See Saint Petersburg with the eyes of local!
Everyday day at 5 PM2 hour walking tour in English
1500 rub/person
On the Off the beaten track tour we’ll visit non touristic places and will touch an everyday life of the city.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Connected courtyards
- Local food and goods markets
- Street with bars, best for pub crawl
- Well yards – symbol of St Petersburg
- Five corners – famous crossroads
- 7 buildings of the same design
- Bridge where wishes come true
- Vladimirsky cathedral – orthodox church
- The true soviet union department store
- Soviet architecture, unusual for center
- Dostoevsky memorial flat (exterior)
- Sadovaya ulitsa, busy central street
- Rossi street, the most proportional one
- Academy of Russian Ballet (exterior)
- The Fountain river
- Lomonosov bridge
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Pub street
Where locals spend Friday night (and Saturday morning)
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Well yard
What most of locals see from the windows every day and that explains why we, locals, are so depressive
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Gryphons bridge
Where locals make wishes between two winged lions
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Connected courtyards
With secret passes from one street to another that only locals know
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Dostoevsky museum
Where locals go to commemorate famous writer on the date of his birth
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Five corners
Picturesque and very special place where 5 streets meet together
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Food market
Where you can find exotic fruit even in the middle of the winter
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Food market
That keeps the atmosphere of the real bazar and where you can bargain
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Clothes market
Where locals can find fine shorts at the price of 5 euro
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Department store
That keeps authentic atmosphere of the Soviet department store
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Food market
With famous watches with constellations on the facade
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Lomonosov bridge
That leads to the most accurate street in the world with 7 buildings of an absolutely equal design
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Academy of Ballet
One of the most prestigious ballet academies in the world, where all local ballet dancers dream to study
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Vladimirsky cathedral
Where locals go to services
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Fontanka river
Which embankments are the best for walking around in melancholy
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Rossi street
The most proportional and well balanced street in the world
Everyday at 5 PM
2 hour walking tour in English
BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL
1500 RUB per person
MEETING POINT
Monument to Dostoevsky
(address is Bolshaya Moskovskaya ul. 2, next to the vestibule of the metro station “Vladimirskaya”)
PHOTOS FROM THIS TOUR
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By the Bronze horseman
Meeting point of the Free tour
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On the Palace square
On the Free tour
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By the Admiralty
One of our first free walking tours
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By the Headquaters
Best place for selfies and pictures
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By the Alexander’s column
On a free walking tour
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On the Palace square
On a free walking tour
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By the Neva river
Walking tour on an early April morning
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On the Palace square
Nice walk to discover all the main sights
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Church of the Savior on blood
Our final point of the route on a free walking tour
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July 2014
By the Bronze horseman
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April 2014
By the Admiralty fountain
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