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St Petersburg

St Petersburg has been dubbed the Venice of the North for its palace-lined waterways. It managed to escape the architectural incursions of Stalinism and its grandiose relics of tsarist days are largely intact. Sculpted by islands and the sinuous Neva River, the city is a vista of geometric elegance.

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St Petersburg Activities


St Petersburg isn't exactly gym crazy, but there's plenty of ways to keep active. In the summer, drift through the canals in a rowboat; in the winter settle in for some serious banya (bath house) action, try a couple of games in the city's numerous billiards joints or head out of town for some cross-country skiing. If you're the right kind of masochist, there's always ice swimming.

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