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St Petersburg
Venture into the mystical and ever-changing St Petersburg and discover its vibrant city life, architectural splendour, beguiling history and world-class arts scene. This indispensable guide will show you the way.
22-page room-by-room guide to the Hermitage excursions to the grand palaces of the tsars tips to find the city's hot spots or the Kirov Ballet in full flight detailed language section with Cyrillic script 16 pages of colour maps, including metro map208 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 1996
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A beat-up old car, a few dollars in the pocket and a sense of adventure. In 1972 that’s all Tony and Maureen Wheeler needed for the trip of a lifetime – across Europe and Asia overland to Australia. It took several months, and at the end – broke but inspired – they sat at their kitchen table writing and stapling together their first travel guide, Across Asia on the Cheap. Within a week they’d sold 1500 copies and Lonely Planet was born. One hundred million guidebooks later, Lonely Planet is the world’s leading travel guide publisher with content to almost every destination on the planet.
A beat-up old car, a few dollars in the pocket and a sense of adventure. In 1972 that’s all Tony and Maureen Wheeler needed for the trip of a lifetime – across Europe and Asia overland to Australia. It took several months, and at the end – broke but inspired – they sat at their kitchen table writing and stapling together their first travel guide, Across Asia on the Cheap. Within a week they’d sold 1500 copies and Lonely Planet was born. One hundred million guidebooks later, Lonely Planet is the world’s leading travel guide publisher with content to almost every destination on the planet.
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December 9, 2015
Since I'm going to St. Petersburg in a few months, I think it's time to start my lonely planet collection. More will follow soon! Currently on my wishlist are: Italy, florence, france, amsterdam, spain and sardinia.
June 6, 2012
good balance between practical information, historical facts and humorous descriptions
September 17, 2017
READ FRONT TO BACK IN PREPARATION FOR OCTOBER 20-29 VISIT.
VERY INFORMATIVE AN NICELY STRUCTURED. GUESS I'LL FIND OUT HOW GOOD IT IS WHEN I GET THERE.
4.5 / 5.0
VERY INFORMATIVE AN NICELY STRUCTURED. GUESS I'LL FIND OUT HOW GOOD IT IS WHEN I GET THERE.
4.5 / 5.0
August 10, 2018
4 stars
December 19, 2019
As always...LP is the best.
July 3, 2020
Love Lonely Planet 2020 trip cancelled
April 20, 2021
Lonely Planet puts out the best travel books. This was perfect for our trip to Russia.
August 15, 2012
Empress Catherine was a charter member of a club of 18th-century monarchs known as the 'enlightened despots' -- dictators who could hum Haydn.
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