Pulkovo Airport 32 min
Alexander Palace (25 min) Restored 18th century classical palace with emperor Nicholas II's state rooms on display. Catherine Palace (26 min) Baroque 18th-century palace with large grounds where Russian royal family spent their summers. Pulkovo Observatory (33 min) 19th-century observatory with a museum exhibiting a collection of astronomic instruments. Catherine Park (25 min) Tree-filled urban park on the site of a former nobleman's estate with ponds & walking paths. Tsarskoye Selo (26 min) This historic site features several imperial palaces & a sprawling landscaped park with gardens. Amber Room (26 min) Reconstruction of the ornate Amber Room mosaic panels originally installed in the 18th century. Moskovsky Victory Park (31 min) Leafy urban park with flowerbeds, boating lake & an avenue lined with statues of Soviet heroes. Sablinskiye Peshchery (31 min) Chesme Church (29 min) Unusual pink & white–striped Gothic Revival church founded in 1780 by order of Catherine the Great. Monument Geroicheskim Zashchitnikam Leningrada, Gosudarstvennyy Muzey Istorii Sankt-Peterburga (25 min) Complex honoring the 1941-1944 defence of the city, with grand sculptures & an underground museum. Tserkov' Pokrova Presvyatoy Bogoroditsy V Usad'be Bogoslovka (26 min) Majestic Eastern Orthodox church in a park, with ornate wooden architecture & clustered onion domes. The Alexander Park (29 min) Spacious park providing a serene, natural setting for biking, hikes & other recreational activities. Gosudarstvennyy Muzey-Zapovednik (25 min) Pavlovskiy Park (23 min) Park surrounding an 18th-century palace-turned-museum with English-style gardens & water features. Pavlovsk (27 min) Museum in an 18th-century palace with landscaped grounds & fine & decorative arts collections. |