In order to fully live, to achieve success in everyday work, you need to be able to relax and rest well. But how to do it, because the schedule of the life of a city dweller is so tight that it is very difficult to find time for rest? The optimal answer to this question is excursions. Bus tours from Moscow lasting 3 - 4 days.
This type of recreation is not only useful in terms of changing activities and relaxation after hard work, but also very correct in terms of understanding the world, expanding your horizons. Moreover, we offer bus tours on comfortable buses to the most interesting tourist routes, where there really is something to see for an adult tourist and a child. The fact that the cost of such a vacation is very democratic (if you turn to our company for help, you don’t even need to say - it goes without saying. Our goal is to help a person fully relax, and not set high prices for their services. Ordering sightseeing bus tours from Moscow for 3 - 4 days, customers order a lot of positive emotions, as well as new, very interesting impressions and information.
Our advantages:
Interesting tours;
Professional accredited guides and guides;
Comfortable buses and experienced drivers;
We can offer a lot of memorable three-day tours from Moscow:
Kolomna - Ryazan - Gus-Khrustalny - Murom - Nizhny Novgorod - Gorokhovets;
Vyshny Volochek - Valdai - Veliky Novgorod;
Sergiev Posad - Pereslavl-Zalessky - Rostov the Great - Yaroslavl - Kostroma - Ivanovo - Suzdal;
Kimry - Gadovo - Tver - Staritsa - Domotkanovo - Torzhok - Mednoye "Feast at the Viper Vasilievna" - Italian agricultural farm "La Fattoria" (gastronomic tour);
other interesting excursions for adults and young tourists for 3 days from Moscow.
Tours for 4 days from Moscow to Russian cities
Well, if you have a little more time and want to plunge into the atmosphere of the memorable corners of our Motherland in more detail, then our Horizons company is glad to offer you excursion tours for 4 days from Moscow:
Vladimir - Bogolyubovo - Suzdal - Ivanovo - Kostroma - Yaroslavl - Rostov the Great - Pereslavl-Zalessky - Sergiev Posad - a comprehensive tour that gives a fairly detailed impression of Russia, its history, color and people;
interesting tours in the cities of Russia for 3 or 4 days from Moscow.
Each excursion for 3-4 days from Moscow, regardless of its duration, is selected by managers depending on the requests of our tourists. First, we will find out what he would like to see during his tour, and only then, when we know for sure what he wants, we will offer several options for those trips. We always want to make sure that tourists come back to us again and again, receiving only the most positive emotions.
You do not know which tour to choose? Are you unsure of your preferences? Call, order a call, ask, book positive emotions and impressions with us - in a travel company "Horizons"
The British company Post Office Travel Money annually releases the City Costs Barometer study, which shows which European cities are the most profitable for the British to go on a short vacation. The cost of the trip includes 12 items, including a three-course dinner for two with a bottle of wine, two nights in a three-star hotel, excursion expenses, a cup of coffee and a bottle of beer.
Introducing 22 cities where you can go for a weekend and not take a loan for this 🙂
22. Belfast, Northern Ireland - $403
Cup of coffee: $2.50
Bottle of beer: $4.37
Bottle of wine: $5.62
Three-course dinner for two with a bottle of wine: $69.10
Fare from airport to city center and back by bus/train: $4.74.
48 hour pass: $8.74
Sightseeing bus tour: $15.61
Admission to Major Attractions: Titanic Belfast Museum - $21.85
Two nights in a three-star hotel for two: $268.41.
21. Aarhus, Denmark - $394
Cup of coffee: $3.07
Bottle of beer: $5.84
Bottle of wine: $7.68
Three-course dinner for two with a bottle of wine: $95.25
Fare from airport to city center and back by bus/train: $9.68.
48 hour pass: $18.44
Admission to Major Attractions: Den Gamle By Open Air Museum - $15.37
Two nights in a three-star hotel for two: $184.76.
20. Bruges, Belgium - $384
Cup of coffee: $2.76
Bottle of beer: $3.87
Bottle of wine: $4.97
Three-course dinner for two with a bottle of wine: $88.41
Fare from airport to city center and back by bus/train: $27.63.
Travel ticket: $13.26.
Sightseeing bus tour: $1.
Admission to Major Attractions: Belfort Medieval Belfry - $11.05
Two nights in a three-star hotel for two: $193.50.
19. Paris, France - $369
Cup of coffee: $1.32
Bottle of beer: $5.53
Bottle of wine: $6.40
Three-course dinner for two with a bottle of wine: $104.97
Fare from airport to city center and back by bus/train: $22.10.
Travel pass: $20.94.
Visiting the main attractions: Notre Dame Cathedral - free of charge.
Two nights in a three-star hotel for two: $154.77.
18. Vienna, Austria - $341
Cup of coffee: $3.32
Bottle of beer: $3.87
Bottle of wine: $3.87
Three-course dinner for two with a bottle of wine: $88.39
Fare from airport to city center and back by bus/train: $4.31.
Travel pass: $14.69.
Sightseeing bus tour: $7.62
Visiting the main attractions: the summer residence of the Austrian emperors Schönbrunn - $ 16.57.
Two nights in a three-star hotel for two: $14.25.
17. Edinburgh, Scotland - $338
Cup of coffee: $2.65
Bottle of beer: $5.30
Bottle of wine: $5.08
Three-course dinner for two with a bottle of wine: $71.88
Fare from airport to city center and back by bus/train: $9.36.
Travel ticket: $9.98.
Sightseeing bus tour: $18.72
Admission to the main attractions: Edinburgh Castle - $20.59.
Two nights in a three-star hotel for two: $190.96.
16. Rome, Italy - $329
Cup of coffee: $3.13
Bottle of beer: $4.97
Bottle of wine: $5.30
Three-course dinner for two with a bottle of wine: $54.83
Fare from airport to city center and back by bus/train: $8.72.
Travel pass: $13.82.
Admission to major attractions: Colosseum - $13.25.
Two nights in a three-star hotel for two: $162.25.
15. Madrid, Spain - $326
Cup of coffee: $1.66
Bottle of beer: $1.66
Bottle of wine: $2.76
Three-course dinner for two with a bottle of wine: $54.03
Travel ticket: $14.80.
Sightseeing bus tour: $23.20
Admission to the main attractions: Royal Palace of Madrid - $12.16.
Two nights in a three-star hotel for two: $172.24.
14. Berlin, Germany - $288
Cup of coffee: $2.76
Bottle of beer: $2.76
Bottle of wine: $4.42
Three-course dinner for two with a bottle of wine: $82.87
Fare from airport to city center and back by bus/train: $6.19.
Travel ticket: $15.46.
Sightseeing bus tour: $18.78
Visiting the main attractions: Brandenburg Gate - free of charge.
Two nights in a three-star hotel for two: $131.05.
13. Nice, France - $274
Cup of coffee: $1.66
Bottle of beer: $3.87
Bottle of wine: $4.42
Three-course dinner for two with a bottle of wine: $79.55
Sightseeing bus tour: $24.31
Admission to the main attractions: Muséna Museum - $11.05.
12. Tallinn, Estonia - $261
Cup of coffee: $2.21
Bottle of beer: $3.87
Bottle of wine: $4.97
Three-course dinner for two with a bottle of wine: $75.14
Fare from airport to city center and back by bus/train: $4.42.
Travel ticket: $6.63.
Sightseeing bus tour: $20.99
Visiting the main attractions: Tallinn City Hall - $ 5.53.
Two nights in a three-star hotel for two: $111.08.
11. Dubrovnik, Croatia - $259
Cup of coffee: $1.71
Bottle of beer: $2.65
Bottle of wine: $4.68
Three-course dinner for two with a bottle of wine: $67.
Fare from airport to city center and back by bus/train: $12.47.
Travel ticket: $9.35.
Sightseeing bus tour: $9.35
Admission to major attractions: Dubrovnik City Walls - $23.38.
