Lubeck – St Petersburg
Ferries to Russia
Lubeck – St Petersburg
Ferries to Russia
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The city of Lubeck, also known as the Hanseatic City of Lubeck, is the second largest city, and a port, in the Schleswig-Holstein region of northern Germany. The city lies on the Baltic Sea coast and has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987. The city's old town, with its seven towers and five churches are a testament to its 1,000 year history. The city is characterised by its narrow streets and lanes, churches and abbeys, merchants houses, fortifications and generally its Gothic, Renaissance, baroque and Neo-classical buildings. The Church of St. Mary is the city's finest sacred building and is a lovely Gotic building. It is a model for around 70 other churches located around the Baltic and is of particular architectural merit thanks to the highest brick vaulted roof in the world.
Other sites of interest in the city include the buildings around the town hall, the castle abbey and the district of Koberg that has remained largely unchanged since the 13th century. It is here that you will find the Church of St. James, the Hospital of the Holy Ghost and the buildings between Glockengiesserstrasse and Aegidienstrasse.
From the port, ferries are available to destinations in Sweden, Russia, Finland and Latvia.
The Russian city of St Petersburg is often referred to by its residents as simply 'Piter' and was formerly named Leningrad. The city has definitely had an interesting past with over 300 years of history, with more than 200 of it as the capital city of the entire Russian Empire. Today, St Petersburg is an amazing city to visit and more than lives up to the vision of Tsar Peter the Great which founded the city in the 1700's. Winding their way through the city is the Neva River and a number of canals, along which you can see grand palaces and a number of other important buildings that date back to the 18th century. St. Petersburg is where Russian ballet was founded and has also been the home of many acclaimed composers, such as Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Many of the best sights in St. Petersburg are to be found around the actual city centre and its main road, the Nevsky Prospekt. If you take a stroll around Palace Square, known locally as the Dvortsovaya Ploshchad, you will see the lovely architecture of the Winter Palace, or alternatively take a cruise on one of the city's canals on a water bus, stopping of at the Mikhaylovsky Gardens en route.
Note: Ferry passengers are allowed stay in Russia for 72 hours without visa as long as they booked their excursion through officially licensed ferry companies.
