Private Moscow City Center Walking Tour + Metro Tour With a Certificated Guide. During this private walking tour you will see the most significant highlights located in the city center of Moscow: Red Square, Manezhnaya Square, Alexander’s garden, Theatre Square, Nikolskaya street and Lubyanka square. You will have a guided visit to the symbol of Moscow, the St Basil cathedral. We’ll take a ride by the Moscow Metro. The stations of the Moscow Metro are compared with underground palaces because of the extravagant soviet-era decoration. During the tour you will admire these rich decorated stations and learn interesting facts and legends about the Moscow metro.
During this private walking tour you will see the most significant highlights located in the city center of Moscow: Red Square, Manezhnaya Square, Alexander’s garden, Theatre Square, Nikolskaya street and Lubyanka square. You will have a guided visit to the symbol of Moscow, the St Basil cathedral. We’ll take a ride by the Moscow Metro. The stations of the Moscow Metro are compared with underground palaces because of the extravagant soviet-era decoration. During the tour you will admire these rich decorated stations and learn interesting facts and legends about the Moscow metro.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Red Square, Moscow 109012 Russia
The Red Square, a unique architectural ensemble which is included into the world heritage list of UNESCO. Here are situated the most known abroad sights of Moscow such as the Kremlin with its ancient red walls and towers, the Cathedrals of St. Basil (internal visit) and Our Lady of Kazan, the biggest History museum of Russia, trading arcades of GUM, Lenin’s tomb and necropolis.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Nikolskaya Street, Nikol’skaya ulitsa, Moscow Russia
It is a pedestrian street which connects Red Square and Lubyanka Square. In this street are situated the Kazan Cathedral, the Old Mint, Monastery of the Holy Saviour, Greek Monastery of St. Nicholas, the former Holy Synod Printing Offices, Russia’s first publishing house, the GUM store and the Dormition Church.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Lubyanka Square, Moscow 109012 Russia
Lubyanka Square is well known for the headquarters of the KGB (now this building is occupied by the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB). In the square there is a monument to the victims of the Gulag, a simple stone from the Solovki prison camp in the White Sea.
Opposite the FSB building stands the Detsky Mir («Children World»), Europe’s largest children’s store.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Teatralnaya Square, Teatralnaya Sq., Moscow Russia
The square is named after the three theatres located on it: the Bolshoi Theatre, Maly Theatre, and Russian Academic Youth Theatre.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Okhotny Ryad, Manezhnaya sq, 1/2, Moscow 125009 Russia
In the past there was a shopping arcade. Now here are situated hotel «Moskva» and the lower chamber of Russian parliament, the State Duma.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Manege Square, Manege Sq, Moskva, Russia
The square was called after the Moscow Manege which is situated here. The building was used first as a traditional manège, an indoor riding academy, and afterwards and now it is used as an exhibition. The Manezhnaya square is a pedestrian open space which connects the Red Square with the major traffic artery Tverskaya Street. During the 1990s the square was closed for traffic and renovated. The centrepiece of the refurbished square is a four-story underground shopping mall. You can see also a part of the Neglinnaya river which was decorated with fountains and statues of Russian fairy-tale characters.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Tomb of Unknown Soldier, Aleksandrovskiy Sad, Moscow 125009 Russia
You will visit the Alexander’s garden, one of the first urban public parks in Moscow, where nowadays the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with an eternal flame is situated.
Duration: 20 minutes
Categoría: Tours culturales y temáticos.
Inicio en: Moskva, Russia.
Duración: 4 hours.
Precio: 70,00 euros.
