ВведениеSt Petersburg. River Cruise

St Petersburg is the City On The Water – Europe’s first and only purpose-built capital city, built with its own system of natural and re-routed rivers and specially dug canals as the transport system of its age, designed in person by its founder Tsar Peter The Great. Exactly for this reason many of the city’s noble palaces and grandest buildings stand with their proudest face to the water – so that’s the best place from which to view them. In addition to the main sights you’ll see many of the beautiful bridges built to link the islands and mainland – a living diary of the growth of the Northern Capital over its three-hundred year history. St Petersburg is a truly international city – so its no surprise that so many foreign visitors not only settled, but made their own contributions to the layout and design of its palaces, thoroughfares and waterways.