Art, Culture, Sankt Petersburg

Sunday, 28 November 2010 - 10:17 pm (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination:
Category/Kategorie: General, Architecture, UNESCO World Heritage
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Eremitage at night © Robert Breuer

Eremitage at night © Robert Breuer

Sankt Petersburg is probably the most unusual, “un-Russian” city of the country. This is because the origin history and historical and urban development of the “Venice of the North”. Sankt Petersburg has a little more than 300 years of history full of ups and downs. Visitors who are strolling around the streets soon have the feeling to visit one of the great European cities of the 19 century rather than a Russian city. The city at the river Neva has, compared to other capitols in the world, the most extensive historic downtown and can be described without exaggeration as an open-air museum of architecture.

Mariinsky Palace © Imperialista

Mariinsky Palace © Imperialista

The classic entertainment culture which Petersburg has to offer is also on the European top level niveau. World famous are the Hermitage and the Russian Museum. Opera and ballet at its best is shown in the Mariinsky Theater. Always worth a visit are the former imperial suburban residences in Peterhof, Pushkin, Pavlovsk, Gatchina and Orange Tree.

The northerns metropolis of the world experienced in recent years an enormous economic boom. This becomes particularly clear due to the construction of prestigious shopping and business centers. Since Vladimir Putin, born in Sankt Petersburg, have had the saying in the Kremlin Petersburg’s position in Russia has grown strong again. One expression of this new role is certainly the move of the Russian Constitutional Court from Moscow to the Neva. Petersburg continue to remain the “second capital” of Russia.

Read more on Petersburg-Russia.com, TravelGay.com – St. Petersburg, Moscow Times, 28 January 2019: St. Petersburg Named Russia’s Most LGBT-Friendly City, LGBTQ+ Guide to St. Petersburg, Wikipedia Russian LGBT Network, Wikipedia LGBT rights in Russia, Wikivoyage Sankt Petersburg and Wikipedia Sankt Petersburg. Learn more about the use of photos. To inform you about latest news most of the city, town or tourism websites offer a newsletter service and/or operate Facebook pages/Twitter accounts. In addition more and more destinations, tourist organisations and cultural institutions offer Apps for your Smart Phone or Tablet, to provide you with a mobile tourist guide (Smart Traveler App by U.S. Department of State - Weather report by weather.com - Global Passport Power Rank - Travel Risk Map - Democracy Index - GDP according to IMF, UN, and World Bank - Global Competitiveness Report - Corruption Perceptions Index - Press Freedom Index - World Justice Project - Rule of Law Index - UN Human Development Index - Global Peace Index - Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index). If you have a suggestion, critique, review or comment to this blog entry, we are looking forward to receive your e-mail at comment@wingsch.net. Please name the headline of the blog post to which your e-mail refers to in the subject line.




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