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    80 Senses #29… the Hermitage, St Petersburg

     

    Keeping up with the Joneses never resulted in as pleasurable experience as St Petersburg. Built in defiance of nature and logic, the city is a monument to the will of Peter the Great, who wanted Russia to have a ‘window on the West’ and – more pertinently – a city to rival the great capitals of Western Europe he had been enviously eyeing up.

    The cherry on the icy cake – and we think St Petersburg is best visited in winter – is, of course, the Hermitage – both the buildings, and the collection inside, which includes the largest assembling of paintings in the world.

    Traveller:
    Olga
    Experience:
    80 Senses
    Country:
    Russia