Two nights in a three-star hotel for two: $94.86.
10. Palma de Mallorca, Spain - $245
Cup of coffee: $3.21
Bottle of beer: $3.32
Bottle of wine: $3.87
Three-course dinner for two with a bottle of wine: $52.26
Fare from airport to city center and back by bus/train: $11.05.
Travel ticket: $11.05.
Admission to major attractions: Palm Cathedral - $3.32.
Two nights in a three-star hotel for two: $127.31.
9. Athens, Greece - $239
Cup of coffee: $2.43
Bottle of beer: $4.19
Bottle of wine: $4.97
Three-course dinner for two with a bottle of wine: $48.61
Fare from airport to city center and back by bus/train: $13.25.
Travel ticket: $9.95.
Sightseeing bus tour: $19.88
Admission to the main attractions: Acropolis of Athens - $22.10.
Two nights in a three-star hotel for two: $99.85.
8. Prague, Czech Republic - $228
Cup of coffee: $2.11
Bottle of beer: $1.51
Bottle of wine: $2.93
Three-course dinner for two with a bottle of wine: $44.47
Fare from airport to city center and back by bus/train: $27.87.
Travel ticket: $9.47.
Sightseeing bus tour: $12.93
Admission to major attractions: Prague Castle - $15.08.
Two nights in a three-star hotel for two: $96.10.
7. Lisbon, Portugal - $202
Cup of coffee: $0.77
Bottle of beer: $1.44
Bottle of wine: $3.32
Three-course dinner for two with a bottle of wine: $55.24
Fare from airport to city center and back by bus/train: $3.21.
Travel pass: $15.53.
Visiting the main attractions: Jeronimos Monastery - $ 11.05.
Two nights in a three-star hotel for two: $82.37.
6. Krakow, Poland - $200
Cup of coffee: $1.87
Bottle of beer: $1.87
Bottle of wine: $3.22
Three-course dinner for two with a bottle of wine: $60.36
Fare from airport to city center and back by bus/train: $4.29.
Admission to the main attractions: Wawel Castle - $4.83.
Two nights in a three-star hotel for two: $89.86.
5. Budapest, Hungary - $196
Cup of coffee: $2.07
Bottle of beer: $2.83
Bottle of wine: $4.53
Three-course dinner for two with a bottle of wine: $43.43
Fare from airport to city center and back by bus/train: $2.65.
Travel ticket: $12.47.
Sightseeing bus tour: $22.67
Visiting the main attractions: Matthias Church - $ 5.67.
Two nights in a three-star hotel for two: $84.87.
4 Warsaw, Poland - $190
Cup of coffee: $2.68
Bottle of beer: $2.15
Bottle of wine: $4.02
Three-course dinner for two with a bottle of wine: $40.24
Fare from airport to city center and back by bus/train: $2.36.
Travel ticket: $6.44.
Sightseeing bus tour: $16.10
Admission to the main attractions: Royal Castle - $ 8.05.
Two nights in a three-star hotel for two: $98.60.
3. Riga, Latvia - $188
Cup of coffee: $3.32
Bottle of beer: $2.76
Bottle of wine: $3.87
Three-course dinner for two with a bottle of wine: $66.30
Fare from airport to city center and back by bus/train: $2.55.
Travel ticket: $11.05.
Sightseeing bus tour: $16.57
Visiting the main attractions: Dome Cathedral - $ 3.32.
Two nights in a three-star hotel for two: $67.40.
2. Vilnius, Lithuania - $174
Cup of coffee: $1.66
Bottle of beer: $2.32
Bottle of wine: $2.65
Three-course dinner for two with a bottle of wine: $54.14
Fare from airport to city center and back by bus/train: $1.46.
Travel pass: $7.69.
Sightseeing bus tour: $13.25
Visiting the main attractions: St. Anne's Church - free of charge.
Two nights in a three-star hotel for two: $83.62.
1. Paphos, Cyprus - $173
Cup of coffee: $3.21
Bottle of beer: $2.87
Bottle of wine: $3.53
Three-course dinner for two with a bottle of wine: $41.99
Fare from airport to city center and back by bus/train: $3.32.
Travel ticket: $11.05.
Sightseeing bus tour: $18.78
Admission to Major Attractions: Paphos Mosaics $4.97
Two nights in a three-star hotel for two: $77.38.
Moscow - the capital of Russia - offers metropolitan entertainment for every taste and budget. In winter, Moscow is smartly decorated, festive illumination creates a New Year's mood for adults and children, and gives faith in a fairy tale. The capital has entertainment for any weather. If you are traveling with children, visit wonderful performances for young spectators at the Puppet Theatre, Grandfather Durov's Corner (900 rubles for an adult and a child), and the Obraztsov Theater (tickets from 800 to 2500 rubles). For adults - their own repertoire at the famous Bolshoi Theater (tickets from 100 rubles to 15 tr.), Moscow Art Theater. A.P. Chekhov (tickets from 2500 tr.) and many others. Museums and galleries of the capital are also in a hurry to surprise and delight their audience with wonderful exhibitions and festivals in winter. You can go with the whole family to an open-air skating rink in Gorky Park (ice ticket from 150 rubles to 250 rubles) or Sokolniki (skates of all sizes are rented - 200 rubles, a deposit of 2000 rubles). In restaurants (average check from 1,500 rubles) and clubs in Moscow, numerous parties and concerts of various genres and directions are held in winter. From Moscow you can bring as a gift to relatives and friends - a variety of souvenirs.
How to get there: you can get to Moscow from all major cities of Russia: by train (1-2 days) or by plane (travel time on average 3-4 hours).
Where to stay: The range of prices is great: the cost of a room depends on the category of the hotel, the time of year and the area of the city. For example, a night in a hostel and hostel near the Moscow Ring Road will cost 200-300 rubles per person. 700 rubles will have to be paid for a hostel near the Kursk railway station. A hotel on the outskirts of the capital will cost 2880 tr, in the very center the prices for a four-star and five-star hotel will be in the region from 6 tr to 18 tr.
about 10,000 rubles you need to have with you for the most budgetary vacation option. Visiting restaurants, shops, excursions will increase the cost of travel.
Duration: 2-3 days
What to take with you: on a trip to the capital, you need a set of clothes “for all occasions”: a warm hat, jacket and pants, comfortable shoes. For a festive New Year's dinner or going to the theater, if you wish, grab an elegant dress and shoes, for men - a suit. During the trip, you will need documents and certificates confirming your or your family member's right to benefits.
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2 days with the capital of Tatarstan - weekend in Kazan
Kazan is beautiful at any time of the year, but in winter it is quite special. The city is smartly decorated for the New Year and Christmas, there are Christmas trees, festive illumination flickers, outdoor skating rinks are open. Architectural ensembles in winter also look different than in summer: the Kazan Kremlin, the Raifa Monastery, the Kul-Sharif Mosque and other buildings are illuminated and look like in a fairy tale. And how nice it is to come after a long walk in the frost in a cafe and taste national dishes - tokmach noodle soup, pilaf, manti, the famous echpochmak pie, elesh, and it is recommended to drink lunch with invigorating teas and balms infused with herbs. The average bill in a cafe for one person is 500 rubles, in a restaurant from 1000 thousand rubles. Cash will come in handy to buy Tatar souvenirs as gifts for relatives and colleagues: sweets, honey, balms, ceramics or Tatar shoes with curved toes.
How to get there: a round-trip ticket from Moscow to Kazan will cost 5-6 thousand rubles, you will spend 1 hour, 40 minutes in flight - you need to cover the distance - 815 kilometers. By train, the journey from the capital of Russia to the capital of Tatarstan will take almost 13 hours. A place in a reserved seat costs from 1200 rubles, a coupe from 3800 tr.
Where to stay: the range of prices for hotels in Kazan is very large. For example, a night in a hostel can cost from 300 rubles per person. A night in a 3-star hotel costs from 1000 - 2500 thousand rubles, 4 stars - from 2500 rubles to 4000 thousand, "five" from 3 tr and more.
