Welcome to Moscow

It's our pleasure to offer you a number of good values half and full day tours. Licensed guides will provide you with a perfect knowledge on the city past and present. We offer you:

• deluxe
• first class
• budget tours

Soleans Travel Company welcomes you to the city where you will get a chance to see and feel the Russian history in the organic combination with the rhythm of modern life.

Moscow is the capital of the Russian. It is a business, scientific, cultural, and tourist centre of the country.

Many centuries ago the city was built on seven hills. It is rather difficult to discern them now, with the only exception of Borovitsky Hill where one of the twenty Kremlin towers stands. The Kremlin (translated from Greek, the word means "a steep hill") and Red Square definitely are the main Moscow sights, symbols of the whole of Russia.

The intricate towers and walls of the Moscow Kremlin were built to a design of Italian architects. The Russian Government works in the Kremlin, so tourists are only allowed to the part of its territory where the cathedrals, the oldest Russian museum, the Armory Chamber, and the Diamond Fund with its unique collection of precious stones and jewelry are located.

In the Kremlin, close to the 81-meter tall Bell-Tower of Ivan the Great - once the highest building in Russia - the Tsar-Bell is on display, the largest bell in the world. Its weight is 202 tons and height 6.14 meters. It has never rung: soon after being founded it broke during a fire in 1737. A huge chunk which came off lies next to it now. Not far from the bell, there is the 40-ton Tsar-Cannon - a masterpiece of the 16th century foundry - which also has never been used for its purpose.

Moscow is a real megapolis: more than 40 km from north to south, more than 30 from east to west.

The Moscow historical centre is a territory in the bounds of Sadovoye Ring which is a chain of streets at the place of the old fortifications surrounding the central park of the city. Here we may mark the areas of Boulevard (Inner) Ring, Zamoskvorechje, Arbat, River Moskva embankments. Moscow has never had a style unity which is a characteristic for "cities - museums". (St. Petersburg, Venice, Athens).