Welcome to St. Petersburg
We spent two full days there on our cruise and we signed up for a two full days excursion. We covered a lot of ground in those two days as you can see by the pictures and videos. A couple of the places we could not take pictures inside, but it was still really worth it to see.
Went we went in 2014 you had to have a visa to go into Russia unless you had a prepaid tour from either the ship or a private company and they handled and included the visa in the price.
You could not get off the ship if you had not arranged anything. I do not know if that is still the case.
- Population of 5.4 million
- Founded in 1703 by Peter the Great
- That date is associated with the birth of the Russian Empire
- Located on the Neva River in the Gulf of Finland and Baltic Sea
- 4th largest City in Europe
- Formerly Petrograd from 1914-1924
- Leningrad 1924-1991
- Northernmost city in the world with population over 1 million
- 15 million tourists in 2018
- Known as cultural capital of Russia
- Known as the Venice of the west because of canals
- 8 hours head of east coast