Approximate tour cost per person: A 2-day tour for one person costs 3750 tr. (flight + hotel), a trip for 3 days will cost 3950 rubles.
Duration: 2-3 days.
What to take with you: winter in Tatarstan can be mild and rainy, but frost can also occur, so take a spare set of warm clothes with you: a hat, gloves, scarf. Shoes must be waterproof, with stable soles, a windproof jacket. During the trip, you will need documents and certificates confirming your or your family member's right to benefits. Take a good camera or video camera with you - the landscapes of Kazan are worth keeping for a long time.
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Snow safari on Onega and Ladoga lakes
The ancient and famous Lake Ladoga (during the Great Patriotic War, the Road of Life passed through it) is located on the territory of Karelia and the Leningrad Region, it is considered the largest freshwater lake in Europe. The greatest width is 138 km. The depth in different areas of Ladoga can reach from 70 to 230 meters. Lake Onega is the second largest lake in Europe after Ladoga. The North-West of Russia is endless lakes and fast rivers. The main excursion directions of the region: Kizhi - Valaam - Solovki - Kivach Waterfall - Marcial Waters - Ruskeala marble canyon. It's interesting that winter holidays here it can be both active: skiing, hiking, snow safari on ATVs, and secluded in snow-covered forest houses. You will need cash to buy Karelian shungite or birch souvenirs as gifts for relatives and colleagues.
How to get there: if you are going to Lake Onega, it will be convenient to get to Petrozavodsk, a one-way ticket from Moscow for one person costs about 3600 - 3900 rubles. Flight time 1 hour, 40 minutes, distance between cities 728 kilometers. By train in a reserved seat - 1600 rubles, compartment - 2600 rubles, SV - 7400 rubles. Travel time - 14 hours. If you have planned a trip to Ladoga, it is more convenient to get to St. Petersburg, 712 kilometers from Moscow. By plane, you will fly in an hour and a half, a one-way ticket from 2 tr.
Where to stay: on the Lake Ladoga, if you are traveling on your own, the easiest way is to focus on housing in the private sector closer to the lake, on houses in villages that are rented out by local residents. In Novaya Ladoga, a night in hotels for one costs from 500 to 3000 tr.
Approximate tour cost per person: 5700 rubles is a two-day organized tour to Ladoga. Trip to New Year(around Ladoga) for 3 days will cost 21,900 rubles. A tour to Karelia for 2 days / 1 night costs 11,500 per person, 3 days / 2 nights from 13,600 tr.
Duration: 2-3 days.
What to take with you: a spare set of warm clothes is required: hat, gloves, scarf. Shoes must be waterproof and on stable soles, the jacket is windproof. When traveling, you will need documents and certificates confirming your or your family member's eligibility for benefits. Take a good camera or video camera with you - you will want to save the landscapes of Karelia for a long time.
Weekend in the mountains of Ingushetia
The Republic of Ingushetia is part of the North Caucasian Federal District, part of the North Caucasian Economic Region. The capital is the city of Magas. The all-season resort "Armkhi" (Jeyrakh) in winter offers ski holidays on slopes of varying difficulty and places for snowboarders. You can relax from activity in the pool or spa resort in the same place, in "Armkhi". The main transport in Ingushetia is a taxi, online orders are available through a mobile application. Souvenirs from Ingushetia: dolls and knives with national symbols, paintings and panels depicting the landscapes of the republic.
How to get there: the distance from Moscow to Magas is 1460 kilometers. By plane, you can fly in two and a half hours, a one-way ticket costs from 1,500 rubles per person. By train we go to Nazran, the largest city of the republic, in one day and 3100 rubles in a reserved seat car and 3200 rubles in a compartment. Moscow - Vladikavkaz by train will cost 2 tr for a place in a reserved seat, 3 tr - in a compartment. Air ticket Moscow - Vladikavkaz costs from 1500 rubles.
Where to stay: prices in Armkhi hotels on request. In Vladikavkaz, you can spend the night in budget hotels for 1500 rubles, in more comfortable ones - from 2 to 4 tr.
Approximate tour cost per person: 3 days / 2 nights Express Caucasus tour costs 15,600 rubles, the same number of days in a small group trip Express Caucasus - comfort will cost 26,000 rubles per person.
Duration: 2-3 days.
What to take with you: comfortable clothes and shoes. In winter, it is warm in Igushetia, the average temperature is -1 degrees, so take raincoats and umbrellas from the rain. In the mountains it can be frosty and snowy: take from snow and wind - insulated and windproof jackets with trousers. Ski equipment can be rented at the resort.
Weekend with yaks - Oryol province
Orel is an ancient Russian city that was founded in 1544. Well-known writers I. Bunin, L. Andreev, I. Turgenev, N. Leskov were born or lived in Orel for a long time, so an excursion to literary museums will definitely be included in an organized visit to the city. History buffs will be interested in merchant and church architecture in the old city center. In Orel and its environs, all conditions have been created for active rest. For example, 15 minutes from the city is one of the best ski resorts Chernozemye is a year-round park "Gorki", which provides slopes for beginners and experienced skiers, a cafe and a hotel - you can come here for a couple of days. Lovers of nature and animals may be interested in an excursion to the Oryol woodland, the program includes a visit to the zoo-enclosure complex and a tour of ecological natural areas.
How to get there: distance Moscow - Orel 363 kilometers. From Moscow to Orel by train you will reach in 4 hours, 40 minutes. Ticket price: reserved seat - 700 rubles, coupe - 1200 rubles. A bus from Moscow to Orel travels at least 3 hours, the price for one ticket is from 600 rubles.
Where to stay: hotel prices start from 500 rubles (a night in a hostel). A budget "two" costs 1000 -1500 tr, "troika" and "four" will cost 3000 - 4000 tr, prices for hotels "five" - from 4 thousand rubles.
Approximate tour cost per person: the cost of an independent two-day trip to Orel for one person is 7-8 thousand rubles. Be sure to budget for unplanned expenses - souvenirs, an impromptu excursion, etc.
Duration: 2-3 days.
What to take with you: the climate in Orel is temperate continental, the average temperature in winter is 5-6 degrees below zero, so very warm clothes are unlikely to come in handy, but comfortable slaughter will come in handy - you will have to walk a lot. During the trip, you will need documents and certificates confirming your or your family member's right to benefits.
Winter holidays in Nizhny Novgorod
Nizhny Novgorod was founded in 1221 and throughout its existence remained an active participant in the historical events of Russia. The main attraction, the heroic shrine of the city is the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin. It is unique both in its two-level location and in the fact that no one has ever taken the stone walls of the Kremlin! It was from here that in 1612 the “great patriot and citizen of Russia” Kozma Minin led the militia to liberate Moscow from the Polish-Lithuanian invaders.
The Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin saw and received the Rurikoviches and Romanovs, great ascetics and saints, famous writers and artists, inventors and scientific luminaries of world renown.
Come to Nizhny Novgorod for the weekend! Stunning views open from the embankments of the Oka and Volga, from the Dyatlovy Mountains, from behind the walls of the ancient Kremlin! The artist Ilya Repin once enthusiastically exclaimed: “This royally established city in the entire east of Russia ...”
Visit the Nizhny Novgorod Fair and Zapochainye, take a look at the Nizhny Novgorod Strelka, take a look at the streets of Nizhny Posad. Walk along Bolshaya Pokrovskaya. Visit the beautiful Rukavishnikov Estate, the Art Museum and the Museum of Modern Art! Listen to the legends and were from Nizhny Novgorod guides! And there are so many interesting things outside of Nizhny Novgorod!..
You will fall in love with this city and come here again and again!
How to get there: there is an airport in the city, so you can fly from large Russian cities by plane. Buses from nearby cities also run to Nizhny Novgorod, and trains also run constantly.
