Lounges in Saint Petersburg

Hotel Astoria Saint Petersburg is Russia's most historically significant luxury hotel — a magnificent 1912 Style Moderne building on St Isaac's Square where Hitler had already printed the invitation cards for his victory banquet when Leningrad (as the city was known during the 900-day siege) surrendered, but where Soviet resistance meant the dinner was never held. The Astoria's extraordinary 20th-century history and its incomparable location opposite St Isaac's Cathedral (the fourth largest cathedral in the world) create a hotel lounge of singular Russian historical significance.

Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art is Russia's largest private contemporary art museum — a remarkable Vasilyevsky Island institution housing over 2,800 works of contemporary Russian art in a stunning Stalin-era neoclassical building, with an outstanding rooftop restaurant and cocktail lounge offering extraordinary views over the Gulf of Finland. Erarta's extraordinary role in celebrating contemporary Russian art and its remarkable cocktail lounge create a museum bar experience of considerable Russian contemporary cultural significance.

Saint Petersburg's luxury hotel lounge scene exists within the most magnificent European imperial city east of Vienna — a UNESCO World Heritage historic center where the extraordinary Winter Palace (housing the Hermitage Museum, the largest art museum in the world), the Russian Museum, the Mariinsky Theatre, and hundreds of baroque and neoclassical palaces create a hotel lounge culture of incomparable Russian cultural heritage. Saint Petersburg's astonishing architectural density of world-class imperial buildings creates hotel lounges unlike any others on earth.

Terrassa is Saint Petersburg's most celebrated rooftop restaurant and cocktail lounge — a stunning venue with panoramic views over the historic city center, the Kazan Cathedral, and the famous rooftops that inspired Dostoevsky's descriptions of Saint Petersburg in Crime and Punishment. The lounge's extraordinary architectural setting and its remarkable views over the most magnificent baroque and neoclassical cityscape in Russia create a lounge experience of genuine Russian imperial heritage significance.