Pulkovo Airport 25 min
Tsarskoye Selo (6 min) This historic site features several imperial palaces & a sprawling landscaped park with gardens. Hermitage Pavilion (5 min) Striking, stuccoed palace from the 18th century, with guided tours of sumptuous, gilded apartments. Pavlovsk (10 min) Museum in an 18th-century palace with landscaped grounds & fine & decorative arts collections. Catherine Park (6 min) Tree-filled urban park on the site of a former nobleman's estate with ponds & walking paths. Grand Maket Russia (29 min) Huge working miniature exhibit of Russia, with scenes of human life plus moving rail & road routes. Catherine Palace (6 min) Baroque 18th-century palace with large grounds where Russian royal family spent their summers. Pavlovskiy Park (7 min) Park surrounding an 18th-century palace-turned-museum with English-style gardens & water features. Cameron Gallery (6 min) Classicism, architecture, history, and museum Gosudarstvennyy Muzey-Zapovednik (9 min) Amber Room (6 min) Reconstruction of the ornate Amber Room mosaic panels originally installed in the 18th century. Chesme Church (25 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 (21 min) Complex honoring the 1941-1944 defence of the city, with grand sculptures & an underground museum. Pulkovo Observatory (24 min) 19th-century observatory with a museum exhibiting a collection of astronomic instruments. Alexander Palace (5 min) Restored 18th century classical palace with emperor Nicholas II's state rooms on display. The Alexander Park (9 min) Spacious park providing a serene, natural setting for biking, hikes & other recreational activities. |