Dip into one of the world’s greatest art collections on this 3-hour walking tour of St Petersburg’s State Hermitage Museum. With an art-expert guide, stroll past some of the city’s landmarks on route to the museum, housed in the lavish Winter Palace and home to almost three million treasures. View Renaissance masterpieces by da Vinci and Michelangelo; wonder at works by Rubens and Goya; and admire paintings by Matisse, Picasso and more as your guide explains their meaning and history.
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Dip into one of the world’s greatest art collections on this 3-hour walking tour of St Petersburg’s State Hermitage Museum. With an art-expert guide, stroll past some of the city’s landmarks on route to the museum, housed in the lavish Winter Palace and home to almost three million treasures. View Renaissance masterpieces by da Vinci and Michelangelo; wonder at works by Rubens and Goya; and admire paintings by Matisse, Picasso and more as your guide explains their meaning and history.
Alexander Column
We will start in
front of famous Alexander Column, to listen a little bit about the history of
this magnificent architectural ensembles, because it consists of 5 buildings,
which are connected inside.




State Hermitage Museum
The State Hermitage Museum is one of the largest and oldest museums in
the world and an absolute must-see for any visitor to St. Petersburg.
So we can have a nice
walk and see the most important masterpieces of famous painters, sculptors and
masters of Applied arts. In our program there are Petrovsky Hall , the Throne
Hall, where you can appreciate the power, strength and greatness of Russia at
that time. It is worth paying attention to the Pavilion Hall. where peacock
clock – a unique entertaining gold composition is situated.


Winter Palace
Also during our tour,
we’ll see the masterpieces of the Italian masters of art – Leonardo da Vinci
(his Madonna Benois and Madonna Litta), works by Titian, Raphael, Antonio
Canova sculpture, as well as the famous work by Michelangelo.Further we’ll go
to know Spanish Art for admiring works by El Greco, Murilio, Zurbarán, Goya,
Jose Ribera. In the Hermitage you’ll find one of the best collections of
Spanish art. Also, we’ll see masterpieces by Rembrandt and Van Dyck.We’ll try
to create a certain ideal of the museum. This impressive route will show you
something very special, stored inside the walls of the museum-palace.


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