What purchases should I make in St. Petersburg?

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Popular souvenirs from the tourists are products with images of the main sights of St. Petersburg. They are printed on T-shirts, bells, wine glasses, pens and magnets of various shapes and sizes. There are statuettes, copying monuments and architectural landmarks of Peter. You can buy calendars, postcards and paintings with views of North Venice.

The dishes with the symbols of the city are in demand, especially the production of the Imperial Porcelain Factory, the so-called Lomonosov porcelain.

If you want something more original, souvenir shops at museums. There you can buy copies of old coins, models of ships, sailboats in a bottle, or make an engraving yourself.

A joke souvenir can become all kinds of sea caps, sea hats with pompons, canned in tin cans "Air of St. Petersburg."

As edible gifts it is worth to buy smelt (in season), cakes firm "North" (for example, "White Nights"), chocolate candy factory them. Krupskaya (Summer Garden, Admiralteyskie, Nevsky Prospekt) and mold chocolate from the chocolate museum

February 20, 2012

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