World Travel Awards name St Petersburg best cultural destination 2016

World Travel Awards name St Petersburg best cultural destination 2016

St Petersburg just beat the likes of London, New York, Paris, Rome, Venice and Sydney to come out as the best cultural destination for 2016, in the World Travel Awards, the Oscars equivalent of the tourism industry. The Russian city offers everything from great art and history displayed at the Hermitage—one of the biggest art and culture museums in the world, housing 3 million works— to great literary trails, being home to places like the Dostoyevsky Museum and Nabokov Museum. Not to mention marvels of baroque and neoclassical architecture. So now you know where to head for a cultural touch to the holidays.