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North End Pizza Tour

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  • User Ages: All ages
  • Hour Glass Duration: 2.5 hours

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  • Includes water, three (FULL SIZE) pizza slices, and a cannoli!
  • Perfect for all ages.
  • Vegetarian friendly.
  • Restrooms available.
  • Small groups of 12 people or less.
  • Walking distance of approximately 1 mile.

Discover the Best Pizza in Boston’s North End

Discover Boston’s Historic North End, and see FIVE Freedom Trail sites. Includes water, three (FULL SIZE) pizza slices, and a cannoli for dessert.

  • Boston pizza tours are an experience everyone enjoys. FUN for kids, teens, parents, couples, and friends!
  • See FIVE different Freedom Trail sites – Paul Revere house, Old North Church, Bunker Hill Monument, and USS Constitution aka “Old Ironsides.”
  • Our fun and educational food tours are an easy walk for anyone, young or old.
  • Taste some of the very best pizza on the planet, right here in the North End of Boston!
  • Pizza varieties may include Sicilian squares, Neapolitan-style, bakery slices, New York thin, or grilled flatbread.

What To Expect

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Meet your Tour Guide at Modern Pastry Underground in Boston’s historic North End. From there you will enjoy a leisurely stroll through Boston’s oldest neighborhood, first settled in 1630.

See the sights as you walk in the footsteps of Revolutionary Patriots like  Paul Revere ,  Samuel Adams  and  George Washington . Also known as Boston’s Little Italy, Italian is still spoken in the quaint, cobblestone streets of the North End.

During this fun and educational history walk you’ll see FIVE Freedom Trail sites , plus  enjoy THREE different slices from some of Boston’s very best pizzerias. Pizzerias on tour can rotate from day to day, and may include a slice named in the “Top 25 Best” in America by a famous food critic, the pizzeria that won Boston’s 1st Annual Pizza Fest, a slice from Boston’s oldest pizzeria with a brick oven from 1883, a “secret underground” spot for grilled flatbread pizza, a slice voted “Boston’s Best” multiple times, or one from a restaurant named one of the “Top 10 Best” Italian restaurants in the world!

Your tour will conclude back at Modern Pastry for cannoli, and a vote for your favorite slice on the North End Pizza Tour.

Walk in the footsteps of Revolutionary Patriots as you see the sights, learn the history, and of course – eat the pizza!

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North End This fun walking pizza tour begins in Boston’s North End. Walk past the Paul Revere house and North Square.

Old North / Clough house Visit the campus of Boston’s oldest standing church (c1723) – One if by Land, Two if by Sea!

Copp’s Hill burying ground Visit Boston’s 2nd oldest burying ground, and learn about the Salem Witch Trial connection.

Copp’s Hill Terrace Get a bird’s-eye view of Charlestown Navy Yard, USS Constitution, and Bunker Hill memorial.

Modern Pastry Finish your tour with a cannoli from “where the locals go!”

Where to Meet

Public transportation (MBTA subway/commuter rail) is recommended for getting around Boston. The closest subway stops are Haymarket (orange & green lines) and Aquarium (blue line), with commuter rail service at North Station.

Parking garages and open-air parking lots are also available within a 5-minute walk from where our tours start. There are open-air parking lots along Commercial Street and Atlantic Avenue in the Northend, or garages at Aquarium and Haymarket.

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An Afternoon of Pizza, Beer, and History (… and Beer) in Boston’s North End

Boston’s North End (aka “Little Italy”) is among the most historic neighborhoods in one of the most historic cities in the United States. It’s also one of the most densely populated, both with people and restaurants: 12,000 people and 120 restaurants fill an area less than 0.4 square miles. It’s a foodie’s (and an agoraphobic’s) dream.

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Mrs. Vagabondish and I have both lived within an hour of Boston for most of our lives. So it’s a bit shameful to admit that we’ve never really explored the North End. (We’re all terrible tourists in our own hometown right?) So as VERY important travelers in Viator’s exclusive Ambassador program , we decided it was time to learn a few things we never knew about Boston’s most famous neighborhood. And what better way to do it than via a Pizza & Tavern Tour ?

We met up with our tour guide Patrick — a young, energetic guy with a serious love of pizza, history, Boston, and beer — on a beautiful Saturday afternoon. A rare winter day in Boston indeed, complete with clear blue skies, lightly peppered with just the right amount of high, thin clouds. What’s more: we got lucky and wound up being the only two folks on what became our own private tour.

