Thursday, 17 September 2015
Russia is the largest country in the world with an area of approximately two times of area which is owned by Chinese. Russia is located between two continents, Asia and Europe. Mostly mainland in Russia is situated in Asia but mostly Russian stay in Europe. Thus, Russia is known better as a country which is located in Europe. Russia is located in northern hemisphere so there has much water which was covered with ice and has long enough day during summer. Moscow is the most popular city in Rusia. Besides Moscow, Russia also has another large city namely St. Petersburg which is as famous as Moscow. It is decent to mention St. Petersburg as the most beautiful city in the world because it has a lot of heritage buildings which have hallmark of Russia. Most of the buildings in St Petersburg has design like common buildings in Europe but it still has influence of Asian style. Actually, St. Petersburg has many interesting tourist sites which are composed of either nature or history buildings. At least there are 47 museums that can be visited by tourists when visit to St. Petersburg. Tourism fascination which is owned by St. Petersburg is high art, lavish architecture, wild nightlife, extraordinary history, and rich cultural tradition. Below, there are the five most interesting places are situated in St. Petersburg.
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| The Hermitage |
The Hermitage (The Winter Palace)
The Hermitage is a museum which has several sites, the most famous site is the Winter Palace. Here, visitors can find Europe fine art, rich collection of Greek and Roman, and astonishing opulent rooms of Russian imperial family in 18th and 19th century. This museum is decent acknowledged as one of the world greatest treasure of art and obsolete. At least, visitors need about two hours to enjoy each edge of the Hermitage.
The Mariinsky theater
The Mariinsky theater is a building which has common color of green and little of white. This theater is often used for staging of traditional culture of Russia, especially for ballet and opera. There are several International stars of ballet and opera such as Diana Vishneva, Anna Netrebko, and Ulyana Lopatkina who involve in the contemporary classical performance. Here, visitors not only will explore well for music enthusiast but also find design interior, ornate and rich atmosphere, in the main theatre. In short word, the Mariinsky theater is undisputed preeminent musical theater in modern Russia.
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| Peterhof |
Peterhof
Peterhof is famous because of an imperial palace in the suburb which has design building like as the common building in Europe. It needs about one hour to explore Peterhof. Peterhof area has lower park than other area around there which becomes proper place to picnic during summer. There also has interesting view around park in the Peterhof that is incredible fountain, it is usually only available in summer.
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| Neva River |
River and Canal of St. Petersburg
In May to October, there are interesting activities that can be enjoyed by visitors, exploring city uses boat along the Neva River in St. Petersburg. There are some offers to make a trip to suburban palace and park at Peterhof. It is available for some large boats which offer guide tour in the various quays on Nevsky Prospekt. Visitor also can rental the smaller boat which has tariff for each hour. The cost of round to the Neva River is range from amount of RUB 800 to RUB 900. In central of St. Petersburg, there is a bascule, a bridge across the Neva River. Tens of cargo ships make it to necessary to open the bascule. The raising arches of Palace Bridge is one of most fascination landscapes which can be found around the Neva River.
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| St. Isaac's Cathedral |
St. Isaac’s Cathedral
St. Isaac’s Cathedral took over forty years to build and to decorate the building. The unique things which is contained in St. Isaac’s Cathedral are colonnades and facades which are made by red Karelian granite. Abundance of original art and sculpture in the cathedral can be enjoyed by visitors, they are also allowed to climb the 300 steps up to the colonnade. Visitors need about two hours to enjoy each edge of the cathedral. St. Isaac’s Cathedral is large enough, it can accommodate about 14.000 worshipers.
