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"...Lonely Planet, the intrepid traveler's bible..." -- Los Angeles Times

Cruise the Venice of the North, with Lonely Planet’s St Petersburg City Guide on your iPhone. Built-to-order by Italian architects on the whim of a Tsar, known periodically as Petrograd and Leningrad and home to a higher concentration of cultural wonders than anywhere else in Russia, ‘Piter’ is a complex and changeable beast. All the more reason you’ll need the world’s leading guidebook publisher in your back pocket when you go!

Of course, any guidebook can tell you when to visit the Hermitage, guide you to the stunning façade of Chesme Church, or give you the lowdown on Belozersky Palace. But can just any guidebook let you pinpoint your exact location on dynamic, GPS-enabled maps, search for 100s of independently-reviewed bars, hotels, restaurants and clubs, read in-depth local reflection on the life of the city, or take a walking tour in the footsteps of Raskolnikov? No? Then LP’s the go!

LONELY PLANET iPHONE CITY GUIDES

Imagine taking the world's favourite guidebook and making the information interactive, personalised and fully searchable. Imagine dynamic maps that plot your exact location, guiding you through the quirky, the curious and the straight-up compulsory experiences recommended by our community of on-the-road authors and users. Now imagine that guidebook on your iPhone, with you wherever you travel. Well, imagine no more: the world's favourite guidebook has just arrived on the world's favourite phone.

• EASY TO USE - swipe to scroll through a full table of contents, dip into sections, and turn pages with a flick of your finger

• OFFLINE MAPS – there’s no need to go online to access our detailed street maps, fully retooled for the iPhone with location awareness, multi-touch controls, full-colour styling and six-level zoom

• TONS TO SEE AND DO – choose how to search through hundreds of geo-coded points-of-interest (POIs) – by proximity, category, preferences or favourites – then just tap to visit the website, or place a direct call

• TEXT SEARCH – whether you’re into ‘live music' or ‘fine dining’, every article and POI in your guidebook is text-searchable

• LOCATION-BASED NAVIGATION – plot your location in real time on our interactive maps, exploring back streets and hidden treasures with no danger of losing your way

• WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS ... – if you need some inspiration, just thumb through images taken by our award-winning photographers

• PERSONALISATION – tailor your cityguide to your tastes by tagging the best POIs as ‘favourites’

• MONEY SAVING – forget roaming costs, our apps are designed for offline use, and only take up the room of an average album on your iPod

• MORE THAN 30 CITYGUIDES AVAILABLE – including London, New York, Melbourne, Dublin, Barcelona, Rome, Tokyo, Paris, San Francisco, Miami, Bangkok, Madrid, Prague, Seoul, Dubai, Berlin, Cape Town, Singapore and Mexico City, with more guides coming soon

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