Tourist attraction in my country

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Tourist attraction in my country
St-Petersburg, Moscow, Sochi

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Saint Petersburg
St. Petersburg, located on the shores of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, is the European gateway of Russia, its strategic center, directly bordering the countries of the Euro.
The city has a large number of historical and cultural monuments. More than 70 theaters, including the world famous: Mariinsky, Alexandrinsky and Mikhailovsky.

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The climate of St. Petersburg is temperate, transitional from temperate continental to temperate maritime. The most beloved period of the year by residents and guests of the city is the “white nights” (from May 25-26 to July 16-17), when the sun only briefly sets below the horizon, and daylight hours at the end of June reach 19 hours.
The city was founded on May 27, 1703 by the first Russian Emperor Peter I. For more than two hundred years, St. Petersburg was the capital of the Russian Empire (1713-1728, 1732-1918).

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The HERmitage
The Hermitage is the largest state museum in St. Petersburg, which is located on Palace Square, in the very center of the city. The complex includes 7 historical buildings, among which the most popular is, of course, the Winter Palace.
The halls of the Hermitage present the development of art from ancient times to the present day. However, the most famous, undoubtedly, are the works of artists who belong to a wide variety of periods and styles. Mostly works from the 13th to 20th centuries can be found.

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Peter-Pavel's Fortress
The oldest architectural monument of St. Petersburg. May 27, 1703, the day of the founding of the Peter and Paul Fortress, is also considered the day the city was founded. It was founded by Peter I on land conquered from the Swedes. The plan for the citadel was developed by the emperor himself, together with the French engineer Lambert de Guerin.
Petropavlovskaya is the first bastion-type fortress in Russia. It was built without fortress towers for all-round firing of enemy ships.

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Peter and Paul Cathedral is the tomb of Russian emperors.
The 122-meter bell tower of the Peter and Paul Cathedral is no longer the highest point in St. Petersburg, but it is still a historical dominant.
The current three-meter-tall soaring angel crowned the spire after reconstruction in the 19th century.

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Moscow
Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia, the economic, political, cultural, scientific and tourist center of the country.
At first it was the capital of the Moscow Principality, then it became the main city of the Russian Kingdom, with the growth of the state it became the center of the Russian Empire, with the fall of the Tsar, Moscow became the capital of Soviet Russia, and after the formation of the Soviet Union - its capital, and after the collapse of the USSR, Moscow - the capital of Russian Federation.
The three main attractions of Moscow are the Kremlin, Red Square and Arbat.

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Moscow Kremlin
The Moscow Kremlin is a large fortress located on Borovitsky Hill. Since ancient times it has been the city-forming, historical, political and religious center of the city. Today the official residence of the President of the Russian Federation is located here. The length of the walls, the Kremlin occupies 2500 meters. The Moscow fortress is the longest in Russia. There are 20 towers along the walls of the Moscow Kremlin. The tallest tower is Trinity, it has a height of 79.3 m.

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Red square
Red Square is the most famous square in Moscow, an architectural and historical monument, which, along with the Kremlin, is a symbol of the Russian capital. On Red Square there are such attractions as St. Basil's Cathedral, the Kremlin's Spasskaya Tower with its famous chiming clock, the building of the GUM department store, as well as the Cathedral of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, the building of the Historical Museum, the Resurrection Gate, the Mausoleum of V. I. Lenin and the necropolis

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Arbat street
Arbat ("Old Arbat") is an iconic pedestrian street in the center of Moscow, one of the oldest and most famous historical streets of the city, located in the district of the same name. Having a length of about 1.2 kilometers, Arbat runs from Arbat Gate Square to Smolenskaya Square, connecting with numerous alleys.
The street attracts people with its historically romantic atmosphere, as well as a number of architectural monuments. On the street there are monuments to Bulat Okudzhava, Alexander Pushkin and Natalya Goncharova, as well as the Princess Turandot fountain. At the corner with Krivoarbatsky Lane there is a wall of Tsoi, covered with writings by the musician’s fans, who began to gather here after his death.

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Sochi
Sochi is a resort city in southern Russia. It is located on the Black Sea coast, and is part of the Krasnodar region. Today it is the largest resort city in the entire country.
Sochi is considered the longest city in Russia, as it stretches along the coastal strip over an area of approximately 145 kilometers.

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Olympic Park.
On an area of 200 hectares there are such significant sights of Sochi as the Fisht sports stadium, which hosted the 2018 FIFA World Cup, the Formula 1 race track, the Olympic Village, the Iceberg Grand Palace, etc.
Park “Riviera”
The territory of the Riviera of almost 15 hectares is planted with plants, exotic palm trees and conifers. In the evening hours the lights are turned on.
Sochi Arboretum
This is the central open-air museum of the city. Exhibits of the exhibitions include all kinds of flora of the Caucasus and various hot countries. An area of 50 hectares is reserved for ornamental trees, shrubs, plants and flowers with a total of more than 1.5 thousand species.