Where to stay: Nizhny Novgorod offers accommodation in hotels with room prices starting from 1,000 rubles, as well as hotels with rooms starting from 1,700 rubles per person per night.
Approximate tour cost per person: 2000 - 4000 rubles.
Duration: 1-3 days.
What to take with you: on any trip to Russia, one cannot do without documents, so do not forget the passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation, as well as a medical insurance policy. Dress warmly for the trip, things should be comfortable, not wet and not blown, there are strong winds on the embankments.
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Weekend in winter Vienna
Winter holidays or new year holidays you can visit the capital of Austria - Vienna. On this exciting journey, you can see many European sights, while spending a relatively small amount.
What can you see in Vienna in a weekend? Tourists recommend starting your acquaintance with a European city from the beautiful Gothic St. Stephen's Cathedral. The temple amazes with the splendor of architecture and interior decoration, although it was built in the XIV century. The cathedral houses the tombs of the great kings of the past, and from the observation deck offers a breathtaking view of Vienna. Next, you can visit the Church of the Teutonic Order, which is located within walking distance. The church houses a collection of the Order's regalia and weapons. As a gastronomic journey, you can visit the famous open-air beer garden Schweizerhaus and try the best Viennese beer Budweiser with roasted pork leg and sausages.
Having refreshed yourself, go for the Ferris wheel, about which they say, if you haven’t been on it, consider you haven’t been to Vienna. Along the way, you can shoot at a shooting range and ride a wagon.
You can buy various products at low prices at the local flea market next to the huge Naschmarkt market, and then stroll directly along the Naschmarkt itself.
You should definitely take a look at the excursion to the beautiful Votivkirche church, which is a striking monument of neo-Gothic architecture and, thanks to its light openwork ornament, seems to soar in the air, towering over the city. Another attraction that can be visited over the weekend is the Mozart Museum. The composer lived in the apartment with his family and wrote The Marriage of Figaro in it.
Vienna is a rich city in historical buildings, temples and mysterious buildings. You won't be able to see everything in 2-3 days. But the main attractions near the center can be seen quite well. We recommend that you purchase the so-called Vienna City Card at the hotel or train station, which gives you discounts on admission to museums and free travel on public transport. The cost of the card for 24, 48 and 72 hours is €13.90, €21.90 and €24.90 respectively.
How to get there: you can fly to Vienna and stay in a hotel as part of a tour that can be purchased from a tour operator, and organize further travel and transfers on your own. If you choose a completely independent trip, then a plane ticket will cost at least 9,000 rubles from Moscow per person one way, and the travel time will be 2 hours 10 minutes.
Where to stay: Vienna offers accommodation in hotels, the cost of three and four stars starts from 3-4 thousand rubles per day in a room per person. Five-star hotels offer accommodation from 15 thousand rubles.
Approximate tour cost per person: a tour with a flight and accommodation will cost from 16,000 rubles (two stars), with an excursion program - from 25,000 rubles.
Duration: 2-4 days.
What to take with you: regardless of the duration of your trip, you will need a visa in Vienna. You will need to apply for a Schengen visa type "C". You can issue a document through a tour operator with a fee of 25-30 euros or by personally contacting the visa center. To apply for a visa, you will need a completed application form, copies of a Russian passport, copies of return tickets, a 3x4 photo of 4 pieces and a written description of the route in free form, as well as proof of solvency (there must be at least 30 euros on a valid account for each day of the trip per person). You will also need a passport. Dress warmly, clothes should not be blown or wet, the average temperature in Vienna in winter is 0-5 degrees. Do not forget to take the previously exchanged cash in euros with you, you can also pay for purchases with a MasterCard card (the currency is automatically converted when paying).
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Prague allows you to take a short weekend tour and get to know Europe better. We recommend that you start your journey from the main attraction - the Old Town Square, which is located in the very center of the city. It has been mentioned in chronicles since the 12th century. Previously, the square was the most important trading facility, as it was located at the intersection of several important trade routes. During its long history, the place has seen many funny and tragic events - from folk festivals to executions. From the quarter you can see the grandiose Town Hall with an astronomical clock, which is of great architectural value. Each beaten hour is a small theatrical performance.
Next, you should take a look at an excursion to the Tyn Church (Church of the Virgin Mary in front of Tyn), which was built over two hundred years. The building impresses with the beauty of its lines, combining several styles from classic to gothic and baroque. Next, you should go to Petrin Hill - a hill with picturesque parks and an observation tower, which offers stunning views of the city. Not far from the tower there is an interesting attraction - a mirror labyrinth, which combines an optical illusion and the mystery of ancient wooden elements.
You should definitely visit the Prague Castle - the residence of King Charles IV, a stunning architectural complex with rich interior decoration and luxury furnishings. You can dilute the impressions of the grandeur and grandiosity of the royal buildings on Golden Lane - a cramped street with houses tightly adjacent to each other, but with a unique atmosphere of Czech comfort. If you have enough time, be sure to visit a large and well-equipped zoo - the 7th in the ranking of the best zoos in the world.
How to get there: flights from Moscow regularly fly to Prague at a ticket price of 4,000 rubles one way and a flight time of 1 hour 45 minutes.
Where to stay: rooms in two and three-star hotels can be rented from 1200-2500 thousand rubles, four stars cost from 3200 rubles, in fives they offer accommodation from 6500 rubles per room per day per person.
Approximate tour cost per person: from 13,000 rubles with accommodation, breakfast and excursions.
Duration: 3-4 days.
What to take with you: just like for a trip to Vienna, you will need a Schengen visa and a passport. You can issue a document through a tour operator with a fee of 25-30 euros or by personally contacting the visa center. Dress warmly, clothing should be windproof, waterproof and comfortable. The average temperature in Prague in winter is around 0 - 5 degrees. Do not forget to take the previously exchanged cash in euros with you, you can also pay for purchases with a MasterCard card (the currency is automatically converted when paying).
Another beautiful attraction is the Széchenyi chain bridge across the Danube. On the 380 bridge, you can admire the view of the city and take many amazing pictures. Of the fortresses, you should definitely visit the Buda Castle (protective structure) and the Fisherman's Bastion (former fisherman's market).
Do not disregard the famous thermal baths - a cure for many diseases, and just a way to quickly relax after a busy autumn. The cost of going to the baths is no more than 16 dollars.
You should definitely visit the Casablanca restaurant, where you can taste the amazing taste of Mangalitsa pork, which is served on a stone. The animal is rare because of the amazing taste of meat, so the dishes will cost a considerable amount, but if you are a fan of gastronomic travel, you will remember such a pleasure.
Fans of mysterious spaces can visit the famous Labyrinth in Budapest with 1200 meters of intricate corridors, subdued lights, damp smells and eerie music. The reward for the patient is a never-ending fountain of dry red wine - "Manyasha" (the entrance to the labyrinth is about 4 euros).
How to get there: Aeroflot can fly to Budapest from Moscow for 11,000 rubles and 1 hour 35 minutes.
Where to stay: Budapest offers a wide variety of hotels, the price of rooms per night per person starts from 1800 rubles (two stars), 3500 rubles (three stars), 4400 rubles (four stars) and 12,000 (five stars).
Approximate tour cost per person: 35,000 rubles for a 3-day tour with excursions and accommodation in three stars without the cost of plane tickets.
Duration: 3-4 days.
What to take with you: From the documents you will need a Schengen visa and a passport. Dress warmly, clothing should not be wet and not blown, however, comfortable for walking. The temperature in Budapest in winter is kept at an average mark of 0 -1 degrees. Do not forget to take the previously exchanged cash in euros with you, you can also pay for purchases with a MasterCard card (the currency is automatically converted when paying).
