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      All day: the Kremlin, Bauman and the Kazanka

      ⏱ 10 h🚶 6.5 km🍽 3📍 13 stops
      🏃 A lot — over 7 km

      A day in the heart of Kazan: the National Museum and the Qolsharif Mosque, the Kazanka embankment beneath the Kremlin walls, an evening on Bauman and dinner by Tukay Square.

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      1. 1
        ☕️ Tatar Kulinaria café
        Кремлёвская ул., 11
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        Breakfast: elesh, peremyach and tea; the café opens at 9:00
        🍴 An inexpensive café-bakery by the Kremlin with a display of Tatar pastries and a souvenir shop. What to order: elesh, peremyach, kystybyi, a sour-cream cake and tea.
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      3. 2
        🖼 National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan
        Кремлёвская ул., 2
        🎟 ticket
        The republic's main history museum, in the former Gostiny Dvor opposite the Kremlin, covering the region from ancient times to the 20th century.
        The republic's main museum in the former Gostiny Dvor, from 10:00
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        National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan
        © Денис Петьовка · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The museum was ceremonially opened on 5 April 1895.
        • It occupies the former Gostiny Dvor, a monument of federal significance.
        • Thanks to a gift of 500,000 rubles from Alexandrova-Heins, the museum was housed on Voskresenskaya Street, now Kremlyovskaya.
        • The idea of a city museum was born among professors of Kazan University in the late 1870s.
        • Its collections hold more than 960,000 items.
        • The numismatic collection includes 401 gold coins.
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      5. 3
        🏛 Spasskaya Tower
        Кремль, со стороны площади 1 Мая
        The Kremlin's main gate, with a clock and a tent roof; the walk around the fortress starts here. Inside is a museum of the tower's history.
        Into the Kremlin through the main gate
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        Spasskaya Tower
        © A.Savin · FAL
        Spasskaya Tower
        © Alexxx1979 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The tower was built in the 16th century by the Pskov architects Ivan Shiryai and Postnik Yakovlev.
        • It is named after the icon of the Saviour Not Made by Hands that hung above the gate.
        • After the fire of 1694, two octagonal brick tiers and a tent roof were added on top.
        • The tower is 47 metres tall.
        • The through passage was only cut in the late 1920s; before that, people entered by a side gate.
        • Since 1 September 2023 the tower has housed a museum of the Kremlin's fortifications.
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        🏛 Annunciation Cathedral
        Кремль, 2
        🆓 free entry
        The oldest church in the Kremlin: a five-domed white-stone cathedral from the 16th century, built by Pskov masters.
        The oldest church in the Kremlin
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        Annunciation Cathedral
        © Валерий Дед · CC BY 3.0
        Annunciation Cathedral
        © A.Savin · FAL
        • The cathedral was consecrated on 15 August 1562; it was built by masters led by Postnik Yakovlev and Ivan Shiryai, the authors of St Basil's Cathedral.
        • It is the oldest surviving monument in the Kremlin and in the whole city.
        • The stone was brought from the high opposite bank of the Volga; it is Volga limestone.
        • From 1552 to 1918 it was the cathedral church of the Kazan diocese.
        • The five-domed church on six pillars followed the plan of the Dormition Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin.
        • The cathedral's bell tower was destroyed in the 1920s–1930s.
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      9. 5
        🏛 Söyembikä Tower
        Кремль, 17
        A leaning seven-tier red-brick tower, one of the symbols of Kazan and the heroine of city legends.
        Walk around the leaning tower; the tilt is most noticeable from the corner
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        Söyembikä Tower
        © A.Savin · FAL
        Söyembikä Tower
        © A.Savin · FAL
        • The tower is 58 metres tall and has seven tiers: three square and four octagonal.
        • It really does lean: the spire is about two metres off the vertical.
        • Nobody knows exactly when it was built; researchers give dates from the 15th to the early 18th century.
        • Legend has it that Queen Söyembikä threw herself from the seventh tier; there is no scientific evidence for it.
        • A double-headed eagle was raised on the spire around 1730, and in 1993 a gilded crescent appeared there again.
        • The foundation rests on oak piles, and the lower tier has a passage leading to the former governor's courtyard.
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        🏛 Qolsharif Mosque
        Кремль, 13
        🆓 free entry · the Museum of Islamic Culture inside is ticketed
        A white mosque with a turquoise dome and four 58-metre minarets, opened for Kazan's 1000th anniversary.
        Visitors' balconies at the top, the Museum of Islamic Culture below
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        Qolsharif Mosque
        © A.Savin · FAL
        Qolsharif Mosque
        © A.Savin · FAL
        • The mosque was built in 1996–2005 and opened on 24 June 2005, for the city's millennium.
        • It is named after Sayyid Qolsharif, who died defending Kazan in 1552.
        • Each of the four main minarets is 58 metres tall.
        • It was built mostly with donations: the names of more than 40,000 donors are written in books in the main hall.
        • The carpets were a gift from the Iranian government, and the chandelier, weighing almost two tonnes, was made in the Czech Republic.
        • For visitors there are two viewing balconies above the prayer hall.
