DAY 1: ST.PETERSBURG

Meeting on arrival at the airport by our representative, transfer to the hotel and check-in.

DAY 2: ST.PETERSBURG

Breakfast
09:00 – 13:00 Morning devoted to the sightseeing tour.
The Hares’ Island: Excursion to the Peter and Paul Fortress founded in 1703 on the spot chosen by Peter the Great. 16 (27) May 1703, the date of its foundation, marked the city’s birthday.
The City Isle is often called Petrograd side as it is here that the first colonies of craftsmen and merchants appeared in the beginning of the 18th century. It is in this district that we can see the house of Peter the Great built during three days next to the construction site of the Peter and Paul Fortress.
The Vasilevsky island - the largest of all the isles (there are 42 of them in the city all in all) is situated between the Grand Neva, the Small Neva and the sea. Most of constructions dating back to the beginning of the 18th century are situated

on this isle.
The Nevsky Avenue throughout centuries. The buildings on both sides of the Nevsky Avenue tell us of the history of this main street of the city, cut through in the forest during the 1710s. This road first paved with wooden logs, saw houses and palaces appear one by one its sides, thus concentrating between the Palace Square and the Fontanka (formerly the borderline of the city) its best architectural masterpieces. In the middle of the 18th century, it got the name of the Nevsky Avenue, after the monastery where it was leading. This avenue 4,5 km long, as Theophile Gautier justly described it, “is at the same time a shopping street and the most beautiful street of St. Petersburg, a blending of shops, palaces and churches - all of them unique”.
We will go along the Moika embankment, one of the 75 small rivers and canals crossing the city of St. Petersburg. You will then see the Smolny nunnery and the Smolny Institute, the seat of the first Soviet government with Lenin at its head, before the government was transferred to Moscow in 1918. Since 1991, it houses the City Council of St. Petersburg. The Cruiser Aurora, the symbol of the new epoch for the citizens of St. Petersburg. Its cannon gave the signal to begin the storming of the Winter Palace. The tour will finish in the modern districts of the city: on the board of the Gulf of Finland wherefrom you can admire a superb panorama…
Return to the hotel
Afternoon and lunch at leisure

Dinner at leisure

DAY 3: ST. PETERSBURG

Breakfast

Excursion to the Hermitage museum:
The Hermitage museum is doubtlessly one of the most beautiful museums of Europe due to the splendour of its buildings and to the richness of its collections; its complete visit would require a month’s stay, however, its collection of Rembrandt, Matisse, Rubens and Picasso will be enough to fill half a day’s excursion.
Return to the hotel. Lunch and afternoon at leisure.

Dinner at leisure

DAY 4: ST.PETERSBURG

Breakfast
Transfer to the airport and end of our services

PRICE PER PERSON FOR GROUP 15 PAX:
EURO 205 IN DBL room, Park Inn Nevsky hotel (low season is from october till 02 January 2012)
SGL Supplement– EURO 104
INCLUDED:
3 night at Park INN Nevsky hotel, BB
english-speaking guide
air-conditioned comfortable bus
museum entrance as per program
and russian hospitality.