At the confluence of the Velikaya and Pskovka rivers stands the Pskov Kremlin (Krom) - this is the heart of the ancient city fortress. Inside it is the Trinity Cathedral - an interesting architectural structure with a unique history: it burned and collapsed three times, but the relics of the holy princes Vsevolod and Dovmont remained safe and sound. The city is home to one of the oldest monasteries in the world - the Holy Dormition Pskov-Caves Monastery (founded in 1473), the Mirozhsky Monastery is famous for its preserved pre-Mongolian frescoes of the 12th century.
An hour's drive from the regional center there are well-known cultural heritage sites of the Russian Federation and ancient strategic buildings: the Porkhov fortress in the city of Porkhov and the Izborsk fortress in the village of Izborsk (adult ticket to the fortress 150 rubles, students - 50 rubles).
Pskov region - these are historical places associated with the name of the great A. S. Pushkin. Museum estates "Mikhailovskoye", "Trigorskoye" and "Petrovskoye" all year round are waiting for connoisseurs of the great poet's work and lovers of literature (entrance ticket for adults - 250 rubles, children - 100 rubles). Handmade souvenirs made of birch bark, wicker, clay, amazing ceramics and various blacksmith products are brought home from Pskov.
How to get there: the distance from Moscow to Pskov (730 kilometers) by train can be covered in 11 hours, 42 minutes. Ticket price: 1600 rubles in a reserved seat and from 2200 for a seat in a compartment. On the same route, you will have to spend 11 hours on the bus, a ticket from 1100 rubles. A plane ticket will cost 2-4 thousand rubles, flight time: 1 hour, 25 minutes.
Where to settle: in Pskov there is a large selection of accommodation: budget hostels (a day for two from 900 rubles), guest houses (from 1200 rubles), a double room in a hotel from 1300 rubles.
Approximate tour cost per person: a trip for two days costs from 4,900 rubles, a three-day tour from 9,600 to 10,300 rubles, for four days you will have to pay 14,700 rubles.
Duration: 1-3 days.
What to take with you: while traveling, you will need documents and certificates confirming your or your family member's right to benefits. The average air temperature in Pskov in winter is -4, so you won’t need very warm clothes, but comfortable shoes for comfortable walks and jackets with protection from wind and rain in case of bad weather will come in handy.
Time: 3 days
Direction :
Gorky, Yaroslavl
Length: 740 kilometers
Overnight: Ples
Stop 1. Church of the Intercession on the Nerl
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From Moscow to Plyos, almost 400 kilometers, to go - along the Gorky highway through Vladimir, Suzdal and Ivanovo. Making stops for passing sights on such a long road is hard, but nothing should be missed. Almost exactly the middle of the road falls on Vladimir, which we will ignore this time. It is better to immediately go to Bogolyubovo. At the railway station, the car will have to be abandoned, cross the tracks and walk across the meadow along a paved path. After a kilometer you will come to a small white-stone temple, standing on a hill. This is the Church of the Intercession on the Nerl, very likely the most beautiful Orthodox church on Earth.
Dry facts can add little to what you see with your own eyes. A monument of Vladimir-Suzdal architecture, the church originally stood at the intersection of important trade routes, at the confluence of the Nerl River with the Klyazma (the church was not transferred, these rivers changed their channels over time). The hill at the base of the temple was created artificially: every spring there was a flood in the surrounding meadows. Due to the slight inclination of the walls, the height of the building visually increases - a technique well known from ancient columns. Outside, the church is decorated with carvings of David the Psalmist sitting on the throne, while the interior frescoes were lost in the third quarter of the 19th century.
Every religion has a sacred place where any person will feel the presence of a higher spirit - even if this spirit is his own. For Russian Orthodoxy, this place is not at all in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, but here - on a flood meadow a few kilometers from Vladimir.
From Bogolyubovo you need to go back to the turn to Suzdal, and from there move to Ples.
Stop 2. Ples
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Ipatiev Monastery Photo: Petr Volyak There are two main attractions in Kostroma. Firstly, this is the Ipatiev Monastery, where the Ipatiev Chronicle was once kept, thanks to which we know some details about the history of Russia until the 13th century. Here, in the 17th century, the rite of calling to the kingdom of Michael, the first tsar from the Romanov dynasty, was performed. The second attraction is the shopping malls of the 18th-19th centuries in the very center of the city, between the Volga and Sovetskaya streets. The rows are partly occupied by rather meaningless shops with gaudy signs; here, however, you can buy Kostroma cheese, which is sure to taste completely different from the Kostroma cheese bought in a Moscow supermarket. Together with the Volga smoked fish from Plyos, you will get a wonderful Russian snack. There is still something to see in Kostroma - take at least a fire tower or a former guardhouse building. But to return to Russian reality, this is enough: you can cross to the other side of the Volga and move towards home.
Route 2: Estates of the Greats and the Istra Reservoir
Time: 2 days
Direction: Leningradskoe
Length: 240 km
Overnight: Istra reservoir
Stop 1. Shakhmatovo and Boblovo
Photo: ITAR-TASS
First major locality, if you go from Moscow to St. Petersburg along the Leningrad highway, the city of Solnechnogorsk is 44 kilometers from the Moscow Ring Road. There is little remarkable in it, but it is in Solnechnogorsk that it is convenient to leave the stormy and unsightly Leningrad highway and exit onto the Vertlinskoe highway - a two-lane asphalt road from those that are called strada provinciale in Italy. Here our destination is Shakhmatovo.
Love and Alexander Blok This small estate belonged to Alexander Blok, he spent every summer season here for 25 years - almost until the revolution. In 1921, Blok died, and the peasants burned the wooden manor house - and only in 2001 a remake was built in its place. At the same time, the Shakhmatovo estate is not without the charm inherent in a small provincial museum, where the books in the library are not the ones that the hero read, but those that he could read, dishes - with which a person of his circle could eat, chairs - on which he sat contemporaries. All this is collected with care and love and creates a zealously guarded atmosphere, which is the main, albeit invisible, exhibit. The main thing, however, in Shakhmatovo is nature of outstanding beauty. Along these hilly meadows and copses, Blok ran to visit his neighbor, his grandfather's friend, a chemist and, following the apocrypha, the inventor of vodka Dmitry Mendeleev, and attracted the poet there not so much interest in substances as the daughter of a scientist named Lyuba, who eventually became Lyubov Blok.
You can visit the Mendeleev estate called Boblovo on the way to Klin. Nothing good has survived from the original buildings, but the remains of the old park with linden, elm and weakly expressed poplar alleys are a must for anyone who is able to discern the greatness in the quiet beauty of Russian nature. People without this quality should not go on a road trip around Moscow at all, and the old park is invariably a great place for a picnic.
Stop 2. Klin and Tchaikovsky's estate
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The historical center of Klin is worthy of a cursory inspection - it's about a dozen inexpressive buildings of the late XIX - early XX century, complemented by urban innovations like a fountain with a statue of the "Mushroom Girl". But in Klin at Tchaikovsky, 48 there is a house-museum of the most famous Russian composer in the world. Tchaikovsky rented this estate in the last years of his life, almost immediately after his death it was turned into a museum and remained so until now with short interruptions: in 1917, the anarchist Doroshenko settled here for a short time, who liked to shoot a portrait of Pope Innocent from a revolver in the morning, and in 1941 - soldiers of the Wehrmacht.
Unlike Shakhmatovo, Tchaikovsky's house is full of authentic items, including musical artifacts such as a mechanical singing rooster and a cast of composer Rubinstein's hand. You need to have time to see all this before the museum closes at 18.00.
Stop 3. Istra reservoir
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A well-paved road, passing through a shameless landscape with hills, groves and neat villages, will take you through Strelkovo, Rakhmanovo, Yakimanskoye and Stegachevo to Pyatnitskoye highway in the village of Obukhovo - just in the area of \u200b\u200bthe Istra reservoir. On its sandy shores there is not only the dacha of Alla Pugacheva (in the village of Berezhki), but also many rest houses of varying degrees of equipment - from tent camp sites to country clubs. An acceptable option for the middle price category is the Romantik rest house near the village of Lopotovo. Here you can spend the night in a room with private facilities on the floor or in a separate cottage, cook meat brought with you on the grill (you should buy it in Klin) and take a steam bath. The main plus is the wooden decks cascading down the steep bank, along which you can run naked straight from the bathhouse to the lake.
