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By car around the city

Historic Centre + Kremlin

By car around the historic centre, with a walk through the Kremlin

Duration
3.5-4 hours
Stops
6
Getting around
on foot or in your car · in the guide's car · by car with a driver · by minivan
Historic Centre + Kremlin
Historic Centre + Kremlin

Route

  1. 1Old Tatar QuarterThe historic Tatar quarter: colourful merchant houses, old mosques and the Kaban lake embankment.
  2. 2Kazan UniversityRussia’s oldest university after Moscow’s, where Lenin, Tolstoy and Lobachevsky studied, with a quiet courtyard.
  3. 3Freedom SquareThe main square of the old centre, with the opera house and the government of Tatarstan.
  4. 4National LibraryOne of the most modern libraries in Russia and a favourite with local students.
  5. 5Theotokos MonasteryThe monastery where the icon of Our Lady of Kazan was found.
  6. 6Kazan 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.

What we will see

  • The Old Tatar Quarter and Lake Kaban
  • Kazan University and Freedom Square
  • The National Library
  • The Renaissance estate and Neftyanikov village
  • The Bogoroditsky Monastery
  • About 1.5 hours walking in the Kremlin

Entry tickets are paid separately

  • the Kremlin: 190 ₽, reduced 180 ₽

I guide it myself

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