This tour takes you from one of Moscow’s oldest streets to its newest park, hitting the Kremlin, some illustrious shopping centers, architectural curiosities, and some of the city’s finest snacks.
Moscow, as befits the European continent’s largest city, can intimidate. It is sprawling and swaggering, with streets resembling multi-lane highways, comically oversized squares and monuments, and the Stalin-era Seven Sisters skyscrapers that stand like sentries over the horizon. But it’s actually a good city for humans, particularly its handsome, if increasingly clean and sterile, center. There are green spaces and public parks, leafy neighborhoods, pedestrian zones, and calm bodies of water. And, of course, more history in one street corner than in many entire towns. This tour of Moscow’s center takes you from one of Moscow’s oldest streets to its newest park through both real and fictional history, hitting the Kremlin, some illustrious shopping centers, architectural curiosities, and some of the city’s finest snacks.
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