Stop 4. Manor "Mtsyri"
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From the Istra Reservoir, you need to go down south along Pyatnitskoye Highway to the turn to Zelenograd, drive through the green and tidy city of electronics - here at the Angstrem and Mikron factories they once assembled Soviet games like "Well, wait a minute" - and through Pine Alley get to the village of Firsanovka. The main street of Firsanovka is called Mtsyri, hinting that these places are related to Lermontov. Indeed, at the far end of this street, three and a half kilometers from the railway crossing, the Serednikovo estate is located. Here, young Lermontov spent three years summer vacation with his grandmother, but most importantly - which, apparently, gives Serednikovo the right to be called "one of the most important Lermontov places in the world" - he first fell in love at the age of 16 with a neighbor named Ekaterina Sushkova. Nothing reminds of that novel in the decoration of the house: since then, Lenin has rested here, first nervous, and then tuberculosis patients were treated (the sanatorium was called, of course, "Mtsyri"), and since 1992 the estate has been rented by the somewhat mysterious association "Lermontov Heritage" , offering anyone who wants to celebrate their own wedding in the scenery of Lermontov's first novel. You can also get inside with a regular tour, but it is more pleasant and more reasonable to observe the house built at the end of the 18th century in the style of Russian classicism from the outside - from the old park. A white-stone staircase, a pond, arched bridges, and the rebellious spirit of the poet in the branches of old fir trees are included.
Speculation on Lermontov's legacy is not limited to weddings and anniversaries: such sensational Russian films as "Love for Love" and "Notes of the Expeditor of the Secret Chancellery" were filmed in the interiors of the estate. From the last picture in the neighboring field, the scenery remained - an English town of the 18th century and a life-sized pirate sailboat.
Moscow is not far from here - in a straight line to the Moscow Ring Road about 15 kilometers.
Route 3: Yaroslavl - Tutaev - Myshkin
Time: 3 days
Direction: Yaroslavl
Distance: 700 kilometers
Overnight: Yaroslavl, Uglich
Stop 1. Yaroslavl
Photo: ITAR-TASS
The distance from Moscow to Yaroslavl - about 270 kilometers - is best done at a time, bypassing Sergiev Posad, Pereslavl-Zalessky, and Rostov the Great along the bypass highways: you can get stuck in each of them for a long time. The last ten kilometers of the road in front of Yaroslavl look unattractive: first, on the right side, a seemingly endless (and this is not far from the truth - its length is more than 6 kilometers) oil refinery stretches, then boring blocks of new buildings, and so on up to the bridge over the tributary of the Volga, the river Kotorosl. Immediately behind it, it turns out that the first impression is deceptive: there are few cities in Russia that are cleaner, more beautiful and more fun than Yaroslavl.
Church of John the Baptist Photo: www.sobory.ru In a big city, it’s better to first resolve the issue of spending the night, there are many options here - you can settle on the landing stage "Volzhskaya Zhemchuzhina" or in the wooden chambers "Alyosha Popovich". But the most adequate to the urban atmosphere corresponds to the redundant in many respects "John Vasilyevich" (Revolutionary, 34). Is it possible to make a hotel and restaurant establishment using the images of Soviet movie heroes so that chewing gum and vulgarity do not come out? If, for example, in a room called “Kin-dza-dza” all the walls are the endless blue sky of the planet Plyuk with a strip of desert stretching into the distance, the toilets of the restaurant are in the elevator, and the menu includes poulard with millet porridge, hare kidneys, stewed rabbit leg and kvass of four types of home-made, then this, perhaps, is vulgarity, but vulgarity is pleasant.
A park The main Yaroslavl sights are obvious: the Kremlin (a toponym, in fact, the Holy Transfiguration Monastery is often called so) with unexpectedly high-quality graphic branding, from the logo to street signs, the high Kotorosl and Volzhskaya embankments, the Church of Elijah the Prophet of the 17th century with rich interior painting. All this, like most of the center, was put in order by 2010, when the city celebrated a solid anniversary - the millennium. The anniversary reconstruction, however, did not go without a fly in the ointment: on the Strelka - the place where the Kotorosl flows into the Volga - right on the sandy spit, a "park" was laid out: a lot of granite, lawns, a few scanty (at least for now) trees and singing fountains; all this, created with the money of the Gazprom company, would look more organically on the outskirts of the metropolis than in the very heart of the oldest Russian city.
Temple Ensemble Photo: historydoc.edu.ru Walking around the center of Yaroslavl, where the historical buildings of the 16th-19th centuries are mostly preserved, one may wonder: where is the church, the image of which is placed on a thousand-ruble banknote? Yaroslavl keeps its main secrets: oddly enough, it is not located at all in the center, but in Tolchkovskaya Sloboda - today it is an industrial district of the city on the other side of Kotorosl (the intersection of Tolbukhin Avenue and Bolshaya Fedorovskaya Street). The Church of the Beheading of John the Baptist, squeezed from all sides by workshops and fences of the Russian Paints paintworks plant, is indeed one of the most beautiful in Yaroslavl. On the same side of Kotorosl, but closer to the Volga, there is the so-called temple ensemble in Korovniki (Portovaya emb., 2) - two tiny, standing one next to another church of the 17th century, a hipped bell tower - the locals call it the Candle - and the Holy Gates, all from red brick, richly decorated with tiles, pressed against the Volga pre-trial detention center "Korovniki" on the one hand and the car market on the other.
Yaroslavl is full of churches, but the city does not feel like an overgrown monastery at all.
Tereshkova Center Photo: www.yarplaneta.ru Tired of spirituality and antiquity, you can turn to enlightenment - go to the Valentina Tereshkova Center (Tchaikovsky, 3). In a building bold against the backdrop of the main array of urban development, but not at all shameful modern architecture, there is an observatory, where, depending on the time of day and date, you can observe the Sun, the Moon (in the afternoon), as well as Mars and Saturn near opposition and bright constellations with a telescope (late evening and night, 10 and 18 May). There is also a planetarium with educational films like "The Birth of Stars" or "Dark Matter". If earthly creatures are more interesting to you than planets and constellations, you should go to the Yaroslavl Zoo (Shevelyukha, 137) with an area of \u200b\u200bhalf the principality of Monaco, organized on the outskirts of the city beyond the Volga, literally at the edge of the forest.
The Yaroslavl icing on the cake is the Petersburg-style nightlife: beautifully dressed people walk around the city until late at night, moving from bar to bar and from club to club. The choice of drinking establishments is not yet as rich as in the northern capital, but it is - from pretentious establishments like the "concept bar" Esquir's (Komsomolskaya, 10a) to democratic bars on the pedestrian Kirov Street.
These pleasures are quite enough for two days, but you can fit into one and leave Yaroslavl the next morning (or in the afternoon - after visiting the zoo).
Stop 2. Tutaev
The city, lying 30 kilometers northwest of Yaroslavl, upstream of the Volga, is named after an ordinary Red Army soldier, Ilya Tutaev. The historical name of the settlement is double - Romanov-Borisoglebsk, after the names of parts of the city on different banks of the river.
The idyllic, sleepy, shabby gold standard of the Russian province, which everyone has in their imagination, but rarely seen in reality, is here - in Tutaev. It is impossible to describe it in prose, but in verse it is stupid. In this county town, there is an acute desire to move here in old age, to settle in a rickety wooden house with a sign “st. Panin. Former Komsomolskaya. Former Trotsky. Former Danilovskaya "with a view of the Volga. Tutaev is a grandmother.
Stop 3. Rybinsk and Myshkin
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By the time you leave Tutaev, you can already get tired of the provincial Russian beauties, so for a more detailed acquaintance you can choose one of the two Volga towns - Rybinsk or Myshkin - and only briefly stop by the second.
