Moscow Travel Overview - City Tour & Kremlin

You are a lucky person, you have a good chance to know more about this great city, which is as beautiful as ever, despite all crises and misfortunes!

Moscow is one of the oldest and one of the most beautiful Russian cities. The city has absorbed many different styles that strike the visitors with their variety. The great number of churches and cathedrals in the Russian capital amuses Moscow visitors.

Magnificent stone churches and cathedrals with multiple golden, blue and white domes towering everywhere over all other buildings and structures. Even in the heart of Moscow, in the Kremlin, old churches compete with the immense Congress Palace for space. Despite its size (about 900 square kilometers) and the scale of many of Moscow buildings and avenues, the general layout is easily grasped - a series of concentric circles and radial lines, emanating from the Kremlin - and the center is compact enough to explore on foot. We display everything required by any traveler who plans a trip to our wonderful city.

City tour: This tour will be interesting if you want to get the first impression about Moscow, orient yourself, see the main sights, see some bits of the city life, and get used to the city. We'll tell you about the history and culture of our city, as well as about the life of the people. We'll show you the main spots, and (if you feel like it) some hidden interesting places that'll give you richer insight about Moscow.

The Kremlin: The Moscow Kremlin is the heart of Moscow City. All major streets meet here, other streets run in concentric circles around the Kremlin. It is the navel of this large city. The Kremlin thrills and tantalizes whenever you see its towers stabbing the skyline, or its cathedrals and palaces arrayed above the Moskva River. Its splendid cathedrals and Armory museum head the list of attractions. It includes Archangel Cathedral (the royal burial church), Assumption Cathedral (the burial church of religious leaders) and Annunciation Cathedral (with a huge number of ancient icons). Ivan the Great Bell Tower is a famous Moscow landmark, visible for 30km, with the cracked Tsar Bell at its foot.

The towers lining the Kremlin include the Tower of Secrets (the oldest) and Gothic and Renaissance Savior's Tower.

The Kremlin is surrounded by two quarters defined by ring boulevards built over the original ramparts of medieval times, when Moscow's residential areas were divided into the Beliy Gorod (White City) and the humbler Zemlyanoi Gorod (Earthen City). These two sites host a number of museums and art galleries.

The Kremlin occupies over 70 acres of land adjacent to Red Square. The encircling wide boulevards (the Boulevard Ring, Garden Ring, and Outer Ring Road) delineate the historic expansion of the city's fortifications.

The Kremlin name is synonymous with the Russia's government. Despite the fact that almost two-thirds of the Kremlin is off-limits to tourists, nevertheless in order to see its different parts one should pay at least two visits to the site. One visit to see the inside and outside of the cathedrals, and another for touring the Armory Palace, which can only be entered at set times on Kremlin open days.

Author's Note: Source: Moscow travel & Russia tourism - Nordway travel agency.

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