Sights of Vladimir

Vladimir - a city that was born at the turn of our era. Archaeological excavations showed the formation of the settlement in the area of the south-western cape of the mountain town belonging to the Ugrians. Approximately in the X century Slavic natives of the Novgorod Slovens and Smolensk krivich appeared. Strong attachment of settlers to a place high above the full-flowing Klyazma was determined by the prevailing natural security and relative inaccessibility: the surroundings were well seen, and the elevation and the river did not allow the enemy to get unnoticed.

Today it is not just a major city of Russia, but also an regional center, where tourists from all over the world flock to the world all year long, wishing to see the sights of Vladimir. And the great city really has something to brag about.

Perhaps the main attractions of Vladimir - its historical monuments, preserved in its fascinating, pristine form. These are the golden-domed cathedrals (Uspensky and Dmitrievsky), monasteries (Rozhdestvensky and Knyaginin), and majestic churches (Troitskaya, Nikitskaya, Nikolo-Kremlevskaya, Uspenskaya, Georgievskaya). A person who has seen all this beauty and greatness once, will leave her in the soul forever. An incredibly clean and bright city, basking in the glow of domes, takes in its warm embrace everyone who wants to plunge into this truly divine atmosphere.

And if you really consider the sights of Vladimir himself, enjoying all this beauty, without the accompaniment of ever-in-a-hurry guides, then it's worthwhile to stay here for at least a week. But, perhaps, even this time is not enough to inspect all of the above.

Here at your service - hotels in Vladimir, from the most simple, two-star, to the most comfortable. Each of them is unique and different both in terms of location (in the center, on the outskirts), and on the services offered, the quality of rooms, styles. There are hotels in Vladimir, stylized and classicism, and a Russian spacious hut. But most hotels are still made in modern style (Vladimir, Golden Ring, Golden Gate, Monomakh, Vladimirsky Dvorik, Prince Vladimir, Russkaya Derevnya).

Be sure to visit such sights of Vladimir as the Drama Theater of Lunacharsky, built in 1164; Historical museum, founded in 1854; An art gallery with a large collection including the originals of Vasnetsov, Savrasov, Shishkin, Tropinin, Aivazovsky, Venetsianov. The gallery boasts three hundred unique paintings.

In the sights of Vladimir, you can not not include the Golden Gate, which is the rarest and unusually beautiful and strict monument of military Russian architecture. They were built under the great Andrei Bogolyubsky during the growth of Vladimir's capital city, with the rise of the Vladimir principality.

The Golden Gate was part of the western line of city ramparts erected from 1158 to 1164.

The lateral shafts were destroyed already in the XVIII century. With the purpose of device detours. Instead of them on both sides of the gate appeared pseudo-circular round towers. At the same time, the vault of the gate was altered with the church towering over them.

However, the greatness of architecture from this clearly did not suffer and continues to inspire an incomprehensible reverence for every beauty connoisseur already at the entrance to the city.

Monuments of Vladimir will not leave you indifferent ...