The majestic image of the city is due to various architectural details: long, straight boulevards, vast spaces, gardens and parks, decorative wrought iron, fences, monuments and decorative sculptures. Neva River, with its many canals, bridges and quays of granite, gives the city a unique, unmistakable. Numerous channels have made the city to be given the nickname ”Venice of the North”. The city exudes atmosphere tourists magnificent, strong, among many palaces built many years ago that today give the impression that dominates the city architecture and style that were built to amaze and impress the visitors. Alexander Nevsky Monastery – is located at the eastern end of Nevskiy property, near the River Neva. Here is the Tikhvin cemetery, where the graves of some of the greatest composers -Tschaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky and Borodin, and the writer Fyord Dostoevsky. Winter Palace - the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia was built between 1754 and 1762 as the winter residence of Russian countries. It was designed by Bartolomeo Rastrelli in baroque style; it is colored in [ Read More ]