St. Petersburg this year was recognized as the best tourist destination of Europe. In the difficult struggle with Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Edinburgh. Istanbul, Lisbon, London, Paris, Porto, Yorkshire. Rome, Florence and Venice, our northern Palmyra drew the palm of the championship and received the "Leading European Destination" award. The terrible word "Destination" is just a specific term of the tourist community, denoting the terrain, attractive for tourists.
To become a leading "detention", you need to possess not only outstanding sights, but also a developed infrastructure that makes rest comfortable and comfortable. This includes accommodation, and food, and transport accessibility, the convenient location of banks and exchange offices, as well as the availability of a developed network of entertainment and services. This also includes a warm welcome. Apparently, St. Petersburg has all this set in an excellent degree. And this is not our inner patriotic conviction, this is the decision of the world leaders of the tourist industry. So it's time for us to look at our usual city on the Neve, where they love to celebrate the new year bachelors, better. Do we know much about him, and whether you have most interesting in it?
St. Petersburg is actually an amazing city with a unique aura. It is a magnificent and chamber at the same time, intelligent and subfieldal and aestine, with cold, blown by all winds embankments and avenues and cozy, warm semi-breeding cafes with hot tea and donkeys. Here you can find attractions and entertainment for every taste. And today we will not talk about what entails this northern city of crowds of foreign tourists, - Hermitage, Russian Museum, St. Isaac's Cathedral, Rostral columns and recruiting bridges. Let's talk about that even for us, repeatedly happening in this city, can become a discovery.
The habit is surprised
Let's start with the placement. There were times when the place in the hotels of St. Petersburg (Leningrad) had to be booked for a month. Today in the city enough mini-hotels and even hostels. But the main thing: in any other Russian city, the service for the provision of removable apartments for a day is not developed. And it is not for you flat in the bedrooms with plush sofas and wallpaper in the flower. Petrice as true aesthetes turn their square meters in the wonders of the interior art: here you are lofty, and youth apartments, and even rooms stylized under the tereme. We give such miracles through the agencies, under the contract, so there are no problems with unfair landlords. It is enough to go to the site, choose the option of interest and agree on conditions ... the price is acceptable - from 1500 to 3000 per day for a separate apartment.
Choosing such an individual accommodation, you can also arrange an excursion program. Say, did you have a giant in the house? When all the usual surrounding items are just gigantic. Fork - As a fork, slippers of the 101th size, the sofa, to which you need to climb the stairs, a tube of toothpaste, like a fire cylinder, a bank of condensed milk, in which you can get climb ... You can feel like a Gulliver in the country of giants in the museum of illusions near Palace Square - On a big maritime street. By the way, in the same house there is also a glass labyrinth, and a contact zoo, and the garden of butterflies.
And to realize myself a giant in the interactive Museum "Grand Mock Russia". On the playground in 800 square meters. M All attractions of the country are collected together. Mini Russia, with the Ranges of the Ural Mountains and the Spire of Kremlin Towers, with the Arctic Coast and the Kaliningrad Cathedral, lives in its interactive life. On the roads are mini cars, neon advertising shines on the streets of mini-cities, and change their color traffic lights, the compositions, overcoming bridges and tunnels are knocking on the railways, and the work of mini-builders are boiling. Of course, geographic proportions are not complied with. Dimensions are exaggerated, but in general, the layout gives an idea of the life and cycling activities of a large country. And every fifteen minutes from the east to the west to the country-layout comes the night. And all this pleasure for only 450 rubles. At the address - Flower Street, 16.
Evilized by Russia, go to learn mini-Denmark. Or rather, the fabulous Denmark of Hans Christian Andersen. True, the Andersengrad will have to go to the train - from the Baltic station about 2 hours. There is this fabulous city in the village of Sosnovy Bor. The attraction, located on the square in two hectares, is stylized under the medieval European town. Here is the town hall with stained glass windows, and a stone castle with braces, and narrow streets with stone houses covered with red tiled. On the way, you will meet the sculptures of tin soldiers and mermaids, the Snow White cafe, the "Thumbelina" theater. Here you can spend a whole day day. And then go back to Peter and spend the evening in the company of cozy, warm cats in the cafe "Republic of Cats". This branch of the Museum of Cats, located in the Northern Capital, makes it possible to enjoy both alive representatives of feline and their sculptural and artistic images at various exhibitions. Here you can also buy handmade souvenir Kotofea.
