During the 3-hours sightseeing tour around St. Petersburg you will see the city’s most beautiful and famous sights. The tour starts in Nevsky Prospekt, the city’s main thoroughfare, where the largest department stores — the Gostiny Dvor and the Passage — are located, as well as the House of Books — the city’s largest book store, a number of magnificent palaces, including the Stroganov Palace, and, of course, the Admiralty — the first shipyard to operate in St. Petersburg.

Sightseeing stops for taking pictures will take place in the city’s most beautiful squares:

• Palace Square. The ensemble of Palace square is formed by three buildings: the WinterPalace, part of the Hermitage museum, the General Staff Headquarters building with its Triumphal Arch, the Guards Corps Headquarters building and the Alexander Column. This is one of the city’s most striking places, located right in the heart of St. Petersburg.
• Senate Square (Decembrists Square) features a famous monument, erected to commemorate the memory of Peter I, the founder of St. Petersburg, nicknamed The Bronze Horseman. The ensemble of this square is also adorned by the building of the Senate and the Synod, which at the moment houses the Russian Constitutional Court.
• The ensemble of St. Isaac's Square with its majestic St. Isaac's Cathedral, the bronze monument to Nicholas I, the elegant the Mariinsky Palace, where the Legislative Assembly is now located, and a number of former palaces constructed in the late XIX century, will provide amazing views.

Further you will proceed to the Spit of Vasilievsky Island, which offers a magnificent panoramic view of the Neva River and the center of St. Petersburg. From here, one can clearly see the Hare Island, on which St. Peter and Paul Fortress stands. From that very place the construction of St. Petersburg began, when Tsar Peter the Great laid the first stone in the foundation of the fortress. The spire of St. Peter and Paul Cathedral with an angel on top, which rises above the walls of the Fortress, is one of the city’s popular symbols.

During the tour you will also visit the Field of Mars, the Mikhailovsky Castle and the Taurida Palace, as well as various temples that make people call St. Petersburg “a city of all religions”: the Kazan Cathedral, the Church of the Savior on the Spilled Blood, the Catholic Church of St. Catherine, the Lutheran Church of St. Peter and Paul, the Moslem Mosque and, of course, the Smolny Cathedral — another city’s architectural pearl.

St. Petersburg has one more name — it is often called the Northern Venice, due to the numerous rivers and canals that divide it into more than 30 islands. The main body of the city is spread along the banks of the Neva River: during the tour you will repeatedly cross the river and its tributaries, and thus will be able to admire magnificent bridges across the Neva, the rivers Moika and Fontanka.