Recommended period: all the year round
Main sights: Moscow Kremlin, Tretyakov Gallery, metro tour, museum-reserve Kolomenskoe Palace of the Tsar Alexey Mikhailovich, Sergiev Posad Trinity St.Sergius Lavra, Cosmonautics Museum, VDNH , Arbat street
Accommodation: 3* / 4*
Meals: breakfasts, 5 lunches
Transport: minibus / coach
Day 1
- Arrival in Moscow.
- Meeting with a guide at the airport or at the railway station.
- Transfer to the hotel. Accommodation.
- Free time or time to visit additional excursions*.
Day 2
- Breakfast.
- Sightseeing tour of Moscow.
- You will drive along the famous embankments and streets of the historic city: along the Boulevard and Garden Ring, along Tverskaya — the main street of Moscow; along Kutuzovsky Prospect, you will see the Bolshoi Theater and the Manege, Stalin’s skyscrapers, the Triumphal Arch, the golden domes of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the Swan Pond near the walls of the Novodevichy Convent, admire the beauty of Red Square; admire the beauty of Moscow from the observation deck of Vorobyovy Gory, see the building of Moscow State University, the «Luzhniki» stadium, modern skyscrapers of Moscow-City and much more.
- Excursion to Moscow Kremlin, whith located on its territory unique monuments of architecture and art of the XV — XX centuries: temples, churches and chambers, magnificent palaces and front office buildings. You walk along Kremlin squares and streets, see the Tsar Bell and Tsar Cannon, visit one of the cathedrals: Uspensky, Arkhangelsky or Blagoveshchensky.
- Walk on Red Square and the Alexander Garden. You will walk along the famous cobblestones of Red Square, see the multi-color domes of St. Basil’s Cathedral, enjoy the splendor of the panorama of the ancient Kremlin from the Sofia Embankment of the Moscow River.
- Lunch at a restaurant.
- Free time or time to visit additional excursions*.
Day 3
- Breakfast.
- Excursion to the Tretyakov Gallery.
- A visit to the Tretyakov Gallery is an opportunity to touch the history of Russian art from the 10th to the beginning of the 20th century. Today, this main and one of the best national art collection in the world presents about 100,000 works: from the icons of Andrei Rublev to paintings by Vasnetsov, Repin, Surikov, Serov, Vrubel, Levitan and many other Russian artists.
- Lunch at a restaurant.
- Free time or time to visit additional excursions*.
Day 4
- Breakfast.
- Excursion to Sergiev Posad with a visit to the Holy Trinity St. Sergius Lavra, the largest Orthodox male monastery in Russia, founded by the Monk Sergius of Radonezh more than five hundred years ago.
- Lunch at a restaurant in Sergiev Pasad.
- Return to Moscow.
- Free time or time to visit additional excursions*.
Day 5
- Breakfast.
- Excursion to museum-reserve Kolomenskoe with palace of the Tsar Alexey Mikhailovich.
- Excursion to the Kolomenskoye museum-reserve — a favorite resting place of the great Moscow princes and racial tsars. Here you will admire the most beautiful palace of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, who is rightfully called the «Eighth Wonder of the World».
- Lunch at a restaurant.
- Free time or time to visit additional excursions*.
Day 6
- Breakfast.
- Excursion to the Cosmonautics Museum — one of the largest scientific and historical museums in the world.
- Visit VDNH — the largest exhibition, museum and recreational complex in the world. At VDNH you can see outstanding architectural masterpieces that together represent a monument to the Soviet era and an example of styles prevailing at different times. Among them are the monument “Worker and Collective Farm Girl”, fountains “Friendship of Peoples” and “Stone Flower”, pavilions “Agriculture”, “Soviet Culture”, “Cosmos” and others.
- Lunch at a restaurant.
- Free time or time to visit additional excursions*.
Day 7
- Breakfast, check out.
- Tour of the Moscow metro. A unique opportunity to hear the story of the Moscow metro, to see its magnificent stations «Ploshchad Revolyutsii», «Komsomolskaya», «Novoslobodskaya», «Belorusskaya» and enjoy the unique architecture and mosaics unique to each of them.
- Returning to the city center, you will visit one of the most famous streets of Russia — Arbat. You can plunge into the atmosphere of the past, find out where great literary figures liked to spend time, look at street musicians and artists, without whom it is impossible to imagine this famous street. Arbat is a symbol of old Moscow. During the tour, you will get acquainted with the history and architecture of the Arbat, its monuments and sights, learn about the Vakhtangov Theater and the monument to Princess Turandot, the A.S. Pushkin Museum and the construction of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- Transfer to the airport or to the railway station.
Included:
- accommodation in Moscow 6 nights with breakfasts
- Moscow Kremlin, Tretyakov Gallery, metro tour, museum-reserve Kolomenskoe palace of the Tsar Alexey Mikhailovich, Sergiev Posad Trinity St.Sergius Lavra, Cosmonautics Museum
- 5 lunches
- comfortable minibus for 10+1/ bus for 15+1 and more
- licensed English and German speaking guide
- 2nd guide where necessary
- 1 FOC in sgl room
- commission
