Sheremetyevo -
Biryulevskiy Dendropark (14 min) Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve (17 min) Huge, lavish 18th-century royal palace with formal gardens, plus museum of fine arts & antiquities. Shukhov Tower (38 min) A 160m-high radio tower constructed from latticed steelwork & completed in 1922. Dvorets Tsarya Alekseya Mikhaylovicha V Kolomenskom (28 min) Re-creation of a wooden 17th-century tsar's palace, with turrets, gilded interiors & guided tours. Neskuchnyy Sad (39 min) Park and garden Tserkov' Vozneseniya Gospodnya (30 min) White stone church built in a tent-like style in 1532 to commemorate Ivan the Terrible's birth. Sparrow Hills (42 min) Hilltop view point with panoramas of the city skyline, Moskva River & Olympic stadium. Большой Московский Цирк (39 min) Featuring animals, clowns & acrobat performances, this is the largest circus in Europe. ХК 'Остров мечты' (35 min) Character-themed thrill rides, plus indoor streets replicating cities like London & Barcelona. Bitsa Park (30 min) Park with dense forest, rivers & ravines, plus medieval burial mounds & pre-revolutionary mansions. Kolomenskoye (29 min) Architecture from different eras in an open-air museum on former royal estate, with tours & events. Nikolo-Ugreshsky Monastery (23 min) Bol'shoy Dvorets (22 min) Palace and history Paleontologicheskiy Muzey Im. Yu.a. Orlova (24 min) Large natural history museum charting Earth's evolution, with dinosaur skeleton exhibits. Darwin Museum (41 min) Animatronic dinosaurs & high-tech displays in natural history/evolution museum dedicated to Darwin. |