Moscow City Bus Tour

Enjoy a Moscow City Bus Tour that shows you all the highlights and the most enchanting and historical places in this beautiful Russian city. This tour is an excellent way to see the exterior of famous buildings & palaces. You will get a panorama of Kremlin, Lenin Hills, Bolshoj Theater, Christ the Savior Cathedral and Moscow streets & squares.

Originally a road leading out of medieval Moscow, we travel on famous Tverskaya Ulitsa, Moscow's main street, opposite the north end of Red Square, as we learn of Moscow's dynamic history.

PLEASE NOTE: To include another exciting tour of Moscow, please also order our walking tourThe Kremlin Grounds, Cathedrals and Patriarch's Palace Tour in Moscow and include both tours in your Shopping Cart.

It is possible to do both Tours in one day, because there is an hour-interval between the two tours during which you may have a lunch or a cup of coffee at the nearest restaurants, bars and coffeehouses, or you may take pictures or go to the nearby department store GUM for the souvenirs, which is an architectural masterpiece and tourist attraction in itself.

Kremlin
The small city in the center of Moscow, the seat of government from 1276 to 1712, and then again from March 1918 to the present day. The Kremlin is still very much the heart of Moscow: as well as being Russia's most famous landmark. The word "kreml" means "citadel" or "fortress". In 1156 Prince Uriy Dolgorukiy laid the foundations of the first wooden fortress on Borovitskiy or Pine Hill, at the confluence of the Moscow and Neglinnaya rivers. This first Kremlin was roughly triangular in shape but occupied only about one-sixth of the present site. The oldest structures here, the walls and churches, date from the 15th and 16th centuries, when prince Ivan III was raising up his "Third Rome".

Christ the Savior Cathedral
The magnificent five-golden-domed Cathedral is the largest church in Russia, the second of its kind. The first, built to commemorate the victory over Napoleon in 1812, was destroyed in 1931. It was officially reopened for the millenium and consecrated as a "glorious symbol" of Russia and Russian Orthodox Christianity.

Red Square
Red Square in Russian means Krasnaya ploshchad, the word krasnaya meaning "beautiful". Over the centuries the square has served various functions- as a market and as a place of executions and of ceremony, from the defeat of Kazan to the spectacles of military strength of the Soviet May-Day parades.

Stalin's Architecture
You will see the evidence of Stalin's personality in cultural and architectural styles

FAQ's

Are tours in English?
Yes, tour has live English commentary. On-board professional English-speaking guides with licenses explain all main Moscow historical and cultural sights.

What kind of buses do you have?
Air-conditioned and heated comfortable big buses.

48 HOURS MINIMUM ADVANCE BOOKING REQUIRED. This tour does not include hotel pick-up or drop-off. Rates are per person, in US dollars and include tax. Please reserve online, or call us toll-free at 800-719-8198.