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On foot: the highlights

First Acquaintance: Extended

A longer first walk that adds the Old Tatar Quarter

Duration
4 hours
Stops
8
Getting around
on foot or in your car
First Acquaintance: Extended
First Acquaintance: Extended
First Acquaintance: Extended

Route

  1. 1Old Tatar QuarterThe historic Tatar quarter: colourful merchant houses, old mosques and the Kaban lake embankment.
  2. 2Kazan KremlinThe cradle of the city: the only kremlin in Russia where an Orthodox cathedral stands next to a mosque, with the oldest buildings in Kazan.
  3. 3Bauman StreetKazan’s main pedestrian street, with history back to the khans and street musicians today.
  4. 4Kremlyovskaya Street
  5. 5Ushkova HouseA mansion a merchant built to win a girl’s heart. We see it from outside: it is closed for restoration.
  6. 6Kazan UniversityRussia’s oldest university after Moscow’s, where Lenin, Tolstoy and Lobachevsky studied, with a quiet courtyard.
  7. 7Black Lake ParkA park every local loves; to me, the city’s atmosphere is felt best here.
  8. 8St Peter and Paul CathedralThe city’s most vivid cathedral, often compared to a garden of paradise, almost untouched since the 18th century.

What we will see

  • The Old Tatar Quarter
  • The Kremlin, with Kul Sharif Mosque if you like
  • Bauman street
  • Kremlyovskaya street: Ushkova House, the university, Black Lake park
  • St Peter and Paul Cathedral

Entry tickets are paid separately

  • the Kremlin: 190 ₽, reduced 180 ₽

I guide it myself

I show the city the way I would show it to friends. Want to change the route? Message me and we will work it out.

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Photo credits: Vyacheslav Bukharov (CC BY-SA 4.0), Vyacheslav Bukharov (CC BY-SA 4.0), Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)