Peter the Great built the city as his “window on the west” and most often we arrive in St Petersburg the traditional way, on the train, overnight from Moscow. The sights of this city on the Neva (surprisingly, just over 300 years old) are many and varied, and include the Peter and Paul fortress, St Isaac’s cathedral, the battleship Aurora, and the awesome collections of the Hermitage, a true rival to the Louvre in Paris as Europe’s leading art museum.