Pushkin is one of the most beautiful cities near San Petersburg. The city is particularly attractive because of its architecture and history, with huge buildings of a real past, as the Catherine Palace, among other notable buildings.
Pushkin is just 24 miles south of St. Petersburg, so it is a recommended travel destinations for over a day from the second largest city of Russia. Pushkin is a major urban center with about 90,000 inhabitants that is notable for its complex of palaces and parks, next to the historical center, which integrates all protected as a World Heritage Site.
Pushkin actually worked like a satellite city of royalty. In fact, born as a summer residence of Czarist Russia, then founded as a “village Real” or Tsarskoe Selo, a man who would change to Pushkin in 1937 after the famous Russian poet. In Pushkin lived likes of Nicholas II of Russia and his family, among others. After the October Revolution, the palace of Catherine as they become museum, while other buildings, became part of government institutions. Today, many of its architectural relics are the main tourist attraction: from the imperial residence to the Cathedral in Sofia.
There are also interesting attractions, such as Fyodorovsky Townlet ruined building, a relic of the Russian renaissance. Pushkin has relics up in their yards, as the Church of the Sign, the oldest in the city. What we see today is a restoration after the destruction by the Soviets. Today belongs to the Russian Orthodox Church. Pushkin definitely worth a visit, to approach the lifestyle of the Tsarist Russia, a ride that plunges us in some way in the story of a stunning country and even intriguing in each of their times.
