• Full-color package at an affordable price

• Star ratings for all hotels, restaurants, and attractions

• Foldout front covers with maps and quick-reference information

• Tear-resistant map in a handy, reclosable plastic wallet

• Handy pocket-sized trim

* Moscow counted 3.5mn foreign visitors in 2005 (figures for international arrivals at Moscow's airports and so excluding those arriving by other modes of travel).
* Moscow retains an aura of mystery and intrigue other cities cannot compete with. It has always had a fractured personality: friendly, yet also intimidating; dreary and austere, but colourful and ornate; European, while infused with Asian influences; insular yet cosmopolitan. It provides an in-depth cultural experience other destinations struggle to match.
* Includes special interest tours exploring the cities history, unique architecture and literary culture.
* Details fascinating Neighbourhood tours including walks around Bolshaya Nikitskaya, the Patriarch's Ponds and the Arbat.
* Shows you where to find the best specialist shops for local food, collectable art and chic fashion.
* Gives insight to the best restaurants, live music venues and entertainment from Russian ballet to musical theatre.
* Encompasses excursions to Stalin's secret bunker and Star City.
* Walk the cobbles of Red Square and appreciate the onion domes of St Basil's Cathedral.
* Visit the attractions within the red-stone walls of the Kremlin, including the State Armoury, the Gold-domed Cathedral of the Assumption and the Great Kremlin Palace.
* Visit the Bohemian Arbat with its thriving caf頣ulture, a long time haunt of artists, musicians and writers with museums dedicated to Tolstoy and Pushkin.
* Spend a night at the world famous Moscow's Bolshoi opera and ballet in the six-tier auditorium.
* Take in some of the greatest collections of Russian art on earth at the Tretyakov Gallery