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Nevsky: from Palace Square to Eliseyevsky
⏱ 4 h🚶 3.5 km🍽 4📍 9 stops
The classic postcard walk: Palace Square, the Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood, pyshki and Nevsky’s Art Nouveau.
👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture
The Hermitage in one day
⏱ 5 h🚶 1.5 km🍽 1📍 3 stops
The Winter Palace and the Impressionists of the General Staff Building — all of it under one roof.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art☔️ If it rains
Peter and Paul Fortress and the Petrogradka embankments
⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 4.5 km🍽 2📍 8 stops
Where the city was born: the fortress, the noon gun, a mosque and the Aurora.
👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture
New Holland and Kolomna
⏱ 4 h🚶 4 km🍽 1📍 6 stops
The city’s trendiest island, the Mariinsky and the quiet canals of Kolomna.
🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture✨ New places
Vasilyevsky Spit: Kunstkamera and sphinxes
⏱ 4 h🚶 3.5 km🍽 1📍 7 stops
The embankment of scholarly Petersburg: columns, the university and Egyptian sphinxes.
👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture
St Isaac’s, the Bronze Horseman and Bolshaya Morskaya
⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 2.5 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
A short walk through the ceremonial centre, with a climb up to the colonnade.
🏛 History and architecture
Summer Garden, St Michael’s Castle and the Russian Museum
⏱ 5 h🚶 3 km🍽 1📍 6 stops
Marble sculptures, Paul I’s castle, and Aivazovsky and Repin.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🌳 Parks and nature
The centre in the rain: arcade machines and DLT
⏱ 4 h🚶 2 km🍽 3📍 6 stops
Short dashes between roofs — kids love it.
👶 With kids☔️ If it rains
Dostoevsky’s Petersburg
⏱ 4 h🚶 4.5 km🍽 1📍 6 stops
Sennaya Square, the courtyards of Crime and Punishment and the writer’s last apartment.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art
Nevsky’s food classics
⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 3 km🍽 5📍 5 stops
Pyshki, Sever éclairs, dinner at Palkin and a market — the city’s history, by taste.
🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture
An evening on Rubinstein Street
⏱ 4 h🚶 2 km🍽 2📍 5 stops
The city’s densest restaurant street and world-class cocktail bars.
🍽 Food tour🌙 Evening
White Nights and the drawbridges
⏱ 4 h🚶 5 km🍽 2📍 6 stops
Dinner by the Neva, night embankments and the raising of Palace Bridge.
🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture
Icebreaker, Sevkabel and sunset on the bay
⏱ 4 h🚶 4 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
Maritime Vasilyevsky: a real icebreaker, a factory turned embankment and access to the bay.
👶 With kids🍽 Food tour✨ New places
Vasilyevsky’s Lines and Erarta
⏱ 4 h🚶 3.5 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
The Academy of Arts, the boulevard of Lines, a market and a private museum of contemporary art.
🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art
Art Nouveau of the Petrogradskaya Side
⏱ 4 h🚶 4 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt — an open-air Art Nouveau museum.
🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture
Botanical Garden and the Karpovka
⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 2.5 km🍽 2📍 5 stops
Palms in the greenhouses, a quiet convent and a new creative cluster.
👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature✨ New places
The islands: Kamenny and Yelagin
⏱ 5 h🚶 8 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
Art Nouveau dachas, Yelagin Palace and sunset on the Strelka — a day in nature.
👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature
Krestovsky: Divo Island and Primorsky Park
⏱ 5 h🚶 5 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
Rides, a waterside park and a stadium — a day for the family.
👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature
Lakhta Center and the 300th Anniversary Park
⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 5 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
New Petersburg on the bay: Europe’s tallest skyscraper and a walk along the shore.
👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature✨ New places
Tauride Garden and Smolny
⏱ 4 h🚶 4 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
A gastrobar, Suvorov, the best garden in the centre and a climb up Rastrelli’s bell tower.
🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature
Liteyny: Akhmatova and Brodsky
⏱ 4 h🚶 3.5 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
Poetic Liteyny — from Fountain House to “A Room and a Half”.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art
The Lavra and Staro-Nevsky
⏱ 4 h🚶 4 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
A necropolis of masters of the arts, quiet Staro-Nevsky and dinner at a legendary restaurant.
🏛 History and architecture
Ligovsky: Pushkinskaya 10 and Etazhi
⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 2 km🍽 1📍 3 stops
Unofficial Petersburg: the 1990s underground, lofts and an observation roof.
🎨 Art✨ New places☔️ If it rains
Grand Maket and steam locomotives
⏱ 5 h🚶 2.5 km + 🚇🍽 2📍 4 stops
All of Russia in miniature and a railway museum — with two metro stations between them.
👶 With kids☔️ If it rains
The zoo, cannons and the fortress
⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 2.5 km🍽 2📍 6 stops
A kids’ day on the Petrogradskaya Side — everything within walking distance.
👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature
The metro as a museum: from Avtovo to Nevsky
⏱ 3 h🚶 1.5 km + 🚇🍽 2📍 7 stops
Underground palaces of the 1950s — the perfect route for a rainy day.
👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture☔️ If it rains
Oceanarium and Planetarium No. 1
⏱ 4 h🚶 2 km + 🚕🍽 1📍 3 stops
Sharks, fur seals and a starry dome in a gasholder — no rain, no cold.
👶 With kids✨ New places☔️ If it rains
Tsarskoye Selo: the Amber Room and the park
⏱ 5 h 30 min🚶 5 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
Catherine Palace, Pushkin’s Lyceum and a landscape park.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town
Pavlovsk: park and squirrels
⏱ 5 h 30 min🚶 7 km🍽 1📍 3 stops
One of Europe’s largest landscape parks — a long walk in nature.
👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town
Peterhof: fountains and the bay
⏱ 6 h🚶 6 km🍽 2📍 7 stops
The capital of fountains: from late April to late September — the cascade and trick fountains; all year round — the palaces and Monplaisir on the shore of the bay.
👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town
Kronstadt: Naval Cathedral and Fort Island
⏱ 5 h 30 min🚶 5 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
A fortress town: a majestic cathedral and a new park on the shore of the bay.
👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture✨ New places🚆 Out of town
The Fontanka: Fabergé and a boat ride
⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 2 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
Easter eggs, Klodt’s horses and the city from the water.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art
The Moika: from Yusupov Palace to Pushkin
⏱ 4 h🚶 3.5 km🍽 1📍 6 stops
Along the most aristocratic river: palaces, bridges and the poet’s apartment.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art
Moskovsky Prospekt: Stalinist Empire style
⏱ 4 h🚶 4.5 km + 🚇🍽 1📍 5 stops
The Triumphal Gate, Victory Park, the House of Soviets and the monument to the defenders of Leningrad.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature
Arctic Museum and Kuznechny Market
⏱ 3 h🚶 1.5 km🍽 2📍 4 stops
Polar bears, icebreakers and drifting stations — and a tasty market next door.
👶 With kids🍽 Food tour☔️ If it rains
Griboedov Canal: griffins and lions
⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 3.5 km🍽 1📍 6 stops
The city’s most winding canal — from the Saviour on Spilled Blood to Kolomna.
🏛 History and architecture
Neva embankments: from Smolny to the Strelka
⏱ 5 h 30 min🚶 9 km🍽 1📍 8 stops
A big walk along the main river — the whole panorama of the city in one day.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature
Solyanoy Lane: Stieglitz and the Siege
⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 2 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
Two very different museums in one lane, and lunch at a gastrobar.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art☔️ If it rains
Oranienbaum: Chinese Palace and the Sliding Hill
⏱ 5 h🚶 7 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
The quietest of the tsars’ residences — no crowds, with ponds and rococo.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town
Petersburg from above: colonnade and terraces
⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 2 km🍽 2📍 4 stops
An evening up high: the terrace by Kazan Cathedral, St Isaac’s colonnade at night and dinner with a view of the dome.
🍽 Food tour🌙 Evening
Nekrasova Street: craft beer, cocktails and a market
⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 2 km🍽 2📍 5 stops
A quiet, intellectual neighbourhood turns into a bar street in the evening.
🍽 Food tour🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture
Dumskaya and Lomonosova: a night by Gostinka
⏱ 4 h🚶 2 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
The centre’s densest bar zone — from wine bars to dance floors.
🌙 Evening
Two markets: Sytny and Andreevsky
⏱ 4 h🚶 4 km🍽 3📍 5 stops
A food walk from Petrogradka to Vasilyevsky across Tuchkov Bridge.
🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture
Koryushka: a spring food route
⏱ 4 h🚶 5 km🍽 2📍 5 stops
In April–May the city smells of cucumbers: we watch the anglers and eat koryushka (smelt).
🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture
Whales and curiosities: Zoological Museum and Kunstkamera
⏱ 4 h🚶 1.5 km🍽 1📍 3 stops
Two neighbouring museums on the Strelka — interesting for kids, and the rain is no problem.
👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture☔️ If it rains
Submarine, icebreaker and the Naval Museum
⏱ 5 h🚶 4.5 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
Maritime Petersburg for young captains: you can touch everything.
👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture
Galernaya and Konnogvardeysky
⏱ 3 h🚶 2.5 km🍽 1📍 6 stops
The quiet back side of Senate Square — all the way to New Holland.
🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture
Vitebsk Station and Semyonovsky Parade Ground
⏱ 3 h🚶 2.5 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
The Art Nouveau of Russia’s first station and cosy streets leading to Pyat Uglov.
🏛 History and architecture
Russian Museum: Marble, Benois and Stroganov
⏱ 5 h🚶 2 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
Three buildings of the Russian Museum — from the avant-garde to the Baroque, all under one roof.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art☔️ If it rains
Atlantes, Winter Canal and Millionnaya
⏱ 3 h🚶 2.5 km🍽 1📍 6 stops
The city’s most aristocratic street and the place where Liza threw herself into the canal.
🏛 History and architecture
Narvskaya Zastava: Constructivism
⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 4 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
Working-class Leningrad of the 1920s: a house of culture, Traktornaya Street and an old park.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature
Strelna: Konstantinovsky Palace
⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 4 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
A seaside residence on the bay — without Peterhof’s crowds.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town
Quiet Peterhof: Alexandria Park
⏱ 5 h🚶 7 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
Nicholas I’s romantic park — after the fountains, along the bay.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town
Creative Petrogradka: the bread factory and Lenpoligrafmash
⏱ 3 h🚶 3.5 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
Factories turned public spaces, and the quiet Karpovka.
🍽 Food tour🎨 Art✨ New places
Quiet Vasilyevsky: Smolenka
⏱ 4 h🚶 4.5 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
The Lines, a market and the old cemetery where people go to see Xenia of Petersburg.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature
Circus, castle and the Summer Garden
⏱ 4 h🚶 3 km🍽 2📍 5 stops
A kids’ day by the Fontanka: the garden, a castle with a ghost and a circus show.
👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture
Blok, the Mariinsky and New Holland
⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 3 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
The poet’s last home on the edge of Kolomna, and lunch on the island.
🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art
The Silver Age: Arts Square and the Stray Dog
⏱ 3 h🚶 1.5 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
Theatres, the Hotel Europe and the basement where Akhmatova and Mayakovsky gave readings.
🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art
Pulkovo: stars and heights
⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 3.5 km + 🚕🍽 1📍 4 stops
An observatory on a hill, a memorial and a view of the city from the south.
👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature
Staraya Derevnya: the datsan and the Hermitage storehouse
⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 5 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
The Hermitage’s open storage, a Buddhist temple and a walk on Yelagin.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🌳 Parks and nature
Petersburg in one day: the essentials
⏱ 11 h🚶 7 km🍽 3📍 10 stops
For a first acquaintance: pyshki, the Hermitage, the Saviour on Spilled Blood, St Isaac’s colonnade and dinner by the Mariinsky — and the bridges rising at night.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art
Two banks of the Neva: from Petrogradka to Kolomna
⏱ 10 h🚶 9 km🍽 3📍 10 stops
The fortress, the Strelka, the sphinxes and New Holland — the whole historic centre on foot.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature
Tsarskoye Selo and Pavlovsk in one day
⏱ 11 h🚶 8 km + 🚆🚌🍽 3📍 9 stops
Two imperial residences: the Amber Room, the Lyceum and the largest landscape park.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town
Peterhof by Meteor hydrofoil
⏱ 10 h🚶 7 km + ⛴🚌🍽 3📍 9 stops
During the navigation season (May–September) you go by water from the Hermitage, the rest of the year by train; a full day in the Lower Park (fountains from late April to late September), then back to the centre for dinner.
👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town
The south shore of the bay: Strelna and Peterhof
⏱ 10 h🚶 9 km + 🚌🍽 2📍 9 stops
Seaside palaces from Konstantinovsky to Monplaisir — with lunch and dinner on the spot.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town
Kronstadt and Oranienbaum
⏱ 10 h🚶 8 km + 🚕🍽 2📍 9 stops
A fortress town and the quietest imperial estate — across the dam in one day.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature✨ New places🚆 Out of town
Islands and the bay: from Kamenny to Lakhta
⏱ 10 h🚶 12 km🍽 4📍 13 stops
A green day: Art Nouveau dachas, Yelagin, Krestovsky and sunset by the skyscraper.
👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature✨ New places
A food day: from pyshki to cocktails
⏱ 10 h🚶 6 km + 🚇🍽 8📍 9 stops
Leningrad classics, a market, new Russian cuisine and a famous cocktail bar.
🍽 Food tour🌙 Evening
The Silver Age: from Akhmatova to jazz
⏱ 10 h🚶 6 km🍽 4📍 10 stops
Literary Liteyny by day, the Stray Dog cabaret and a jazz bar by night.
🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art
With a child all day: the centre
⏱ 9 h🚶 5 km🍽 3📍 9 stops
Arcade games, DLT’s children’s floor, a castle, a circus — and pyshki, of course.
👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture
With a child: the zoo, cannons and the Aurora
⏱ 9 h🚶 6 km🍽 4📍 10 stops
The Petrogradskaya Side for little ones: animals, cannons, the fortress and a real cruiser.
👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature
With a child in the rain: all day under a roof
⏱ 9 h🚶 2.5 km + 🚇🚕🍽 3📍 7 stops
Grand Maket, sharks, a starry dome, steam locomotives and dinner at a food mall.
👶 With kids☔️ If it rains
A rainy day: the Hermitage, the Russian Museum and Fabergé
⏱ 10 h🚶 3 km🍽 3📍 8 stops
Three great collections and three meals — almost without going outside.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art☔️ If it rains
Literary Petersburg: Dostoevsky, Akhmatova, Pushkin
⏱ 10 h🚶 9 km🍽 3📍 10 stops
Writers’ apartments, Sennaya, and dinner in the interior of an old Petersburg apartment.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art
All of Vasilyevsky: from the Strelka to the bay
⏱ 10 h🚶 10 km🍽 3📍 11 stops
Embankment museums, the Lines, a market, Erarta, an icebreaker and sunset at Sevkabel.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art✨ New places
New Petersburg: lofts, the gasholder and Sevkabel
⏱ 10 h🚶 6 km + 🚇🚕🍽 3📍 8 stops
A city that reinvented its factories: art centres, a planetarium, a food mall and a port.
🍽 Food tour🎨 Art✨ New places
A big walking day along the Neva
⏱ 11 h🚶 14 km🍽 3📍 13 stops
For those who love to walk: from Smolny through the fortress and the Strelka to the Gulf of Finland.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature
Soviet Leningrad: Constructivism, the metro and Empire style
⏱ 9 h🚶 6 km + 🚌🚇🍽 3📍 11 stops
Narvskaya Zastava, the underground palaces and Moskovsky Prospekt — 20th-century architecture.
🏛 History and architecture
Kolomna and an evening at the Mariinsky
⏱ 10 h🚶 6 km🍽 3📍 11 stops
The quiet part of the centre by day — and a performance on the historic stage in the evening.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art
Art Nouveau: Petrogradka and Nevsky
⏱ 9 h🚶 7 km + 🚇🍽 5📍 10 stops
The Northern Art Nouveau of Kamennoostrovsky, a station, Eliseyevsky and the Singer House.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art
Gatchina: Paul I’s castle and the Priory
⏱ 10 h🚶 6 km + 🚆🍽 3📍 6 stops
By train to Gatchina: a palace-castle, a lake park and the Priory Palace made of earth.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town
Shlisselburg and Oreshek Fortress
⏱ 9 h🚶 3 km + 🚌⛴🍽 3📍 6 stops
A fortress on an island at the source of the Neva — by boat from the pier, with lunch and dinner on the shore.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town
Repino and Komarovo: Penaty, Akhmatova and the bay
⏱ 10 h🚶 5 km + 🚆🚌🚕🍽 3📍 7 stops
The Karelian Isthmus: Repin’s estate, Akhmatova’s dacha and grave, and sunset on the Golden Beach.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town
Sestroretsk: dunes, Razliv and Lenin’s Hut
⏱ 10 h🚶 9 km + 🚌🚆🍽 2📍 6 stops
A long day by the bay: sand dunes, an oak grove, Lake Razliv and dinner by Finlyandsky Station.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town
Kronstadt and the forts from the water
⏱ 10 h🚶 6 km + ⛴🍽 2📍 7 stops
The Naval Cathedral, Fort Island and a boat to Fort Konstantin with its lighthouse museum.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature✨ New places🚆 Out of town
Oranienbaum and Peterhof
⏱ 10 h🚶 8 km + 🚌🍽 2📍 9 stops
Two residences on the shore of the bay: quiet Oranienbaum until lunch, fountains afterwards.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town
Musical Petersburg: the Capella, the Philharmonic, the Mariinsky
⏱ 10 h🚶 6 km🍽 3📍 8 stops
A day that ends with a concert: the Capella’s courtyards, the Philharmonic hall and the Mariinsky.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art
Rossi and the Alexandrinsky: a theatre day
⏱ 10 h🚶 5 km🍽 3📍 10 stops
Rossi’s ensemble, the library, Anichkov Palace, the rock club and an evening performance.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art
Rock Petersburg: Pushkinskaya 10, the Rock Club and Kamchatka
⏱ 10 h🚶 5 km + 🚇🍽 3📍 8 stops
The city of Tsoi and Aquarium: from the nonconformists on Ligovsky to the boiler house on Petrogradka.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art✨ New places
The Romanovs: from the Saviour on Spilled Blood to the burial vault
⏱ 10 h🚶 6 km🍽 3📍 8 stops
The dynasty’s history: where Alexander II was fatally wounded, Paul I’s castle, the Peter and Paul Cathedral and the Winter Palace.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art
The Siege: the city’s memory
⏱ 9 h🚶 3 km + 🚇🚌🍽 3📍 6 stops
The Defence Museum, Piskaryovskoye Cemetery and the Monument to the Defenders — a heavy but important day.
🏛 History and architecture
Scientific Petersburg: Mendeleev, soils, a whale and the stars
⏱ 9 h🚶 3.5 km + 🚇🍽 3📍 8 stops
University Vasilyevsky, museums under a roof and an evening at Planetarium No. 1.
👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture☔️ If it rains
The Vyborg Side and Smolny
⏱ 10 h🚶 9 km🍽 3📍 9 stops
From the Aurora and Lenin’s locomotive across Liteyny Bridge to Smolny and Bolsheokhtinsky Bridge.
🏛 History and architecture✨ New places
Food day: kharcho, falafel, barbecue and cocktails
⏱ 10 h🚶 6 km + 🚇🍽 7📍 7 stops
A second food day: from breakfast on Konyushennaya to two cocktail bars.
🍽 Food tour🌙 Evening
All of Petrogradka: Art Nouveau, the Karpovka and the Botanical Garden
⏱ 10 h🚶 7 km🍽 3📍 11 stops
The whole Petrogradskaya Side: mansions, a mosque, Art Nouveau houses and dinner at Chekhov.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature
Petersburg from above: colonnade, bell tower, rooftop
⏱ 9 h🚶 4 km + 🚇🚕🍽 3📍 6 stops
Three heights in a day: St Isaac’s, Smolny, the Etazhi rooftop — and dinner on the 18th floor.
🏛 History and architecture✨ New places
With a child: the islands all day
⏱ 9 h🚶 6 km🍽 3📍 7 stops
Greenhouses, boats on Yelagin, rides and dinner at a restaurant with a kids’ room and a mini zoo.
👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature
Pulkovo and Tsarskoye Selo
⏱ 10 h🚶 6 km + 🚕🚆🍽 3📍 9 stops
Moskovsky Prospekt, the observatory on its hill and an evening in Catherine Park.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town
Nevsky from the Admiralty to the Lavra
⏱ 10 h🚶 8 km + 🚕🍽 4📍 12 stops
All of Nevsky on foot: palaces, the library, Klodt’s horses, Staro-Nevsky and the Lavra.
🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture
Art day: Impressionists, sphinxes and Erarta
⏱ 10 h🚶 6 km + 🚕🍽 3📍 7 stops
The General Staff Building, the Academy of Arts, Erarta and an evening at New Holland.
🎨 Art✨ New places
Kupchino: Švejk, quarries and the Izhora Line
⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 6.5 km + 🚌🍽 1📍 8 stops
Kupchino, no joke: a bronze Švejk, parks on flooded quarries, the Siege-era pillbox museum on the Izhora Line and an Old Believer church. The finale — desserts at Koza Dereza.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre
Volkovo: Literatorskie Mostki and Ligovka
⏱ 4 h🚶 6 km🍽 2📍 10 stops
The city’s most literary necropolis, a Lutheran cemetery with Masonic symbols and the Art Nouveau of Panina’s People’s House — a quiet walk a couple of steps from the Obvodny.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre
Moskovsky District: Novodevichy, the MiG and Chesma
⏱ 4 h🚶 5 km + 🚇🍽 1📍 7 stops
A convent with the graves of Nekrasov and Vrubel, a fighter jet over a pond and Felten’s neo-Gothic — Moskovsky District away from the grand avenue.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre
Dachnoye, Ulyanka and Ligovo: from Tsoi to the Dudergofka
⏱ 4 h🚶 7 km🍽 2📍 7 stops
The residential southwest, with history: an 18th-century estate among high-rises, Viktor Tsoi’s house and Ligovo’s former manor park with its birch Alley of Glory.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre
Sosnovaya Polyana: estates of the Peterhof Road
⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 6.5 km + 🚌🍽 1📍 6 stops
Parks and estates of the old Peterhof Road off the tourist routes: the South Primorsky Park, the Baroque Novoznamenka and a convent on the shore of the bay.
🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre
Krasnoye Selo and the Dudergof Heights
⏱ 5 h 30 min🚶 8 km🍽 1📍 8 stops
A Baroque church, a wooden regimental church and the ruins of a tsar’s palace, then a climb up Voronya and Orekhovaya hills — the highest point in Petersburg.
🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre
Udelnaya: the flea market, a hospital church and a park with pillboxes
⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 3.5 km🍽 1📍 6 stops
A weekend, Udelnaya style: a morning vintage hunt at the Udelka, then an old church and a stroll through the wooded Udelny Park with its squirrels and pillboxes.
👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre
Ozerki and Shuvalovo: Poklonnaya Hill, lakes and dachas
⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 6 km🍽 1📍 7 stops
A former resort on the Suzdal Lakes: the view from Poklonnaya Hill, a pillbox among dachas, an Art Nouveau gymnasium, an old cemetery and dinner by the water.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre
Shuvalovsky Park and old Pargolovo
⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 4 km🍽 1📍 8 stops
The north’s most romantic park: the man-made Parnassus hill, Bryullov’s neo-Gothic church, the ruins of the baths, wooden dachas and a café-museum with wood-fired pizza.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre
Lesnoy: Constructivism, the Forestry Academy and dachas
⏱ 4 h🚶 5.6 km🍽 2📍 7 stops
From the Constructivist Batenin housing estate to the oldest teaching arboretum and the dachas of Lesnoy, now home to restaurants.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre
The Polytechnic, Sosnovka and the Benois garden
⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 6 km🍽 2📍 9 stops
A 1900s student campus in a pine forest, a former military airfield in Sosnovka’s woods and Benois’ dacha garden with a restaurant on the terrace.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre
Okhta: a cape estate, cemeteries and a Parisian courtyard
⏱ 4 h🚶 6.5 km🍽 1📍 8 stops
The rural Okhta you can’t see from a minibus window: old churchyards, the Utkina Dacha estate, sculptures by the Neva and painted courtyards.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre
Polyustrovo: Bezborodko’s lions, a pond and the mineral park
⏱ 4 h🚶 3.5 km + 🚌🍽 1📍 6 stops
An estate with lions and sphinxes on the Neva, a hidden pond with swans and a former iron-water spa; the finale — the Piskaryovskoye Memorial.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre
Porokhovye: Zhernovka and the gunpowder settlement
⏱ 4 h🚶 5.2 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
From Quarenghi’s estate on the Okhta to the rotunda church and the gates of the gunpowder works.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre
Rzhevka: the polygon, the Road of Life and the forest
⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 7 km🍽 1📍 6 stops
Military Rzhevka: the start of the “Rzhev Corridor” memorial route, the artillery range’s houses, a mill by the reservoir and a through path across the Rzhevsky forest park.
🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre
Nevsky Forest Park: Bogoslovka and the Neva shore
⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 3.5 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
A wooden estate with a tent-roofed church in the middle of the forest, a refectory with pirozhki, an old bridge and a quiet Neva shore with a memorial to the Siege destroyers.
🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre
Rybatskoye and Ust-Izhora: villages on the Neva
⏱ 4 h🚶 4.5 km + 🚌🍽 1📍 6 stops
Peter’s fishing settlement with an obelisk to the volunteers and the Zotov house, then the site of the Battle of the Neva in Ust-Izhora.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre
Art Nouveau dachas of Olgino and Lakhta
⏱ 4 h🚶 5.5 km🍽 1📍 7 stops
Early-20th-century wooden dachas, the Stenbock-Fermor estate and Peter I’s church in former dacha settlements on the shore of the bay — quiet, green and almost without tourists.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre
Chyornaya Rechka, the first aviators and Kolomyagi
⏱ 4 h🚶 6.5 km🍽 1📍 6 stops
From the wooden church of Novaya Derevnya past Pushkin’s duel site and the former Komendantsky Airfield to the old hilltop village of Kolomyagi.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre
The Peterhof Road: from Kiryanovo to Alexandrino
⏱ 5 h🚶 5 km + 🚋🍽 2📍 9 stops
Catherine-era dachas, the Putilov Works, a school museum of Akhmatova, an old cemetery with pillboxes and Stalinist Avtovo — the history of Kirovsky District without metro stations.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre
Gavan, Namyv and Dekabristov Island
⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 7.5 km🍽 1📍 7 stops
The edge of Vasilyevsky: a tram museum, a 1906 workers’ settlement, the cruiser Kirov’s conning tower, a new embankment on reclaimed land and an old Lutheran cemetery.
🏛 History and architecture✨ New places🏘 Off the centre
Nevskaya Zastava: from the Palevsky Estate to the “Kulich”
⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 5.5 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
A walk along the old Shlisselburg Highway: a 1920s workers’ garden city, Shchemilovka Park, the porcelain factory and Lvov’s “kulich” (Easter-cake) church.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre
Obvodny Canal: factories, churches and a necropolis
⏱ 5 h🚶 8 km🍽 2📍 8 stops
The 19th-century industrial belt along the Obvodny: the oldest bridge, a literary necropolis, gasholders, “bottle-shaped” Art Nouveau and the brick Triangle.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre
The Vyborg Side: Constructivism and the Nobel courtyards
⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 4.5 km🍽 2📍 7 stops
The industrial Vyborg Side without Lesnoy Prospekt to the north: a 1927 house of culture, the Nobels’ mansion and workers’ settlement, Peter’s St Sampson Cathedral and a loft on the Karpovka.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre
Kolpino: the town around the Izhora Works
⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 5.5 km🍽 1📍 7 stops
Peter’s factory town on the Izhora: the dam and buildings of the Izhora Works, red-brick churches, the factory museum and a walk along the pond.
🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre
Piskaryovka: Tsoi, the Siege well and the memorial
⏱ 5 h🚶 7.5 km🍽 1📍 7 stops
A quiet, serious walk around Piskaryovka: the bas-relief at the Siege well, Viktor Tsoi’s grave, the Piskaryovskoye Memorial and a forest park with a pond, and at the end — a memory of the Grazhdanka airfield.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre
Grazhdanka: the Murinsky Stream and the defence line
⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 6.8 km🍽 2📍 6 stops
The green valley of the Murinsky Stream across all of Grazhdanka: a Georgian lunch with a terrace, a church on the site of one demolished during the Siege, a garden of the senses and trenches of the 1941 defence line.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre
Levashovo and Osinovaya Roshcha: the wasteland, Fabergé and a redoubt
⏱ 5 h 15 min🚶 6.8 km + 🚌🍽 2📍 7 stops
The city’s northern edge: a memorial to victims of repression in a spruce forest, Fabergé’s dacha awaiting restoration, a manor park on sandy hills and an 18th-century earth fortress.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre
Kondratyevsky: Kresty, Durnovo’s dacha and the “Fortieth Buildings”
⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 5 km🍽 2📍 6 stops
The Vyborg Side without tourists: red-brick Kresty, a classical dacha on the Neva, a 1930s Constructivist housing estate and a bustling market still called Kondratyevsky.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre
Tauride playgrounds and lunch nearby
⏱ 3 h🚶 2.2 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
A leisurely walk with a toddler through three gardens around the Tauride: a pond with ducks, playgrounds with sandpits and lunch at a family café with a kids’ room.
👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature
Yelagin: deer, goats and playgrounds
⏱ 4 h🚶 2.6 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
A day on Yelagin Island: past the palace and ponds to the big playground and a mini zoo with deer, goats and a little donkey, ending with sunset on the Strelka.
👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature
Rainy day: a fairy tale, lunch, a giant
⏱ 4 h🚶 700 m + 🚕🍽 2📍 4 stops
A route for rainy weather: an interactive show for little ones, lunch at a restaurant with a kids' room and the giant's apartment on Bolshaya Morskaya — all indoors.
👶 With kids☔️ If it rains
Moskovsky Victory Park: ponds and a little train
⏱ 3 h🚶 1.5 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
A stroll through a big park in the south of the city: rides for toddlers, ponds with ducks, a playground by Moskovsky Prospekt and Italian lunch across the square.
👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre
Central St Petersburg by stroller, no stairs
⏱ 3 h🚶 2.6 km🍽 2📍 6 stops
A flat route through the center for strollers: New Holland with lawns and cafés, a boulevard, Alexander Garden and Palace Square — no steps and no underpasses.
👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture
Divo Ostrova rides and Yelagin squirrels
⏱ 5 h🚶 3.7 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
Rides on Krestovsky Island, lunch and a walk around Yelagin Island with its squirrels, all the way to the Strelka with its lions.
👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature
Holograms, a telegraph and New Holland's frigate
⏱ 5 h🚶 4.3 km🍽 3📍 6 stops
Hands-on science: the mirror maze of the Museum of Optics, the first telephones at the Museum of Communications and a frigate-shaped playground.
👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture☔️ If it rains
Rope park and a picnic in Sosnovka
⏱ 5 h🚶 2.1 km + 🚕🍽 1📍 4 stops
A morning on the indoor courses of Vysotny Gorod, then a picnic in the pine park and a hot lunch at Benois Farm.
👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre
Puppet theater, Mama na Dache and Tauride Garden
⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 4.5 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
A matinee at the Bolshoi Puppet Theater, lunch at a family café with a kids' room, the playgrounds of Tauride Garden and the Smolny bell tower.
👶 With kids🎨 Art
Quest: a nose, lions, griffins and cats
⏱ 4 h🚶 5.7 km🍽 3📍 8 stops
A riddle walk through the center for ages 7–12: find the runaway nose, lions, griffins, cats on the cornices and the Chizhik, with pyshki (Petersburg doughnuts) as the finale.
👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture
Summer and Mikhailovsky Gardens with a stroller
⏱ 3 h🚶 1.7 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
A leisurely stroll through the two flattest gardens in the center: the statues and ponds of the Summer Garden, the Field of Mars, the Mikhailovsky Garden playground and lunch with a kids' room near Konyushennaya.
👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature
The fortress, Kronverk ducks and a playground
⏱ 3 h 20 min🚶 1.5 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
Petrogradka for a toddler: a flat beach and lawns by the fortress walls, ducks in the Kronverk Strait, a playground in Alexandrovsky Park and lunch with a big play area.
👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature
Vasilyevsky Island gardens for toddlers
⏱ 3 h🚶 1.6 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
The sphinxes, the quiet Academic Garden, the Rumyantsev Garden playground and lunch with a kids' room on pedestrian 6th Line.
👶 With kids🎨 Art🌳 Parks and nature
Rain on Nevsky: DLT, lunch, Galereya
⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 1.3 km + 🚌🍽 2📍 4 stops
A route for downpours and cold: the kids' floor of DLT, books in the Singer House, lunch with a kids' room and the warm Galereya mall with mother-and-baby rooms — all indoors, with almost no time outside.
👶 With kids☔️ If it rains
Apothecary Island under an umbrella
⏱ 3 h 40 min🚶 1.2 km + 🚕🍽 1📍 4 stops
A rainy day on Petrogradka: old toys in a small museum, lunch with a kids' room and a play pen for toddlers in the indoor Mouse House.
👶 With kids☔️ If it rains
Rain on Primorsky: butterflies and slides
⏱ 3 h🚶 700 m🍽 1📍 4 stops
An indoor day by the bay for toddlers: a warm hall with butterflies, the soft mazes of Joki Joya, lunch at Piterland, and if the rain stops — the playgrounds of the 300th Anniversary Park.
👶 With kids☔️ If it rains🏘 Off the centre
Bad weather near Bukharestskaya: exotarium and mazes
⏱ 3 h🚶 300 m + 🚕🍽 2📍 5 stops
An indoor route in the south of the city: capybaras and meerkats at the exotic zoo, porridge at Teremok, the soft play area Umpa-Lumpa, and if the rain ends — the playground by Volkovsky Pond.
👶 With kids☔️ If it rains🏘 Off the centre
Okhta: the Neva, a playground and parrots
⏱ 3 h🚶 1.5 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
A leisurely walk along the Neva in Malookhtinsky Park, a playground, and then into the warmth: parrots you can hand-feed, and lunch at a restaurant with a kids' room.
👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre
Udelny Park: a pond, pines and a bakery
⏱ 2 h 30 min🚶 2.4 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
A quiet walk for toddlers in the north of the city: a pond under larch trees, a playground among the pines and a bakery with a play area at the park entrance.
👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre
Southwest: a fountain park and indoor slides
⏱ 3 h🚶 400 m + 🚌🍽 1📍 4 stops
A walk through South Primorsky Park with its ponds and concrete animals, a playground, and then into the warmth of Zhemchuzhnaya Plaza: an indoor play area and lunch with a kids' menu.
👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre
Vyborg: the castle, old town and Monrepos
⏱ 11 h🚶 7 km + 🚆🚌🍽 2📍 7 stops
By Lastochka train in just over an hour to medieval Vyborg: the castle with St Olaf's Tower, old-town lanes, lunch at a tavern and the autumn Monrepos park on rocks above the bay.
👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town
Priozersk: Korela Fortress above the Vuoksa
⏱ 10 h🚶 4 km + 🚆🍽 2📍 6 stops
By commuter train to the Karelian Isthmus: the stone Korela Fortress on an island in the Vuoksa, a Finnish kirche and train station, coffee at a small café and lunch with pikeperch; back by bus to Parnas.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town
Toksovo: the Kavgolovo Lakes and hills
⏱ 7 h🚶 9 km + 🚆🍽 1📍 6 stops
“Petersburg Switzerland” 45 minutes from Finlyandsky: the pine hills of Kavgolovo, two lakes, a kirche from 1887 and lunch by the ski slope. Mushrooms and gold in autumn, skiing in winter.
👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town
The Road of Life: museum, lighthouse and Ladoga
⏱ 9 h🚶 2.5 km + 🚆🚕🍽 1📍 4 stops
By commuter train to the shore of Ladoga, where the Road of Life ran during the Siege: a museum with lorries and a boat, the Osinovets Lighthouse, wind over the lake and the “Broken Ring” memorial.
👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town
Staraya Ladoga: fortress, mounds and monasteries
⏱ 11 h🚶 5 km + 🚌🍽 1📍 6 stops
The first capital of Rus on the bank of the Volkhov: a stone fortress where Rurik sat, monasteries, Varyazhskaya Street and the mound called the grave of Oleg the Prophet. By Lastochka to Volkhov and 15 minutes by bus.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town
Sablino: caves, canyons and two waterfalls
⏱ 7 h🚶 5 km + 🚆🚌🚕🍽 2📍 5 stops
By commuter train to the south: tunnels with bats, the Sablino Waterfall in a canyon and the wide Tosna Waterfall on the Tosna.
👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town
Vyra and Rozhdestveno: Pushkin and Nabokov
⏱ 10 h 30 min🚶 6 km + 🚌🍽 2📍 8 stops
The post station from “The Stationmaster”, the hill with the Nabokov estate above the Oredezh, the foundation of the house of his childhood and the overgrown Batovo park.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town
Ropsha and Koporye: ruins and a fortress
⏱ 11 h🚶 5.5 km + 🚌🚕🍽 2📍 5 stops
In the morning, the overgrown imperial park at Ropsha, where Peter III died; later, the medieval Koporye Fortress above a ravine and blini in an old mill.
👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town
Ushkovo and Zelenogorsk: pines and the bay
⏱ 9 h🚶 8 km + 🚆🚌🍽 2📍 6 stops
A forest trail along the Ushkovo stream to the bay, along the sand to lunch with a view of the water, then the white Kazan Church and Zelenogorsk's Finnish kirche.
👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town
Siverskaya: the dacha capital on the Oredezh
⏱ 9 h 20 min🚶 8 km + 🚕🍽 2📍 7 stops
The Wittgenstein family's chapel-mausoleum in Druzhnoselye, a red Devonian cliff above the Oredezh, a museum of old dachas and the house of the composer Isaac Schwartz.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town
St Isaac's, Senate Square and the Moika: the long loop
⏱ 7 h🚶 2.7 km🍽 2📍 10 stops
The grand center in detail: from the Bronze Horseman and the Senate through the colonnade of St Isaac's and Bolshaya Morskaya to the Yusupov Palace on the Moika. With coffee by the cathedral and lunch at Teplo.
🏛 History and architecture
Summer Garden and the Russian Museum: the long loop
⏱ 7 h 30 min🚶 3.9 km🍽 2📍 10 stops
From the Marble Palace and the Summer Garden to the castle of Paul I and the Russian Museum, then to the Savior on Spilled Blood along Konyushennaya. Lunch on Konyushennaya, pies at the finish.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🌳 Parks and nature
Dostoevsky's Petersburg: the long route
⏱ 6 h 30 min🚶 5.6 km🍽 2📍 10 stops
Raskolnikov's whole path — from Sennaya to the pawnbroker's house — and through Five Corners to the writer's last apartment. Lunch near Sennaya, finale at the Kuznechny Market.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art
Rubinshteyna and Liteyny: a long evening
⏱ 6 h🚶 2.9 km🍽 5📍 10 stops
An evening along the main bar street with a stop at a rock club and dinner at a smokehouse, then cocktails, the night Fontanka and jazz until late.
🍽 Food tour🌙 Evening
Griboedov Canal: from the Savior to the Seven Bridges
⏱ 6 h🚶 5.1 km🍽 2📍 10 stops
Almost the whole canal: from the Savior on Spilled Blood past Kazan Cathedral and the griffins to Sennaya, the Lions' Bridge and the Seven Bridges at St Nicholas Cathedral. Coffee with a view of Kazan, dinner at Severyanin.
🏛 History and architecture
The Moika from the Yusupov Palace: the long route
⏱ 7 h🚶 4 km🍽 2📍 11 stops
The whole aristocratic Moika in a day: from the Yusupovs' home theater past St Isaac's and the Stroganov Palace to Pushkin's apartment and the Savior on Spilled Blood.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art
Atlantes and Millionnaya: the long walk
⏱ 6 h 30 min🚶 4.5 km🍽 2📍 10 stops
From the Hermitage atlantes along Millionnaya to the Field of Mars, through the Summer Garden and Mikhailovsky Castle — to pies and dinner by Nevsky.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art
The Strelka and Vasilyevsky: a big day with kids
⏱ 8 h🚶 4.5 km🍽 2📍 11 stops
The scholarly Vasilyevsky Island in full: the Zoological Museum and the Kunstkamera, the Twelve Collegia and Menshikov Palace, lunch at the market, the sphinxes and the 6th Line boulevard to Stolle pies.
👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture
Liteyny: Akhmatova, Brodsky and an evening on Nekrasova
⏱ 8 h🚶 3.7 km🍽 4📍 10 stops
Poetic Liteyny from the Fountain House to “One and a Half Rooms” — with a bookshop, dinner at Duo and a bar named after a Brodsky essay.
🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art
Tauride Garden and Smolny: the long loop
⏱ 6 h 30 min🚶 4.4 km🍽 2📍 10 stops
From a gastrobar on Kirochnaya through Suvorova and Tauride Garden to the Petrine Kikin Chambers, Rastrelli's cathedral and the Smolny Institute — with a Georgian dinner as the finale.
🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature
Petrogradka at night: from Troitsky to the Karpovka
⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 4.6 km🍽 1📍 8 stops
Sunset on Troitsky Bridge, the illuminated fortress and mosque, Kamennoostrovsky's Art Nouveau in lights — and dinner overlooking the Karpovka at a restaurant open until midnight.
🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture
Kolomna at night: New Holland and the Mariinsky
⏱ 3 h 15 min🚶 3.5 km🍽 1📍 7 stops
The lights of New Holland, the Mariinsky entrance before a performance, St Nicholas Cathedral over the canal and seven bridges in lamplight — and at the end, a French bistro open until midnight.
🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art
Vasilyevsky at dusk: the Strelka, sphinxes, the Lines
⏱ 2 h 45 min🚶 2.7 km🍽 1📍 6 stops
Sunset on the Strelka, as the Winter Palace and Peter and Paul Fortress light up across the Neva, a walk along the embankment to the sphinxes and the evening boulevard of 6th and 7th Lines — with dinner at a barbecue smoker.
🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture
An evening at Vladimirskaya: Zagorodny and Five Corners
⏱ 2 h 30 min🚶 2.5 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
From the Art Nouveau halls of Vitebsky Station along Zagorodny in shop-window lights to Five Corners and the lit Vladimirsky Cathedral, and for dinner — a family Georgian café open until midnight.
🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture
Smolny and Tauride Garden at night
⏱ 3 h🚶 3 km🍽 1📍 6 stops
Rastrelli's blue cathedral lit up, the Petrine Kikin Chambers and the quiet evening Tauride Garden, and at the end — an art café on Furshtatskaya with live music every evening.
🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature
Sadovaya in lights: from the Chizhik to Sennaya
⏱ 3 h🚶 3.8 km🍽 1📍 7 stops
All of Sadovaya in evening illumination: Mikhailovsky Castle, the Public Library and the arcades of Gostiny Dvor, noisy Sennaya, dinner at a 24-hour Georgian restaurant and a loop around the pond of the Yusupov Garden.
🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture
Palace and English Embankments in lights
⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 4 km🍽 1📍 9 stops
An evening along the Neva: the lit Winter Palace, Admiralty and Bronze Horseman, dinner near Palace Square and a finale on Blagoveshchensky Bridge with a view of the Strelka.
🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture
Vasilyevsky Strelka: the Rostral Columns at night
⏱ 3 h🚶 2.5 km🍽 1📍 7 stops
Across the lit Palace Bridge to the Rostral Columns and the Strelka, dinner in a warehouse by the Exchange and the evening Universitetskaya Embankment to the sphinxes.
🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture
Peter and Paul and Kronverksky at dusk
⏱ 3 h🚶 3.2 km🍽 1📍 7 stops
The fortress at sunset, a pier with a view of Palace Embankment, dinner opposite the lit walls and Troitsky Bridge in lights.
🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature
The Moika and Fontanka in lights
⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 4.3 km🍽 1📍 7 stops
From the lit St Isaac's along the Moika past Pushkin's house to the Summer Garden and down the Fontanka — with dinner on the embankment and a finale at Klodt's horses.
🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture
Griboedov Canal at night
⏱ 3 h🚶 4 km🍽 1📍 7 stops
The evening canal from the lit Savior on Spilled Blood past Kazan Cathedral and the griffins to Sennaya, with a late dinner and a finale at the bell tower of St Nicholas Cathedral.
🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture
Yelagin Island at sunset
⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 5 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
Through quiet evening Yelagin to the Strelka, where the sun sets right into the bay, and then the lights of the WHSD and Lakhta come on. Dinner at a French bistro by the bridge.
🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature
A date under the dome: Warsaw Station and the Planetarium
⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 2.5 km🍽 1📍 3 stops
Dinner in the old Warsaw Station building, the evening Obvodny embankment and a starry sky under a huge dome in a former gasholder. Almost everything is indoors — good in the rain too.
🌙 Evening☔️ If it rains
Smolny in lights and Malaya Okhta
⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 3.5 km🍽 1📍 6 stops
From the lit Smolny Cathedral across the Bolsheokhtinsky Bridge to quiet Malaya Okhta, from where the cathedral and bridge are seen across the Neva. Dinner at a German restaurant by the metro.
🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre
Sunset on the reclaimed land and dinner by the bay
⏱ 3 h🚶 4 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
The new embankment on the edge of Vasilyevsky — the closest place to the metro where the sun sets into the bay; after sunset the WHSD and Lakhta Center light up. Dinner at a café on Morskaya Embankment.
🌙 Evening🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre
The colonnade at sunset and New Holland's lights
⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 3 km🍽 1📍 7 stops
We catch sunset on the colonnade of St Isaac's, then follow the lamps along Konnogvardeysky Boulevard to New Holland, the Mariinsky and the Seven Bridges.
🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture
Neva lights: from Troitsky Bridge to Palace Bridge
⏱ 3 h 45 min🚶 4.5 km🍽 1📍 7 stops
Sunset from Troitsky Bridge, dusk at the walls of Peter and Paul, dinner opposite the fortress and the evening Strelka — the Neva when the embankments light up.
🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture
Lakhta Center: sunset by the bay and the city from the 83rd floor
⏱ 4 h🚶 4 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
Sunset on the bay shore in the 300th Anniversary Park, the glowing Lakhta tower and an evening session at the observation deck, from which the lights are visible all the way to the center.
🌙 Evening🌳 Parks and nature
Sevkabel at sunset and an evening at Erarta
⏱ 4 h🚶 2 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
Sunset over the open bay by the Sea Station and on the Sevkabel embankment, dinner by the water and contemporary art at Erarta, which is open until 23:00.
🌙 Evening🎨 Art
Nevsky from above: the Duma Tower and cathedral lights
⏱ 4 h🚶 3.4 km🍽 1📍 6 stops
The evening center in lights: the Savior on Spilled Blood, the colonnade of Kazan Cathedral, the griffins of Bankovsky Bridge, and then a climb up the Duma Tower — all of Nevsky in lights.
🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture
Krestovsky at sunset: Yacht Bridge and the lights of Lakhta
⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 4 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
The avenues of Primorsky Victory Park, the stadium by the bay and sunset from Yacht Bridge, from where you see the WHSD and the Lakhta tower, and then dinner by the water.
🌙 Evening🌳 Parks and nature
Demmeni marionettes and Fabergé eggs
⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 1.6 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
A morning show at the country's oldest puppet theater, a square with Catherine, Klodt's horses and Fabergé's treasures — all within fifteen minutes' walk along Nevsky.
👶 With kids🎨 Art☔️ If it rains
Vasilyevsky's dolls and Erarta for kids
⏱ 4 h🚶 3.5 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
The doll museum by the Smolenka, a walk across the whole island to Erarta with its bright halls, and lunch with a play town at Sevkabel Port.
