Disfruta de un tour mágico al caer la noche y admira la sofisticada iluminación de los principales monumentos y edificios de la ciudad.
Destacamos
- Un paseo imprescindible para cualquier visitante
- Aprecia el encanto de las calles, plazas, palacios y puentes iluminados
A medida que se esconde el sol en San Petersburgo, el paisaje urbano se vuelve aún más encandilador para sus visitantes. Los principales monumentos, puentes, plazas y edificios históricos se iluminan al anochecer y la ciudad desprende una magia que no te puedes perder. Descubre acompañado de un guía profesional el fabuloso patrimonio arquitectónico de San Petersburgo mientras paseas por su centro histórico, declarado Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la UNESCO. El recorrido también cubre numerosos lugares de interés situados fuera de esta zona.
En invierno, la iluminación de las fachadas realza la belleza de los palacios y edificios públicos mostrando un nuevo aspecto de la ciudad, especialmente en los largos terraplenes que se levantan a orillas del helado río Neva. Pero es sobre todo en verano cuando San Petersburgo adquiere un encanto único. Entre finales de mayo y mediados de julio se produce un fenómeno que nadie quiere perderse: las famosas “Noches Blancas”. Durante estas noches el sol no llega a ponerse por completo y la luz espectral crea una atmósfera de romanticismo y misterio. En esta época del año se levantan los puentes levadizos por la noche para dar paso a los grandes barcos; un espectáculo inolvidable para los visitantes.
Contempla la majestuosidad de Moscú con esta fantástica excursión panorámica por la ciudad que pasa por los principales monumentos y lugares de interés de la capital rusa. Visita los símbolos de la ciudad, la Plaza Roja, la Catedral de Cristo Salvador, con sus imponentes bóvedas doradas, el Teatro Bolshói, el cuartel general de la infame KGB, la universidad, el Monasterio Novodévichi y mucho, mucho más, durante esta excursión de tres horas de duración.
Pasea por la vibrante calle Tverskaya, y quédate con su ambiente bullicioso y sus tiendas exclusivas. Continúa hacia la Plaza Roja, que debe su nombre a los edificios circundantes construidos con ladrillo rojo. Visita el museo de historia, el muro del Kremlin y las famosas y coloridas bóvedas de cebolla de la Catedral de San Basilio. En la Plaza Roja podrás encontrar todavía el mausoleo de Lenin, una curiosa reliquia de la Unión Soviética.
Admira la reconstruida Catedral de Cristo Salvador (Stalin dinamitó la original) y después contempla el célebre Teatro Bolshói. A continuación veremos el Lubyanka, donde muchos desafortunados prisioneros pasaron por las manos de la KGB y que en la actualidad es la oficina central de la agencia que la sucedió. Pasea por las calles del distrito histórico de los comerciantes, Kitay-Gorod, para después pasear por la orilla del río Moscova, donde podrás ver el parlamento (Duma) y hacer una parada en lo alto de la ''Colina de los Gorriones'' para disfrutar de unas vistas inmejorables de toda la ciudad. Visita también la Universidad de Lomonosov para ver un rascacielos de la época de Stalin para luego llegar hasta el parque de la Victoria. Por último, contempla el Monasterio Novodévichi, que dicen que inspiró ''El lago de los cisnes'' de Tchaikovsky. La visita finaliza en Arbat, una bulliciosa calle proletaria en el corazón del casco antiguo.
Descubre el asombroso monasterio de Alejandro Nevsky, que alberga algunos de los edificios religiosos más antiguos e importantes de San Petersburgo.
El monasterio fue fundado por Pedro el Grande en 1710 en honor a una de las más gloriosas victorias de Rusia sobre los suecos. Aquí es donde se detuvo la invasión sueca del territorio ruso en el siglo XIII. Parece ser que Pedro el Grande estaba ligeramente equivocado con respecto a la localización pero sin embargo la leyenda permanece. El monasterio de Alejandro Nevsky es un increíble lugar de devoción, ya que atrae a creyentes de todo el país al ser una de las solamente cuatro lavra de Rusia, la mayor denominación para un monasterio ortodoxo.
El complejo de edificios comprende dos iglesias barrocas fabulosas diseñadas por el italiano Domenico Trezzini y la majestuosa catedral de la Santísima Trinidad, así como otro par de iglesias. Es de destacar el hecho de que los restos sagrados de Alejandro Nevsky fueron traídos desde Vladímir y que fueron albergados en un sepulcro hecho con la pasmosa cantidad de una tonelada y media de plata pura.
El monasterio de San Alejandro Nevsky, considerado como uno de los museos más antiguos de Rusia, hace alarde de una colección de objetos de culto: manuscritos antiguos, crucifijos, cuerpos incorruptos de santos e iconos con marcos cubiertos de piedras y metales preciosos. También es de particular interés el cementerio Tikhvin, donde están enterradas algunas de las personas más famosas de Rusia. Entre las paredes de este tranquilo cementerio pueden encontrarse miembros de la familia real, guerreros, compositores y escritores. Fíjate en las tumbas de los grandes Dostoevsky y Tchaikovsky.
