Private Shore Excursions For Cruise Travellers VISA - FREE TOURS

Available Tour Departure Dates

The tour is available Daily from 01 May to 31 October.

Departure time:  9 AM

INCLUSIONS:

-          Private car or mini-van roundtrip transportation

-          Guide speaking your language assistance

-          Museum entrance fees ( Peter & Paul Fortress, St.Isaak Cathedral, Hermitage, Church on the Spilled Blood)

-          Restaurant lunch

-          Shopping Stop

-          visa - free arrangements
 

TOUR DESCRIPTION

The "Grand Tour" offers visitors the opportunity to take in as much as possible of the city in a full day of sightseeing, with a knowledgeable and experienced guide. You will take a complete tour of Saint-Petersburg most famous sites - beginning with the neo-classical splendour of St.Isaac's Cathedral, geometry of Palace Square, visiting the oldest construction of Saint-Petersburg - the Peter & Paul Fortress and the Cathedral - the burial vault of Romanovs' family. The tour includes an elegant lunch in the restaurant serving traditional Russian cuisine. In the afternoon – the guided tour to the Church on the Spilled Blood - the second largest mosaic museum in the world and a 2-hour excursion in the largest museum of Russia and one of the richest museums of the world - The State Hermitage Museum - to finalize your excellent introduction to St.Petersburg.

You visit the Hermitage Museum - Russia's best gallery of world art, one of the most prominent art museums in the world and definitely the main tourist attraction of St.Petersburg. Nowadays, the Hermitage has about 2.7 million exhibits and displays a full range of world art from Ancient Egypt to early 20th century Europe. It includes works by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, unique collections of Rembrandt, Rubens, French Impressionists. The collection is huge and very exciting. It had been calculated that if you decide to spend only one minute in front of each exhibit, you will have to stay in the Hermitage for 11 years, but on the tour you have the opportunity to see all the great masterpieces of the world's art at a glance in several hours with a comment of a knowledgeable expert-guide.