Line Outside Regina Pizzeria in Boston's North End

Minutes into our tour, it was clear Patrick wasn’t lying about the North End being a foodie heaven. It seems there’s almost literally a new place to eat every ten feet. After strolling past some of the neighborhood’s most iconic bars and restaurants, we finally arrived at our first stop – the iconic Regina Pizzeria . Dating back to 1926, it’s the oldest pizzeria in the neighborhood and has, in that time, grown a loyal, almost obsessive fan base. It’s arguably the most popular and best known pizza joint in the North End – a go-to for locals and Boston newcomers who line up out the door from open to close every day of the week. It’s easy to see why. The dough is light and slightly chewy with a thin crispy, edge. The nuclear hot cheese is plentiful and gooey almost to the point of being able to “pour” it off the slice. (It was Mrs. Vagabondish’s favorite of the tour)

Because Patrick was concerned about us going too long without a proper pint, we quickly crossed the bridge to Charlestown for our first tavern stop. Warren Tavern is a “tavern” in the purest sense of the word – a place where dark wood, patriotic murals, and centuries-old details abound. I grabbed a local Harpoon Winter Warmer and settled in while Patrick regaled us with as much of the tavern’s history as he could pack into twenty minutes.

Historic Warren Tavern in Charlestown, Boston, Massachusetts

Now there’s much debate, particularly in New England, over which is officially the oldest tavern in the country. Wherever Warren Tavern falls on that list is irrelevant. It dates back to 1780 and, for the love of god, George Washington and Paul Revere drank there! It’s a history buff’s dream. More than 225 years after opening its doors, it still feels like a boisterous meeting place for those looking to start a revolution. (Insider tip: don’t miss the Sam Adams Brick Red. This unique beer is only available at select outlets in Boston and Warren Tavern is one)

From very old to relatively new, we ambled to our second pizza stop of the tour. Todd English’s Figs is not strictly a pizza joint, but they still know how to make a mean pie (or “flatbread” if you’re the highfalutin sort). The menu features a dozen offerings and half-and-half pies are available.

Large Pizza at Todd English's Figs in North End, Boston

We sprung for a half Bronx Bomber (pepperoni, tomato sauce, mozzarella, and fresh basil) and a half Isabelle’s (country ham, aged provolone, fresh asparagus, and sweet onion). The former is a simple take on the traditional pepperoni pizza with a subtle spice to the meat to give it a slight pop. The latter proved to be a unique, unexpectedly good blend of sweet and savory, with an interesting twist from the crispy asparagus.

Already full from the area rug-sized pie at Figs, Patrick ushered us along to our last pizza stop of the night: Ernesto’s . A staple of Boston’s North End for more than 30 years, they pride themselves on cooking in the old world style. They offer one of the widest selections of pizza in the area, particularly for single slices. Like Regina’s, it’s packed day and night. Unlike many other by-the-slice joints, the steady traffic means the pizza is always hot and fresh. And delicious to boot! Their simple cheese slice wound up being my favorite of the entire tour.

Green Dragon Tavern, Boston

We wrapped up the night at Green Dragon Tavern . Established in 1654 ( maybe … ), this historic watering hole played host to the likes of Paul Revere and John Hancock. According to famed historian Daniel Webster, “it was in the Green Dragon that the plans for the invasion of Lexington and Concorde were overheard thus starting the famous ride of Paul Revere.” Thus you might argue that the American Revolution literally started there.

While the Top 40 cover bands, humorless bouncers, and raucous college freshmen have dulled some of its historical shine, it’s still among the oldest and most important taverns in the city. And a great place to end our tour!

Pizza, beer, and just enough of a history lesson to pretend we actually did something educational for the afternoon. If only my high school history class had been so fun and filling …

North End Pizza Tour

North End Pizza Tour

Tickets 🎫 Standard entry for 1 person Highlights 🍕 Enjoy a pizza-powered guided tour around Boston's oldest neighborhood ⛪ Visit five history-laden Freedom Trail sites including the oldest home and church in Boston 🍫 Watch old-world chocolatiers work their tasty magic inside a 300-year-old home

General Info 📅 Date and time: various dates and times available (select during purchase) 📍 Meeting point: Boston Pizza Tours Meeting Point 👤 Age requirement: all ages welcome! ⏳ Duration: 2 hours and 30 minutes 📱 You will find more information about your booking in your Fever ticket and confirmation email ❓ For this event, all sales are final and tickets can’t be refunded, changed or modified. For more information, please refer to our T&Cs

Description Easily digestible Boston history and award-winning food? You'll wanna make sure you get a slice of the action. The crew at North End Pizza Tours know that education is worst-served to those with empty stomachs.

