Moscow Metro Tour
Moscow, Russian Federation
Trip Type: Cultural Tours
Duration: 3 hours
The beauty of Moscow’s underground is well known all over the world – made from the marble and granite each station is the grandiose monument itself, not only the member of the largest in the world underground system. Unbelievable creations of the Soviet Moscow, seven Stalin’s skyscrapers remain the most picturesque symbols of Moscow until today.
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The beauty of Moscow’s underground is well known all over the world – made from the marble and granite each station is the grandiose monument itself, not only the member of the largest in the world underground system. Unbelievable creations of the Soviet Moscow, seven Stalin’s skyscrapers remain the most picturesque symbols of Moscow until today.Moscow Metro Tour will let you watch the architectural achievements of the Soviet Époque on the spot! When you are at Moscow underground, you will find out by yourself why it is called a live-museum or palace more often than a transportation system. Visiting all differently beautiful metro stations on your way, you will go out at stops of Stalin’s skyscrapers to have a look at these tallest buildings in Moscow in the USSR times ordered by Stalin himself.
Tour started at one of the Moscow metro stations will let you enjoy the impressive interiors of Red, Green and Ring lines stations on the spot and to see the walls covered with mosaics and frescos, staying under the light of enormous and beautifully decorated lamps. A tourist will learn about the construction of Moscow metro, the stages of its opening and the reasons why it became a life museum instead of just a transportation system. Interesting to know about the role of Moscow metro during the II World War and its modern function.
While changing Metro stations, you will go outside to enjoy another great symbol of Soviet architecture – Stalin’s skyscrapers, well known as Seven Sisters. Three out of seven skyscrapers (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Leningradskaya Hotel and a building near Krasnie Vorota (Red Gate) will be as close to you during this city tour that you will even enter one of them to see the interiors inside. Our guide has endless stories and legends on Stalin’s Sisters so with his help you will find out not only when and why were they built, but also who used to live there and why the eighth skyscraper was supposed to be built, but never was.
If the description above makes you feel very serious about our tour, we would like to calm you down! Our wonderful guide will not allow you to bore during a minute from this 3 hour tour! He will share with you the unbelievable stories on how the soviet people were dressing up and eating, what they were dreaming and how spending their free time in tough period of the history. Knowing the average Soviet life behind the Iron Curtain could be a real adventure and a fun with unforgettable memories.
Tour started at one of the Moscow metro stations will let you enjoy the impressive interiors of Red, Green and Ring lines stations on the spot and to see the walls covered with mosaics and frescos, staying under the light of enormous and beautifully decorated lamps. A tourist will learn about the construction of Moscow metro, the stages of its opening and the reasons why it became a life museum instead of just a transportation system. Interesting to know about the role of Moscow metro during the II World War and its modern function.
While changing Metro stations, you will go outside to enjoy another great symbol of Soviet architecture – Stalin’s skyscrapers, well known as Seven Sisters. Three out of seven skyscrapers (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Leningradskaya Hotel and a building near Krasnie Vorota (Red Gate) will be as close to you during this city tour that you will even enter one of them to see the interiors inside. Our guide has endless stories and legends on Stalin’s Sisters so with his help you will find out not only when and why were they built, but also who used to live there and why the eighth skyscraper was supposed to be built, but never was.
If the description above makes you feel very serious about our tour, we would like to calm you down! Our wonderful guide will not allow you to bore during a minute from this 3 hour tour! He will share with you the unbelievable stories on how the soviet people were dressing up and eating, what they were dreaming and how spending their free time in tough period of the history. Knowing the average Soviet life behind the Iron Curtain could be a real adventure and a fun with unforgettable memories.
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