St.Petersburg – the city of palaces and churches (7 days)

Программа тура

День 1. St.Petersburg
(Transport and a guide are provided for 7 hours)
Arrival to St.Petersburg. Meeting with a guide at the airport with a table «BON TOUR».
City tour: «St.Petersburg – the city of Peter the Great (the excursion includes only view points, without entrance)». During the exercion you will see St. Isaac`s Cathedral, the Bronze Horseman, the Admiralty, Winter Palace, Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood and the Field of Mars, Vasilyevsky Island, Rostral columns, stock Exchange building.
Peter and Paul Fortress visiting.
The excursion includes:
• Walking tour around the Fortress
• Peter and Paul Cathedral visiting – the first cathedral of St.Petersburg, a burial place of Romanov dynasty.
Dinner in the restaurant of the city.
Transfer to the hotel. Check in. Free time.
*Extra pay: in the evening boat tour on the Neva River. During this trip you can enjoy the process of bridges raising (transport and a guide are provided for 3 hours).

День 2. Peterhof - St.Petersburg
(Transport and a guide are provided for 9 hours).
Breakfast at the hotel. Meeting with a guide in the hall of the hotel.
Transfer to Peterhof.
The Peterhof Museum Complex is one of the most popular museums not only in Russia, but in the whole world. Even a few hours here are enough to feel the spirit of history, which still lives on and breathes in this magnificent place. The Peterhof Museum Complex is called the «capital of fountains» - every year millions of tourists visit the complex to enjoy the fountains of Upper garden and Lower park.
The excursion includes:
• Visiting Lower park
• Excursion to the Grand Palace
Lunch in the restaurant of the city.
Transfer to St.Petersburg. Excursion to the State Hermitage museum.
Transfer to the hotel. Free time. In the evening dinner at the restaurant of the hotel.

День 3. St.Petersburg
(Transport and a guide are provided for 9 hours)
Breakfast at the hotel. Meeting with a guide in the hall of the hotel.
Transfer to the Museum of the Imperial Porcelain Factory. It is the Hermitage exhibition that was opened in 2003. The exhibition was created on the bases of the collection of Lomonosov porcelain factory museum. The exhibition shows the stages of development of the first national porcelain factory, founded in 1744, and the history of Russian porcelain. After the excursions you will a chance to take part in a master class of porcelain painting where you will have possibility to decorate several porcelain pieces yourself. After baking you will take this unique handiwork as a souvenir and as the most pleasant memory of your trip to Russia.
Lunch in the restaurant of the city.
Excursion to St.Isaac`s Cathedral, the largest cathedral in the city / to the Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood (one site for the choice).
Transfer to the hotel. Free time. In the evening dinner at the restaurant of the hotel.

День 4. Tsarskoe Selo
(Transport and a guide are provided for 9 hours)
Breakfast at the hotel. Meeting with a guide in the hall of the hotel.
Transfer to Tsarskoe Selo (Pushkin).
Tsarskoye Selo is located some 12 miles away from St. Petersburg.
It is a superb monument of world-ranking architecture and garden-and-park design dating from the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries. A whole constellation of outstanding architects, sculptors and painters made the ideas of their crowned clients a reality here. Tsarskoye Selo is a cluster of very fine examples of Baroque and Classical architecture and it was also the first place in the Russian capital where interiors decorated in the Moderne (Art Nouveau) style appeared.
The excursion includes:
• Visiting Catherine`s park
• Excursion to Catherine`s Palace with visiting famous Amber room.
Lunch in the restaurant of the city.
Transfer to St.Petersburg.
Transfer to the hotel. Free time. In the evening dinner at the restaurant of the hotel.
*Extra pay: in the evening Russian Ballet in the palace theaters of St.Petersburg (the beginning at the 7 pm - transport and a guide are provided for 4 hours).

День 5. Oranienbaum
(Transport and a guide are provided for 9 hours)
Breakfast at the hotel. Meeting with a guide in the hall of the hotel.
Transfer to Oranienbaum.
The first owner of these lands was Prince Alexander Menshikov, the former right-hand man of Peter the Great. Between 1743 and 1762, the estate belonged to the future Peter III, husband of Catherine the Great. Over the centuries, leading architects, decorators and landscape gardeners have worked to create a unique ensemble at Oranienbaum. An important fact is that Oranienbaum survived during the Second World War and the original interiors and decor still exist in many palaces and pavilions.
The excursion includes:
• Excursion to The Grand Menshikov Palace
Lunch in the restaurant of the city.
Transfer to St.Petersburg.
Transfer to the hotel. Free time. In the evening dinner at the restaurant of the hotel.

День 6. St.Petersburg
(Transport and a guide are provided for 8 hours)
Breakfast at the hotel. Meeting with a guide in the hall of the hotel.
Excursion to the History Museum-Scale Model «Peter the Great Aquatory». That will be the most interesting adventure to visit this museum after your watching St.Petersburg and its suburbs in details, because now you will visit St.Petersburg of 18th century. This museum is a large scale model of the city and its suburbs. You will have a great chance to see historic city center, Kronstadt, Oranienbaum, Peterhof in one place! Moreover you will see buildings that are not exist now and that we will never see again. Besides you will admire ships set afloating from the staples of the Admiralty, watch aristocracy dancing in the Upper Park of Peterhof and will get know how Russian people used to celebrate Maslenitsa festival.
Lunch in the restaurant of the city.Free time.
*Extra pay: Excursion to the Faberge Museum. World`s largest collection of works by Faberge ($14 per person).
In the evening dinner at the restaurant of the hotel.

День 7. Gatchina
(Transport and a guide are provided for 9 hours)
Breakfast at the hotel. Check out.
Transfer to Gatchina.
The palace and park at Gatchina dates back to the time of Empress Catherine II. In 1765, she gave her favourite, Count Grigory Orlov, a lavish gift – the Gatchina estate. After Grigory Orlov`s death Catherine gave these lands to her son Paul – the future tsar Paul I.
The excursion includes:
• Excursion to Gatchina Palace
Lunch in the restaurant of the city.
Transfer to the airport.

The firm has a right to change the order of the excursions with preservation of rendered services.
*We will calculate programs depending on the number of tourists in the group. Our company provide accommodation in hotels of 3*, 4*, 5* in the center of St.Petersburg.