User reviews

  • Janice M. Aug 2022 We had the best afternoon!! Pizza and history of the North End. A win win!!
  • Stacey S. Aug 2022 our guide Scotty was so knowledgeable and awesome!
  • Jennifer D. Jan 2023 Tim gave a great tour, lots of interesting information
  • Anna M. Apr 2023 It was a really fun way to tour the North End. The pizza stops were great!
  • J6kvjfqwcj Jun 2023 Good pizza, great tour!
  • Cath G. Jul 2023 Fantastic tour guide!

Getting there

Ristorante Fiore

257 Hanover Street, Boston, 02113-2322

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Hour Glass   Duration:  Two and a half hours

Map Marker   Stops:  Three pizza samplings and two beer tastings

Food   Tastings:  All food included. Enough food for lunch. Vegetarian friendly. Call for other dietary restrictions.

ABOUT PIZZA, BEER, & HISTORY TOUR

Looking for something to do in NYC? Check out the best pizza and beer in Greenwich Village, a historical and cultural mecca on the Westside, with the help of a licensed tour guide. Learn interesting tidbits and increase your cultural knowledge, all while savoring three pizza samplings and two beer tastings.

ABOUT THE PIZZA:

No neighborhood does pizza quite like Greenwich Village, with everything from amazing coal-fired thin crust pies and traditional New York slices dripping with mozzarella cheese and oil to newer pizzaiolos (pizza makers), many of whom are recent immigrants from Italy showcasing how pizza is cooked in their home regions in the Old Country. We have been eating pizza in the neighborhood for decades and have scouted out three amazing spots to try three different styles of pizza. We examine what makes each so unique, from inspiration to ingredients to ovens.

ABOUT THE BEER:

Drinking in Greenwich Village has always been as big a part of the culture as music, painting, and writing. Not even a little thing like Prohibition stopped the party — the Village was home to some of New York’s most famous speakeasies, and we get to enjoy a beer at one of its better-known former speakeasies. Learn how they snuck in the booze and kept their customers from getting arrested while enjoying drinks in the bars that helped transform Greenwich Village into “The Village” — as much a state of mind as a physical neighborhood.

PIZZA & BEER TOUR HIGHLIGHTS

This two and a half-hour pizza & beer tour includes tastings at different establishments (subject to change).

  • Enjoy three pizza tastings from some of Greenwich Village’s best-known pizza restaurants.
  • Toast to Village legends at two of the West Village’s most famous and notorious bars — including a former speakeasy and a bar that was one of the main hangouts of the Beat Generation. The first beer at each venue is on us!
  • Get insight, anecdotes, and insider knowledge from your dynamic local tour guide.
  • Walk in the footsteps of some of America’s best-known writers, artists, and musicians along the quaint tree-lined streets and architecture of the West Village.
  • Be transported back to the many eras that made Greenwich Village so unique, and learn how Village luminaries lived and drank in the neighborhood.

We raise our glasses and toast those who have come before us — but this is not purely a pub crawl. This tour is so much more than moving from bar to bar. We walk the same streets as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jackson Pollock, Dylan Thomas, Bob Dylan, and other Village legends, chatting about what drew them all to this amazing corner of New York. We schmooze, take photos, and sightsee as well as eat and drink, learning the amazing stories of the Village and all of the establishments we visit.

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Want to make our delicious and fun pizza & beer food tour a private event? Contact us! We specialize in curating the best private culinary experiences.

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The tour meets in front of the Porto Rico Importing Co located at 201 Bleecker St, New York, NY 10012. The closest subway stop is the West 4th Street stop on the A, C, E, B, D or F trains. You can also take the 6 train to Bleecker St and walk West about 8.5 blocks. If you are lost or running late, please call us at 877-568-6877. Our first pizza tasting is at Artichoke Pizza located at 111 MacDougal Street.

