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Tourist Tram: Explore St. Petersburg in Retro Style

02.12.2025

St. Petersburg offers countless ways to discover its beauty, but few experiences are as distinctive as riding the retro tourist tram. This vehicle is a faithful replica of the LM‑33 «American» model, which carried residents of Leningrad from 1933 until 1979. For decades, it was part of everyday life, remembered for its reliability and iconic...

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excursions , getting around

Coach Rides Around Historic Downtown St. Petersburg

13.11.2025

An one- or two-hour horse drawn coach ride through captivating historic center of St. Petersburg is an absolutely unique way to explore the city. You will go along the streets, squares, embankments designed to be used by just the stuff you will be riding in. You are like traveling back in time. Organizational Details And Prices Pre-arranged only. To...

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excursions , places of interest

Boat Trips And River Excursions In St. Petersburg 2021

01.04.2021

It’s one of the best experiences you can have in St. Petersburg. The city offers a few kinds of boat excursions along its canals and rivers varying in price and duration, but the result is always the same: quite a different view of Saint Petersburg, which you cannot get from the ground. We defined seven different kinds of river excursions and...

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boat trips , bridges , excursions , free time

5 Unusual Things To Do In St. Petersburg In 2020

27.01.2020

St. Petersburg is an amazing city that can be explored for several years. Even if you have already visited the cultural capital of Russia, we are sure that there are some places that you haven’t even heard of. In this article, we’re going to tell you about unusual things to do in St. Petersburg, that can help make your vacation more interesting. #1...

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architecture , excursions , Hermitage , metro , palaces , Peterhof , places of interest , traveler's advice

Trip By Hydrofoil To Kronstadt

24.09.2019

The trip by meteor (hydrofoil) from St. Petersburg to Kronstadt, free time in the town and the way back to St. Petersburg takes approximately six hours, of which you spend almost two and a half hours on board. To visit the sea fortress and its forts will be especially interesting for those fond of Navy and the art of fortification. Kronstadt is one...

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boat trips , places of interest , suburbs

Self-Guided Quest Tours Around St. Petersburg In English

09.09.2019

You download a mobile app and, solving puzzles thrown by this application, go through a small route quest. Alone or with friends; for one sitting or with a break for rain and a cup of coffee; can be taken separately to a museum or around town. The main thing: you do not need to look for a guide, you are completely on your own. Not to mention it’s...

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excursions , I don't speak Russian

Guide italiane a San Pietroburgo (Italian guides in St. Petersburg)

17.12.2018

Benvenuti sul nostro sito! Se siete capitati qui probabilmente avete intenzioni di visitare la bellissima città di San Pietroburgo. Probabilmente avete cercato “gite insolite”, “escursioni sui tetti”, “kommunalka tour” oppure semplicemente “come arrivare a Vyborg”, oppure siete soltanto in cerca di transfer dall’aeroporto. Ma sapete...

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excursions , I don't speak Russian , mentality , Russian life , traveler's advice

Excursion To Grigori Rasputin’s Apartment In St. Petersburg

11.02.2018

64, the Gorokhovaya street in St. Petersburg is the final address of the «holy man» and the «holy devil» Grigori (Grigory) Efimovich Rasputin, a man whose life and activity left more questions than answers. A mystic, healer, peasant, «a friend of the Emperor», whose nickname is translated as «debauched one», left...

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excursions , facts , history , museum , places of interest

Vyborg Walking Sightseeing Tour

04.11.2017

Feeling the silence of a little medieval town in the northern part of Russia near the Russian-Finnish border, walking through its cobblestoned streets still keeping the spirit of Sweden’s, then Finland’s, then Russia’s rule. The combination of epochs is some mind-blowing, and that’s what makes your tour special. Despite being under Soviet and...

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excursions , Leningrad region , museum , places of interest , Vyborg

Off the Beaten Path Excursions In St. Petersburg

16.05.2017

St. Petersburg Travel Guide teamed up with professional and amateur local guides to help them promote their tours and excursions many of which are not being sold by travel agencies. What you will find below is something to help you explore the city from an unordinary angle. Big guys prefer taking big groups, then putting them into a big bus and getting...

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excursions , I don't speak Russian , mentality , places of interest , Russian life