The capital and most populated city in Denmark, Copenhagen has an urban population of 1,246,611 and a metropolitan population of 1,969,941. Copenhagen has over 94,000 students enrolled in its largest […]
Kiel, located about 90 kilometers north of Hamburg is the capital and most populous city in northern Germany. Due to its location, Kiel has become one of the major maritime […]
While my traveling companions elected to take the SPB Tours bus to Berlin (a 12-hour round trip), I decided to take in the sights of the two nearby local towns . […]
Stockholm, the capital of Sweden is the most populous city in Scandinavia, with over 897,700 people living in the municipality, and about 1,372,565 in the urban area (about 22% of […]
Helsinki is the capital and largest city of Finland. Located in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it has a population of 616,042, with an overall […]
Also included on our second day in Saint Petersburg was a walking tour of a portion of the elaborate gardens and fountains of Peterhof, the coastal summer residence of Russian Emperors, […]
It took 24 years (1883 through 1907) for stonecutters, artists, mosaicists, ceramists, enamelers and other craftsmen to construct and complete The Church on the Spilled Blood, a Russian Orthodox church […]
As I stand in front of the Winter Palace (also known as the Imperial Palace), I am looking at the historical centre of Saint Petersburg. The monumental cresent-shaped General Staff building faces the Square […]
As our SPB Tours van made its way through the city, we crossed onto Vasilievsky Island, which for over a hundred years served as the City’s port. When the port was […]
Known as the “Sailor’s Church,” the St. Nicholas Cathedral is located on a site occupied by quarters for members of the Naval Department. The first service was held in the cathedral […]
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