The small city of Pushkin, located 30 kilometers to the south of St. Petersburg, was named after the great Russian poet. In the past it was also called Tsarskoe Selo, meaning “Village of the Tsars”. Catherine Palace, named after Peter the Great’s wife, Catherine I, is one of the most beautiful residences of the Russian tsars.
It was designed by the famous Italian architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli, the designer of the most important monuments and palaces of the city, and was constructed in the 17th century, spanning the reigns of five tsars. Each of them altered the palace according to their own personal tastes and what was in vogue at the time, from the initial Rococo through to the later Neoclassic. It was a favourite of Catherine II, her incomparable heritage crowned by the Amber Room, covered from floor to ceiling with Baltic amber.
The Amber Room was kept from the public for almost 100 years and opened only after a full renovation in 2003, on the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg. We will also admire the beauty of the large ballroom known as the Grand Hall or the Hall of Paintings. The beautiful architecture of the palace is surrounded by the neighboring park, where you can walk among the birches, firs, lakes, ponds, streams, bridges, sculptures, and pavilions - unforgettable beauty that has been the subject of many poets and artists.
Explora la ciudad a pie durante este tour de San Petersburgo. Pasea por los canales románticos de esta Venecia del Norte. Conozca los lugares destacados como el Museo del Hermitage, la Catedral de San Isaac y la Iglesia de El Salvador sobre la Sangre Derramada. También puede visitar la Fortaleza de Pedro y Pablo.
Meeting point:City Tourist Information Booth at the Palace Square
Duration:Approx. 3 hours.
Start or opening time:The tour is available on Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sun at 09.30 hours.
End or closing time:The tour ends at 12.30 hours approx. Please ask blackout dates.
Languages:English
There are many islands in Saint Petersburg, but Vasilievsky Island is the largest of them. Its attractiveness is a result of the idea of Peter the Great of making it the main center of the city, and where all the biggest building and architectural projects took place.
Besides of the difficulty that represented to find the effective connections from the mainland to the island to make all this construction work, this historical district is without a doubt one of the most beautiful places to see during your visit to Saint Petersburg.
During this walking tour you will have a chance to see many astounding sights and find out a lot of amazing stories. With your private guide you will explore the mystical Vasilievsky Island in Saint Petersburg which is bordered by the Bolshaya Neva and Malaya Neva Rivers. It is situated just across from the Winter Palace and it constitutes a large portion of the city's history due to what we previously mentioned.
As one of the main attractions of this area of this city, you will see how two of the most famous St. Petersburg bridges, the Palace Bridge and the Blagoveshchensky Bridge, connect the island with the mainland. You will also fiind yourself on the narrowest streets in the city, and get into a kind of "timelessness" surrounding atmosphere. All of this makes a walking tour in Vasilievsky Island an experience you won’t forget and that you should definitely have when you visit Saint Petersburg. So make sure to book this guided tour now and have a great time exploring Vasilievsky Island.
Our foot tour will begin on Nevsky Prospect, the main thoroughfare of St. Petersburg and the city’s most beautiful and important avenue. It is the commercial and social heart of the city, an animated place full of shops and cafes where the inhabitants of the city love to walk and have fun. We will admire some of its most important buildings, such as the Anitchkov, Stroganov and Beloselsky-Belozersky palaces, the Gostiny Dvor Department Store, the Eliseev, Mertens and Singer houses and the Anichkov Bridge. Nevsky Prospect is also home to some of the most important churches in St. Petersburg: the Lutheran Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, the Catholic Church of St. Catherine, the Armenian Church of St. Catherine, and the imposing neoclassical colonnade of Our Lady of Kazan Cathedral.
We will walk in front of the sumptuous Grand Hotel Europe on our way to discovering the Arts Quartier, and around the majestic Mikhailovsky Palace. Visit to the Russian Museum, with the biggest collection of Russian art in the city: 320,000 items conveying an excellent narrative of the evolution of Russian art since the 11th century. We will be able to admire the best of Russian paintings and one of the best collections of sculpture, applied arts, decorative art and traditional crafts, not to mention the splendid icons of Andrey Rublev. Located in the same square are Mikhailovsky Theatre, the Theatre of Musical Comedy, the Philharmonic, and the imposing façade of the Ethnographic Museum.
A short distance from Nevsky Prospect we will visit the Church of the Saviour on Blood with its multi-coloured onion domes soaring above Griboyedov canal. The experience, however, will not be complete until we venture inside the magnificent interior where the splendour of the decoration will take our breath away: more than 7500 square metres of mosaic, unlike any other church in the world. It was built in 1882 by order of Alexander III in memory of his father, assassinated in a terrorist attack at the same place. Inside we will see the fragment of pavement on which the tsar fell, fatally wounded.
