TravelSEP 9, 2015

The Most Charming And Mysterious City In The Planet

If you are a tourist trying to be perturbed, you are in the right place. An impenetrable fortress and a fatal attraction. Where everything confirms everything and its opposite. A city built on the raving project of a visionary who wanted to bring out gold from mud. "The more abstract and premeditated city in the whole world" said Dostoyevsky. "The starting point to the infinite" called it Alexander Blok.

Ever before the white nights, the pastel colors, the magnificent palaces, the Hermitage and the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood, the canals and bridges on the Neva, even before that, Saint Petersburg will shaken you by a languid vertigo, by the cold wind from the north, and you will pretend to be a ghost hunter and an incurable insomniac.

Here you will find the Russia of Peter the Great and tsarina Catherine, of raging anarchists and irreducible romantics. Nightmares, novels, obsessions, music, fire, conspiracies, rebellions. Everything is fused and confuses you. The greatness of Czarist aristocracy opposed but equal to the communist ideology. A charm that you can never fully understand, or photograph. You will feel lost and found in St.Petersburg. With the 5 senses always tense you will see an universe secretly blown from a languid soul, the light summer hiding spectra, from the darkness of the winter that seems every time definitive.

In nineteenth century it was the most cosmopolitan capital of Europe, today is a modern, attractive, stylish centre, that can not be scratch, affect by modernity, that preserves as a jealous guardian, his obsessions, his dreams, his nightmares, his "atmosphere".