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About 306 miles away
One of Russia's oldest cities, with its kremlin.
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St. Basil's Cathedral
Ivan the Terrible's cathedral of swirling, many-colored onion domes at the end of Red Square.
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- Most days
- Price
- Paid
- Time Needed
- 1 hour
- Address
- Red Square 7, MoscowDirections
- Getting There
- At the southern end of Red Square; Ploshchad Revolyutsii metro.
Why Go
Built from 1555 to 1561 to celebrate the capture of Kazan, the cathedral is really nine chapels around a central tower, each under its own dome and joined by narrow painted passages. Legend says Ivan had its architects blinded so they could never build anything so beautiful again.
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Worth a DetourKazan
About 446 miles away
Where Russia meets Islam, with a mosque and a cathedral in one Kremlin.
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