Pulkovo Airport 35 min
Catherine Palace (30 min) Baroque 18th-century palace with large grounds where Russian royal family spent their summers. Sablinskiye Peshchery (29 min) Catherine Park (29 min) Tree-filled urban park on the site of a former nobleman's estate with ponds & walking paths. Tsarskoye Selo (30 min) This historic site features several imperial palaces & a sprawling landscaped park with gardens. Pavlovskiy Park (26 min) Park surrounding an 18th-century palace-turned-museum with English-style gardens & water features. Gosudarstvennyy Muzey-Zapovednik (26 min) Alexander Palace (29 min) Restored 18th century classical palace with emperor Nicholas II's state rooms on display. Pulkovo Observatory (36 min) 19th-century observatory with a museum exhibiting a collection of astronomic instruments. Hermitage Pavilion (28 min) Striking, stuccoed palace from the 18th century, with guided tours of sumptuous, gilded apartments. Monument Geroicheskim Zashchitnikam Leningrada, Gosudarstvennyy Muzey Istorii Sankt-Peterburga (28 min) Complex honoring the 1941-1944 defence of the city, with grand sculptures & an underground museum. Chesme Church (32 min) Unusual pink & white–striped Gothic Revival church founded in 1780 by order of Catherine the Great. The Alexander Park (33 min) Spacious park providing a serene, natural setting for biking, hikes & other recreational activities. Amber Room (30 min) Reconstruction of the ornate Amber Room mosaic panels originally installed in the 18th century. Pavlovsk (28 min) Museum in an 18th-century palace with landscaped grounds & fine & decorative arts collections. Tserkov' Pokrova Presvyatoy Bogoroditsy V Usad'be Bogoslovka (28 min) Majestic Eastern Orthodox church in a park, with ornate wooden architecture & clustered onion domes. |