New Year in St. Petersburg - photo. Celebrating the New Year in St. Petersburg (Russia) 2016
New Year in St. Petersburg
The northern capital is called one of the most beautiful cities in the world for a reason. Every year millions of tourists visit it, and each of them takes away in his heart a piece of St. Petersburg beauty and hospitality. A visit to the city, celebrated by poets and artists, can be timed to coincide with the winter holidays and celebrate your favorite New Year in St. Petersburg.
Palace Square - the soul and heart of Peter
The main square of the city not only contains its important architectural sights and artistic values. Dvortsovaya is the real heart of the northern capital; it has witnessed changes and revolutions more than once. Today, on New Year's Eve, everyone who wants to feel the atmosphere of friendliness, unity and solemnity gathers here. On the main city square, a thirty-meter elegant Christmas tree is installed for the holiday, and world stars and fireworks show entertain guests.
Festivities and fairs
St. Petersburg is distinguished by a special reverence for national traditions, the main one of which on New Year's holidays is to arrange folk festivals and skiing from ice slides. A modern metropolis, Peter never ceases to amaze his guests with invariable authenticity and the opportunity to plunge into the past. You can feel the spirit of antiquity when you find yourself at the Peter and Paul Fortress, where an ice castle with slides is built every year, from which both children and adults love to ride. Fantastic lighting makes the ice figures fabulous and mysterious, and the means for descending the slides can be rented here..
Fans of wandering around a real city fair should come to St. Petersburg for the New Year to take their souls at the Christmas fair on Ostrovsky Square. Traditional shopping arcades offer guests bazaars of Christmas tree decorations, holiday souvenirs and gifts for relatives and treats in the spirit of Russian folk festivities. The public is amused by the mummers in the fairgrounds, and live music from folk ensembles helps not to chill in the light St. Petersburg frost.