PANORAMIC CITY TOUR
There is only one museum in St. Petersburg which is never closed - the city itself. The panoramic city tour which usually takes three to four hours enables visitors to perceive the beauty of the city as the unique architectural whole which has been created within a relatively short period of time. The tour includes visiting main architectural ensembles such as the Palace Square and Alexander's Column, the Senate Square and the Bronze Horseman, buildings of Senate and Synod, St. Isaac's Square with St. Isaac's Cathedral and monument to Nicholas I, Mariinsky Palace, the Spit (Strelka) of the Basil Island with Rostral Columns and imposing building of the former Stock-Exchange with a marvellous view of the Peter and Paul Fortress, and the Hermitage, the numerous bridges and granite-clad embankments criss-crossing the city in many directions. The tour continues to the Field of Mars, along the Summer Gardens and unsurpassed beauty of their wrought-iron fence, and then to the airy ensemble of the Smolny Cathedral. An unforgettable experience is a drive along the fantastic Nevsky Prospect, the main thoroughfare of the city, lined with innumerable historical buildings, palaces and cathedrals.
