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With a local guide, we begin the panoramic visit of this beautiful city. The visit includes the Peter and Paul Fortress (entrance included), then take an excursion, with a guide and tickets, to the PETERHOF PALACE. This UNESCO heritage known as the "Russian Versailles" with magnificent fountains and gardens was one of the residences of the Tzars

Today we have included the visit to the Hermitage Museum, with a guide. In the afternoon we take the “Sapsan”, the modern high- speed train, and in four hours arrive to MOSCOW and get transferred to the hotel

We will start our day with an exciting visit to Russia’s huge capital city. We will visit the immense avenues, elegant shopping areas, the Red Square where Lenin’s Mausoleum is, Saint Basil’s Cathedral, the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. We will also enter the Kremlin with a visit to two of its main cathedrals

We will learn more about the history of Russia and its capital. We will pass by the university viewpoint, with its fantastic view over the city and we will get to know the Great Patriotic War Museum (World War II) that also shows us many aspects of the Soviet period. Free afternoon

We leave Moscow early and travel towards VLADIMIR, here we visit with a local guide the majestic Cathedral of the Assumption (entrance included) that forms part of UNESCO’s World Heritage. We will then take time for lunch (included). We continue eastwards, stopping in the small town of GOROKHOVETS. We go on to NOVGOROD. We suggest strolling walk through its lively streets. Dinner at the hotel and accommodation

After breakfast, we will visit Nóvgorod with a local guide. We will stroll along the Banks of the Volga and see the monumental staricase going up to the Kremlin, (Entrance included).We will leave Nizhni on a cable car that flies over the Volga. Then we cross the river Volga by ferry ,Lunch included. We continue to CHEBOKSARY, the capital of the Republic of Chuvashia, a beautiful and tidy city on the banks of the Volga

We leave for YOSKHAR-OLA, the capital of the Republic of Mari-El. Here we will take our included lunch. We go on towards the Tartar Republic. We visit SVIJASCHK,an island on the river Volga; declared UNESCO World Heritage. We will take a walk with a local guide, among its churches and its ancient wooden dwellings. Continuing to KAZAN, and to the hotel

Enjoy visiting with a local guide the Kremlin (entrance included) and the city centre in which the mosques rub shoulders with the Orthodox churches. The afternoon is leisure time to explore independently

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