The North, its holy islands and its white nights
2024
Highlights of the trip
During your stay you can enjoy the following highlights: Culture / Heritage.
Best times to go
The best time(s) to go is/are : Printemps, Eté.
Where to stay - Saint-Pétersbourg ?
The map of your stay "The North, its holy islands and its white nights"
Detail of the stay : The North, its holy islands and its white nights
How to get there - Saint-Pétersbourg
St. Petersburg, where everything begins
Steps: Saint-Pétersbourg
St. Petersburg. It is sometimes difficult to find accommodation during the white nights in St. Petersburg and you quickly understand why. For a few weeks, from early June to early July, the city does not sleep. Cross the Neva at night on these small boats that replace open bridges. At any time, Saint Petersburg is splendid, take the time to walk from the Ermitage to Nevski.
Places of interest : ERMITAGE
By train to Onega Lake
Steps: Petrozavodsk
Petrozavodsk. Capital of Carelia, Petrozavodsk is a beautiful step on the shores of Lake Onega. The five hours of travel to travel by train are already an experience in itself. Visit Alexander Nevski Cathedral
Places of interest : LAC ONEGA CATHÉDRALE ALEXANDRE NEVSKI
Kiji's wooden monastery
Steps: Île De Kiji
Kiji. This island, located in the middle of Onega Lake, is accessible from Petrozavodsk. Kiji's pogost is one of the world's largest wooden monasteries, and when you say wooden, it's really wooden, it doesn't even contain a metal nail.
A World-Wide Air on the White Sea
The Solovki Islands. Visit the monasteries dating back to the fifteenth century of this small archipelago lost in the White Sea.
Solovki, sacred islands, martyr islands
. Islands. Also visit the barracks of what was sadly the first work camp, gulag before the hour.
In Dvina Bay
Steps: Vologda
Arkhangelsk. Explore the seafront of this city located at the mouth of the long river of the northern Dvina... before you get into a train to Vologda.
On the Vologda River
Vologda. Visit the many churches located on the banks of the Vologda River. Take a trip to the Kirillov monasteries and Ferapontov.
Places of interest : MONASTÈRE DE FERAPONTOV