Rybinsk is larger, it is located in the place where the Volga makes a sharp turn, more than 90 degrees. In the outer side of the corner there is a huge Rybinsk reservoir, comparable in size to Lake Onega, through which motor ships carry tourists from Moscow further north - to Petrozavodsk, Kizhi, and then to St. Petersburg. In Rybinsk, the historical merchant buildings of the center have been well preserved (and in some places restored). It makes sense to visit the local museum of local lore in the building of the former grain exchange (Volzhskaya embankment, 2), the collection of which began to be collected from the situation of expropriated noble estates back in 1919.
Photo: ITAR-TASS
Residents of Myshkin, located 40 kilometers southwest of Rybinsk, do not have any special competitive advantages over their neighbors, and exploit the name of their own city, which really comes from a mouse, with might and main. Needless to say, the only mouse museum in the world is located here; a few years ago, the townspeople made sure that a representative international conference on the biology of rodents was held in Myshkino, in a word, mice - wooden, cast-iron, imaginary, brownies, and even sometimes guinea pigs - are everywhere here, their exact number is incalculable. What will be left if mice are taken away from Myshkin? The Museum of Vodka King Pyotr Smirnov, the Museum of Unique Equipment (old motorcycles, old cars, old gramophones, old door bolts), the Museum of felt boots, several historical buildings and churches. Is it a lot? No. Is it worth visiting here at least once in your life? Definitely.
Route 4: Valdai - Seliger - Torzhok
Time: 3–4 days
Length: 950 kilometers
Direction: Leningrad
Overnight stays: Valdai, Seliger
Point 1. Valdai
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On the very first day, you will have to cover almost 400 kilometers along the Leningradskoye highway to Valdai, so it is better to overcome the temptation to take a break in Tver and Torzhok and drive through Vyshny Volochek before the famous traffic jam starts. It is better to leave not even early in the morning, but late at night - about 4-5 hours. Half the distance to St. Petersburg - and that's how much you have to drive - you can, on average, take 6-7 hours. The highway is by no means as broken as in the past.
The border of the Tver and Novgorod regions is the land of dense coniferous forests, clear lakes, dirt roads, and people live here not even in another decade, but in a parallel reality - you can verify this by driving a few kilometers off the highway to any village where water is taken not from a column, but scoop from a “crane” well, and a passing grandmother can stop your car on the street, only to treat you with last year’s apple.
Iversky Monastery
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The city of Valdai (exit from the highway follow the signs to the right) is located on the shores of Lake Valdai, it is here, on a small island, that the famous Iversky Monastery, built in the 17th century at the direction of Patriarch Nikon, stands. At an impressive distance from both capitals, the spirit of the institutional ROC is much less felt, and the word "Rus" partly loses its ironic coloring - in the monastery, on the territory of which, by the way, women are also allowed, there are more monks and real pilgrims than tourists and patriotic agnostics who adhere to the roots.
In Valdai, you can stay in the hotel of the same name, but it is better to put up a tent in the southeastern part of the lake or on the isthmus leading to the monastery. During the holidays and weekends, it can be quite crowded, but there is always a place (the main thing is to make sure that your camp does not end up in the place of the toilet of the neighbors' camp). Opening the swimming season in the early morning to the singing of the monks over the lake at matins (or at least mass) is priceless.
You can move on the next morning. But before leaving Valdai, it is worth going around the neighboring (to the north-east) picturesque lake Dinner. The road, which goes mainly through pine forests, is covered with asphalt in some places, becomes sandy in some places, but everywhere it is quite passable, especially considering the last winter with little snow. Going down one of the gravel ramps, you can have a wonderful afternoon snack by the shore of the Dinner.
Stop 2. Seliger
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From Valdai you need to return to the Leningrad highway and drive along it towards St. Petersburg for about 15 kilometers, then to Demyansk. It makes sense to buy groceries for the evening here. In the city, turn left towards Lipica and Zalesye. In the area of \u200b\u200bthe village of Klin, go right - approximately here the asphalt ends and the dirt road with the so-called grader begins - the coating resembles a washboard, which is not very comfortable to drive at a speed of more than 25 kilometers. Some argue that if you drive faster than 60 kilometers per hour, the washboard effect ceases to be noticeable, but the author of this article did not dare to try this method.
Our ultimate goal is the recreation center "Seligersky Ples". This is a corner of comfort with log cottages, an oak alley and gazebos, which is somewhat sudden for the surrounding enchanted forests. From entertainment - boating and fishing, barbecue and sauna. If you're lucky, there will be almost no one else in the entire base besides you. Without any boats and kebabs, here you can enjoy a total change in the picture and a feeling of well-deserved pride that you still got here. If you do not want to spend the night in Seligersky Ples, it is easy to find a place for a tent on the lake shore nearby.
Item 3. Ostashkov-Torzhok
After leaving the "Seligersky reach", move south, Pretty intricate way you will reach the venue of the Seliger forum and the monastery of the Nilov Pustyn. But if you don’t have the strength and time for this, it’s better to go left and, having briefly looked into Ostashkov, go along the comfortable and smooth, especially after 60 kilometers of the grader, the Ostashkovskoye highway towards Torzhok.
Church of the Ascension Photo: wikipedia.org The most picturesque place in Torzhok is the wooden Church of the Ascension (Gruzinskaya, 9), located on the high right bank of the Tvertsa. Right next to it is the Borisoglebsky Monastery, founded in the 11th century (although it has been rebuilt many times since then). Almost on the outskirts of the city, behind the Magnit supermarket (12 Kalininskoye Highway), there is a place where you can get the best souvenirs from this trip - the Torzhok gold embroiderers trading house. The art of gold sewing has been honed by the residents of Torzhok since the 13th century and today they are able to ennoble any haberdashery item with a shiny thread - from laptop cases to underpants. The constant bestseller is a velvet theater bag for 965 rubles.
From Torzhok you get to the Leningrad highway, along which (it remains to be wished there were no traffic jams) you return to the long-awaited Moscow.
Route 5: Dubna - Uglich - Pereslavl-Zalessky
Time: 2 days
Direction: Dmitrovskoe, Yaroslavskoe
Length: 590 km
Overnight: Uglich
Stop 1. Dubna
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Dmitrovskoe shosse, ending just in Dubna (emphasis on the last syllable), runs along the Canal to them for almost its entire length. Moscow. Opened in 1937, then still called the Moscow-Volga Canal, it was mainly intended to supply Moscow with water - by the beginning of the 30s, the Moscow River opposite the Kremlin could be forded. It is thanks to the canal that the capital was able to call itself a port of the five seas. Channel them. Moscow was largely dug (literally) by the hands of Dmitlag prisoners, how many of them died during construction is still unknown, but not less than a hundred thousand.
Dubna
Photo: naukograd-dubna.ru It is convenient to enjoy the view of the result of shock construction at the entrance to Dubna; after leaving the tunnel, park on a wide spit. Here you can sit down on the grass and meet passenger ships leaving the canal for the Volga. You will be accompanied by a 25-meter-high Lenin, who was delivered here exactly for the same. This is the second largest monument to Lenin in the world - the leader is only two meters higher, it also adorns the canal, only the Volga-Don. Once upon a time, the equally majestic Stalin stood in front of Lenin, but in 1961 it was blown up, leaving only one pedestal. After this explosion, cracks appeared in the tunnel under the canal (through which you have just passed), it began to leak - the locals call the water dripping from the roof "Stalin's tears".
Dubna became a city thanks to science; here is the largest center of nuclear physics in Russia. In the 1960s, elementary particle accelerators built in Dubna were the largest in the world. Unfortunately, you can’t see them, but it’s worth driving through the streets of the science city - at least to see the preserved mosaic panels and slogans (from your favorite - “The atom is not a soldier, the atom is a worker”).
