St. Petersburg has many symbolic names. It is called the Northern Venice, for the abundance of rivers and canals. Northern Palmira, for its unique beauty. Northern capital, as for more than 200 years, the city served as the Russian capital. But most often you can hear how St. Petersburg is called the "City of White Nights".
It is during the white nights that St. Petersburg is permeated with a romantic mood, townspeople and guests forget about the everyday fuss and briefly become dreamers. Against the backdrop of white nights, the famous ensembles, palaces, temples, bridges, monuments and fences of the city not only amaze with appearance, but also create an internally unforgettable feeling of fairy-tale and unreality when it seems that all desires will be fulfilled.
White nights are a very common natural phenomenon, which is observed in many cities around the world. But only St. Petersburg received the symbolic name "City of White Nights", largely due to literature. Suffice it to mention the poetry of Alexander Pushkin and the novel by F. M. Dostoevsky "White Nights."
The beginning of white nights in St. Petersburg is considered to be May 25-26. It was at this time that the bright evening twilight was already merging with the morning. These days, the sun descends below the horizon no more than 9 degrees, as a result of which there is no total darkness. By June 21-22 the duration of the day is 18 hours 53 minutes, the brightest time is coming. After the three-day solstice, the length of the day begins to decline, the end of the white nights can be considered July 16-17.
During the white nights in St. Petersburg, there are numerous festivals and festivals. The brightest of them is the alumni holiday "Scarlet Sails", the tradition of celebrating "Scarlet Sails" in St. Petersburg was revived in 2005.
Over these years the St. Petersburg "Scarlet Sails" have become not only a favorite holiday of the townspeople, but also a unique event of the international level, a visiting card of St. Petersburg on the world stage. Festival structure: concerts on Palace Square and Vasilievsky Island and light-and-video multimedia show in the water area of the Neva River. Viewers of the holiday annually become from 2 to 3 million people, a number unprecedented for any European event.
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