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  • All food tastings are included.
  • The first beer at two different bars is included. You may purchase additional drinks on your own.
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  • Non-refundable, cannot be rescheduled Once purchased, tickets cannot be refunded and cannot be rescheduled because your space is being guaranteed at the event.

Weather Policy

  • Activity takes place rain or shine. The activity runs regardless of weather conditions. In the rare situation where the seller is forced to cancel the event, ticket-holders may reschedule to another time (subject to availability).

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  • Everyone must be at least 21 years of age in order to participate with a valid government issued ID.

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Boston's North End Pizza & History Walking Food Tour

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Boston's North End Pizza & History Walking Food Tour

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Treat yourself to some of the best Pizza in the World on this History & Pizza Walking Tour through Boston's “Little Italy”. During this fun History Walk you’ll see FIVE Freedom Trail sites, plus enjoy THREE different slices from some of Boston’s very best Pizzerias. Pizzerias on tour do rotate, and may include – a slice named in the “Top 25 Best” in America by a famous Food Critic, a slice from Boston’s oldest Pizzeria with a brick oven from 1883, a “Secret Underground” spot for grilled Bar Pizza, or taste Neapolitan-style from the Winner of Boston's 1st Pizza Festival! Some slices are enjoyed “al fresco” in beautiful North End parks. Bonus stop at Modern Pastry to finish with a FREE Cannoli! See and learn about top Boston sites including Paul Revere House, Old North Church, the Skinny House, Bunker Hill Monument, USS Constitution, and Copp's Hill burying ground. Also look for our popular Historic Boston Taverns Tour and Boston Seafood Lovers Tour - come Binge On Boston!

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  • 263 Hanover Street
  • 02113, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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  • Activity duration is 2 hours and 30 minutes 2h 30m 2h 30m

Duration: 2 hours Pizza, Water and a Cannoli

What's included, what's not

  • What's included What's included 2+ hour History & Pizza Walking Tour of Boston's North End
  • What's included What's included Bottled water
  • What's included What's included Enjoy 3 Pizza Tastings from some of "Little Italy's" Top Pizzerias
  • What's included What's included Cannoli from Modern Pastry
  • What's included What's included Professional/Local Guide
  • What's included What's included Visit campus of historic Old North Church & The Clough House. Admission IS NOT included.
  • What's included What's included Walk in the footsteps of Revolutionary Patriots like Paul Revere, Samuel Adams and George Washington
  • What's included What's included See 5 Freedom Trail Sites, including Old North, Paul Revere House, Bunker Hill & Old Ironsides.
  • What's excluded What's excluded Gratuities

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  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately
  • Gluten-Free, Vegan options available on Private Tours ONLY.

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Moscow Metro Underground Small-Group Tour - With Reviews & Ratings

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  • Duration: 3 Hrs
  • Language: English
  • Departure Time : 10:00 AM
  • Departure Details : Karl Marks Monument on Revolution Square, metro stop: Square of Revolution
  • Return Details : Metro Smolenskaya
  • If you cancel at least 4 day(s) in advance of the scheduled departure, there is no cancellation fee.
  • If you cancel within 3 day(s) of the scheduled departure, there is a 100 percent cancellation fee.
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Go beneath the streets on this tour of the spectacular, mind-bending Moscow Metro! Be awed by architecture and spot the Propaganda , then hear soviet stories from a local in the know. Finish it all up above ground, looking up to Stalins skyscrapers, and get the inside scoop on whats gone on behind those walls.

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We begin our Moscow tour beneath the city, exploring the underground palace of the Moscow Metro. From the Square of Revolution station, famous for its huge statues of soviet people (an armed soldier, a farmer with a rooster, a warrior, and more), we’ll move onto some of the most significant stations, where impressive mosaics, columns, and chandeliers will boggle your eyes! Moreover, these stations reveal a big part of soviet reality — the walls depict plenty of Propaganda , with party leaders looking down from images on the walls. Your local guide will share personal stories of his/her family from USSR times, giving you insight into Russia’s complicated past and present. Then we’re coming back up to street level, where we’ll take a break and refuel with some Russian fast food: traditional pancakes, called bliny. And then, stomachs satiated, we are ready to move forward! We’ll take the eco-friendly electric trolleybus, with a route along the Moscow Garden Ring. Used mainly by Russian babushkas(grannies) during the day, the trolleybus hits peak hours in the mornings and evenings, when many locals use it going to and from their days. Our first stop will be the Aviator’s House, one of Stalin’s Seven Sisters, followed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs — and you’ll hear the legends of what has gone on inside the walls. Throughout your Moscow tour, you’ll learn curious facts from soviet history while seeing how Russia exists now, 25 years after the USSR.

