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⭐ Highlights

3 Days in Saint Petersburg — Essential Highlights

The Hermitage, Peterhof fountains, the Amber Room and the 1am drawbridge spectacle

📍 Saint Petersburg, Russia 📅 3-day itinerary

Saint Petersburg in 3 days: Peter the Great's European dream — 3 million artworks in the Winter Palace, fountains fed by natural pressure, and an Amber Room stolen and rebuilt.

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Hermitage, Palace Square & White Nights

09:00
🎨 State Hermitage — 4 hours in the Winter Palace

da Vinci, Rembrandt's Prodigal Son, Matisse and Picasso in the world's second-largest art museum.

⏱ 4 hrs 💶 700 RUB
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuide
14:00
🟡 Palace Square — the grandest square in Russia

The Winter Palace facade, the curved General Staff Building, and the Alexander Column — the 1917 storming.

⏱ 1 hr 💶 Free
17:00
🛍️ Nevsky Prospekt — 4.5km of 18th-century grandeur

Kazan Cathedral, Singer House bookshop, Eliseyev food emporium and the finest boulevard in Russia.

⏱ 2 hrs 💶 Free
20:00
🌅 White Nights canal boat tour

The city at 11pm in full twilight — palaces reflected in the canals, the drawbridges rising at 1am.

⏱ 2 hrs 💶 1,000–2,000 RUB
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuide
22:00
🍽️ Cococo — New Russian cuisine

Chef Grishechkin's creative reinterpretation of Russian ingredients — one of the best restaurants in Russia.

⏱ 2.5 hrs 💶 3,000–6,000 RUB
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuide

Peterhof fountains & Peter and Paul Fortress

09:00
Peterhof — 64 fountains fed by natural pressure

The Grand Cascade and the Samson Fountain — the most spectacular Baroque garden in the world.

⏱ 4 hrs 💶 500–800 RUB
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuide
15:00
Peter and Paul Fortress — the city's origin point

1703 — the first building in St. Petersburg. Tsar burial cathedral. Dostoevsky's prison cell.

⏱ 2 hrs 💶 600 RUB
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuide
19:00
🎨 Russian Museum — Repin's Barge Haulers

The finest Russian painting collection in St. Petersburg — less crowded than the Hermitage.

⏱ 2 hrs 💶 500 RUB
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuide
22:00
🌉 Watch the drawbridges rise — 1am on the Neva

Palace Bridge lifts at 1:25am — the most dramatic free spectacle in St. Petersburg.

⏱ 2 hrs 💶 Free

Amber Room, Dostoevsky's streets & the canals

09:00
👑 Catherine Palace — the Amber Room

6 tonnes of amber reconstructed over 25 years — the Nazi-looted original vanished in 1941.

⏱ 4 hrs 💶 1,200 RUB
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuide
15:00
📖 Dostoevsky Museum — Raskolnikov's neighbourhood

The writer's last apartment and the streets of Crime and Punishment within walking distance.

⏱ 1.5 hrs 💶 250 RUB
18:00
🚶 Church of the Savior on Blood — canal walk

The assassination church on the Griboedov Canal — the most extraordinary exterior in St. Petersburg.

⏱ 2 hrs 💶 Free (church: 350 RUB)
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuide
21:00
🍲 Solyanka soup and Baltika beer — farewell dinner

Russia's great sour-pickle soup at a stolovaya canteen — the most honest meal in the city.

⏱ 2 hrs 💶 400–1,200 RUB

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