Moscow for a weekend
2024
Highlights of the trip
During your stay you can enjoy the following highlights: Culture / Heritage.
Best times to go
The best time(s) to go is/are : Printemps, Eté.
Where to stay ?
The map of your stay "Moscow for a weekend"
Detail of the stay : Moscow for a weekend
How to get there
The Historic Center Around Red Square
Steps: Moscou
Visit of the Red Square and the Kremlin, the historical, political and religious center of Moscow and Russia as a whole. The Kremlin visit takes a good day. Start with Red Square from the Okhotny Riad metro. The "beautiful place", according to its literal translation, is bordered on the west by the ochre walls of the Kremlin. At the entrance of the square, the historic museum stands on your right. It is a great introduction to the history of Russia that will allow you to better appreciate the visit of the Kremlin. In front of the historic museum, Notre-Dame-de-Kazan Cathedral deserves a quick look. Continue on Red Square, on your left, the huge Goum building, the great state store at luxury stores. Book it for your shopping, but don't miss it, it deserves the detour in itself as well as the food store Gastronom 1 located on the ground floor of Goum, rebuilt in the style of the 1950 s. West of the square, against the Kremlin walls, Lenin's mausoleum is open to the visitor in the morning. To see if you want to visit it or not, knowing that sometimes an hour wait is expected. At the south end of the square lies majestic St Basile-le-Blessed Cathedral. Inside, the frescoes compete with exterior paintings, and icons are sumptuous. From Saint Basile Cathedral you will see the Moskova that borders the Kremlin on its southern façade. Come back on your steps to join Koutafia Tower, the entrance to the Kremlin. You will cross before the place du Manège, whose basement is occupied by a shopping gallery, and the Alexandrovsky Gardens. Here you are in front of the Koutafia tower the main entrance of the Kremlin.
Past the door Koutafia and the Troitskaya door, the first building that offers you is the congress palace, an architectural heresy built in 1961. Next to your left, the buildings of the Senate and the Arsenal, then the Supreme Soviet who do not visit each other. In front, the former palace of the Patriarchs and the Church of the Twelve Apostles give a foretaste of the magnificence of the place of cathedrals, located behind. On the square give the cathedrals of the Assumption, of Dormition, of the Annonunciation and of the Archangel-Saint-Michel, the church of La Déposition-de-la-Robe, which all have an interest both architectural, historical and religious. To the east of the square, the two big bells: Ivan-le-Grand and that of the Queen. West of the square, the faceted palace is the oldest building in the Kremlin and Moscow. Finally, behind, the palace of the Terems and especially the armor palace to the sublime collection of artillery and goldsmiths, and the diamond palace which serves as a jewel of imperial jewels.
If you find the energy, you can complete your visit to the historic Moscow by a night of ballet or opera to the mythical Bolchoï or Maly, his little brother, both located on Teatralnaya Square. Join them by borrowing from Okhotny Riad. In front of the beautiful classic buildings and Art Nouveau of the National and Metropol palaces.
Places of interest : GOUM MAUSOLÉE DE LÉNINE MUSÉE HISTORIQUE D'ÉTAT CATHÉDRALE NOTRE-DAME-DE-KAZAN PALAIS DES PATRIARCHES CATHÉDRALE DE LA DORMITION ÉGLISE DE LA DÉPOSITION-DE-LA-ROBE-DE-LA-VIERGE CATHÉDRALE DE L'ARCHANGE-SAINT-MICHEL CATHÉDRALE DE L'ANNONCIATION PALAIS À FACETTES PALAIS DES TEREMS ARSENAL JARDIN ALEXANDRE PALAIS DES ARMURES PLACE DU MANÈGE TOUR KOUTAFIA PLACE DES CATHÉDRALES
