At the moment the city this growing and the population surpasses the 9 million inhabitants. The city occupies a territory of but of 580 km2. This located in the Baltic Sea (Finnish gulf) in the river basin of the river Neva. onstruida in 101 islands, it has near 400 bridges, 21 of them rise to let pass to the boats.
Saint Petersburg was founded on the Neva river, in the opening of this a the gulf of Finland by Pedro the Great one in 1703 like a strength, “real” city, port (“window to Europe, through which the commerce and the western culture will arrive at Russia”). Pedro Grande lent much attention to the possibility of communication with Europe and the rest of the world. He himself put the first stone.
To construct the city demanded a concerted effort: he ordered himself to the noble that left Moscow and they were transferred to Saint Petersburg, perished thousands of servants, the constructions of stone in other parts were prohibited, and each visitor had to pay a tax in form of several great rocks.
The splendor of imperial Russia is evident in the architecture of Saint Petersburg, and not to a lesser extent the one of the Palace of Winter, whose majestic halls attended the birth of a new order in Russia in 1917 ironically, with the expulsion, on the part of the red guards, of the last ones and exhausted members of the provisional government.
To this city usually is called it “Venice of the North”. The originality of Saint Petersburg along with does not consist of that is not looked like any other Russian city, either European, first of all because they constructed the new capital of Russia, Russian artists the architects of several countries of Europe.
All the architectonic tendencies of the time that made their appearance in the world found their reflection in the city-planning panorama of Petersburgo. The city forms a set without pair with all a series of suburban palaces, property and wonderful parks. Peterhof de Pedro, Tsarskoye Seló de Catherine, Páviovsk de Pablo, Oranienbaum de Pedro Third.
Nowadays Saint Petersburg is a great industrial, scientific, cultural center and of business of the new Russia, that counts with more than 9 million inhabitants. The city is the center of a free economic zone.
One of the wonders of Saint Petersburg is the mysterious white nights, when the sun goes away single by 1 hour and it does not grow dark. Nights with the clear sky. That passes in June - principle of July, the beautiful and romantic season but to visit Saint Petersburg. People leave to take a walk at night, go to the center to see as they raise the bridges and they pass the boats by the river. In order to travel estatemporada she must reserve his hotel ahead of time, because there is very many people whom she loves to arrive at Saint Petersburg to enjoy the white nights.

That to visit in Saint Petersburg?
The Hermitaje- historical center, museum of the painting, sculpture and world-wide decorative art.
The Seat of the Palace
Museum of Russian Art - museum of the painting and Russian sculpture Strength of San Pedro and Pablo
Cathedral of Santa Isaak Mariinsky theater - theater of operates and Russian ballet
Musorgsky theater - theater of operates and Russian ballet