Moscow Kremlin & Cathedral Square
Fifteenth-to-seventeenth-century fortified citadel and UNESCO World Heritage site
Centres on Aristotele Fioravanti's 1479 Dormition Cathedral, the Archangel Cathedral and the Ivan the Great Bell Tower.
Moscow, Russia
Ideal: 3–4 daysBest: May–SepPrice: Moderate
In 60 seconds
Moscow in 60 seconds
Radiating in concentric ring roads from the bend of the Moskva River, Moscow layers fifteenth-century Italian-built Kremlin cathedrals and the polychrome tented domes of Saint Basil's with nineteenth-century merchant mansions in Zamoskvorechye, early twentieth-century Constructivist landmarks and monumental metro stations. Divide time between the historic centre, the State Tretyakov Gallery, Novodevichy Convent and the wooden palace at Kolomenskoye.
Best for
- Capital
- UNESCO World Heritage
- Architecture
- Museums
- History
Known for
- Moscow Kremlin & Cathedral Square
- Red Square & Saint Basil's Cathedral
- State Tretyakov Gallery
- Novodevichy Convent
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Must experience
The things that would make the trip incomplete without them.
Red Square & Saint Basil's Cathedral
Sixteenth-century Pokrovsky Cathedral with nine chapels under patterned domes
Flanked by the State Historical Museum, the 1893 GUM arcades and Kitay-Gorod.
State Tretyakov Gallery
National collection of Russian icons and eighteenth-to-twentieth-century painting
Spans Lavrushinsky Lane in Zamoskvorechye and the twentieth-century wing at Krymsky Val.
Novodevichy Convent
1524 UNESCO-listed fortified convent in the Moscow Baroque style
Set beside a pond on a bend of the Moskva River with the adjacent Novodevichy Cemetery.
Beyond the obvious
Hidden gems
Less obvious, rarely queued for, and usually the part people remember.
Church of the Ascension at Kolomenskoye
1532 UNESCO-listed white-stone tent-roof church above the Moskva River
A milestone in sixteenth-century Russian masonry architecture.
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
European painting and antiquities collections on Volkhonka Street
Particularly strong in French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist canvases.