Welcome to Sasha's St. Petersburg Travel Guide - a detailed online guidebook on health, transportation, emergency contacts, tipping, staying in touch, shopping and sightseeing, museum listings and entertainment in St. Petersburg. Comprehensive bar and restaurant guides are also included.
It can be frustrating and time-consuming to research your travel destination. We live and work in St. Petersburg and know it like a back of our hand. We are always happy when people come and visit our beautiful home city and want you to have as much information about St. Petersburg as possible. That is why we have put together an online St. Petersburg Travel Guide full of essential information for your trip.
If Moscow is Europe's most Asiatic capital, then St Petersburg is Russia's most European city. Created by Peter the Great as his 'window on the West' at the only point where traditional Russian territory meets a seaway to Northern Europe, it was built with 18th and 19th-century European pomp and orderliness by mainly European architects. The result is a city that remains one of Europe's most beautiful; where Moscow intimidates, St Petersburg enchants. Today, despite their problems, residents feel enough affection for their city to call it simply 'Piter' while reform and transformation are giving the city a facelift that's almost 80 years overdue.
Welcome to Sasha's St. Petersburg Travel Guide - a detailed online guidebook on health, transportation, emergency contacts, tipping, staying in touch, shopping and sightseeing, museum listings and entertainment in St. Petersburg. Comprehensive bar and restaurant guides are also included.
