Our guided city tour around St. Petersburg accomplished by car or bus (with stops for photographing). Experience the best of St. Petersburg on this 3-hour tour which takes you to the landmarks and monuments that define the cultural capital of Russia. The tour starts at the Monastery of Alexander Nevsky and finishes at the Admiralty.

During this tour you will catch the excitement at Nevsky Prospect, a street bustling with activity and dotted with famous monuments. Admire the Palace Square housing the unique Winter Palace. Stop for photographing and admire a panoramic view at the St. Bazil’s Island Point. See Peter and Paul Fortress and visit its Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul – the place where most of the Romanovs are buried. The Summer Gardens with their Italian sculptures will offer you their lovely peaceful surroundings. The Field of Mars will offer you an opportunity to pay your tribute to those who fought in the war.

In addition to a standard guided city tour by car/bus or a walking tour about the city center of St. Petersburg you'll have one longer stop visiting the Peter-and-Paul Fortress with its St. Peter and Paul's Cathedral. The Peter and Paul fortress, a major tourist attraction in St. Petersburg, stands out as the emblem of the city. The cathedral is the final resting place of many tsars, the last being Nicholas II and his family. The fortress is known to be the first building of St. Petersburg. Its corner-stone was laid by the emperor Peter the Great himself.

You will also see the grim cells of what used to be the main political prison of tsarist regime and can be called “Russian Bastilles”.

You will have an opportunity to take pictures from the granite Commanders’ pier – one of the most impressive places on the banks of the Neva River - a realm of water and stone.

In addition to a standard guided city tour by car/bus or a walking tour about the city center of St. Petersburg you'll have one longer stop visiting the Church of the Savior on the Spilled Blood.

The Church of the Resurrection, known as the "Saviour on the Spilt Blood", was erected on the place where the Emperor Alexander II was assassinated.

During the Soviet period, the church was considered to have no artistic value and was used as a storehouse. But in 1997 the restored church was reopened to the public.

This church with its elegant domes and magnificent mosaic panels is a stunning example of Muscovite religious architecture of the pre-Petrine period in St. Petersburg.

In addition to the standard guided city tour by car / or walking tour over the city center of St. Petersburg you'll have one longer stop for visiting the Alexander Nevsky Lavra ensemble.

Alexander Nevsky Lavra (or Alexander Nevsky Monastery) was founded by Peter the Great at the southern end of the Nevsky Prospekt in St Petersburg to house the relics of Alexander Nevsky, patron saint of the newly-founded Russian capital.

The monastery area contains two baroque churches, a majestic Neoclassical cathedral consecrated to the Holy Trinity and other numerous structures of less importance. It also contains the Lazarev and Tikhvin Cemeteries, where there are the tombs of Lomonosov, Suvorov, Karamzin, Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Dostoevsky and other Russian celebrities.

In addition to a standard guided city tour by car/bus or a walking tour about the city center of St. Petersburg you'll have one longer stop visiting the State Hermitage – a major tourist attraction of St. Petersburg. You will see one of the greatest art collections in the world. Housed in the opulent Winter Palace, the Hermitage Museum contains the works of important masters such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael and Titian. Admire the masterpieces of Rembrandt, Rubens, French Impressionists and also works of Van Gogh, Matisse and Gaugin.

The Hermitage Museum tour is a must for the art connoisseurs and tourists who visit St. Petersburg to explore its attractions.

In addition to a standard guided city tour by car/bus or a walking tour about the city center of St. Petersburg you'll have one longer stop visiting the Yusupov Palace.

The Yusupov palace was designed and decorated to rival grandeur and luxury of royal living quarters.

You will see a breathtaking collection of furniture of various styles, paintings (of Italian, Flemish, French, English and German masters), world famous sculptors (such as Kaneva, Falconais, etc.), chandeliers and parquetry, marble rotundas and grand staircases, Moorish dinning rooms and Turkish study-rooms, and to top it all - at the palace’s private theater being a miniature of Grand Opera with crimson velvet, gold and rock crystal and a marble Italian staircase purchased in Italy and brought and remounted in St. Petersburg.