ST. Petersburg 3 Novgorod Suzdal Tver 1 1 3 Moscow Start of Itinerary 1 Nº nights No overnight stay EUROPAMUNDO TOURS EUROPAMUNDO LABIL AI IT V Y A Moscow. City tour of Moscow. O N L I N E Visit included to its Kremlin and two important cathedrals. FROM 1.240€-DAYS 9 Medieval Russia DEPARTURE DATES May.16 : 15 Jun.16 : 12 and Golden Ring Jul.16 : 10 Aug.16 : 07 01 SUN. St Petersburg.- 06 FRI. Suzdal- Vladimir- Moscow.- Sep.16 : 04 TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS: Arrival. TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS: City tour of Suzdal and its Kremlin. Bell concert. Visit the Museum of Wooden Architecture. Oct.16 : 09 Reception. Transfer to hotel and free time. You will receive information about the start of the circuit during the Lunch included. afternoon, or you can consult the informative panels in the In the morning, we visit SUZDAL, which many consider the hotel reception area. most attractive of all the Golden Ring cities. The city looks like a fairy-tale city, with its canals, flowers and domes that PRICE PER PERSON 02 MON. St Petersburg.- stand out against the horizon. Tour of the city with a local TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS: Guided visit to Catherine Palace. guide and admission to the Kremlin and the cathedral. In St Eugene’s Monastery we will listen to a bell concert. We ID: 11862 DBL INDIV The city that was once the capital of Russia during the time also pay a visit to the Museum of Wooden Architecture, of the Czars is surrounded by many palaces. Outing (visit which shows the old way of life of the peasants, who lived in H. Seas. € 1330 1750 with guide and admission) to CATHERINE PALACE in wooden houses, mills and the Church of the Transfiguration. Pushkin, about 25 km from the centre of St Petersburg, the Lunch is included. Afterwards, we travel to VLADIMIR, Mid Seas. €1290 1710 official residence of the Czars. The enormous, impressive where we visit the majestic Assumption Cathedral. Then we L. Seas. €1240 1660 Baroque-style palace has magnificent fountains and go on to MOSCOW, where we arrive in the late afternoon. gardens. Return to St Petersburg. Free afternoon. 07 SAT. Moscow.- 03 TUES. St Petersburg.- TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS: City tour of Moscow. Visit included to its Kremlin and two important cathedrals. EXPECTED HOTELS TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS: Guided visit to Peter and Paul Fortress and the Hermitage Museum. Our journey begins with an exciting visit to the enormous St Petersburg: Sokos Hotel Olympia Garden Russian capital, a city that combines past, present and In the morning, we take a guided tour (with admission) future like no other. We will stroll along its wide avenues, (****), Courtyard St Petersburg Center West to the Peter and Paul Fortress, upon which the city was visit its elegant shopping areas, see the Red Square and Pushkin (****); Tver: Tver Park Hotel (***); Suzdal: founded, and the Hermitage Museum, a fantastic art Lenin’s Mausoleum, St Basil’s Cathedral and the Cathedral Best Western Nikolaevsky Posad (****); Moscow: museum located in what was once the Winter Palace of of Christ the Saviour. Includes a visit to the Kremlin and Crowne Plaza Hotel (****) Czars. Free afternoon. its two most important cathedrals. We will try to make the visit coincide with the ceremonial military parade held Print your final list of hotels 04 WED. St Petersburg- Novgorod- Valday- in Sobornaya Square (but we cannot guarantee this). Free in your “My trip” website. Tver.- time in the afternoon. Ask your travel agent TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS: Novgorod. Visit its Kremlin. Lunch included. Valday and its lake. Supper included. 08 SUN. Moscow.- TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS: Kolomenskoye to attend a We set out for NOVGOROD, the exciting city that was traditional Russian wedding ceremony. one of the most important cultural and political centres In an attempt to examine the Russian soul in depth, this THE PRICES INCLUDE in Russia. We will visit the Kremlin (visit with guide morning, we will go on an outing to Kolomenskoye, an and admission included), the old market quarter and ancient Czar residence: here we will attend a traditional • General Services provided by Europamundo: Yaroslav’s court. Lunch included. We continue our journey Russian wedding ceremony. On the way, we pass by the Travel by coach with a Spanish-speaking to VALDAY, a pretty town near a lake: visit to the old University Viewpoint, which has a fantastic view of the city, guide, basic travel insurance, buffet breakfast monastery on the island in the lake. Then we continue to where newly-weds leave flowers.(Visitors can also go to the and porter service(1 suitcase per person) in TVER. Supper included. viewpoint during the visit on Saturday). Free afternoon. hotels that offer this service. • Includes transfer on arrival and transfer on 05 THUR. Tver- Sergei Posad-Suzdal.- 09 MON. Moscow.- departure TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS: Tver and the Volga. Sergiev Posad After breakfast, transfer to the airport and end of our • Outing: Pushkin with admission to Catherine and the Holy Trinity Monastery. Lunch Included. Along the services. Palace in St Petersburg, Kolomenskoye golden Ring Cities. Suzdal. Supper included. (traditional Russian wedding ceremony) in We visit TVER. This city, set on the banks of the Volga, was Moscow. the centre of a tiny state and the main rival of Moscow. Then • Comprehensive tour of: St Petersburg, we pay a visit to some of the GOLDEN RING cities. After a Novgorod, Tver, Suzdal, Moscow. brief stop in KLIN where the house of the great composer • Admission: Catherine Palace, Peter and Paul Tchaikovsky is located, we carry on to SERGIEV POSAD, Fortress; Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, and visit the Holy Trinity Monastery, considered the most Kremlin ; Museum of Wooden Architecture important spiritual centre of Russia. We will also see how in Novgorod, Valday Monastery, Holy Trinity the famous Matryoshka nesting dolls are made and painted. Monastery; Matryoshka Factory in Sergei Posad, You can try your hand at painting them. Lunch included. In Kremlin ;Cathedral St Eugene’s Monastery; the afternoon we travel along tiny roads through different Museum of Wooden Architecture in Suzdal, historical Golden Ring cities: ALEKSHANDROV (and the Kremlin in Moscow. Kremlin of Ivan the Terrible) and YURYEV POLSKIY, a tiny • Includes 5 lunches or suppers in: Novgorod, provincial city with a historical Kremlin. Then we carry on to Tver, Sergei Posad, Suzdal, Suzdal. SUZDAL. Supper included. During supper, a folklore group will play their balalaikas (not included if there are fewer than 15 people in the group). Suzdal, a folklore group will play their balalaikas 78 B_india_BUENO_ASIA_EUROS_version_02.indd 78 25/02/2016 11:24:49.