When you visit St. Petersburg during your tour to Russia, travel agencies will offer several significant attractions to you as part of your tour to Russia program. However, the number of these attractions are so high that nobody can visit all of them during their short trip to St. Petersburg. Besides, there are even more attractions in St. Petersburg and its suburban area, that travel agencies overlook because they want to show all the significant ones to you first. That’s why many tourists would use their free time on their tour to St. Petersburg to roam around the city and visit those attractions. However, if you want to do that, you need to find your way through the city. One of the most efficient ways to travel inside the city is to use the metro, but it would be a waste to miss all the small attractions and places alongside the way since you can walk in most cases and enjoy St. Petersburg the best way. For that, you need to learn about the famous addresses in St. Petersburg, such as grand squares, main avenues, and remarkable embankments.
Squares
When you travel to St. Petersburg, you need to learn about the names of the grand squares of the city and their location to find your way through the city. Each one of the city squares is linked with another by either one avenue or several streets. When you don’t know about the city squares, especially if you plan to walk around the city without your tour to Russia’s guide, you may get lost and have a bad experience from your travel to Russia. There are many squares in St. Petersburg that, despite their importance as the primary way to find your way through the city, are also considered as St. Petersburg tourist attractions. Most of the city squares in St. Petersburg, especially the large ones, are designed by one of the most prominent Italian architects in St. Petersburg, Carlo Rossi. Rossi had designed these spaces to give an even more impressive look to the architectural masterpieces around them. Although there are many city squares in St. Petersburg, you don’t need to learn about them. When you visit St. Petersburg, you only need to learn about the top squares in the center of the city where most of the major attractions of St. Petersburg tour are located. Palace Square is probably the most famous square in St. Petersburg, which is located in front of the Winter Palace. The Palace Square is the main square of St. Petersburg, where many historical events have taken place there. For people who want to learn about Russian art and culture, Arts Square is the best place to visit, where you can visit the State Russian Museum as well as Mikhailovsky Theatre. However, you can also go to Ostrovsky Square, which houses the famous Alexanderinsky Theatre and Museum of Theatre. Still, if you want to visit the most renowned theatre hall in St. Petersburg, you should go to Theatre Square, where you can find Mariinsky Theatre. Besides those squares, there are also Senate Square, St. Isaac’s Square, Moscow Square, Victory Square, Exchange Square, and Field of Mars, which each of them consider as relevant addresses in St. Petersburg know about during your travel to Russia.
Avenues
Although you don’t need to learn about all the prospects in St. Petersburg since most of them are way out of the tourist center of the city, some of them are the tourist centers of St. Petersburg, such as Nevsky Prospect. Besides the link between famous places in the city, some of the prospects in St. Petersburg are great walking-routes for tourists who want to wander around the town when they visit St. Petersburg. The most famous avenue in St. Petersburg is Nevsky Prospect, as we said previously. The reason behind its fame is because this avenue houses some of the significant attractions of St. Petersburg in Russia tours, such as Kazan Cathedral and the Singer House. However, besides that, Nevsky also houses several cafes, restaurants, shopping centers, and cultural centers, each of which could be the first place that you visit during your tour to Russia. Nevsky Prospect is not the only avenue that you should know about on your travel to Russia. Streets, such as Moskovsky Prospect, which link the south of the city to the center of it, and Liteyny Prospect, in which you can find several cafes, restaurants, shopping centers, and bars are also important, especially when you get off of your tour to Russia and wander around the city alone. Although Moskovsky Prospect is one of the most critical avenues in St. Petersburg, there’s a little chance that you walk around it, unless you arrive at St. Petersburg via the southern airports.
Embankments
St. Petersburg is a city with lots of canals and rivers. It’s only logical to expect lots of floodings throughout the year in the town. However, one of the ways to control the damages of these floodings is to build several embankments around these canals. St. Petersburg had suffered from those floodings at the beginning of the establishment. However, embankments have appeared in the city in the middle of the 18th century. Today, these granite embankments are well-known for people who have visited St. Petersburg during their travel to Russia. However, besides their initial usage, some of these embankments have become part of the tour to Russia, since they are housing some of the major attractions of St. Petersburg in Russia tour. The most famous embankment among the others is the University Embankment on Vasiliesvky Island. This embankment alone is housing places like Kunstkamera, the first museum in Russia, Zoological Museum, which has one of the most completed collections in the world with more than 17 million species. Menshikov Palace, which is one of the branches of the Hermitage Museum. The next famous embankment in St. Petersburg is probably the English Embankment, which houses Rumyantsev Mansion, one of the Museum of History of St. Petersburg’s branches. The English Embankment was once where all the foreign aristocrats, especially the British ones, had lived. It’s now home to some of the attractions of St. Petersburg. For the rest of the famous embankments in St. Petersburg, we can also mention Palace Embankment and Admiralty Embankment.
Although these are not all the addresses in St. Petersburg, they were the most famous ones, and probably the ones that you need to learn so that you would find your way through St. Petersburg while visiting attractions of the city in Russia tour. You can learn more about each one of them on our weblog.