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Dress standard: Please wear comfortable shoes for walking. For your Urban Adventure you will be in a small group of a maximum of 12 people

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This tour exceeded our expectations. Nikolai (Nick), our tour guide, was very knowledgeable, thorough, and has a great personality. He didn't take shortcuts and really covered everything that was on the agenda in great detail. We saw beautiful metro stations and learned the history behind them, including many of the murals and designs.

We did the tour with Anna her knowledge and understanding of the History surrounding the metro brought the tour alive. Well done Anna!

This tour was amazing!

Anna was a great tour guide. She gave us heaps of interesting information, was very friendly, and very kindly showed us how to get to our next tour.

Amazing beauty and history.

An excellent tour helped by an absolutely amazing guide. Anna gave a great insight into the history of the metro helped by additional material she had prepared.

great tour and guide - thanks again

great will do it again, Miriam ke was very good as a guide she has lived here all here life so knew every interesting detail.a good day

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A ride across passages of history - Moscow Metro rolls on

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Lying at a depth of 5 (Pechatniki station) to 80 metres (Park Pobedy station), the history of the last eight decades unfold before your eyes, carved out of marble and granite and built in iron and glass – revealing the tastes, ideas, dreams, hopes and disappointments of the previous generations and contemporaries. The Moscow Metro dates back to 1931, when its construction first began, although engineers Pyotr Balinsky and Evgeny Knorre submitted their first designs to the Moscow City Duma as far back as 1902. “His speeches carried a strong temptation: like a true demon, he would promise to cast Moscow down to the bottom of the sea and raise it above the clouds”, a journalist for the Russkoye Slovo newspaper commented on Balinsky’s idea. Yet the Duma, made up of rich people, did not bite the bait: after all, they all lived in the centre of the city and never rode overcrowded trams.

After five failed proposals before the Duma, the Moscow Metro finally threw open its doors on May 15, 1935, 18 years after the revolution, and carried the first passengers on its moving staircases, escalators, and the padded seats of its new wagons (unlike the wooden seats in trams). The first metro line – from Sokolniki to Dvorets Sovetov (now known as Kropotkinskaya) -- was 11 km long and had 13 stations. Now, the Moscow Metro has a track of over 300 km with 12 lines and 182 stations. The city’s development outline for 2020 envisages that, by then, another 120 km will have been added to the existing routes.

For the first 20 years of its history, the Moscow Metro was named after Lazar Kaganovich, the “iron commissar” and Stalin’s right hand man, who was in-charge of construction of the first stage of the metro (incidentally, he personally blew up the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in December 1931 as a part of the Proletarian Capital project). In 1955, however, the Metro was renamed after Vladimir Lenin. Although Russia has long since changed its political track, you can still find the images of the former leader at over 10 stations, including, for instance, busts of Lenin at Belorusskaya and Komsomolskaya stations, impressive mosaics at Baumanskaya and Kievskaya stations, a tile panel in the passage between the Borovitskaya and Biblioteka Imeni Lenina stations. By a bitter irony of fate, Lenin’s full-face and side-face images decorate the Tsaritsyno (translated as the Tsarina’s Estate) station (dubbed Lenino up until 1990) – images of the very person who ordered the shooting of the royal family. You will not, however, find any images of Stalin in Moscow’s underground. A symbol of Russia's victory, he was omnipresent in the late 1940s. After his death in 1953 and the denunciation of Stalin’s personality cult, his images were gradually withdrawn from the Moscow Metro.

