a stunning view of the whole city.
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