The ideal way to get in touch with the city, including its historical centre and major monuments. We will stroll along the broad avenues, making our way through the famous Tverskaya Street to the top of Sparrow Hills, under the imposing stare of Lomonosov University, one of the Stalin-era skyscrapers scattered throughout the city. From there we will admire an impressive panorama of the city, followed by a stop at Victory Park and another in front of Novodevichy Convent and its lake, the inspiration for Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake. We will approach the historical centre from the banks of the Moskva River, coming out near the White House, location of the siege of the Russian Government. We will also stop at Arbat Street, a busy pedestrian thoroughfare nicknamed the “Moscow Montmartre” because of the artist that used to live in the area and the painters that nowadays populate the street. We will pass in front of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, the Parliament Building (Duma), Bolshoi Theatre, and the imposing facade of Lubyanka, headquarters of the KGB. We will continue through the alleyways of the ancient merchant district Kitai-Gorod, which contains numerous small churches, finally arriving at Red Square, undoubtedly one of the most beautiful in the world and designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. It was named Red, or “Krasnaya” in Russian, which in Old Russian was a synonym of “beautiful.”
Now the square is surrounded by the famous buildings of the Russian Historical Museum, the Kremlin, and Saint Basil’s Cathedral with its gorgeous onion domes, built by order of Ivan the Terrible. Red Square is also home to Lenin’s Mausoleum and features Russian Army parades on various holidays throughout the year. Opened on May 15, 1935, by the Soviet government as a symbol of the technological and industrial prowess of the political system, the Moscow metro was considered to be the "People’s Palace." The most important artists of the period took part in its decoration, and materials were brought from all corners of the country, representing the union of the Soviet people.
The metro is still the city’s main transportation artery and even one of the most important in the world, with its 200 kilometres of railway lines and 145 stations. We will visit the most important stations decorated with luxurious materials: more than 20 types of marble, granite, and onyx, as well as paintings, majolica, glass, mural paintings, mosaics, etc. The word “Kremlin” in Russian means fortress, and in early Rus every important town had a fortress encircled by a wall where the main buildings, churches, and cathedrals were located and protected. The Moscow fortress, the cradle of the city, is the main fortress in the country and has been designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. Built in the 12th century, it took the form we know today in the 15th century. It is an excellent reflection of the different stages of Russian art; a single monumental centre of architecture, painting, and decorative and applied arts. The best craftsmen and artists worked on its churches, cathedrals, and palaces, bequeathing to us their priceless work framing the power and fame of Russia that is concentrated in its unforgettable alleyways and different sections.
Moscow’s Boulevard Ring is, obviously, a boulevard in the form of a ring, but not exactly as you would imagine, actually the form is more like a horseshoe. It is a perfect place for having a nice relaxed walk surrounded by trees and nature even being in the city.
The Boulevard Ring goes through the popular Old Town or historical district, going by the White Town, formerly known as the second ring. It is 9 kilometers long and it is considered to be a garden-park. It is so nice and popular that it constantly goes through improvements. So besides having many historical sights, you will see that it can have many modern and well-kept structures.
A walking tour on Boulevard ring in Moscow is certainly going to be one of the highlights of your trip! With a private guide you will be able to see a lot of amazing buildings, streets, secret gateways and many other!
Your journey will start from Prechistensky area, followed by walk to Arbatsky, Tverskoy, Sretensky, Pokrovsky and Yauzsky neighbourhoods. All so different from each other, with their own history and fascinating places to see!
Definitely you will have a great time with this experience and enjoying the beautiful sights of a relaxing walking tour through one of the most popular spots of the Russian capital. So don’t hesitate and book this walking guided tour now!
The word “Kremlin” in Russian means fortress, and in early Rus every important town had a fortress encircled by a wall where the main buildings, churches, and cathedrals were located and protected. The Moscow fortress, the cradle of the city, is the main fortress in the country and has been designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. Built in the 12th century, it took the form we know today in the 15th century. It is an excellent reflection of the different stages of Russian art; a single monumental centre of architecture, painting, and decorative and applied arts. The best craftsmen and artists worked on its churches, cathedrals, and palaces, bequeathing to us their priceless work framing the power and fame of Russia that is concentrated in its unforgettable alleyways and different sections.
The Kremlin is even today the seat of some of the main political and religious government bodies: the President’s Palace, different administrative and military buildings such as the Senate and Armoury, and also numerous churches and cathedrals. Its walls, 19 meters high and 2235 meters long, tower above the Moskva River and Red Square and are made from eight kilogram bricks. We will visit the fortress, enjoying the view of the world’s biggest "tsar bell", forged in 1733, and the "tsar cannon", one of the biggest guns ever made in the entire world. Forged in 1586 by Andrew Chokhov, its purpose was to defend the gate of the Spasskaya tower, though it has never been used.
The Cathedral Square is an architectural jewel, flanked by the Dormition Cathedral, the Cathedral of the Annunciation, and the Cathedral of the Archangel.