Hermitage MuseumHermitage Museum · photo: Florstein, CC BY-SA 4.0

Self-guided walking tour of Saint Petersburg

271 sights · Russia

Tell us what you like and how much time you have, and you get a walking route past the best sights of Saint Petersburg, with a map and thumbs-up from other visitors. Free, no account needed.

Plan your walk through Saint Petersburg

The route planner itself is in Dutch for now; the map and the route work the same.

What is there to see?

3-hour walk past the highlights of Saint Petersburg

7 stops · 5.4 km · a loop from the centre with time to look around at each stop. Want to go inside somewhere? Set a longer stay in the route planner.

  1. Photo: Florstein, CC BY-SA 4.0
    🚶 18 min walkHermitage Museum
  2. Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0
    🚶 4 min walkPalace Square
  3. Photo: Vasilii Martynov, CC0
    🚶 5 min walkNevsky Prospect
  4. Photo: Florstein, CC BY-SA 4.0
    🚶 10 min walkSaint Isaac's Cathedral
  5. Photo: Иерей Максим Массалитин, CC BY-SA 2.0
    🚶 5 min walkSenate Square
  6. Photo: Florstein, CC BY-SA 4.0
    🚶 11 min walkKunstkamera
  7. Photo: Godot13, CC BY-SA 4.0
    🚶 20 min walkPeter and Paul Fortress
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More well-known sights in Saint Petersburg

  1. Winter Palace
  2. Aurora
  3. Mariinsky Theatre
  4. Russian Museum
  5. Kazan Cathedral
  6. Peter and Paul Cathedral
  7. Saint Petersburg Mosque
  8. Imperial Academy of Arts
  9. Vasilyevsky Island
  10. Trinity Cathedral
  11. Saint Michael's Castle
  12. Admiralty building in Saint Petersburg
  13. Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments
  14. Tauride Palace
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