Sheremetyevo -
Moreon (24 min) Huge indoor park with wave pools, water slides, gym & fitness classes, bowling, restaurants & bars. Bitsa Park (23 min) Park with dense forest, rivers & ravines, plus medieval burial mounds & pre-revolutionary mansions. Paleontologicheskiy Muzey Im. Yu.a. Orlova (17 min) Large natural history museum charting Earth's evolution, with dinosaur skeleton exhibits. Sparrow Hills (40 min) Hilltop view point with panoramas of the city skyline, Moskva River & Olympic stadium. Tserkov' Znameniya Presvyatoy Bogoroditsy V Dubrovitsakh (40 min) This famous white-stone baroque Russian Orthodox church completed in 1704 is covered in carvings. Vorontsovo (32 min) Muzeĭ-usadʹba Ostafʹevo (23 min) Museum and architecture Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve (36 min) Huge, lavish 18th-century royal palace with formal gardens, plus museum of fine arts & antiquities. Tserkov' Vozneseniya Gospodnya (41 min) White stone church built in a tent-like style in 1532 to commemorate Ivan the Terrible's birth. Manor 'Dubrovitsy' (40 min) Большой Московский Цирк (35 min) Featuring animals, clowns & acrobat performances, this is the largest circus in Europe. Bol'shoy Dvorets (41 min) Palace and history Kolomenskoye (40 min) Architecture from different eras in an open-air museum on former royal estate, with tours & events. Dvorets Tsarya Alekseya Mikhaylovicha V Kolomenskom (45 min) Re-creation of a wooden 17th-century tsar's palace, with turrets, gilded interiors & guided tours. Darwin Museum (37 min) Animatronic dinosaurs & high-tech displays in natural history/evolution museum dedicated to Darwin. |