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Boat tour through canals and rivers

St.Petersburg inherited many features from its European "sister towns" Venice and Amsterdam. Similar location on islands and winding rivers determined St.Petersburg architectural look. It boasts of more than 400 bridges that connected scattered islands of the Neva estuary into a single well-shaped ensemble. Boat tour through canals will let you see authentic Petersburg, admire its graceful house facades, ornate palaces of Russian nobility, pass under hundreds of its arched bridges.

Tourists remarks:

St.Petersburg has a lot of little waterways and canals and elegant bridges with decorative wrought iron railings and lamps, giving the city a charming look. We took a ride in one of the boats and had a great time identifying the magnificent edifices and monuments!

Not only do you get to learn the history of the city and see its most famous landmarks, but also the boat ride itself is an experience to remember, not unlike traveling on the gondolas of Venice. 

If you come to St. Petersburg, do not miss the chance to ride a boat and to look at the city from the water. It seems that architects who were building St. Petersburg were well aware of this strange angle at which you see the facades, bridges and cathedrals from a boat. Small water taxis that now are easily available may be more comfortable and interesting than any larger vessel.

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