Sheremetyevo -
Annunciation Cathedral (46 min) Home church of the Moscow Great Princes & czars, built for royal ceremonies & as a treasury. Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (43 min) Gleaming domes top this Orthodox edifice, rebuilt in the 1990s, with ornate, fresco-lined interior. Poklonnaya Hill (33 min) One of Moscow's highest points, home to the Victory Park with World War II displays & a war museum. Tserkov' Vozneseniya Gospodnya (25 min) White stone church built in a tent-like style in 1532 to commemorate Ivan the Terrible's birth. Peter the Great Statue (47 min) Commemorative statue honoring Tsar Peter the Great & the 300th anniversary of the Russian Navy. Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve (15 min) Huge, lavish 18th-century royal palace with formal gardens, plus museum of fine arts & antiquities. Kolomenskoye (22 min) Architecture from different eras in an open-air museum on former royal estate, with tours & events. Armoury Chamber (45 min) Armory museum in a Kremlin-style building with exhibits ranging from weapons to jewellery. Neskuchnyy Sad (33 min) Park and garden Dvorets Tsarya Alekseya Mikhaylovicha V Kolomenskom (24 min) Re-creation of a wooden 17th-century tsar's palace, with turrets, gilded interiors & guided tours. Novodevichy Convent (35 min) Riverside 1520s monastery known for its fresco-lined 5-domed cathedral & ornate soaring bell tower. The State Tretyakov Gallery (41 min) Art museum with a collection of over 180,000 Russian works spanning multiple centuries. Sparrow Hills (36 min) Hilltop view point with panoramas of the city skyline, Moskva River & Olympic stadium. The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (43 min) Classical building with antiquities, sculpture & painting collections, plus temporary exhibitions. Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure (43 min) Park with 1700s garden, boules cafe, open-air movie theater, contemporary art & winter ice rink. |