Stop 2. The Saltykov-Shchedrin Museum in the village of Spas-Ugol
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Kalyazin is the next large city after Dubna on the right side of the Volga, but, unfortunately, there are no roads leading to it along the river. Having passed the town, go to the Yurkinskoe highway, here, in the relative wilderness and far from major highways, it is reasonable to buy seasonal vegetables and fruits, pickles, jams and fresh milk from the villagers. Follow the Yurkinsky highway to Razoreno-Semenovsky (the land of amazing toponyms here), then to the left to the village of Stanki, from there to the right to the village of Spas-Ugol, which, in full accordance with the name, is easily recognizable by the church located at the turn of the highway.
Bust of Saltykov-Shchedrin Photo: flickr.com/photos/fidesal Spas-Ugol is the former family estate of the wealthy family of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, who once owned the surrounding villages - along with the peasants, of course. As usual, in the twenties, these peasants burned down the house of the former master, so that only an overgrown park remained of the estate. But in the refectory of the family church standing across the road there is a small museum of the writer, who, by the way, managed to visit the vice-governor of the Tver region. There is nothing special to see in the museum, but it is worth listening to the curator's stories about Saltykov-Shchedrin's mother, an illiterate merchant's wife, taken by Evgraf Saltykov as a wife in order to improve her financial situation. Olga Mikhailovna, who had a sharp temper, kept the serfs (and domestic ones) in a tight rein, thanks to which she increased family income tenfold.
Most of the sights are under water. In 1939, a hydroelectric power station was built downstream, the Uglich reservoir arose, which flooded most of the old city. Only the bell tower of Nikolsky Cathedral remained sticking out of the water - in principle, it is only for its sake that it is worth stopping by Kalyazin. If viewing the bell tower from the shore does not fully satisfy your curiosity, you can also swim to the island - local owners of motor boats are waiting to earn money right at the place where the street that once led to the monastery goes under water.
Telescope Photo: ITAR-TASS Apart from a few restored historic buildings in the very center, Kalyazin makes a rather depressing impression: the roads here are worse and the people look poorer than in most neighboring Volga cities. It is worth, however, to muster up the courage and visit the wine department of some grocery store to purchase products from Veresk, a distillery from the city of Kashin, located on the other side of the Volga. Kashinsky liqueurs are famous for being made from berries harvested by local residents - primarily cloudberries and cranberries; it is cheaper for the plant to buy them in season than to use chemical flavors.
Leaving the city along the same highway, after a few kilometers you will see a huge golden bowl of a radio telescope antenna on the left - an unexpected sight in these wild places. The telescope is active, it is studying pulsars - very distant stars that emit periodic pulses. Thanks to such radio telescopes, barely noticeable movements of the continents are tracked on Earth - this is necessary so that the geolocation binding of GPS and GLONASS is more accurate. Local residents say that in the hungry 90s, the employees of the astronomical station survived only thanks to the abundant blueberries in the territory fenced around the telescope: apart from them, no one was allowed to pick berries at the special facility. Unfortunately, even now it is impossible for a person far from the stars to get behind this fence.
Stop 3. Uglich
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Turning left onto the bridge near the radio telescope, you will find yourself on the continuation of the P104 highway, now this picturesque road will go a few kilometers from the Volga to Uglich itself. Uglich is the nicest and most curious of the Volga cities from Tver to Rybinsk. The heart of Uglich is the Kremlin, where the (real) Tsarevich Dmitry was killed under mysterious circumstances. Along with this, the dynasty of the Scandinavians Rurikovich was cut short, the Time of Troubles began, and the Prussians Romanovs ended up on the Russian throne. The murder of the prince is dedicated to the central temple of the Kremlin - the church of Tsarevich Dmitry on the Blood, built at the end of the 17th century in the style of Moscow patterns.
Church of Tsarevich Dmitry Photo: flickr.com/photos/alexxx-malev The main tourist flow comes to Uglich by water, here is one of the stops of the Volga cruise ships. There are pluses in this - all the buildings and churches in the city are in good condition, and minuses - if you're not lucky, you can find yourself in the Kremlin, densely packed with lively German grannies.
The most unusual Uglich souvenir is the production of the Chaika watch factory, which barely keeps afloat. Once "The Seagull" was one of the most common brands of chronometers in the USSR, but in 2006 mass production ceased, now in Uglich they only make jewelry watches in the style of "provincial chic" based on imported movements. A touching pendant watch with a golden Mickey Mouse can be bought in one of the souvenir shops on the main square.
It is reasonable to spend the night in Uglich, to choose from the middle price category - the hotel "Volzhskaya Riviera" with marble lions and crystal candelabra and "Moscow" - without them. The next morning it is worth visiting the unexpectedly solid Museum of the History of Hydropower of Russia (Spasskaya, 33), look at the Uglich hydroelectric power station that caused the flooding of Kalyazin and leave the banks of the Volga, following the Rostov highway (P153) towards Rostov the Great.
Stop 4. Pereslavl-Zalessky
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Pereslavl-Zalessky is located on the shore of a rather large Lake Pleshcheyevo, once the city was famous for freshwater herring found in it and nowhere else - vendace, dishes from which were included in the coronation dinner. Two fish even got on the local coat of arms. Here, nineteen-year-old Peter I built and launched his amusing flotilla, one of the boats - the boat of the young emperor - has survived to this day, it can be seen in the museum of the same name (at the end of the city, turn right at the signs from the highway and drive along the lake for about 2 kilometers ). In the restaurant right there on the shore of the lake, you can try fish soup from the notorious vendace.
Pereslavl is the All-Russian center of popular tourism, local enthusiasts have opened here museums of irons, teapots, masks, money, steam locomotives, as well as cunning and ingenuity. None of them can be called a must-visit, although in the latter (Sovetskaya, 14b) one can see, for example, a gallows trap for rodents or an 18th-century “common vat for brewing beer”. It also hardly makes sense to visit all six surrounding monasteries (but at least one, for example Goritsky Uspensky, is worth a visit). But it is absolutely necessary to see the very tiny Transfiguration Cathedral of the 12th century, which stands right next to the highway in the city center. This is one of the oldest surviving white-stone churches; it is here, apparently, that Alexander Nevsky was baptized.
You will have to return from Pereslavl-Zalessky to Moscow along the Yaroslavl highway, if you have strength left, you can look into Sergiev Posad along the way.
If you have only 3 days to rest, then you need to act quickly, smoothly and thoughtfully. And most importantly - “lay the route” in advance. And then you can plunge into the world of micro-vacation at least several times a year.
Classics of the genre - departure to the nearest suburbs. Wherever you live, for sure, in the immediate vicinity (region, district) there is a specialized place for relaxing in the bosom of nature. It can be a recreation center, a hotel, a sanatorium on the banks of a river, pond, lake, as an option - even the sea. Most often, such recreation options are quite economical, since they do not require special expenses for a long journey to a place of leisure, and the prices for “living” in the suburbs of a metropolis or regional center are often significantly lower than in a resort town in high season. By the way, if you get there outside the hot season, you can also save a lot on accommodation if your plans include a budget vacation. A variation of the previous recreation option is “tent” leisure in the bosom of nature. If you are not afraid of insects, animals and creeping reptiles, and food cooked on a fire tastes better than restaurant delicacies for you, this is the perfect weekend getaway for you. Gather a cheerful company and go on an adventure to the shore of a pond. Traveling in your home country. Tour operators offer many different options to get to know your country better in different parts of it. Weekend bus tours are not tiring, interesting, and inexpensive. And in three days you can cover a fairly wide area, visit many places, even quite remote ones, see sights and appreciate the culture of neighboring cities and regions.
The choice of leisure is huge, especially if you connect fantasy to business. And most importantly - remember a few rules - do not gallop through Europe, do not climb too far and it is better to postpone visiting countries with a visa regime for better times, when you will have a little more time to relax. Happy weekend!
