1-Day PRIVATE City Tour & Hermitage Museum skip-the-line

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Stop At: The State Hermitage Museum, Palace Square, 2, St. Petersburg 191055 Russia

Start your tour with a local guide picking you up from your centrally located hotel. City tour with photo stops 2 hours + Hermitage museum 2 hours. Highlights of historical city center by car – Nevsky prospect with marvelous palaces of old Russian aristocracy, grandiose Saint Isaac Square with equestrian monument to Nickolas I, colossal Saint Isaak cathedral, the Bronze Horseman, majestic view to the Neva River, its granite embankments, its bridges across canals – all these and others masterpieces are on the way to the main Palace of Russian tsars – the Winter Palace, which is the most famous building of the Hermitage Museum complex.

Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: The State Hermitage Museum, Palace Square, 2, St. Petersburg 191055 Russia

This museum ranks among the world’s greatest museums such as the Louvre, the Prado, the Metropolitan and the National Gallery in London. The tour through the Hermitage includes the state and the private apartments of the Winter Palace and the highlights of the West European art collection.

As you begin this guided tour of the museum's general collections in the palace, you'll discover the Jordan Staircase, a dazzling display of golden stuccowork and glimmering marble statues. There'll be time to linger in the elegant Throne Room where tsars gave audience; the vast Pavilion Hall with its gilded columns and glittering chandeliers; and the Gallery of 1812. Enjoy a leisurely exploratory tour, as you see priceless paintings from the 13th through 18th centuries by some of the greatest Italian, Spanish, French and Dutch painters. After the tour is over feel free to stay in the museum to explore it on your own.

Duration: 2 hours