“Architecture developed along the same lines, both above and below the surface. Anything that emerged above ground had a reflection underground. It is equally true that vice versa never occurred: good architecture underground but bad architecture above the ground,” says Nikolay Shumakov, chief architect of the Moscow Metro. The first metro stations, up until the mid-1950s, were conceived and built as luxurious “palaces for the people”, great architecture for a great state. Art historians insist that the richly-decorated underground was a deliberate ideological move to eulogise the young Soviet country. Stations built between 1937 and 1955 are characteristic of the first architectural period. Everything completed at this time is worthy of special attention. For instance, look at the ceiling at Mayakovskaya and Novokuznetskaya stations to see mosaic panels based on designs by artist Alexander Deineka – 24-Hour Soviet Sky and Heroic Labour of the Soviet People on the Home Front. The mosaics were assembled by famous mosaic artist Vladimir Frolov, author of the mosaic icons in St. Petersburg’s Church of the Saviour on Blood. The Ploshchad Revolutsii station was decorated with 76 bronze sculptures of workers, soldiers, farmers, students and other Soviet people. You can even find a frontier guard with a dog and rub its nose for good luck. You may also note that all the figures (except pioneers) are either sitting or bent, which engendered the sad joke – “Any Soviet man is either in jail or on his knees.”

 Elements of decoration in Moscow's metro.   Photos by Alexandr Ganyushin

1955 heralded the end of the good times for Russian architecture – both underground and above ground – after the Communist Party issued a decree "On elimination of extravagance in design and construction.” Dull stations, without any stucco work, mosaics, original columns or other “unjustified” elements, were built under the slogan “Kilometres at the expense of architecture”. Things were the same above the ground, where entire cities were built of commonplace five-storey apartment blocks, all looking the same, nicknamed ‘Khrushchevkas’ after the then leader, Nikita Khrushchev. To get a sense of this period’s architecture, see the few stations built in the 1960s-1980s like Tverskaya, Kitay-Gorod and Kolomenskaya. In 2002, with the reconstruction of the Vorobyovy Gory station, the development of the Moscow Metro entered a third stage, which could be defined as ‘renaissance’. The platform of the station offers a splendid view of the Moskva River, the Luzhniki Olympic Complex and the Academy of Sciences building. Architectural canons of the 1930s-1940s were once again in use in the design of underground stations. By the same token, artists once again become involved in decorating the stations. As such, the Sretensky Bulvar station boasts silhouettes of Pushkin, Gogol, and Timiryazev and Moscow sights; the Dostoevskaya station is decorated with black-and-white panels featuring the main characters from Dostoyevsky’s novels The Idiot, Demons, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and the Maryina Roshcha station flaunts its pastoral mosaic landscapes. In 2004, Russia's first monorail transport system was launched into service – an elevated track (running 6 to 12 metres above the ground) in the northern part of Moscow, linking the All-Russian Exhibition Centre and the Timiryazevskaya metro station. The evolution of the Moscow Metro goes on. It’s still a work in progress, with ambitious plans to move the Moscow Metro even closer to passengers over the next ten years, not just by adding an extra 120 km to its total track. “We want to strip the stations of everything we can,” says Nikolai Shumakov. “We are trying to show the passengers their very framework, what the metro is made of. Cast iron and concrete are beautiful.”

Joy ride: Read Gogol, Dante or savour art

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The Aquarelle Train.   Source: Reuters/Vostock-Photo

With any luck, you can ride in a retro train, a moving art gallery or a library. The trains are actually a part of the general traffic (i.e., they do not run to any special schedule) and are used on certain lines. The Reading Moscow Train , an ordinary train on the face of it, features extracts from literary works for adults and children. Each wagon has its own selection, from children’s fairy tales to Gogol. Circle Line. The Poetry in Metro Train carries an exposition, updated this year, dedicated to Italian poets Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarch, Giacomo Leopardi, etc. All the poems are featured in two languages, Russian and Italian. Filevskaya Line. The Sokolniki Retro Train looks exactly like the first Moscow Metro train, both inside and out. Painted brown, it has padded seats, typical wall decorations and retro lamps. Sokolnicheskaya Line. The Aquarelle Train looks like a cabinet painted with flowers and fruit on the outside. Inside, it is an art gallery featuring art reproductions from the Vyatka Apollinary and Viktor Vasnetsov Art Museum. Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line.

Revolution Square station (built in 1938) is close to the Red Square area. There are 72 sculptures in the station, depicting the people of the Soviet Union, including soldiers, farmers, athletes, writers, industrial workers and school children.

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Moscow Metro Tour

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Moscow metro private tours.

