meals - full board/srarts with dinner and terminates with lunch
transfers on arrival/departure
porterage
services of an English-speaking guide
1 folklore concert
excursion programme
1st day
Arrival in St .Petersburg accommodation at the hotel, dinner.
2st day
After breakfast half day city tour which will introduce you to the highlights of this beautiful city. Built in 1703 by Peter the Great, and known as Venice of the North, St.Petersburg boasts glorious elegance and a unique charm designed around 42 Islands in the delt of the river Neva. Lunch in a city restaurant exc to Hermitage - located in the magnificent Winter Palace, former residence of the tsars, it houses works by Leonardo da Vinci, Rafael, Rembrandt and Picasso. Dinner at the hotel.
3st day
After breakfast exc. to Pushkin - (Tsarskoe Selo) - located 29 km South of St.Petersburg, the construction of Catherine's Palace for empress Catherine 1 started in 1717, a park in the French style was laid out around it. In the middle of the 18th century Tsarskoe Selo bacame the official royal resdience. Lunch in Pushkin. exc. to Pavlovsk - the residence of the family of Paul I. Pavlovsk is located 5 km from Pushkin. In its rooms created by architector Cameron, Voronkin and Rossi, wonderful pieces of 19th century applied art, paintings of Russian and European masters Are exhibited. In the evening - folklore concert dinner at the hotel.
4th day
After breakfast exc. to Peter and Paul Fortress - the oldest monument of history and architecture in St.Petersburg. It was built as a fortification duiring the Russian-Swedish war but it was never used as a fortress and its bastions were turned into poltical prison cells. At leasure. lunch at the hotel transfer by coach to the airport.
