🌳 Petersburg: Aptekarsky, Kamenny and Yelagin Islands

⏱ all day · Car / suburban train + metro

Green Petersburg: tropics in the greenhouses of the Aptekarsky Ogorod, Art Nouveau dachas on Kamenny Island and sunset at the Yelagin Spit.

Getting there

By car along the Ring Road and the Western High-Speed Diameter about 40 minutes; or by suburban train to Baltiysky and then metro to Petrogradskaya. Between the islands — on foot over the bridges.

What to take

Comfortable shoes, water.

Stops

1. Peter the Great Botanical Garden — Peter's former Apothecary Garden — one of Russia's oldest greenhouses.
2. Kamenny Island — An island of mansions and dachas: Petersburg's "old dacha" world.
3. Yelagin Palace — Rossi's palace for the dowager empress, tired of traveling to Pavlovsk.

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