Another warming museum is a mouse mouse, located close to Isaac Square. There are hundreds of vessels of various countries and peoples on space in 500 square meters. And most importantly - they can be touched and feel their warmth. Guests meet a cheerful cooking Varekin, which not only will show everything and tell, but also a master class on knitting mittens will spend.
"Bronze guests" of the northern capital
Tired of museums to wander, you can walk around the city. Especially since Peter is good both from the inside and outside. And for the purpose of mood, try to collect a unique collection of St. Petersburg city monuments. It's not about the "copper rider" (although so much without it), but about those small sculptures that they were imperceptibly born in the surrounding landscape and became a new integral part of the city. In addition, each of these monuments brings any bonus - or good luck in love, or health, or success ... Let's start, perhaps, with a brave soldier, Schweika, which costs in full 160-centimeter growth on a small barrel on the Balkan Square, from where Street of Yaroslav Gashek begins. It is said that the uncompherd soldier will fulfill your intimate desire if you rub the beer mug that he hides behind his back. On Odessa Street on the bench, a cast-iron lamporus was kept. Once in the workshop on this street electrical engineering, Alexander Lododgin invented the incandescent lamp. The first electric lantern in St. Petersburg appeared on the same street. And after a decade, the profession of a flashroads ringed in the fly. So he sits now on the bench ... And near the Museum "World of Water of St. Petersburg" in full growth of another representative of the departed profession - water carriage.
At Malaya Sadovoy, do not forget to bow the bronze photographer, which is asked with its tripod in the middle of the sidewalk. The prototype of the photomaster in the kitel was the famous St. Petersburg photographer Karl Karlovich Bulla, the driver of the photo report.
Many in the city on the Neva and the monuments of human friends - at the corner of Turgenev and Sadovaya Street, the bronze mummy is waiting for its owner. They say, if you put the bronze boots of Gerasim in standing next to her, a couple of coins, then the dog will help to find love and loyalty. And on the street, the truth is a monument to the stray dog Gavrewish. The urban belief says that Gavrewsha performs desires. On the Small Sadovaya - at home number 8 and number 3 - two cats were hardened: Cat Elisha and Cat Vasilisa. So the city thanked the animals, who, after the war, rescued Petersburg from the invasion of rats. Well, about the Chizhik-fawn on the fountain at the first engineering bridge and about the monument to the hare on the reinstate island, everyone also knows.
But about the hippopotica, bringing a successful marriage, not many know. After all, after all, the hypopotamus, and the goat, and the snail, and the dachshund of a length of 140 cm is in the courtyard of Philfak St. Petersburg State University. Here in the open sky there is a "Park of modern sculptures", many of whom are very ambiguous. Let's say the monument to Joseph Brodsky is a bronze suitcase with a tag, and the sculpture "bevelled" is a few rows of ankle. Although a lot in the courtyard and quite recognizable characters: the images of Anna Akhmatova, Osipa Mandelstam and his spouses of hope, Alexander Blok and the Spanish poet of Miguel Hernandez - the philological faculty is still. Every year the park is replenished by a number of new sculptures. And that is nice - the entrance to the courtyard is free.
Where to eat
After long walks around the city, it's so nice to climb into some cozy cafe, drink hot tea, eat something delicious. There are plenty of places for this in St. Petersburg. Here at each step "Pampuschny" and "Pirodi". And for those who want to enjoy a specific St. Petersburg spirit, there are special places. For example, a cafe-bar "Sacroba of a pregnant spy" is very manner. In fact, the cafe is dedicated to the Kat radio system, but in the interiors a lot of things simply from the "horror systems" - skeletons peeking out of the walls, for example. The bar is similar to a torture room with chains. But fed tasty. And not too expensive. Say, the steak will cost 380 rubles. And in the evening there are also fun here: special interactive show programs are suitable for guests. Another partition is the Bar "Blue Pushkin", created with the support of Sergey Cord. Floors with fringe. Leather sofas, tasty beer - what else is needed for fun? In the evenings - concerts of rock bands.
Love Asian cuisine - go to the Jack & Chan cafe. There you and Wok-dishes, and Spring Rolls, and Curry. But there are also burgers and barbecue ribs. Tasty pizza and paste are served in the cafe "Mom Roma", and the Russian menu with large portions and delicious meat can be found in the Tryn-Grass restaurant. There is a fun cafe "Washing 40", where you can taste cherry beer and delicious cocktails. And if you want home healthy food, go to the Village Petersburg. Here you will feed porridge, homemade yogurt, scrambled eggs. In general, enjoy the best deution in Europe. And do not forget to see the breeding bridges.