Moscow is one of the oldest and most beautiful cities in Russia, and there are more attractions per square meter in it than in many European capitals. Sometimes even the native Muscovites are at a loss about where to go and what to see. So that the nerve cells of guests and residents of the capital do not burn in the throes of choice, we made top 30 most beautiful places in Moscow. The list includes the corners of the capital, which received good reviews on travel sites and profile review sites.
Pharmaceutical Garden
The oldest botanical garden in Russia is open to visitors every day from 10 in the morning. You can sign up for an excursion, but perhaps it is most pleasant to just wander around it. The garden is good at any time of the year; it’s cool in summer and warm in winter. Some idea of the beauties hiding behind a modest name can give Instagram garden.
Manor Arkhangelsk
A wonderful architectural monument of Catherine’s times with all the signs of the time - columns, balustrades, pseudo-antique busts and medallions with the coat of arms of the Yusupovs. For the beauty of the buildings and the surrounding park, the estate was nicknamed "Versailles near Moscow".
ENEA
Well, who does not know the Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy! After spending the last couple of decades in the form of a collapse with trays and peddlers, after reconstruction VDNH miraculously changed. Now you can indulge in the joys of cultural recreation there, both independently and with friends or family. There are exhibitions, museums, interactive expositions (where they give a touch and try on), bike rental and even a boat station.
Sparrow Hills
The left bank of Moscow, rising to a height of 80 m above the river, is one of the most beautiful places in Moscow. It is noteworthy not only for its complex and interesting relief, but also for its viewing platform, which offers a wonderful view of the city - you can see not only the gigantic buildings of Moscow City, but also the Novodevichy Convent and even the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.
Manor High mountains
Surprisingly, in the very center of Moscow this pearl is hiding - a real 19th-century park with cast-iron lanterns, vases, classical sculpture and round rotunda arbors. Now the estate has a rehabilitation center for patients, but you can walk around the park without hindrance.
Griboedovsky Wedding Palace
One of the most beautiful registry offices in Moscow is located in a building where rich merchants lived before the revolution. Apparently, a certain share of the heritage of the former owners has survived to this day - the traditional Stalinist splendor is combined here with the richness and luxurious redundancy of the beginning of the last century. Once this registry office steadily occupied the first places in popularity among Muscovites who want to bind each other by marriage; since then his positions have been a little shaken, however he is still one of the most beautiful. And crowded.
Catherine Park
A small but very beautiful piece of wildlife, sandwiched between two highways and one square. Surprisingly quiet and peaceful place (especially considering its location). And not even too crowded.
Kiev metro station
The personification of the magnificent splendor of the Stalin era - against the background of the white walls, gilded stucco molding and bright mosaics, on which the Ukrainian people fraternize with the Russian, stand out most clearly. And what luxurious fixtures are there! Do not forget to walk through the southern lobby and appreciate all the Byzantine wealth of mosaic images.
Manor Kolomenskoye
The oldest building of Kolomenskoye Manor is the Church of the Ascension of the Lord flying, as if directed towards the sky, one of the best examples of tent architecture. You can also admire the samples of wooden architecture miraculously preserved from past centuries - both sacred and economic.
Krutitsky Compound
Surprisingly, once you get to Krutitsky Compound, you seem to find yourself in a different time - despite the busy highways nearby, bees are buzzing quietly, and the nettles are as if straight from childhood. On the territory you can see church buildings and churches of the XVI-XVII centuries that have survived to our days practically unchanged.
Manor Kuskovo
The manor built in the 18th century is of stunning beauty - it looks especially good from the side of the pond, in the calm waters of which the noble proportions of the building are reflected. It was in Kuskovo that films were shot about Russia that we lost, including a series about midshipmen.
Luzhkov bridge
Officially, the bridge is called "Tretyakov", but the people stubbornly connect it with the name of the former mayor of Moscow. The bridge is also called the "kiss" - it contains several iron trees, where lovers hang locks as a sign of the reliability of their feelings (since there are many people who want to hang locks, new trees are added regularly). One of the most beautiful places for walking in Moscow - the buildings of the Tretyakov Gallery begin on one side of it, and the square of the 800th anniversary of Moscow lies on the other.
Mayakovskaya metro station
Without a doubt, the most beautiful metro station in Moscow, characterized by laconicism and elegance of lines and colors. Its design once made a splash at an international exhibition in 1938, and since then it continues to delight the eyes of both Muscovites and visitors to the city. Muscovites love and know her to such an extent that when the Moscow government decided to install lamps with a different color shade, the public revolted. And the lamps were returned.
Beautiful Moscow City
But this is the fruit of Russia today, however, which inherited the gigantomania of the USSR. If you build, so the tallest buildings in Europe - apparently, this principle was guided by the customers of the project. Moscow City, of course, looks amazing - the dizzying structures made of glass and chrome look especially favorably against the background of the usual city landscape.
Moscow Zoo
Get ready to spend at least 3-4 hours in the kingdom of wildlife - otherwise it would be impossible to at least briefly examine the whole variety of living beings. There are many animals there, they live in contentment and even delight people with the appearance of babies. It is better to visit the zoo from Wednesday to Friday - on Monday they have a sanitary day, on Tuesday part of the territory is unavailable (though tickets will be cheaper), and on Saturday and Sunday - uniform pandemonium.
