The most beautiful parks, gardens, islands, embankments, and outdoor escapes in and around Saint Petersburg.
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Znamenka is an estate on the Peterhof Road between Strelna and Peterhof: a palace rebuilt by Harald Bosse for Grand Duke...
Petrovskaya Spit is the narrow point of Petrovsky Island where the Central Yacht Club has stood since the 1950s, with hu...
New Holland is an 18th-century closed island restored as a park and public space in 2016. What is inside, when concerts ...
Solyanoy Lane between the Fontanka and Liteyny is one of the densest blocks in the centre: the Stieglitz Academy's museu...
Primorsky Victory Park on Krestovsky Island is 180 hectares, home to the Gazprom Arena stadium, boat hire and playground...
Shuvalov Park on the city's northern edge is the former estate of the Shuvalov and Vorontsov-Dashkov counts: a Gothic ch...
The Tauride Garden is the largest park in central St Petersburg at 21 hectares, behind Potemkin's Tauride Palace. Pond w...
The western tip of Vasilyevsky Island is reclaimed land with the Marine Facade passenger port, where cruise liners and f...
Krestovsky is the greenest and most expensive of the Petrograd Side islands: Primorsky Victory Park, planted by Leningra...
Peterhof fountains run until mid-October — then the Lower Park shuts for winter. Here is how to plan an autumn visit: ti...
Pavlovsk is the quiet alternative to Pushkin — fewer tourists, the largest landscape park in Europe and original Cameron...
The Summer Garden is St Petersburg's first park, laid out under Peter I in 1704. Formal plan, 80 sculptures, Peter's Sum...
Kamenny Island is the most 'dacha-like' of the Neva islands: Art Nouveau wooden mansions, the palace of Paul I, Felten's...
Yelagin Island is a park from shore to shore: the Yelagin Palace built by Carlo Rossi for the mother of Alexander I, the...
Object, last date, what instead: Oreshek until 31 October with no ferry from 1 November, Peterhof fountains until 18 Oct...
The Peter the Great Botanical Garden on Aptekarsky Island is the oldest in Russia, dating from 1714: an arboretum with c...
The Brusnitsyn merchants' mansion at 27 Kozhevennaya Line opens only for guided tours: a Moorish smoking room, a grand s...
The Memorial Lyceum Museum in Pushkin: the Great Hall, classrooms, Pushkin's room and the dining room and infirmary open...
Sheremetev Palace on the Fontanka holds both the Museum of Music, with Stradivari violins and Glinka pianos, and the Ann...
So far it is only a bill: the fine for unpaid parking in Saint Petersburg is currently 3,000 roubles. How much an hour c...
Named car parks by the Hermitage, St Isaac's and the Peter and Paul Fortress with addresses and rates, how to pay withou...
A season pass with the city bike-sharing service costs 5990 roubles, parking outside a designated point costs 500, and a...
Four walking routes that start and end at a metro station, with the coffee stops, the only free toilets on the way and a...
652 streets in four districts, charges from 08:00 to 20:00 every day, a 3,000-rouble fine with no discount and a residen...
Rental scooters may ride through the historic centre but not stop there, and the meter keeps running. Here are the banne...
The park is free and open all year, but the summer theatre and guided tours stop with the season and the ice rink has no...
The fortress opens 26 April to 31 October. From 1 November until navigation reopens there is no boat to the island, so t...
Sosnovka, Udelny, Piskaryovsky, Murinsky, Polyustrovsky, the 300th Anniversary Park and Shuvalovsky: seven city parks th...
Four towers on Novosmolenskaya Embankment stand on concrete legs three storeys high, 380 metres from Primorskaya metro. ...
A kilometre from Udelnaya metro the city turns into a dacha village: a sky-blue wooden church of 1906, the Orlov-Denisov...
Three big indoor options — and three very different days out. How to choose by your child’s age and energy budget, not b...
The fountains do not run year-round, and September is the last month they are reliably on. Here is what the museum has a...
Two large indoor water parks, and the choice is a single trade-off: spectacle against queues. Piterland has a pirate fri...
Vyborg stands as one of the most historically distinct destinations within day-trip range of Saint Petersburg, offering ...
Yelagin Island (Елагин остров) stands as one of Saint Petersburg's most serene natural spaces, occupying approximately 9...
The northern shore of the Gulf of Finland offers several accessible beach destinations within 40 kilometers of central S...
Divo Ostrov is Saint Petersburg's largest amusement park, occupying a 14-hectare site on the western tip of Krestovsky I...
Explore Peter the Great Botanical Garden in 2026: historic greenhouses, rare plant collections, and outdoor arboretum. P...
Ruskeala Mountain Park in Karelia, with its marble canyon lake, is one of the most striking day trips from Saint Petersb...
The Tauride Palace (Tavrichesky Dvorets) stands as one of Saint Petersburg's most significant neoclassical landmarks, co...
The Summer Garden stands as Russia's oldest public park, established by Peter the Great in 1704 along the Neva River emb...
The autumn fountain festival runs on 26 and 27 September 2026, 10:00 to 21:00 both days. This year's theme is childhood ...
Sevkabel Port is a former cable factory on Vasilievsky Island transformed into Saint Petersburg's leading contemporary a...
Best Romantic Restaurants Near Neva Embankment St Petersburg Russia Why the Neva Embankment Creates Perfect Dining Atmos...
Saint Petersburg in Summer: White Nights, Festivals, Outdoor Cafes The Phenomenon of White Nights in Russia's Cultural C...
Forty kilometres of granite, and which stretches are actually worth walking — the Theban sphinxes on University Embankme...
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A foreign visitor pays 2,500 ₽ for the Lower Park and 2,700 ₽ for the Grand Palace — against 900–1,100 ₽ and 1,000 ₽ for...
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