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Welcome to our Heritage and History Tour series, a collection of touring sections that enable you to visit an extraordinary assortment of World Heritage Sites. This special line of journeys has been artistically tailored to offer you to discover some of mankind’s highest achievements and explore nature’s greatest wonders.

Since early 90's Heritage and History Tours had been pioneering tours to the home of so many civilizations and strives to give an understanding of the cultures and peoples who live there. As we travel in small groups or bigger groups, culture divides through real people to people contact. The main focus of our tours is the pursuit of knowledge and a better understanding of the world we live in and its early history.

Our journeys cover not only heritage sites, but also the Battle Reconstruction, Castle tours, Ghost tours, Gondola Rides and many more which signifies cultural diversity, awe-inspiring scenery and genuine interaction with the local people of the places we visit.

Just west of the Kremlin, the Alexander Garden (Alexandrovsky Sad) was laid out between 1819 and 1823 in an effort by Tsar Alexander I to rebuild Moscow after the end of the Napoleonic Wars.

Hidden beneath the unassuming façade of a residential building, Bunker-42 was once one of the USSR’s best-kept secrets—a nuclear bunker buried 197 feet (60 meters) underground.

Housed in the suitably opulent Shuvalov Palace, the Fabergé Museum is a tribute to legendary Russian jeweler Peter Carl Fabergé.

Kazan Cathedral (Kazansky Kafedralny Sobor)
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Moscow’s Kazan Cathedral (Kazansky Kafedralny Sobor) was built between 1633 and 1636 to celebrate Russia’s liberation from Polish invaders in 1612, the end of the Time of Troubles.

Lenin’s Mausoleum is the current resting place of Vladimir Lenin, the former leader of the Soviet Union. Lenin’s embalmed body has been on display since he passed away in 1924 and his tomb has been visited by millions

The looming yellow cathedral tower and star-shaped fortifications of the Peter and Paul Fortress dominate St. Petersburg’s riverfront, rising up from the shores of Zayachy Island

Red Square has been Moscow’s historic and cultural epicenter for centuries, holding everything from a medieval marketplace to Soviet military parades to rock concerts.

With its gigantic golden dome coated with over 220 pounds of gold and an impressive red granite portico, St. Isaac’s Cathedral (Isaakievskiy Sobor) looks more like a palace than a cathedral.

The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg is the largest art and cultural museum in the world, with more than 3 million items in its collection—only a fraction of which are on display in its 360 rooms.