MOSCOW TOURISTIC SITES

Numbers of Moscow. How arrive in Moscow.

Moscow introduces a surface of over 1000km squares, with a population of around 14 million inhabitants, we are speaking therefore of one of the greatest megalopolis of the world. Moscow has served on its territory from 7 airports of which 3 international and 9 principal railway stations each of which hands toward the various destinations of boundless Russia and besides in Moscow the wider railway net of the world departs: the Transiberian railway with its over 10.000 km of platforms that connect the Russian capital with Vladivostok in the extreme east in Siberia. To visit Moscow and Russia is required obligatory  of a valid passport, whose expiration must not be inferior to 6 months from the date back declared.  Once in possession of this requisite, it needs to show up at the Russian embassy (for  periods more 30 days) , or to the Russian consulate  (for  periods less 30 days) an application writing for the release of the seen of entry that will be applied on the passport, primary operation to stamp on the Russian land, to obligatorily effect before the departure and however at least one month before the date of preset departure for the enough pretentious bureaucratic routine. The application of the seen one is not free or casual or to really liking, but it obligatorily needs an invitation from an any corporate body, tourist operator, a' firm or a resident that I/you/he/she am necessarily recorded near the office of the Insides of the Russian Federation or in the commune of residence if it deals with a private citizen.  To receive this invitation needs to address or to his/her own travel agency of trust which will handle to contact the tours operator that operates in Russia, the most frequent case when it comes with tourist visits, or, to receive aside directly for mail the letter of invitation a firm or a corporate body if it deals with motives for job or to receive the letter from one resident friend of yours in Russia. In every case once received the letter of invitation it needs to compile it with all the registry data, the motive for the visit in Russia, the dates of arrival and departure and the zone where he will reside, after needs to send or to bring of person the letter obviously compiled without errors together with the original passport with enclosure the copy of the document of the aerial company that attests the purchase of the aerial tickets and the date of arrival and departure, to the consulate or to the Russian embassy to Rome, Milan or Palermo and to wait around 10/15 days for the restitution (it will be sent you by mail or you will go yourself to embassy).  From the moment that your application will have gone to good end you/he/she can start your trip in the Russian Federation. As it regards Moscow as motto above and everything anything else other than a city livable the immensity of its territory can intimidate rather whoever tourist I/you/he/she arrive for the first time and if it is not together with a person of the place or a tourist guide it almost comes impossible to understand where and thing to see or whether to go. From Italy there are flights directed from Rome, Bologna and Milan and if you choose a flight of the company of Italian or Russian flag you will land to the airport international of Sheremetyevo 2 situated northwestern of the city to about fifty Km from the center, if you choose then other companies of flag you will land to the international airport of Domodedovo site in the south of the city to about forty Km from the center, if you opt then for more economic flights you will land to the international airport of placed Vnukovo more toward the center. Anywhere solution you pick out without doubt your stay to Moscow it starts from one of these three airports where once I gone down by the airplane you must always compile the customs declaration with your data, period of permanence etc etc and to introduce it to the customs operator that once checked your passport and the seen of entry will officially let you enter on the Muscovite territory. Moscow doesn't represent in the imaginary collective a destination of the tourism, a few because it doesn't do a great advertising of itself but above all because Moscow assembles all of its economy on the biggest natural resources of the boundless subsoil of Russia, and not surprised you if people will treat you as a foreigner and not as a tourist, if to this then the rigid climate is added and as motto the enough pretentious bureaucratic routine for the obtainment of the seen of entry we can understand even more the motive for which Moscow is not sponsorized  to tourist level. Obviously this must not deceive because the capital of Russia offers an as inimitable as unimaginable artistic-cultural-architectural repertoire to enchant whoever wants to visit this marvelous city. To this it still goes assistant another factor to disadvantage of the tourism, and that is that Moscow also results as the most expensive city of the world because of the gigantic disparity between the new rich and the citizens and therefore an apartment in the center in Moscow also costs 100 Eur for a night not to speak of the hotels, but also hostel to 25 Eur for the one whom satisfies. Once overcome all these obstacles you will understand because it is worth to do everything this: Moscow will catch you in every angle of its!!! How said before if you have a friend in Russia or you know well the Russian language or you have then a tourist guide you won't have any problem to turn for Moscow but if you will be unprovided of all of this to visit Moscow you/he/she is not undertaken simple, certain you cannot think about also exploring the whole city asking information in English to the passers-by because the rhythm of the life is very frantic and therefore people will rarely stop him for the road to one call of yours and also because the roads are immense where you will feel you as the classical needle in the haystack in the general noise of the slide of the daily life to Moscow, to this you/he/she also goes assistant that to a first impact the moscow people are everything anything else other than friendly and polite. Then as to stir in Moscow? Once passed the customs barrier to the airport you will find not file of regular but very reliable (those officers are highly dissuaded for the excessive cost) taxisti that the line they do to the exit of the airport waiting for the foreigners, and with 50 European, assure you before you don't leave a great wake of alcohol behind of if, and you ask then to make you bring on the Tverskaya Street (the road that brings to all the other roads to Moscow) and this will be also your first approach with a Russian and more precisely with the Russian society, in fact the taxi driver will accompany you to its auto with the moldy tapestry that stinks of mold and of old man, one of those autos that we would hold in our garage as collection of ancient auto, going up again to the Soviet era, even with Russian music in foundation to dart on the speedway among file of numerous quantities of advertising poster that the capitalistic age to which Moscow is had to adjust that it clearly opposes with the mean of transport on which is traveling and this contrast will accompany you for all through your permanence to Moscow. Enough in fact to move out of the center and possession the feeling to be in another world, a 'other part of Russia you are still instead in Moscow, that true, that that belongs still to the people, that of hospitable it doesn't have anything or almost, (to first impact) but arrived there once, you won't want to return back anymore, you will be invaded in fact from a sense of glory that is warned in the air as a gas that is sprinkled and it will enter inside capturing your nervous system and you are not able not to return back with the time to the great enterprises of the Soviet union to the discovery of its monuments and its unique works to the world. When you are on the Tverskaya you are in the center in Moscow where you can reach then any point to start from the famous plaza situated Redhead really to few km from the attainable Tverskaya also afoot also asking to the stones because also they will know how to point out you the road that brings the mother of all the plazas of Russia. Once on the Red plaza, it is there that you must systematize yours "headquartier" from where you must depart and to arrive with the meter after having visited your tourist sites. The Red plaza has served from 3 stations meter and or rather the Teatralnaya (green line dark), Ochotniy Ryad (red line) and Ploschad Revolutsyi (Revolution square - violet line). Obviously  you need  a minimum of knowledge of as to take the metro,  and which destination metro you must go .  Begin you read this section " Tourist Sites" and that "Moscow subway" dedicated  to the metro.