Sheremetyevo -
Park Kuskovo (41 min) Izmailovsky Park (42 min) Extensive wooded green space with a big wheel & fairground rides, play areas, skate & bike rental. Dvorets Tsarya Alekseya Mikhaylovicha V Kolomenskom (42 min) Re-creation of a wooden 17th-century tsar's palace, with turrets, gilded interiors & guided tours. Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve (35 min) Huge, lavish 18th-century royal palace with formal gardens, plus museum of fine arts & antiquities. Krutitskoye Patriarsheye Podvor'ye (45 min) Tours are offered of this 1600s estate of the Russian Orthodox Church, with two churches & mass. Izmailovo Kremlin (45 min) Cultural center with Russian Revival-style edifices, costumed workers, museums, workshops & markets. Usad'ba Izmaylovo (48 min) Former country estate of the Romanov tsars, with imposing manor houses & a church in leafy parkland. Kuskovo Summer Palace (41 min) Grand country estate with a majestic 18th-c. palace, landscaped gardens & a ceramics museum. Shukhov Tower (49 min) A 160m-high radio tower constructed from latticed steelwork & completed in 1922. ХК 'Остров мечты' (49 min) Character-themed thrill rides, plus indoor streets replicating cities like London & Barcelona. Tserkov' Vozneseniya Gospodnya (44 min) White stone church built in a tent-like style in 1532 to commemorate Ivan the Terrible's birth. Muzey-Zapovednik Kolomenskoye (44 min) Kolomenskoye (40 min) Architecture from different eras in an open-air museum on former royal estate, with tours & events. Novospassky Monastery (45 min) Orthodox place of worship & former home church of the Romanovs, Russia's last Imperial family. Winzavod (52 min) Large vaulted halls & hangar space for modern art installations & events on a former wine estate. |