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      13. 7
        ☕️ Alan Ash canteen in the Kremlin
        Кремль, 5
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        Lunch in the Kremlin canteen: pastries from a wood-fired oven
        🍴 A canteen right inside the Kremlin: soups, mains, salads and pastries, with a wood-fired oven. What to order: echpochmak, chicken or oven-baked pastry, the soup of the day.
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      15. 8
        🌳 Kremlin Embankment
        набережная Казанки от стен кремля до Национальной библиотеки
        A 1.5 km promenade along the Kazanka beneath the Kremlin walls, with views of the Palace of Farmers, the "Bowl" on the opposite bank and the evening lights.
        Leave through Tainitskaya Tower (until 20:00) and go down to the Kazanka
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        Kremlin Embankment
        © Vyacheslav Kirillin · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Kremlin Embankment
        © Vyacheslav Kirillin · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The pedestrian embankment stretches about a kilometre and a half, from the Kremlin walls to the National Library.
        • Along it there are cafés, fountains, sculptures and a pier.
        • Little tourist road trains in the shape of steam engines run along the promenade.
        • In winter a skating rink almost a kilometre long is flooded here, one of the longest in Russia.
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        🏛 Palace of Farmers
        Федосеевская ул., 36
        A lavish 2010 palace with a bronze tree in its arch; it houses the Tatarstan Ministry of Agriculture, so you look at it from outside.
        The bronze tree in the arch; no entry inside
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        Palace of Farmers
        © Денис Петьовка · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Palace of Farmers
        © FingerWiki · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The palace was built in 2008–2010 to a design by Leonid Gornik and cost 2.2 billion rubles.
        • The building is compared to the Petit Palais in Paris and the wings of the Hofburg in Vienna.
        • In the central arch stands a 20-metre bronze tree, lit green in the evening.
        • The spire rises 48 metres.
        • Inside is the Tatarstan Ministry of Agriculture and Food.
        • Since 2011, on 30 August, a free gala concert of the Kazan Autumn opera festival has been held at the palace.
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      19. 10
        🚶 Bauman Street
        от площади Тысячелетия до площади Тукая
        Kazan's main pedestrian street: merchant houses, the Chaliapin monument, Catherine II's carriage and cafés with Tatar pastries at every step.
        Past the Kremlin to pedestrian Bauman Street
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        Bauman Street
        © Vyacheslav Kirillin · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • One of Kazan's oldest streets: in the khanate era it was called the Nogai Road.
        • After the assault of 1552 it was nicknamed Prolomnaya ("the Breach") after the breaches in the Kremlin walls.
        • It has borne the name of the revolutionary Nikolai Bauman since 1930.
        • It became Kazan's first pedestrian zone in 1996.
        • A tram ran here until 1935, and a horse tram until 1899.
        • The street has monuments to Chaliapin, the Kazan Cat and Catherine II's carriage, in which she visited Kazan in 1767.
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        🏛 Peter and Paul Cathedral
        ул. Мусы Джалиля, 21
        A showy 1720s cathedral in Petrine Baroque style with colourful stucco decoration, built in memory of Peter I's visit.
        A Baroque cathedral in memory of Peter I's visit
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        Peter and Paul Cathedral
        © Insider · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Peter and Paul Cathedral
        © Mike1979 Russia · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • On 30 May 1722 Peter I celebrated his 50th birthday in Kazan; in memory of this the merchant Ivan Mikhlyaev built the cathedral.
        • The first vault, raised by local builders, collapsed at night, and the tsar sent builders from Moscow.
        • The new church was consecrated in 1726.
        • Every emperor since Catherine II except Nicholas II visited, as did Pushkin and Alexandre Dumas.
        • The young Fyodor Chaliapin sang in the cathedral choir.
        • Nearby stands Mikhlyaev's 17th-century house, the oldest civil building in Kazan.
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        🏛 Epiphany Cathedral Bell Tower
        ул. Баумана, 78
        A red-brick bell tower from 1897, the tallest in Kazan; through its arch you can see the cathedral courtyard where Chaliapin was baptised.
        Kazan's tallest bell tower
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        Epiphany Cathedral Bell Tower
        © Vyacheslav Kirillin · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Epiphany Cathedral Bell Tower
        © R. Sieben · CC BY 3.0
        • It is the tallest bell tower in Kazan and one of the tallest Orthodox bell towers.
        • It was completed on 17 August 1897 with money bequeathed by the merchant Ivan Krivonosov.
        • Almost two million bricks went into its construction.
        • In 1901 lightning struck the bell tower and the beams under the big bell caught fire.
        • Fyodor Chaliapin was baptised in the Epiphany Church on 2 February 1873.
        • Since 2001 the Chaliapin chamber hall has operated in the bell tower.
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      25. 13
        🍽 Bilyar restaurant
        ул. Островского, 61
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        Dinner: horse-meat dumplings; the restaurant is open around the clock
        🍴 A 24-hour restaurant of Tatar and European cuisine near Tukay Square. What to order: horse-meat dumplings and meat dishes of Tatar cuisine.

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