Excursions

City tour with the visit of St.Isaac's Cathedral

During the tour guests get acquaintance with the most brilliant examples of the Russian architecture: Winter Palace , Stroganov's Palace, Michael's Palace, Mariinsky Palace and other sights of St.Petersburg. The excursion includes going inside St.Isaac's Cathedral. St. Isaac's Cathedral, St. Petersburg 's main cathedral before 1917, is an outstanding monument of Late Neoclassicism , and a museum of history and art. It is one of the world's largest domed buildings. The cathedral is adorned with decorative sculptures. Some 20 varieties of decorative stone, including porphyry, malachite, lapis lazuli and marble, were used, transforming the cathedral into a museum of coloured stone. The total area covered by mosaics is about 600 sq.m. A magnificent view of the centre of St. Petersburg is to be seen from the upper colonnade of St. Isaac's Cathedral at a height of 43 metres.

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