Kazan city tour with Kazan Kremlin

Overview

Meeting with tour guide at hotel lobby.

Enjoy the original beauty of Enjoy the original beauty of Kazan, see the bright colors of its streets and squares with your own eyes, find out where teeming treasures of Kazan Khans are kept and where water boiled in a cauldron with no fire by taking the sightseeing tour. The sites of the millennium-old city combine the culture of the West and traditions of the East: Old Tatar Settlement where Tatar residents lived from the 16th century, Textiles Settlement originating as a result of industrial reforms by Peter I, fountain squares, Kaban lake with its mysteries and legends, the simulated Tatar village Tugan Avylym (My Native Village), the new building of the Puppet Show, Kazan Federal University, Liberty Square as a cultural and administrative center of Kazan. During the sightseeing tour you will see a variety of minarets and cupolas, crescents and crosses, which is a proof of a good neighborliness of the two native peoples – Tatars and Russians.

The Kazan Kremlin is the main sight of the city; it is a UNESCO world heritage site. Kremlin is official residence of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan and a state museum-preserve attended by thousands of tourists every year. The white-stone fortress is the heart of the ancient city that incorporates the culture of the East and West. Minarets of the main mosque of the city – Qul Sharif – shoot up into the sky, and cupolas of the Annunciation Cathedral, oldest one in Kazan, shine with gold. Inside the fortress, there is one of the symbols of Kazan – the famous “leaning” tower of Tsarina Suyumbike.

End of the tour in the city centre. Returning to hotel by own.