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      The Kremlin and Bauman Street

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 3 km🍽 1📍 7 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      The first-day classic: the white Kremlin with the Qolsharif Mosque and a 16th-century cathedral, then down pedestrian Bauman Street to the city's tallest bell tower.

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      1. 1
        🏛 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.
        Enter through the main gate from 1 May Square; it is open around the clock
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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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      3. 2
        🏛 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.
        A 16th-century cathedral; behind it you can see the leaning Söyembikä Tower
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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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      5. 3
        🏛 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.
        Go up to the visitors' balconies above the hall; the mosque is closed to tourists on Friday afternoons
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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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      7. 4
        🚶 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.
        From the Kremlin, head down Bauman Street: Catherine II's carriage and the Chaliapin monument are on the way
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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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      9. 5
        🏛 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.
        Turn onto Musa Jalil Street for facades in colourful stucco
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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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      11. 6
        ☕️ Tubetey on Bauman · 🧸 play area
        ул. Баумана, 47/9
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        Lunch: kystybyi and tokmach noodle soup
        🍴 Tatar fast food from a Kazan chain: quick, filling and with a kids' room. What to order: kystybyi, echpochmak, tokmach noodle soup or the signature kystyburger.
      12. 🚶 on foot
      13. 7
        🏛 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.
        Walk through the bell tower's arch into the cathedral courtyard where Chaliapin was baptised
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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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