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Lonely Planet: The worlds leading travel guide publisher
Lonely Planet St Petersburg is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Tour the Hermitage, party through the White Nights, or enthral yourself in the Mariinsky Ballet; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of St Petersburg and begin your journey now!
Inside Lonely Planets St Petersburg Travel Guide:
- Full-colour maps and images throughout
- Highlightsand itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests
- Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots
- Essential infoat your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices
- Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss
- Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - art, architecture, literature
- Free, convenient pull-out St Petersburgmap (included in print version), plus over 15 colour maps
- Covers Sennaya, Kolomna, Smolny, Vosstaniya, Vasilyevsky Island, Petrogradsky Island, Vyborg Side and more
The Perfect Choice:Lonely Planet St Petersburg, our comprehensive guide to St Petersburg, is perfect for both exploring top sights and taking roads less travelled.
- Looking for more extensive coverage? Check out Lonely Planets Russia guide for a comprehensive look at all the country has to offer.
Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet, Tom Masters, Simon Richmond.
About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the worlds leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travellers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves.
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St Petersburg
Once a desolate swamp, Russia's imperial capital is today a dazzling metropolis whose sheer grandeur never fails to amaze.
Built from nothing by westward-looking Peter the Great, St Petersburg was from its inception to be a display of imperial Russias growing status in the world. Fine-tuned by Peters successors, who employed a host of European architects to add fabulous palaces and cathedrals to the citys layout, St Petersburg grew to be the Romanovs showcase capital and Russias first great, modern city, a status it has retained despite the capital moving back to Moscow following the revolution. Despite all that history has thrown at it, St Petersburg still feels every bit the imperial capital, a city largely frozen in time.
Whether youre cruising the elegant canals, crossing one of the 342 bridges in the city, or just watching them being raised over the mighty Neva River at night to allow ships to pass through, youre never far from water in St Petersburg, which has earned the city unsurprising comparisons to Venice. The similarities dont stop there, though: any wander in the historic centre will reveal canals lined by Italianate mansions and broken up by striking plazas adorned with baroque and neoclassical palaces.
St Petersburg is an almost unrivalled treasure trove of art and culture. You can spend days in the Hermitage, seeing everything from Egyptian mummies to Picassos, while the Russian Museum, spread over four sumptuous palaces, is perhaps the best collection of Russian art in the world. Add to this world-class ballet and opera at the Mariinsky Theatre, classical concerts at the Shostakovich Philharmonia and a slew of big-name music festivals over the summer months, and you wont be stuck for cultural nourishment. If contemporary art is more your thing, theres also the fantastic Erarta Museum, showcasing the best in modern Russian art, and a small but buzzing gallery scene.
The citys White Nights are legendary: those long summer evenings when the northern sun barely dips below the horizon. Revelry begins in May, when spring finally comes to the city and parks are filled with flowering trees, and peaks in mid-June, when the sky doesnt get dark, festivals pack out concert halls and the entire city seems to be partying over the brief but glorious summer. But dont worry even when the skies are grey and the ground covered in snow, St Petersburgs rich culture still dazzles and delights.
By Tom Masters, Author
There is something about St Petersburg that gets under your skin. Despite preferring Moscow when I first came to Russia almost two decades ago, St Petersburg lingered; its colours and incredible light stayed with me, its history haunted me. When I came to live in Russia in 2000, I didnt hesitate in choosing St Petersburg. Today what excites me about the city is the growing underground art and music scene, the hedonistic atmosphere and the sense that great things are once again happening here. The city has emerged from Moscows shadow and will, I hope, show you a very different side to modern Russia.
The ultimate St Petersburg experience is during mid-June when the sun slumps lazily towards the horizon, but never fully sets, meaning that the magical nights are a wonderful whitish-grey. At this time Petersburgers indulge themselves in plenty of all-night revelry, several festivals take place and the entire city enjoys an uncharacteristically relaxed atmosphere. Though its the busiest time to visit the city, and most hotels are booked up weeks in advance, theres nothing quite like it, so dont miss out even if you come in May or July youll be impressed by how late the sun stays out!
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