Have you ever been to Kronstadt? This small town is located just 30 km from Saint Petersburg, and its fame has resonated since its foundation up to the present day. For over 300 years, Kronstadt has been known to people far and wide. Peter the Great founded this town—a fortress and port—in 1704 to protect Saint Petersburg from enemies approaching from the Baltic Sea during the Great Northern War. Even today, this small town continues to attract worldwide attention.
Information Cultural Center of Kronshtadt
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The Center offers free information about the history, monuments and places of interest, Kronshtadt and St.Petersburg tourism infrastructure. Information Cultural Center regularly takes part in specialized exhibitions and fairs: "INTORFEST", "LENTRAVEL", "INWETEX-СIS TRAVEL MARKET", "LESURE WITHOUT BORDERS". At such fairs necessary advertising information activity is being arranged to promote tourist Kronshtadt opportunities for tour operators of St.Petersburg, Leningrad region and other Russian regions, cooperation contracts are being made. ICC invites everybody to participate in the fairs. Information Cultural Center organizes excursions around Kronshtadt, boat trips to Kronshtadt forts, individual and group excursions.
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Information Cultural Centre is located in the beautiful ancient building, Martynova Street, 1/33. Two canons are situated at the entrance, a map of Kronshtadt is behind high windows. Inside free booklets, cards with Kronshtadt views and souvenirs are offered. An aquarium with models of sunken ships on the left is not just a decoration of the office. The History Kronshtadt Museum planes to create a unique Museum of shipwrecks. By this time everybody is welcomed to an exhibition 
Kronshtadt is attractive for tourists because of its distinguished history, its monuments and architecture, its desolate forts, its ships in the harbour, canons on the bank of the Italian pond, its views...There is much to see in Kronshtadt. And for quick spying out the land ask for help in the new Information Cultural Center. 
