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The special approach to the organization of ART-TOUR travels supposes its club atmosphere, but limits a circle of participants in no way. Perception of historical space through a prism of architecture - is the most accessible method of immersing in a time stream of a history, as well as the method of searching like-minded people to estimate its materialized traces. Architecture and town-planning of Saint Petersburg – is the brightest example to that. Concentration of architectural events in a brief interval of creation of this “intentional” city allows to be convinced personally, that the history is created by persons. The will and absolute power of the autocrat gave birth to the city becoming a work of art. Vast town-planning experiment was daring challenge to the nature, climate and national traditions. It is possible to discuss the results of this experiment at plentiful excursions of ART-TOUR in Petersburg.
Base architectural excursions in Petersburg proposes walking tours along sequence of the Petersburg squares, which create unique town-planning structure of this city-museum. The city, which presents possibility to walk. The basic examples of city excursions - “ The Window to Europe ”, “ Ensembles by Carlo Rossi”, “ Palaces and parks ”, “Water fronts ”, etc.
Special excursions are devoted to the following themes: “ The History of foreign influences ”, “ Architecture of Russian modernist style ”, “ Architectural and art avant guarde of 1920s ”, “Stalin’s neo-neo-classicism”, “ Architecture of the 20 century ”, “ The Newest architecture of Petersburg ”, etc. However, architectural Petersburg is just a key to ART-TOUR travels deeper into the country and beyond the borders.
So, for example, one of the most popular combinations of ART-TOUR is based on contrast of two approaches to development of architecture in 20 century: excursion “ St.Petersburg - Helsinki ” gives food for thought not only for professionals, but also for “users” of the architectural environment of city. Combinations “St.Petersburg - Novgorod”, “St.Petersburg - Vologda ”, “St.Petersburg - Pskov ” allow to enter a history of city in a historical context of the country.
Notes:
* - half-day excursion
** - full-day excursion