Museum of military equipment
It is located in Victory Park, located near the metro station of the same name, so it is impossible to get lost on the way to it. One of the best places to relax with children, especially those who are delighted with military equipment. There are not only tanks and planes from the time of the war, but also cars, trains, the one-and-a-half praised by Simonov and much more.
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
One of the largest Catholic cathedrals in the country, built before the revolution. It is distinguished by its characteristic appearance, giving rise to associations with high Gothic buildings - the abundance of spiers and teeth irresistibly affects a romantic soul. The cathedral is located on a quiet street among the buildings of the middle of the last century; if you want to take a break from the Gothic, it's nice to just walk there.
Boring Garden
Once upon a time all the informals of Moscow hung out here. Since then, much has changed - informals moved to other sites, but the garden remained. Here it is still quiet, calm, beautiful - flowers, trees, gazebos, picturesque bridges over brooks and arbours intertwined with climbing plants. One of the most beautiful parks in Moscow, where it's nice to just walk and relax with your soul. And a few steps from Neskuchny Garden is one of the most unusual restaurants in Moscow, it is called the "Temple of the Dragon."
Novodevichy Convent
One of the most beautiful places in Moscow - you can verify this yourself, having seen how elegant red and white towers of the ancient monastery are reflected in the water surface. Once it was founded for the nuns of the royal family and noble families of Russia and is still valid. However, admission requirements have become much lower. Nearby is the famous cemetery of the same name.
Ostankino Tower
This symbol and the personification of the Soviet era is famous not only for its impressive footage, but also for its viewing platform, which offers stunning views of the city. True, you can visit it only in the warm season - from May to October.
Patriarch's Ponds
Although the word "ponds" is plural, in reality there is only one pond - the rest fell asleep at the beginning of the 19th century. But around the rest they destroyed a public garden, which has survived to this day. In it, according to Mikhail Bulgakov, on a hot summer evening two citizens met and a tragedy occurred with Berlioz. Ponds can be visited at any time of the year - in summer it is cool and green, in winter they organize a skating rink, and during the rest of the year there are various city holidays.
Ploshchad Revolyutsii metro station
First of all, the Revolution Square is famous for its sculptures depicting ordinary Soviet people - peasants, students, workers, sportswomen, sailors, engineers and so on. Do not forget to stroke the border shepherd along the nose - this brings happiness.
Prechistenka Street
One of the oldest streets in Moscow, the first mention of which dates back to the 16th century. Since then, everything has been built at Prechistenka - from the 17th-century boyars' chambers to the apartment buildings of the beginning of the last century. A walk along it, especially with a guide in hand, will allow you to feel how Moscow lived and developed over the past four centuries.
Serebryany Bor Park
Here, a Muscovite feverish from gasoline exhausts can fall to the wide green breast of mother nature. The park itself is located on an artificial island, where, in addition to civilized squares with benches, there are sports grounds, several beaches, an ecological trail and aviaries with animals and birds. Several beaches are also equipped, including one nudist.
Spaso-Andronikov Monastery
Once the monastery towered on a steep bank over the Yauza, from which now only one name remains. It houses one of the most beautiful temples in Moscow. We recommend it to visit if you are delighted with the architecture of pre-Mongol Rus, when the temples did not yet have bulbous domes, but modest helmets.
Tverskoy Boulevard
Tverskaya Boulevard honorably bears the title of one of the most beautiful streets in Moscow. In addition to beauty, it differs from also in length - almost a kilometer. Griboedov, Herzen and Tsvetaeva and the other color of the Moscow noble and intellectual elite once walked here. A lot of time has passed since then, and pedestrians have become simpler - but the boulevard is still beautiful.
Frunze Embankment
One of the favorite places for walks of both Muscovites and guests of the capital. It is located in one of the most beautiful places in Moscow, on the banks of the river of the same name, which offers a fantastic view of the capital. Buildings are mostly from the beginning to the middle of the last century, styles range from constructivism to the splendor of Stalin's skyscrapers.
Manor Tsaritsyno
First of all, the estate is remarkable for its architecture - surprisingly, something like a Gothic cathedral grew on the plains of Moscow Region. It is this impression that the main palace complex of the estate makes, since Empress Catherine the Great wanted to have something original in her park. The manor even has its own ruins of a tower, which was never a whole building. But it inspires romantic thoughts - inevitably you begin to turn around, looking with your eyes for sinister monks, as well as ghosts of the knightly era.
Tsvetnoy Boulevard
Once upon a time, they traded flowers and flower seedlings with might and main (this is precisely why the boulevard got its name). Unlike other Moscow old streets, the architectural appearance of the boulevard is more or less homogeneous - the buildings here are mostly mid-XIX - mid-XX centuries. The fashionable constructivist building of Literaturnaya Gazeta is adjacent to the House of the Society of Gymnasts and the circus, next to which is a wonderful monument to Yu. Nikulin.
Japanese garden
A small but very cozy garden, broken by a real Japanese under the auspices of the Botanical Garden. Although the kindergarten itself is small - it is unlikely to wander around it for hours, admiring the blossoming sakura - but to meditate in the arbors on the sophistication of Japanese landscape architecture is the very thing.