  • 2-hour tour $87:  10 Must-See Moscow Metro stations with hotel pick-up and drop-off
  • 3-hour tour $137:  20 Must-See Moscow Metro stations with Russian lunch in beautifully-decorated Metro Diner + hotel pick-up and drop off. 
  • Metro pass is included in the price of both tours.

Highlight of Metro Tour

  • Visit 10 must-see stations of Moscow metro on 2-hr tour and 20 Metro stations on 3-hr tour, including grand Komsomolskaya station with its distinctive Baroque décor, aristocratic Mayakovskaya station with Soviet mosaics, legendary Revolution Square station with 72 bronze sculptures and more!
  • Explore Museum of Moscow Metro and learn a ton of technical and historical facts;
  • Listen to the secrets about the Metro-2, a secret line supposedly used by the government and KGB;
  • Experience a selection of most striking features of Moscow Metro hidden from most tourists and even locals;
  • Discover the underground treasure of Russian Soviet past – from mosaics to bronzes, paintings, marble arches, stained glass and even paleontological elements;
  • Learn fun stories and myths about Coffee Ring, Zodiac signs of Moscow Metro and more;
  • Admire Soviet-era architecture of pre- and post- World War II perious;
  • Enjoy panoramic views of Sparrow Hills from Luzhniki Metro Bridge – MetroMost, the only station of Moscow Metro located over water and the highest station above ground level;
  • If lucky, catch a unique «Aquarelle Train» – a wheeled picture gallery, brightly painted with images of peony, chrysanthemums, daisies, sunflowers and each car unit is unique;
  • Become an expert at navigating the legendary Moscow Metro system;
  • Have fun time with a very friendly local;
  • + Atmospheric Metro lunch in Moscow’s the only Metro Diner (included in a 3-hr tour)

Hotel Pick-up

Metro stations:.

Komsomolskaya

Novoslobodskaya

Prospekt Mira

Belorusskaya

Mayakovskaya

Novokuznetskaya

Revolution Square

Sparrow Hills

+ for 3-hour tour

Victory Park

Slavic Boulevard

Vystavochnaya

Dostoevskaya

Elektrozavodskaya

Partizanskaya

Museum of Moscow Metro

  • Drop-off  at your hotel, Novodevichy Convent, Sparrow Hills or any place you wish
  • + Russian lunch  in Metro Diner with artistic metro-style interior for 3-hour tour

Fun facts from our Moscow Metro Tours:

From the very first days of its existence, the Moscow Metro was the object of civil defense, used as a bomb shelter, and designed as a defense for a possible attack on the Soviet Union.

At a depth of 50 to 120 meters lies the second, the coded system of Metro-2 of Moscow subway, which is equipped with everything you need, from food storage to the nuclear button.

According to some sources, the total length of Metro-2 reaches over 150 kilometers.

The Museum was opened on Sportivnaya metro station on November 6, 1967. It features the most interesting models of trains and stations.

Coffee Ring

The first scheme of Moscow Metro looked like a bunch of separate lines. Listen to a myth about Joseph Stalin and the main brown line of Moscow Metro.

Zodiac Metro

According to some astrologers, each of the 12 stops of the Moscow Ring Line corresponds to a particular sign of the zodiac and divides the city into astrological sector.

Astrologers believe that being in a particular zadiac sector of Moscow for a long time, you attract certain energy and events into your life.

Paleontological finds 

Red marble walls of some of the Metro stations hide in themselves petrified inhabitants of ancient seas. Try and find some!

  • Every day each car in  Moscow metro passes  more than 600 km, which is the distance from Moscow to St. Petersburg.
  • Moscow subway system is the  5th in the intensity  of use (after the subways of Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai).
  • The interval in the movement of trains in rush hour is  90 seconds .

What you get:

  • + A friend in Moscow.
  • + Private & customized Moscow tour.
  • + An exciting pastime, not just boring history lessons.
  • + An authentic experience of local life.
  • + Flexibility during the walking tour: changes can be made at any time to suit individual preferences.
  • + Amazing deals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the very best cafes & restaurants. Discounts on weekdays (Mon-Fri).
  • + A photo session amongst spectacular Moscow scenery that can be treasured for a lifetime.
  • + Good value for souvenirs, taxis, and hotels.
  • + Expert advice on what to do, where to go, and how to make the most of your time in Moscow.

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