The Grand Metro Tour
- The Saint Petersburg Metro is famous for its Long escalators down to deep metro stations. Admiraltyskaya metro Station is said to be 105 meters deep.
- Visit the commemorative Station that celebrates one of Russia's most famous Poets who met his end in a duel, can you guess who it is?
- Visit the glass columned metro station, its pretty impressive.
- Famous for Saint Peterburg's reason for being, is Metro which commemorates the Navy and connection to Europe via the Gulf of Finland.
- Some interesting scenes from Soviet Times.
The Grand Metro Tour is a fascinating tour through the Historic Saint Petersburg Metro system. Metro Stations were designed as "Palaces of the People" in the height of the Soviet Union's Communist policies. The metro system was a way to bring collective wealth to the common man in a real and ever present way.
Instead of boring Metro stations you'll find what can be described as museums , covered in marble and beautiful mosiacs depicting past tragegies and triumphs of the past. It is certainly one of our most interesting tours. The foremost reason you'll want to come on this tour is to see its beautiful stations and hear stories about their symbolism and meaning and place in Russia's illustrious history.
Two and half million citizens of Saint Petersburg use the metro to commute everyday , which is a quite a staggering figure although its only the worlds 12the busiest metro's or subways.
Come and view these beautiful metro stations with us, and you'll see way we call this The Grand Metro tour.
