Private Shore Excursions VISA - FREE TOURS

Available Tour Departure Dates

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

Departure time:  9 AM

INCLUSIONS:

-          Private roundtrip transportation

-          Guide speaking your language assistance

-          Hermitage Museum entrance fees

-          1-hour free time for lunch or shopping

-          Shopping Stop

-          Visa -free arrangements
-          Pier pick up & drop off 

TOUR DESCRIPTION

Saint-Petersburg is a mecca for lovers of beauty. You are welcomed by the Comprehensive City Tour of St.Petersburg - an excellent introduction to the second largest and most beautiful city in Russia. The imperial city of golden spires, golden domes, pastel palaces and picturesque canals. With its arrow-straight avenues, leafy parks and lovely architecture, Petersburg is as staggeringly impressive as New York or Paris. You see all Saint-Petersburg most famous sights from the comfort of a car or mini van and with a knowledgeable and experienced guide.

During the tour with several stops to make photos, you will see all the main highlights of St.Petersburg: the Winter Palace, Nevsky Prospect, Kazan Cathedral, the Admiralty, Palace Square, the Peter and Paul Fortress, the Naval Museum, St.Petersburg University, the Menshikov Palace, the Fine Arts Academy, the Bronze Horseman, Alexandrinsky Theatre, Smolny Cathedral, the monument to Catherine the Great, Fine Arts Square, the State Russian Museum, the Church of Resurrection on Spilled Blood as well as numerous canals and rivers and beautiful bridges across them. Your guide will tell you the story of the city, the events that have left their scars on its face, its optimistic and dramatic plans for the future, together with anecdotes about its strange, friendly and colorful inhabitants, and answer any questions you might have about this most fascinating of cities.

You will have a 1 hour free time for lunch or shopping and in the afternoon - a 2-hour guided 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. 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.