👶 With kids🎨 Art
Hermitage with a child: knights, a mummy, the Peacock
⏱ 4 h🚶 2 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
Stone atlantes, a kid-friendly Hermitage in two hours — knights in armor, the Egyptian hall and the Peacock clock — and then a game of Sea Battle in the museum of Soviet arcade machines.
👶 With kids🎨 Art☔️ If it rains
Russian Museum and the Savior's mosaics for schoolkids
⏱ 4 h🚶 1.3 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
“The Ninth Wave”, “The Last Day of Pompeii” and the knight at the crossroads, then through Mikhailovsky Garden to the Savior on Spilled Blood, whose walls are entirely mosaic, and lunch with a view of Kazan Cathedral.
👶 With kids🎨 Art☔️ If it rains
Skazka puppet theater and Grand Maket
⏱ 4 h🚶 1.6 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
A morning puppet fairy tale by Moskovskiye Vorota, pies and a cast-iron gate with trophies, and then all of Russia in miniature with trains and cars.
👶 With kids🎨 Art☔️ If it rains
Art Gavan: Kuryokhin, Erarta and Sevkabel
⏱ 5 h🚶 2.5 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
Contemporary art on the edge of Vasilyevsky: the new Kuryokhin Center building, Erarta, the Brusnitsyn tannery buildings and Sevkabel's exhibitions on the bay.
🎨 Art✨ New places☔️ If it rains🏘 Off the centre
Stachek Avenue avant-garde and the Akhmatova Museum
⏱ 4 h🚶 4.5 km🍽 1📍 6 stops
Leningrad constructivism along Stachek — the factory-kitchen, the Hammer-and-Sickle school, Noy Trotsky's district council, the Gaz Palace of Culture — and a finale at the people's museum of the Silver Age in Avtovo.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🏘 Off the centre
From MISP to Ekateringofka: new things by the Obvodny
⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 6 km🍽 2📍 6 stops
The new building of the museum of Leningrad art, lunch on the 18th floor, a fresh square at Baltiysky Station, a brewery in a factory from 1795 and a church by the sea port.
🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art✨ New places
The new brown line and the 1941 defense line
⏱ 3 h🚶 4.5 km🍽 1📍 7 stops
Two metro stations opened in December 2025, and between them on foot along Stachek Avenue — the line where the front was stopped in autumn 1941: tram barricades, a KV-85 tank and a Putilov-workers' tractor.
🏛 History and architecture✨ New places🏘 Off the centre
Polar explorers, sharks and stars under a roof
⏱ 5 h🚶 2.3 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
A rainy day with a child along Marata: a polar explorers' tent, khinkali, a tunnel under sharks and the planetarium dome in a gasholder.
👶 With kids☔️ If it rains
Vasilyevsky in the rain: Menshikov, the Academy, the market
⏱ 5 h🚶 1.6 km🍽 2📍 4 stops
The tiles of the Petrine palace, models of cathedrals at the Academy of Arts, lunch in the market's food hall and mussels at a Belgian pub — all within five minutes of each other.
🍽 Food tour🎨 Art☔️ If it rains
Gostiny Dvor, Passage and Fabergé eggs
⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 1.5 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
Nevsky under a roof: the arcades of Gostiny Dvor, Passage's glass gallery, the halls of the Shuvalov Palace and a bookshop with buns on Liteyny.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art☔️ If it rains
Greenhouses, Lenpoligrafmash and Sytny Market
⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 2.2 km + 🚇🍽 2📍 4 stops
Tropics in the Botanical Garden's greenhouses, lunch at a former factory on the Karpovka, the cutlets of Sytny Market and Tsoi's boiler room — Petrogradka when it's pouring outside.
🍽 Food tour🌳 Parks and nature☔️ If it rains
Nabokov's butterflies, the telegraph and the Yusupov theater
⏱ 5 h🚶 700 m🍽 1📍 4 stops
Three museums within two blocks of St Isaac's: Nabokov's butterfly collection, the first telephones and a telegraph, lunch with a kids' room and the home theater of the Yusupov Palace.
👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture☔️ If it rains
Pushkin's apartment, pies and the Stroganov Palace
⏱ 4 h🚶 1.2 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
Pushkin's last address on the Moika, hot pies on Nevsky, the Stroganovs' state rooms and the colonnade of Kazan Cathedral — all within fifteen minutes' walk.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art☔️ If it rains
Marble Palace, Paul's castle and the Siege
⏱ 5 h🚶 1.8 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
Rinaldi's Marble Hall, brunch near the Savior on Spilled Blood, the halls of Mikhailovsky Castle and the Museum of the Defense of Leningrad — three centuries of the city between the Neva and the Fontanka.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art☔️ If it rains
Kamennoostrovsky to the Lopukhinsky Garden
⏱ 2 h🚶 3.8 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
An hour and a half to two hours along Petrogradka's main avenue: from Lenfilm past Benois's courtyards and the emir's house to a quiet garden on the Malaya Nevka.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so
Izmailovsky Regiment: cathedral, garden and the Derzhavin estate
⏱ 2 h🚶 3.2 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
A short walk from Tekhnologichesky Institut: the theater garden, Derzhavin's house with a café in the orangery, Stasov's starry domes and the sphinxes of Egyptian Bridge.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so
Ligovka: Pushkin, the Pertsov House and the cast-iron king
⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 1.9 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
An hour between a train and a meeting: from Moskovsky Station to the first monument to Pushkin, Pertsov's giant Art Nouveau and San Galli's cast-iron lace.
🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so
Blokhina Street: Rinaldi's cathedral and Kamchatka
⏱ 1 h 30 min🚶 2.3 km🍽 2📍 4 stops
An hour and a half in old Petersburg Side: Rinaldi's cathedral, the boiler room where Tsoi worked as a stoker, and Sytny Market to finish.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so
Yesenin Park and the Okkervil River with a stroller
⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 2 km🍽 1📍 3 stops
A short loop by Ulitsa Dybenko: a forest in the middle of a residential district, the Okkervil River with beavers and a warm bakery by the metro.
👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Where the Okkervil meets the Okhta: Utkina Dacha
⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 2.6 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
An hour to an hour and a half on Malaya Okhta: from Ladozhsky Station to the confluence of two rivers, Lvov's estate on the cape and a playground of sea pebbles.
👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Ekateringof: ponds and Catherine's estate
⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 2.8 km🍽 1📍 3 stops
An hour near Narvskaya: a landscape park on the site of the summer estate of Catherine I and of Peter's first naval victory, and then chebureks at Cherdak.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so
Nevsky under a roof: Singer, Passage and jazz
⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 1.8 km🍽 3📍 5 stops
A rainy evening on Nevsky almost without an umbrella: coffee in the Singer House, the arches of Gostiny Dvor, Passage's glass gallery, dinner at Eliseyev and live jazz until night.
🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture☔️ If it rains
Ligovsky in the rain: Etazhi and Five Corners
⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 1.3 km🍽 2📍 4 stops
Exhibitions and designer shops in a former bread factory, a Georgian dinner on Razyezzhaya and a bar by Five Corners open until late. The walks between stops are short, the rest is indoors.
🌙 Evening🎨 Art☔️ If it rains
Vasilyevsky in the rain: market, Erarta and craft beer
⏱ 4 h🚶 800 m + 🚌🍽 2📍 4 stops
Dinner in the food hall of the old market on Bolshoy Prospekt, contemporary art at Erarta, which is open until 23:00, and a glass of craft beer on the way back to the metro. Almost everything is indoors, with a trolleybus between stops.
🍽 Food tour🌙 Evening🎨 Art☔️ If it rains
Liteyny in the rain: books, dinner and cocktails
⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 600 m🍽 3📍 4 stops
A short evening on one block of Liteyny: an old bookshop, an inexpensive dinner and two bars people visit for nastoyki (fruit liqueurs) and DJs. Between stops — a couple of minutes under an umbrella.
🌙 Evening☔️ If it rains
Palace Square, the Moika and the Church of the Savior on Blood
⏱ 1 h🚶 1.2 km🍽 0📍 4 stops
From the Alexander Column over the Singing Bridge to the colorful domes of the Church of the Savior on Blood, then a rest on the lawns of Mikhailovsky Garden. The most postcard-perfect Petersburg in one breath.
👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so
The Mosque, Kshesinskaya Mansion and the Aurora
⏱ 55 min🚶 1.2 km🍽 0📍 4 stops
The turquoise dome of the Cathedral Mosque, the Art Nouveau Kshesinskaya Mansion, Peter's Cabin of 1703 and the cruiser on Petrogradskaya Embankment. The Neva is beside you all the way.
👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so
The Moika, New Holland and the Mariinsky
⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 1.7 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
Yusupov Palace on the Moika, the Delamotte Arch and the lawns of New Holland, a snack in the round “Bottle” and a finish at the Mariinsky's two stages. Quiet Kolomna with its canals.
🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture✨ New places⏱ An hour or so
The Spit, the Twelve Collegia and Menshikov Palace
⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 2 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
The best panorama of the Neva from the Spit, the Kunstkamera with its tower, the endless facade of the Twelve Collegia and Menshikov Palace — and a snack at Andreevsky Market at the end.
👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so
The Admiralty, the Bronze Horseman and the Colonnade
⏱ 1 h🚶 1.1 km🍽 0📍 4 stops
The fountain beneath the Admiralty spire, the Thunder Stone of the Bronze Horseman and a climb to the colonnade of St Isaac's with a view over the rooftops. Finish at Nabokov's childhood home on Bolshaya Morskaya.
🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so
Field of Mars, the Summer Garden and Mikhailovsky Castle
⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 1.5 km🍽 0📍 4 stops
The avenues and statues of the Summer Garden, the Chizhik-Pyzhik statue by the red Mikhailovsky Castle and Rossi's palace on Arts Square. Gardens and water at every step.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so
Arcade games, DLT and hot pyshki
⏱ 50 min🚶 700 m🍽 2📍 4 stops
Soviet arcade machines, the DLT atrium with its kids' floor and hot pyshki (Petersburg doughnuts) on Bolshaya Konyushennaya — a short route in the center where almost everything is close by.
👶 With kids☔️ If it rains⏱ An hour or so
Lion Bridge, Vladimir Cathedral and Dostoevsky
⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 3.4 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
The cast-iron lions on Griboedov Canal, the cathedral Dostoevsky attended, and the house where The Brothers Karamazov was written. The Petersburg courtyards and canals of his novels.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so
Trinity Bridge, the Embankment and the Bridge Opening
⏱ 1 h 30 min🚶 4.6 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
A night crossing of the Neva over Trinity Bridge, Palace Embankment in the white nights and the raising of Palace Bridge. A glass at a jazz bar to finish.
🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so
Lidval House, the House with Towers and the Karpovka
⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 2.6 km🍽 0📍 4 stops
Northern Art Nouveau of Petrogradka: Lidval House, the towers on Lev Tolstoy Square, the Emir of Bukhara's house and the quiet Karpovka embankment. A city for those who look up.
🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so
Botanical Garden, the Karpovka and Lenpoligrafmash
⏱ 1 h 30 min🚶 2.7 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
Greenhouses with tropics even in winter, the quiet Karpovka embankment, a fortress-like monastery in the Byzantine style and a café in a former factory. A green, unhurried Petrogradka.
👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature✨ New places⏱ An hour or so
Kamenny Island Dachas and Yelagin
⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 2.3 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
Wooden dachas and quiet canals of Kamenny Island, the empresses' summer palace and the avenues of Yelagin with boats and squirrels. Silence twenty minutes from Nevsky.
👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so
Yacht Bridge, the 300th Anniversary Park and Lakhta
⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 3.2 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
A bridge with a view of Lakhta Center, avenues along the bay and a climb to the observation deck at about 360 m. Sea wind and the most modern Petersburg.
👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature✨ New places⏱ An hour or so
Tauride Garden and the Smolny Bell Tower
⏱ 1 h🚶 1.9 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
The mosaic facade of the Suvorov Museum, the ponds and little bridges of Tauride Garden and a climb up the bell tower of Smolny Cathedral with a view of the city.
🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so
The Lavra, the Necropolis and Staro-Nevsky
⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 2.5 km🍽 0📍 4 stops
The city's main monastery, the graves of Tchaikovsky and Dostoevsky in the Necropolis and the quietest stretch of Nevsky as far as Vosstaniya Square.
🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so
Pushkinskaya 10, Etazhi and Kuznechny Market
⏱ 1 h🚶 1.7 km🍽 1📍 3 stops
The courtyards of the art center with the Tsoi Wall, the Etazhi loft with exhibitions and a rooftop viewpoint, and Kuznechny Market on the way to the metro. Unconventional Petersburg.
🎨 Art✨ New places☔️ If it rains⏱ An hour or so
Victory Park and the House of Soviets
⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 2.6 km🍽 1📍 3 stops
The Alley of Heroes and ponds of Moskovsky Victory Park, the grand facade of the House of Soviets and the Sever confectionery by the metro. Stalinist Empire style in all its sweep.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so
The Arctic Museum, Vladimirskaya and Kuznechny Market
⏱ 50 min🚶 1.2 km🍽 2📍 4 stops
A former church that is now the Arctic Museum, Vladimir Cathedral, the delicacies of Kuznechny Market — and a hot lunch with a kids' room on Nevsky.
👶 With kids🍽 Food tour☔️ If it rains⏱ An hour or so
Kazan Cathedral, the Griffins and Sennaya
⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 2.2 km🍽 0📍 4 stops
The colonnade of Kazan Cathedral, the gold-winged griffins of Bankovsky Bridge and the bends of Griboedov Canal to Sennaya and Lion Bridge. Dostoevsky's Petersburg by the water.
🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so
Palace Bridge, the Spit and the Sphinxes
⏱ 1 h🚶 2.1 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
Across Palace Bridge to Vasilyevsky Island, the Rostral Columns on the Spit and a finish at the Egyptian sphinxes. Nothing but the Neva and wide views.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so
Smolny, Kutuzov Embankment and the Summer Garden
⏱ 1 h 35 min🚶 4.4 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
From Rastrelli's white-and-blue cathedral along the Neva on Kutuzov Embankment to the Summer Garden. Wide water, quiet and a rest under the lindens.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so
Solyanoy Lane: Stieglitz and St Panteleimon
⏱ 55 min🚶 1.7 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
The mansion of the Stieglitz School, the Siege museum in Solyanoy Gorodok and the Church of St Panteleimon commemorating the navy's victories. A quiet quarter by the Fontanka, lunch on Kirochnaya.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art☔️ If it rains⏱ An hour or so
Nekrasov, Transfiguration Cathedral and Maltsevsky Market
⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 2.2 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
Nekrasov's house-museum, a cathedral with a fence made of captured cannons, snacks from Maltsevsky Market and a stroll along Nekrasov Street with its bars.
🍽 Food tour🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so
Gostiny Dvor, the Duma Tower and Lomonosov Bridge
⏱ 50 min🚶 1.4 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
The arcades of Gostiny Dvor, the City Duma tower, the bridge with turrets on the Fontanka — and an evening in the bars with verandas on Lomonosov Street.
🌙 Evening⏱ An hour or so
The Spit, Tuchkov Bridge and the Walls of Peter and Paul
⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 3.8 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
Anglers on the steps by the Spit, a crossing of the Neva over Tuchkov Bridge and a walk along the walls of the Peter and Paul Fortress. Spring Petersburg right by the water.
🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so
Icebreaker Krasin and the Submarine Narodovolets
⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 4.2 km🍽 1📍 3 stops
The icebreaker that rescued the Nobile expedition and a 1920s submarine on the shore — maritime history next to Sevkabel. A family restaurant with a play town at the end.
👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so
Senate Square, Galernaya and New Holland
⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 1.5 km🍽 0📍 5 stops
From the Bronze Horseman under the arch of the Senate and Synod, along Galernaya Street with its mansions and Konnogvardeysky Boulevard to the lawns of New Holland.
🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so
Vitebsky Station, Pyat Uglov and Rubinshteyna
⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 2.2 km🍽 0📍 4 stops
The Art Nouveau of Vitebsky Station, the former Semyonovsky Parade Ground, the little tower of Pyat Uglov (Five Corners) and Rubinshteyna, the restaurant street. You can finish with dinner.
🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so
Marble Palace, the Benois Wing and Stroganov Palace
⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 2.4 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
The Russian Museum's palaces from outside — the Marble Palace, the Benois Wing and Rastrelli's Baroque Stroganov Palace — and coffee at the end in the Singer House with a view of Kazan Cathedral.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art☔️ If it rains⏱ An hour or so
The Atlantes, the Winter Canal and Millionnaya
⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 1.6 km🍽 0📍 5 stops
The Atlantes of the New Hermitage, the arch over the Winter Canal from The Queen of Spades, the palaces of Millionnaya and the Marble Palace — to the Field of Mars, where lilacs bloom in May.
🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so
Narvskaya Zastava: the Tractor Palace of Culture and Ekateringof
⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 2 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
The Gorky Palace of Culture shaped like a tractor, Traktornaya Street — the first socialist town — pies at a bakery and one of the city's oldest parks. Constructivism without the crowds.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so
Xenia's Chapel and the Smolenka Embankment
⏱ 1 h 5 min🚶 2.5 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
The Chapel of Xenia of Petersburg at Smolensky Cemetery, the quiet Smolenka embankment and a finish at Erarta. The calmest Vasilyevsky.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so
The Savior on Blood, Arts Square and the Europe
⏱ 55 min🚶 1 km🍽 0📍 4 stops
From the Savior on Blood to the garden with Pushkin on Arts Square, to the Mikhailovsky Theatre and the interiors of the Europe. Silver Age Petersburg in three blocks.
🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so
The Datsan, Staraya Derevnya and Yelagin Island
⏱ 1 h 5 min🚶 2.2 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
The Hermitage's modern storage facility, the northernmost Buddhist temple — and across the bridge to Yelagin Island. Unusual Petersburg beyond the center.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so
Palace Square, the Winter Palace and Kazan Cathedral
⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 1.4 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
The Alexander Column, the facade of the Winter Palace, coffee in the Singer House and the colonnade of Kazan Cathedral. The essential Petersburg for a first visit.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so
Yelagin Island and Sunset on the Spit
⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 2.2 km🍽 1📍 3 stops
Boats and squirrels of Yelagin Island, lunch on a veranda and a walk out to the Spit of the island with a view of the bay. The best place for sunset.
👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature✨ New places⏱ An hour or so
Fountain House, the Akhmatova Garden and Brodsky
⏱ 55 min🚶 1.6 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
Fountain House, where Akhmatova lived, the quiet Sheremetev Garden and the Muruzi House with Brodsky's “A Room and a Half”. You can finish with lunch on Kirochnaya.
🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so
Stieglitz, the Summer Garden and Arts Square
⏱ 55 min🚶 1.6 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
The Stieglitz School in Solyanoy Lane, the avenues of the Summer Garden and the theaters of Arts Square with Pushkin in the garden. A calm walk through the grandest part of the center.
🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so
DLT, Mikhailovsky Garden and Chizhik-Pyzhik
⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 1.5 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
DLT's kids' floor, a snack in the Singer House, the lawns of Mikhailovsky Garden where kids can run, and Chizhik-Pyzhik by the castle. A center that's easy with a child.
👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so
The Aurora, Trinity Bridge and the Summer Garden
⏱ 1 h 25 min🚶 3.1 km🍽 1📍 3 stops
The cruiser on Petrogradskaya Embankment, a crossing of Trinity Bridge with a view of the Neva and the Summer Garden, and pastries at Eliseevsky to finish.
👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so
Moika 12, Sennaya and “Raskolnikov's House”
⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 2.9 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
Pushkin's last apartment on the Moika, Sennaya Square and Raskolnikov's 730 steps. A literary Petersburg you can finish with dinner at Severyanin.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so
The Summer Garden, Trinity Bridge and Peter and Paul
⏱ 1 h🚶 1.7 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
The avenues of the Summer Garden, a crossing of the Neva over Trinity Bridge and a walk around the Peter and Paul Fortress with lunch inside its walls.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so
The Sphinxes, Krasin and the Gulf of Finland
⏱ 1 h 30 min🚶 4.5 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
From the Egyptian sphinxes along the Neva to the icebreaker Krasin and on to the embankment by the Sea Passenger Terminal, where the gulf begins. Wind, ships and open space.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so
The Naval Museum, Blok's Apartment and St Nicholas Cathedral
⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 2.8 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
The Naval Museum, the house where Blok lived and the white-and-blue St Nicholas Naval Cathedral by the canals of Kolomna. A quiet maritime corner of the city.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so
Vitebsky Station, Eliseevsky and the Europe
⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 2.8 km🍽 1📍 3 stops
The Art Nouveau of Vitebsky Station, the stained glass and display windows of Eliseevsky and the interiors of the Grand Hotel Europe. Three of the finest Art Nouveau interiors.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so
Fabergé, Anichkov Palace and Catherine Garden
⏱ 1 h 5 min🚶 1.5 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
Shuvalov Palace on the Fontanka, Anichkov Palace, the historic Public Library and the chess players by the monument to Catherine. Rossi's Nevsky with lunch at the end.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so
The Aurora and Lenin's Steam Locomotive
⏱ 55 min🚶 2.6 km🍽 1📍 3 stops
The cruiser on Petrogradskaya Embankment, Finlyandsky Station with steam locomotive N2-293 and lunch on the Vyborg Side. Revolutionary Petersburg by the water.
🏛 History and architecture✨ New places⏱ An hour or so
From the Admiralty to Gostiny Dvor along Nevsky
⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 1.9 km🍽 0📍 4 stops
The grandest stretch of Nevsky: from the Admiralty spire past Stroganov Palace and the colonnade of Kazan Cathedral to the arcades of Gostiny Dvor.
🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so
The General Staff, the Sphinxes and the Academy of Arts
⏱ 1 h🚶 3 km🍽 1📍 3 stops
The arc of the General Staff on Palace Square, a crossing of the Neva to the Egyptian sphinxes and the Academy of Arts, and a Georgian lunch at the end.
🎨 Art✨ New places⏱ An hour or so
Kupchino: Quarry Ponds, a Pillbox and an Old Believer Church
⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 2.6 km🍽 0📍 4 stops
The quarry ponds of Firefighter Heroes Park, a pillbox of the Izhora defense line in the young woodland, an Old Believer church among new apartment blocks and a monument of 1931. A different Kupchino.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Volkovo Cemetery and Literatorskie Mostki
⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 2 km🍽 0📍 5 stops
Old avenues of one of the city's oldest cemeteries, the graves of Turgenev, Blok and Mendeleev, a quiet Lutheran cemetery with Masonic symbols and the little Volkovka river.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
From Rasstannaya to the American Bridges
⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 1.8 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
The Empire style of an almshouse, the Art Nouveau of Panina's People's House with a coffee shop in the semi-basement and the iron arches of the oldest bridges over the Obvodny — industrial Ligovka without the crowds.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
A MiG over the Pond and the Striped Chesme Church
⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 2.6 km🍽 0📍 4 stops
The pond of Aviators' Park with a MiG on a pylon, the humorous monument to the poreberik and the curb, and Felten's Neo-Gothic: a triangular palace and a cake-like church in white-and-pink stripes.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Tsoi Monument, Aleksandrino and Tsoi's House
⏱ 1 h 25 min🚶 3.8 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
From the Tsoi sculpture by the metro through the landscape park of the Neoclassical Aleksandrino estate — to the nine-story block where the musician lived in 1984–1987.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Alley of Glory and the Dudergofka Shore
⏱ 1 h 25 min🚶 2.8 km🍽 1📍 3 stops
An avenue of 900 birches, one for each day of the Siege, bridges over the Dudergofka and a church deep in the park, and at the end — shashlik on the terrace of a café right in the park.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Concrete Animals, Novoznamenka Baroque and Ponds
⏱ 1 h 40 min🚶 4.4 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
The ponds and concrete animals of South Primorsky Park, the Elizabethan Baroque of the Vorontsov dacha seen over the fence and a cascade of ponds on the Sosnovka river — a quiet estate-style outskirt.
🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Primorskaya Hermitage and the Travel Palace in Strelna
⏱ 1 h 40 min🚶 4.5 km🍽 1📍 3 stops
An 18th-century monastery on the shore of the gulf with an old necropolis, Peter's Travel Palace under restoration and lunch at a restaurant with a summer terrace.
🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Voronya and Orekhovaya Hills above Dudergof
⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 2.2 km🍽 0📍 4 stops
A climb up two hills with views of Lake Dudergof and Krasnoe Selo — the highest point in Petersburg, the foundations of Battery A from 1941 and Art Nouveau at the foot.
🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Udelka, the Organ Grinder and Udelny Park
⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 2.5 km🍽 0📍 4 stops
The rows of the city's best-known flea market with porcelain and records, a bronze organ grinder, the hospital church of old Udelnaya and the century-old larches of Udelny Park.
👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Poklonnaya Hill, a Pillbox and the Upper Lake
⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 2.3 km🍽 0📍 4 stops
A panorama from the ledge of Poklonnaya Hill all the way to the gulf, a pillbox on a dacha slope, the surviving dachas of Ozerki and the pine-lined shore of Upper Suzdal Lake.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Shuvalovo: a Church above the Lake and Dinner by the Water
⏱ 50 min🚶 2.1 km🍽 1📍 3 stops
The Finland Railway house of 1898 by Shuvalovo station, a church on the hill of the old cemetery above Lower Lake and dinner with a view over the water.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Mount Parnassus and the Neo-Gothic of Shuvalov Park
⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 900 m🍽 0📍 5 stops
The hills and cascade of ponds of the Counts Shuvalov, the view from the man-made Parnassus over Pargolovo Lake, Bosse's palace, Mesmacher's yellow dacha and a Neo-Gothic church on the hill.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
The Bathhouse Ruins and Lunch at Parkal
⏱ 55 min🚶 1.1 km🍽 1📍 3 stops
The romantic ruins of the Cold Baths by the pond, lunch at a café-museum with antiques and a hearth in the courtyard, and the old dachas of Pargolovo.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
The Batenin Estate and the Lesnoy Arboretum
⏱ 1 h 5 min🚶 2 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
Constructivist ribbon-style blocks and garden courtyards of the 1920s–30s, then a century-old arboretum around the classical building of the Forestry Institute and a teaching botanical garden with a greenhouse.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
The Polytechnic Campus among the Pines
⏱ 1 h 25 min🚶 1.9 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
A student campus of the early 20th century: the huge Wirrich building in a pine park, the university church, the wooden House of Scholars and pies at the student pie shop.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Sosnovka: Forest, Airfield and the Benois Garden
⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 2.1 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
A pine forest park with ponds and squirrels on the site of a military airfield, a monument to the airfield and a garden with a pond on the remains of the Benois dacha.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Malaya Okhta: an Estate on the Cape and a View of Smolny
⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 3.3 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
The old graveyard by the Church of the Dormition, the restored Utkin dacha on the cape where the Okkervil and Okhta meet, and the view of Smolny from Bolsheokhtinsky Bridge.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Bolshaya Okhta: a Cemetery, Paris and the Okhtenka
⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 2.6 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
The quiet avenues of an old cemetery above the Okhta, a courtyard with the Eiffel Tower painted on firewalls and a bronze milkmaid with a jug in the Neva garden.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Bezborodko's Lions, Sphinxes and a Swan Pond
⏱ 50 min🚶 1.1 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
A fence of 29 cast-iron lions with chains, a pier with sphinxes and a view of Smolny, a hidden pond with swans and lunch with a view of it.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Rzhevka: the Proving Ground and the Okhta Reservoir
⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 2.3 km🍽 0📍 4 stops
The start of the memorial “Rzhev Corridor” of the Road of Life, the old settlement of the artillery proving ground, a 19th-century factory mill and a church by the Okhta Reservoir.
🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Old Rybatskoe on the Bank of the Neva
⏱ 55 min🚶 2 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
The last stone house of the old village, a stele of 1789 to the fishermen volunteers with a chapel, and the Neva shore by the new church — a quiet outskirt with a long history.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Olgino's Wooden Dachas and the Church in Lakhta
⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 2.8 km🍽 0📍 4 stops
Quiet streets of old Olgino with pre-revolutionary dachas — a carved porch with a turret, an Art Nouveau house by the architect Weitens — and an 1894 church on a hill in Lakhta.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
A Wooden Church, the First Aviators and the Duel Site
⏱ 1 h 5 min🚶 2.6 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
The wooden Church of St Seraphim, which never closed under Soviet rule, the site where the aviator Matsievich died and the obelisk at the site of Pushkin's duel by the Chernaya Rechka.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Akhmatova Museum, Krasnenkoe Cemetery and a Tank
⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 1.6 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
The Akhmatova Museum that grew out of a school club, a croissant at a British bakery, the grave of the victims of the 1824 flood and a KV-85 tank on the defense line.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Dashkova's Estate and the Putilov Works
⏱ 1 h🚶 2.2 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
Princess Dashkova's dacha of 1784, the factory church of the Putilov workers, the Kirov Plant gatehouse with the monument to Putilov and lunch in the Stalinist blocks of Avtovo.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Cruiser Kirov and the Reclaimed-Land Embankment
⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 3.3 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
The real conning tower and gun turrets of the cruiser Kirov, the new embankment on reclaimed land with views of the gulf, the Western High-Speed Diameter and Lakhta Center, and a quiet obelisk to the Decembrists.
🏛 History and architecture✨ New places🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
The Tram Depot and the Gavan Workers' Village
⏱ 1 h 5 min🚶 3.4 km🍽 1📍 3 stops
The old Vasileostrovsky tram depot, the city's first social housing complex of 1906 with a nursery and canteen, and lunch by the gulf with draniki (potato pancakes).
🏛 History and architecture✨ New places🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Palevsky Estate, Babushkin Park and Porcelain
⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 2.8 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
A 1920s workers' garden city with arches and green courtyards, an old park on the former Shlisselburg Highway and Russia's oldest porcelain factory with its own shop.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Novo-Kamenny Bridge, a Necropolis and a Gasholder
⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 3.8 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
A bridge on the site of the old Ligovsky Canal aqueduct, the graves of Turgenev, Blok and Mendeleev in the quiet of Volkovo, and an 1880s gasholder with a planetarium inside.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
The “Bottle” Church and the Red Triangle
⏱ 1 h 5 min🚶 1.8 km🍽 1📍 3 stops
Grimm's Art Nouveau with its “bottle” bell tower, a snack at a food mall in the 1853 Warsaw Station building and the red-brick buildings of the factory on Obvodny Canal Embankment.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Vyborg Palace of Culture and the Nobel Compound
⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 1.8 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
A 1920s workers' palace of culture, coffee roasted in-house, Ludwig Nobel's mansion on Pirogovskaya Embankment and the Art Nouveau of the workers' compound with the Lidval house.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Kolpino: the Izhora, a Cathedral and a Pond by the Dam
⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 2.5 km🍽 0📍 4 stops
The Izhora embankment with a memorial to the battalion that held the front here during the Siege, a cathedral on a high bank and a park along the Izhora pond — a calm town built around a factory.
🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Tsoi, Gorshenyov and the Piskaryovskoye Memorial
⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 3 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
The graves of Viktor Tsoi and Mikhail Gorshenyov, the main memorial to the victims of the Siege with its eternal flame and the “Motherland” statue, and afterwards pines and a swan pond in the forest park.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
The Sensory Garden and the Line by Murinsky Creek
⏱ 1 h 25 min🚶 3.3 km🍽 1📍 3 stops
Garden beds of herbs you can touch and smell, moats, trenches and anti-tank obstacles of the 1941 defense line above Murinsky Creek, and tea with a pie by the metro to finish.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Fabergé's Dacha, Osinovaya Roshcha and a Star Redoubt
⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 2.7 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
Agafon Fabergé's “Little Hermitage” seen from the highway, an estate park on sandy hills with a larch avenue and lakes, and an 18th-century earthen star-shaped redoubt.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Kresty, an Estate on the Neva and Constructivist Courtyards
⏱ 1 h 25 min🚶 3.3 km🍽 0📍 4 stops
The red-brick buildings of Kresty from the embankment, Durnovo's Neoclassical dacha on the Neva and the green courtyards of a Constructivist housing estate of 1929–1931.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Three gardens and lunch with a kids' room
⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 2.6 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
A duck pond and the playgrounds of Tauride Garden, quiet little parks along the way for a nap, and a family restaurant with a free kids' room by Vosstaniya Square.
👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so
Yelagin: ducks, a playground and reindeer
⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 1.9 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
Rossi's palace with ducks and squirrels in the ponds, the island's biggest playground and a mini-zoo where you feed reindeer and goats carrots through the fence.
👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so
A little train, ponds and a playground in Victory Park
⏱ 1 h🚶 1.5 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
Carousels and the little train of the kids' town, ponds with ducks and a playground by the exit to Chernyshevsky Square, and across the square — lunch with a kids' menu.
👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Cats on the cornices, Chizhik-Pyzhik and pyshki
⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 2.4 km🍽 2📍 4 stops
A mini-quest for kids: find the bronze cats on the cornices and the tiny Chizhik above the Fontanka, and as a reward — pyshki (doughnuts) with cocoa at the legendary pyshechnaya.
👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so
Field of Mars and Mikhailovsky Garden with a stroller
⏱ 50 min🚶 1.3 km🍽 1📍 3 stops
The open space of the Field of Mars with its lilacs, a playground and a pond in the landscape-style Mikhailovsky Garden by the Savior on Blood, and lunch five minutes away at a restaurant with a kids' room.
👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so
A beach by the fortress, ducks and a playground
⏱ 1 h🚶 1.5 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
A beach by the Neva wall of the Peter and Paul Fortress with gulls and wind, the flat Kronverksky Embankment with ducks and a nap in the stroller, the playgrounds of Alexandrovsky Park and lunch with a play area.
👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so
The Sphinxes, Rumyantsev Garden and St Andrew's Cathedral
⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 1.4 km🍽 0📍 4 stops
Sphinxes above the Neva, the cozy Academic Garden with students at easels where a baby can sleep peacefully, the playground of Rumyantsev Garden and the flat, pedestrian 6th Line.
👶 With kids🎨 Art🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so
The Neva Promenade and the Parrots of Okhta Mall
⏱ 1 h🚶 1.5 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
A wide, flat promenade along the Neva for a daytime nap, a playground on the shore and an indoor zoo where parrots land on your hands and shoulders.
👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Raskolnikov's House, 730 Steps and Lion Bridge
⏱ 1 h🚶 2.1 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
The famous 730 steps from Raskolnikov's house to the pawnbroker's house, the cast-iron lions on the bridge over Griboedov Canal and lunch with kharcho on Sennaya.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so
Seven Bridges and Major Kovalev's Nose
⏱ 50 min🚶 1.5 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
The pawnbroker's house, Pikalov Bridge with its view of seven bridges and the bell tower of St Nicholas Cathedral, Gogol's nose on a facade and dinner in an old Petersburg apartment.
🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so
St Isaac's Colonnade, Stroganov Palace and Singing Bridge
⏱ 1 h 5 min🚶 1.9 km🍽 0📍 4 stops
The view from the colonnade of St Isaac's over the rooftops and the Admiralty, Rastrelli's pink palace on the corner of Nevsky, the house of Pushkin's last apartment and the Singing Bridge by Palace Square.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so
Mikhailovsky Castle, the Savior on Blood and Pies
⏱ 1 h 5 min🚶 1.7 km🍽 1📍 3 stops
Paul I's fortress castle ringed by canals, a walk through Mikhailovsky Garden to the colorful domes of the Savior on Blood, and Stolle pies at the finish by Nevsky.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so
Tauride Palace, Kikin Chambers and Smolny
⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 2.4 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
Potemkin's palace, the red chambers of 1714, the view from the bell tower of Smolny Cathedral, Quarenghi's propylaea and a Georgian dinner with khinkali (dumplings) a couple of blocks away.
🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so
A lit-up castle, the Public Library and the Gostiny arcades
⏱ 1 h 25 min🚶 2.8 km🍽 0📍 5 stops
Evening Sadovaya: the spire of Mikhailovsky Castle lit up, statues of thinkers on the Public Library facade, the Gostiny Dvor arcade ablaze with lights and lively, noisy Sennaya.
🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so
The Admiralty, the Bronze Horseman and Annunciation Bridge
⏱ 1 h🚶 1.6 km🍽 0📍 4 stops
The Admiralty spire and the Bronze Horseman lit up, the lights of the Kunstkamera and the Academy of Arts across the Neva from English Embankment, and a finish on Annunciation Bridge.
🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so
The Winter Canal, Palace Square and Dinner at Gogol
⏱ 50 min🚶 1.3 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
The lights of the Peter and Paul Fortress across the Neva, the lit-up arch over the Winter Canal, an almost empty evening Palace Square and dinner at a restaurant in a 19th-century apartment.
🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so
Ioannovsky Bridge, the Hare and Neva Gate
⏱ 50 min🚶 1.6 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
A wooden bridge with lanterns and a hare on a pile, the lit cathedral spire, sunset at Komendantskaya Pier opposite Palace Embankment and dinner with a view of the walls.
🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so
Primorsky Park, the Stadium and Sunset over the Gulf
⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 2.6 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
The ponds and avenues of Primorsky Victory Park, the huge arena at the edge of the island, sunset from Yacht Bridge with a view of Lakhta Center, and dinner right by the water.
🌙 Evening🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so
The Factory-Kitchen, the Nikolsky School and the Gaz Palace of Culture
⏱ 1 h 25 min🚶 3.4 km🍽 0📍 4 stops
Leningrad Constructivism along Prospekt Stachek: the factory-kitchen with semicircular canteens, the arc-shaped Nikolsky school, the district council tower and the Gaz Palace of Culture.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
The 1941 Defense Line on Prospekt Stachek
⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 2.5 km🍽 0📍 4 stops
The memorial to the heroes of Narvskaya Zastava, the spot where the highway was blocked with tram cars, a KV-85 tank with a pillbox, and a Fordson-Putilovets tractor.
🏛 History and architecture✨ New places🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Under the Gostiny arcades and the glass roof of the Passage
⏱ 45 min🚶 1.2 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
The galleries of Gostiny Dvor and the Passage where the rain can't reach, Shuvalov Palace on the Fontanka and lunch at a restaurant with a homey interior on Liteyny.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art☔️ If it rains⏱ An hour or so
Tolerant Nevsky: six churches in an hour
⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 1.6 km🍽 0📍 6 stops
Dutch, Finnish, Swedish, German, Catholic and Armenian churches — all on the stretch from the Moika to Gostiny Dvor. The Nevsky people usually rush past reads as a street of all faiths.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so
Mokhovaya and Kirochnaya: Simeon, Sharik and Annenkirche
⏱ 1 h 25 min🚶 2.6 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
A quiet part of Liteyny: Zemtsov's Baroque church, the bench of the heroes of Heart of a Dog, the Moorish Muruzi House and Felten's burnt-out church turned concert hall.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so
Peski: a resurrected church and Feodorovsky Cathedral
⏱ 1 h 30 min🚶 2.8 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
The quiet Sovetskie streets beyond Suvorovsky: a church rebuilt on its old foundations, a garden on the site of a civil execution, a tent-roofed Georgian church and a cathedral that is a monument to the Romanovs.
🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so
Four faiths of Kolomna: a synagogue, a kirche, a church and the Pryazhka
⏱ 1 h 35 min🚶 3 km🍽 1📍 6 stops
The far side of Kolomna that few reach: a Moorish synagogue, an Estonian Lutheran church, the quiet Pryazhka by Blok's house, a Polish church and an Estonian Orthodox church — all within five hundred meters.
🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so
Yamskaya Sloboda: the Cossack Cathedral and churches by the Obvodny
⏱ 1 h 5 min🚶 2.1 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
A short loop through the former coachmen's settlement: Ligovka's oldest parish, the metochion of the Tvorozhkovo Monastery and an Old Believer church right by the metro.
🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so
Vasilyevsky: the Annunciation, two Catherines and Michael
⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 2 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
Four churches in the northeastern corner of the island — Baroque, Empire and two Lutheran churches — and pies on the 1st Line.
🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so
Shmidta Embankment: the Steamship, Krusenstern and the Ice Rink in a Church
⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 2.2 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
Vasilyevsky's Neva embankment from the 7th Line to the Mining Institute: a memorial to the exiled philosophers, the round-the-world admiral and a church that once housed an ice arena.
🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so
From Sobchak to Komitas: Bolshoy Prospekt and the Smolenka
⏱ 1 h 25 min🚶 2.9 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
Non-touristy Vasilyevsky: the square in front of the Kirov Palace of Culture, a big district garden with Roerich, an Armenian park and an old church on the Smolenka bank.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so
Petrogradka without postcards: Tukay, Volodin and Lakhtinskaya
⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 2.8 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
Old settlements of Petrogradka: a market, a Tatar poet by the mosque, a garden with a bronze playwright on a bench and a former almshouse church.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so
Apothecary Island: Radio, Stolypin and Thon's Church
⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 2.2 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
A short loop from Petrogradskaya beyond the Karpovka: a monument to the inventor of radio, an obelisk on the site of the premier's blown-up dacha and a church where Bryullov painted.
🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so
Zagorodny: Dovlatov, Glasha and the First Police Chief
⏱ 1 h🚶 1.7 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
Fifty minutes between Dostoevskaya and Pushkinskaya: a bronze Dovlatov on Rubinshteyna, a chapel of the Konevets metochion and parks with Glasha and a bust of Devier.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so
Voskresenskaya Embankment: Akhmatova and the Sphinxes
⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 2.6 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
The quietest stretch of the Neva embankments: Rusca's Empire-style rotunda, Akhmatova gazing at Kresty, and Shemyakin's sphinxes — and a crossing of Liteyny Bridge to Finlyandsky Station.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so
Mouth of the Chernaya Rechka: the Stroganov and Golovin Dachas
⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 1.8 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
An hour at Chyornaya Rechka: Saltykova's Gothic mansion, what remains of the Stroganov garden by the water and a wooden dacha where empresses spent summers.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Staraya Derevnya: Shishmaryov's Dacha and the Annunciation Rotunda
⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 2.3 km🍽 0📍 5 stops
From Staraya Derevnya along Primorsky Prospekt: the datsan, a wooden estate where Bryullov painted, an Empire-style rotunda church and the Church of St Seraphim.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Komendantsky Aerodrome: Two U-2s and Lake Dolgoe
⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 2.6 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
A walk across a former airfield: Sikorsky Square with the “Boy and Geese”, a lake with playgrounds and biplanes on a pedestal — kids will love it.
👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Lesnoy Prospekt: Constructivism and the Round Bread Factory
⏱ 1 h 35 min🚶 3.6 km🍽 1📍 6 stops
The Leningrad avant-garde of the 1930s near Lesnaya: the textile workers' compound, the House of Specialists with its Siege inscription, the Polytechnic campus and the cylindrical bread factory.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Piskaryovka: the Peace Bell and a Submarine Conning Tower
⏱ 1 h 35 min🚶 2.6 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
Unexpected Piskaryovka: two parks, a Japanese bell in memory of Nagasaki and a submarine fleet museum with a real conning tower in the yard.
👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Ozerki: Middle Lake and the Siege Cats
⏱ 1 h 25 min🚶 3.7 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
Quiet Ozerki from metro to metro: an early-20th-century church by Poklonnaya Hill, little Middle Suzdal Lake and a bronze cat in a courtyard.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Murino: Lvov's Church and a Park on the Okhta
⏱ 1 h 5 min🚶 2.7 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
Old Murino five minutes from Devyatkino: a chapel at a fork in the road, Nikolay Lvov's estate rotunda and a new park on the bank of the Okhta.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Vyborg Side: Lenin, Willie and Hygieia
⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 2.3 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
A short walk from Ploshchad Lenina: the armored car, the artillery academy, the ceremonial courtyard of the Military Medical Academy and Peter I's hospital church.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
The Okkervil at Yablonovka: from the Grotto to Ladozhskaya
⏱ 1 h🚶 2.3 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
Half an hour along the Okkervil between Novocherkasskaya and Ladozhskaya: a monument by Antokolsky, a pedestrian bridge and a through station.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Chyornaya Rechka: Pushkin, Berggolts and Lanskaya Station
⏱ 1 h 25 min🚶 3.3 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
From the bench with Pushkin's forgotten top hat — to Olga Berggolts's courtyard, the obelisk at the duel site and the Art Nouveau Lanskaya station.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Lesnoy: Silver Pond and the Church on Orbeli
⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 2.2 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
The dacha-style Lesnoy by Ploshchad Muzhestva: naturalist Kaygorodov's house, a garden by Silver Pond, Prussakov's church and the ornate Olga's Shelter.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Vyborg Side: the Cannon-Fence Arsenal and Benois's Church
⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 2.5 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
Industrial Vyborg Side: Kresty, the Arsenal fence made of gun barrels and Nikolay Benois's Romanesque church on the site of a Catholic cemetery.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
From Lomonosovskaya to the Neva and Kurakin's Dacha
⏱ 1 h 25 min🚶 3.1 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
Gardens on the site of the Farforovskoe Cemetery, a bronze Volodarsky by the Neva and a quiet park with a pond — a calm hour beyond Nevskaya Zastava.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
The Playing-Card Factory and the Nevskaya Zastava Museum
⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 3.1 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
The building where all the empire's maps and cards were printed, a church shaped like a kulich, a wooden workers' house-museum and a bun to finish — the history of the zastava in one small patch by the metro.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Nevskaya Zastava: Convoys, Berggolts and the Metochion
⏱ 1 h 25 min🚶 3.8 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
Three monuments to big history on the quiet streets by Elizarovskaya: sailors of the northern convoys, the Siege poet and a church that survived a workshop and a court.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Kupchino: from a Landfill to a New Park by Dunayskaya
⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 3 km🍽 1📍 3 stops
Coffee by Prospekt Slavy, a long park on the site of a former landfill and the just-opened Fyodorovsky Park with its hill — fresh air in the middle of Kupchino.
🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Srednyaya Rogatka: Pillboxes, a Pond and Three Churches
⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 3.6 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
From Pobedy Square through Heroes' Cities Park: concrete firing points of 1941, a memorial church on a pond and a white church on an island.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Victory Park: Siege Memory by the Pond
⏱ 1 h 5 min🚶 1.9 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
A quiet part of Victory Park where the Siege crematorium stood: a wagonette, a memorial cross and an alley of bronze heroes. An hour after which the park looks different.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Avtovo: a Round Square, Pillboxes and the Mayovka
⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 3.4 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
The Stalinist Empire style of Komsomolskaya Square, an armored tower of 1941 in a small park and an obelisk to the first May Day meeting — defense and revolution on the edge of Avtovo.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Dachnoe: the Dachnaya River Ponds and the Vorontsov Estate
⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 3.1 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
Ponds of a vanished river amid the blocks, an old park with a little bridge and an 18th-century house on the Peterhof Road that is now a church.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Ligovo and Staro-Panovo: the 1941 Line and the Dudergofka
⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 2.7 km🍽 0📍 4 stops
An obelisk by the station, an avenue of 900 birches, the Dudergofka river and a church that grew out of a count's chapel — a front-line outskirt an hour from Baltiysky Station.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Uritsk: the Eternal Flame, Tobruks and the Ivanovka River
⏱ 1 h 30 min🚶 3.1 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
A front line you can walk in an hour: a stele to a partisan, the Eternal Flame of the Uritsk Line, a new church and German concrete nests by a quiet river.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Friendship Park, Isfahan Park and Apple Garden
⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 2.9 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
A new park with giant hemispheres, slides and iron animals, then a quiet Apple Garden with a pond — a walk with a child by Mezhdunarodnaya.
👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
Rybatskoe: Firefighters' Boulevard and Poet Slepushkin's House
⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 3.1 km🍽 1📍 3 stops
The old Rybatskaya settlement on the Neva: a boulevard honoring firefighters, the house of a peasant poet of Pushkin's day at the mouth of the Slavyanka, and a pastry at the end.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

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