Cathedral of Christ the Savior Moscow

Pois bem, depois de uma longa viagem e espera em Zürich, pegamos o vôo as oito e pouco da noite (horário de Zürich) com destino a Moscow. Chegamos umas 3 da madrugada lá, horário local. Assim que saímos do salão de desembarque já notamos uma grande diferença. Vários taxistas enchendo o saco perguntando para onde estamos indo, onde fica o Hotel, e …

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Day 1

Arrived around noon local time, found the Airoexpress shuttle (express my ass...), it was quite slow but the locals actually recommended NOT taking a taxi to/from the airport. When we arrived the city center we were planning to take the Metro to the Hostel, but it wasn't so easy to understand how the system works when ALL the signs …

19 July

Main light was turned on at 430am, and the train arrived at Moscow at about half an hour alter. After getting off the train, we headed for the metro station (Rizhskaya). We waited at the metro station for half an hour before the station opened, took route no.1 and got off at the 3rd station (Lubyanka). Walked for about 10 minutes …

Well we have been busy touring Moscow over the last 4 days and decided to have a quiet day today to rest, so finally we have time to update our blog. Wednesday saw Grace, Colleen and myself heading back to Red Square for our second attempt at a visit, this time success as the square was open to the public. Lenin's mausoleum was regrettably closed …

Last Thursday we left on a train from St. P at midnight. We arrived in Moscow at 9 am the next morning. From the train station we got on a bus and checked in to the Holiday Inn and ate breakfast. Right after breakfast we got back on the bus and went to see Red Square. We saw St. Basil's Cathedral and the Kremlin from the outside the walls of the …

We arrive in Moscow aboard the 055 train into Leningradsky Station. Our overnight train has been a humbling experience. The Russians have a remarkable train network - punctual and great design / facilities on board. It's a tight squeeze into our top bunks but the cabins are carefully designed to allow you get everything in efficiently and get …

This is an action-packed day, once we are able to get out of the starting gate. That gate is strictly controlled by the very dour Russian guards at Lenin's Tomb, where we patiently line up at 9:15am for the 10am opening. The old fellow is looking better this time than when I was here previously. I think they improved the lighting system, which …

... which has great pastries and tea (also a bit pricey). Our final stop of the day was the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the largest cathedral in Moscow. It was originally built in the early 1800s to commemorate the defeat of Napoleon but was destroyed ...

... then got a few of my own. Walked back along the Moskva river towards my hotel, stopping at another cathedral (Cathedral of Christ the Savior, something that was rebuilt in 1997 by some local architect and apparently rather controversial, because it is ...

... headed down to Red Square.  The famous Cathedral is there and the Kremlin.  We went past that to the Cathedral of Christ the Savior - incredibly ornate and beautiful on the outside.  The history of this place is extraordinary and makes it ...

... of Moscow's best-known landmarks. The GUM department store, the changing of the guard at the WW2 memorial, The Cathedral of Christ the Savior, a magnificent replica of the 19th century church designed by the architect Konstantin Ton to commemorate ...

... ). Andrew did not have much to add about the Cathedral, but fortunately, I already knew the story. From the Cathedral of Christ the Savior we moved on to Novodevichy Convent and cemetery to see the grave of Boris Yeltsin (the father of perestroika). ...

... since the 1990s.  Probably the most impressive 1990s reconstruction of a building destroyed by the Communists is the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, an exact replica of the church on the other side of the Kremlin from Red Square that Stalin had ...

... so it was back to the Kremlin to use the underpass. Finally we made it, oddly enough it was worth it. The Cathedral of Christ the Savior, with it's guardian lions, millions of saint statues, and of course gold domes was actually beautiful. I will ...

... 24448;Kroposkinskaya~那也是市中心的第一個景點, Cathedral of Christ the Savior, 復活救世主教堂~~~ ...

... old fortress that surrounds it.  We spent about 20 minutes taking pictures and the boarded the bus to go to Cathedral of Christ the Savior.  This church recently gained notoriety when a Russian punk-rock band called Pussy Riot stormed in to the ...

... ziek van!   4 mei veel sightseeing gedaan. Veel gewandeld en toeristische hoogtepunten bekeken zoals: -  Cathedral of Christ the Savior. Een enorm grote witte Russisch Orthodoxe Kathedraal met gouden dakbollen. - Pushkin Fine Arts Museum waar ...