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 11/2 Nevsky prospekt St.Petersburg, 191186, Russia Phone: +7 (812) 325-7122, 380-6867 Fax: +7 (812) 315-3001 Mir travel company ToursCLASSICAL KIEV 4 DAYS/ 3 NIGHTS Dates of departure
Itinerary
CLASSICAL TRIANGLE
St.Petersburg – Moscow – Kiev
9 days / 8 nights
DAY 1.Arrival in St.Petersburg. Transfer to the hotel. Accommodation.
DAY 2. Breakfast. Sightseeing tour. During the tour you will become acquainted with architecture, history and present day life of the former capital of Imperial Russia, the history of the Romanov dynasty. Afternoon at leisure.
As Saint Petersburg considered being the cultural capital of the country, there are more than 50 theatres of different kinds there. So, in the evening we would like you to visit one of the theatres (optional, price depends on the theatre).
DAY 3. Breakfast. Excursion to the State Hermitage Museum, one of the largest museums in the world after Louvre (Paris) and the National Gallery (London). The collection of it numbers over 3 million exhibits from prehistoric to modern times. The Hermitage acquires authentic masterpieces by the greatest painters and sculptors as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Titian, Rembrandt, Rubens, El Greco, Claude Monet, August Renoir, Paul Cezanne, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso and Matisse. The Hermitage complex is a veritable spiritual universe created in the course of times and filed with the unique gifts of creativity.
Your visit to Russia will be incomplete without your visit to folklore show. The best professional ensembles of this country will show you the masterpieces of Russian folk art (optional).
Day 4. Breakfast. Tour to Pushkin.It is a fascinating monument of the world’s architectural and gardening arts. Peter the Great ordered to construct the small palace for his wife, future empress Catherine I. In the middle of the 18th century the palace was rebuilt and became the purl of architecture of that period. The grandeur of the artistic decor of the facades, the moulded decorations, the gilding of architectural and sculptural details, all echoes the majesty and elegance of the interior decoration of the Catherine Palace. The Amber Room, which was presented to Peter I by the Prussian King in 1716, known as the Eight Wonder of the World, used to be in this Palace. The amber ornamentation of this room, missing since 1945, is now being reconstructed by Russian gem carvers. The park of Tsarskoye Selo was the favourite resting place of the Russian Tsars. The avenues lay out around the Catherine Palace invited for a walk to see park pavilions erected by famous architects and sculptors of Russia. Return to the city. Free time.
Boat trip “Along The Rivers and Canals”. A relaxing cruise by boat along the Neva River and some out of the 66 rivers and canals of “Northern Venice”, as they used to call St. Petersburg, is one of the unique ways to discover city. Saint Petersburg is situated on the banks of the river Neva, which is one of the youngest rivers in Europe. Dinner in one of the restaurants of the city. Transfer to the railway station. Departure to Moscow by train.
DAY 5.Arrival to Moscow. Transfer to the hotel. Breakfast. Accommodation. Sightseeing tour. During the tour you will get to know the history of the city and visit the main places of interests – the Red Square, the Moscow State University, the Bolshoi Theatre, the Triumphal Arch. You will drive along the main Moscow streets: Tverskaya, Novy Arbat Avenue, Kutuzovsky Avenue, Sadovoye and Bulvarnoye Rings.
DAY 6. Breakfast. Visit to Kremlin, the historical centre of the city, and the heart of Moscow. Kremlin is located on a hill washed from one side by the Moscow–river and from the other by its inflow – river Neglinnaya. On the Kremlin grounds you can see the Tsar Bell and the Tsar Cannon, Annunciation (Blagoveschensky), Arkhangel (Arkhalgelsky) and Assumption (Voznesensky) Cathedrals and the Church of the Twelve Apostles – the wonderful monuments of Russian church architecture with unique richly decorated interiors. Optional Armoury. It is one of the oldestmuseums of Russia, a virtual treasure house. It is the collection of Russian, Eastern, Western art works of the V–XX centuries, the tsar’s thrones, garb and armor, the unique silver and golden dishes. The tsars and grand prince’s regalia, the coaches of different centuries, the collection of arms, learn a lot of remarkable stories about the life of their owners. That was the prototype of the future museum. Nowadays the collection of the museum numbers over four thousand items.
In the evening we would like to suggest you going to the Moscow Circus – one of the oldest circus in Moscow (optional).
DAY 7. Breakfast. Transfer to the airport Sheremetievo–1 in Moscow to the flight to Kiev. Arrival to airport Boryspol in Kyiv. Transfer to the hotel. Accommodation. Sightseeing tour “Kiev – the cradle of the ancient Slav culture” including visiting St.Sophia’s Cathedral, observing the Golden Gate, St.Andrew’s Church, St.Michael’s Monastery, monuments to Yaroslav the Wise, Princess Olga, monuments to Prince Vladimir, who converted Rus’ to Christianity, Andreevskaya Street walking tour. It is an old pedestrian street in Kiev. You can see many artists, craftsmen along this street.
DAY 8. Breakfast. Excursion to Kiev–Pechersk Assumption Lavra (XI century), Trinity gate church (XII century), Refectory with St.Anthony and St.Theodossy church (XIX century), observing the upper territory of the monastery and Assumption Cathedral (XI century), Big Bell Tower (XVIII century). You will have a look inside the Caves. Many monks are buried there. The temperature inside the caves usually is not higher than plus 5 C.
DAY 9. Breakfast. Transfer to the airport in Kiev.
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