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Online Edition of Celtic Connections 2021 Reveals Full Concert Program

The Celtic Connections festival will start one week today. Throughout 19 days, the festival will present over 30 online performances between Friday, January 15 and Tuesday, February 2, 2021.

World class concerts will be available to view online with some of the leading names on the Scottish music scene and beyond, appearing on screens across the world as part of the winter festival.

Celtic Connections has created unique digital content from specially commissioned projects and performances filmed round many of Glasgow’s much-loved venues. International artists have also contributed to the eclectic line-up by recording performances remotely.

Traditionally, the festival welcomes over 100,000 attendees to Glasgow, and on announcing the digital-first festival, organizers hoped it would appeal to the wide international audience they usually see attending the festival.

The 19-day event indeed has caught the attention of music fans across the world with festival passes purchased in 35 countries already. With the festival’s global audiences in mind, they have allowed for all shows to be available for a week after they are first streamed to alleviate any restrictions for different time zones enjoying the range of content. 

Donald Shaw , Creative Producer for Celtic Connections, stated: “The announcement of the full festival program today marks a huge moment for me and the wider team. The concept for a digital-first Celtic Connections was borne out of a desire to promote well-being and optimism amongst fellow musicians as much as it was about still being able to offer entertainment to our loyal Celtic Connections audiences during the dark nights of January .

“ The resounding feeling that has come out of the recording days is a space for musicians to come back, to play again, to feel part of the community that they helped to create. The last time a lot of the contributing artists performed was at Celtic Connections 2020 and now they are back playing as part of the festival one year on after what has undoubtedly been the hardest year of their careers. We feel incredibly proud that as a festival, along with our funding partners, we have allowed for this safe space for them to play again, embrace their creativity and ultimately give them hope that there is a future for them within this industry .”

Program Information

The first online concert from the festival will include sets from some of the very best musicians on both the Scottish and international music scenes. With over 12 performances packed into the 90-minute show, the footage has been recorded across many of Glasgow’s venues as well as captured remotely across the world, bringing a true feeling of optimism and connections as it welcomes back so many musicians who have graced the festival stages across the years.

Each night’s online concert will show an ambitious line-up of various performers.

Saturday 16 th January 2021 will offer two concerts, with the first in the shape of BEMIS presents ‘The New Scots in Concert’ with music from Jamaican musician Brina , whose sound is steeped in the rhythm of her native culture and inspired by World Roots Reggae music. The Ando Glasho Collective , a group that showcases the cultural heritage of the Roma people living in Scotland, will also perform as part of this early evening show.

Later that evening, Celtic Connections will welcome to its stage the heady line-up of acid croft pioneers Shooglenifty , fiddle playing royalty RANT and Scots singer Fiona Hunter (of Malinky fame). One of Scotland’s finest young singer-songwriters Paul McKenna will also perform as well as Sudanese singer-songwriter Amira Kheir .

The afternoon of Sunday 17 th January will have viewers settling into Josie Duncan’s New Voices commission while the evening will once again welcome a smorgasbord of talent in the shape of long-term collaborators and cross-genre pioneers Chris Stout and Catriona McKay and the Gambian artist and first female kora virtuoso from a West African griot family Sona Jobarteh . Jazz will also take center stage on the Sunday night with award-winning jazz artists, including Jazz FM vocalist of the year nominee 2020 Georgia Cecile and jazz pianist Fergus McCreadie whose second album, Cairn, is out on 29 th January.

A special show titled Come Away In will air on Monday 18 th January. Inspired by Karine Polwart’s song of the same name that celebrates Scottish hospitality and is partly inspired by The Wren’s Nest by Robert Burns, this song circle show will include performances from some of the best vocalist on the Scottish music scene – Karine Polwart , Eddi Reader , Rab Noakes , Siobhan Miller & Finlay Napier .

Scottish folk group Breabach will perform as part of the show being aired on Tuesday 19 th January. Part of Aidan O’Rourke’s 365 show will also be aired where he will once again be joined by Kit Downes . Singer and harpist Rachel Newton (winner of the BBC Radio 2 Folk Musician of the Year in 2017) will also perform songs from her new album To the Awe . One of the true masters of the ngoni, an ancient traditional lute found throughout West Africa, Bassekou Kouyate will perform with his quartet of fellow instrumentalists Ngoni Ba , recorded remotely in his home village of Garana in Mali. Brummie folk musician Katherine Priddy will also perform as part of tonight’s entertainment.

Wednesday 20 th January will showcase Blue Rose Code , the musical embodiment of Edinburgh-born musician Ross Wilson. Karen Matheson of Capercaillie fame will also perform a mixture of new material from her new solo album Still Time, out next month.  Strings trio LYRE are a new group comprising of Patsy Reid, Alice Allen and Marit Fält and they, alongside Scottish acoustic troubadour Rory Butler , complete the line-up for this mid-week show.

Scottish trad will take to the stage on Thursday 21 st January with multi-instrumentalist Ross Ainslie and his band alongside renowned folk-trad groups Talisk and Mànran . Scottish singer-songwriters Siobhan Miller and Beth Malcolm will also perform.

Friday 22 nd January will be headlined by the exuberant fiddle playing of contemporary folk group Blazin’ Fiddles . Galicia’s Xabier Diaz records his set from his native Santiago de Compostela (Spain) and the folk four-piece Gnoss and Gaelic singer Deirdre Graham perform sets from Glasgow’s stages.

The first concert of Saturday 23 rd January will welcome Nordic folk outfit Dreamers’ Circus who have recorded from at home Denmark. Vocalist and exponent of the Gaelic tradition Kathleen MacInnes and folk five-piece Ímar will join the Nordic trio on tonight’s bill.

A special performance which has been captured for the festival in Rajasthan will also be part of this middle weekend show.  The Womanly Voices of Jodhpur Riff  was recorded at 4am with eight local female Rajasthan musicians playing as the moon went down and the sun came up. The line-up includes mother  Sundar Rao  and her daughter  Ganga Rao  on vocals, alongside  Mohini Devi  also on vocals and her daughter  Susheela –  the very first Rajasthani woman folk artist to play the khartal instrument on an international platform (with her first performance at Jodhpur RIFF – Rajasthan International Folk Festival in 2019 and now as part of Celtic Connections 2021.)  

The later Saturday night show, starting at 9pm, will be Scottish indie group Admiral Fallow who will perform a one-hour concert for the festival.

Sunday 24 th January will be a day packed full of entertainment with three online concerts. The first of the day will be the festival’s second New Voices commission, this time from 2017’s BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year Charlie Stewart .

The evening’s show will welcome the Americana duo The Secret Sisters . A high energy and driving performance will also come from Kinnaris Quintet . An Tobar is a creative hub on the beautiful Isle of Mull and for the first time they have commissioned a special set for this year’s festival that will be performed by Mairearad Green , Sorren MacLean & Hannah Fisher and Roddy Woomble of Idlewild fame.

The late-night show on Sunday 24 th January will come from the legendary Argentine-Swedish singer-songwriter José González . After an unusually long break from live shows and recording of a new album for release later this year, José González will join in with an exclusive solo performance from a special venue in Gothenburg, Sweden.

James Grant & the Hallelujah String Quartet will perform a 50-minute set on Monday 25 th January, supported by multi-instrumentalist, composer and singer Siobhan Wilson and nu-folk singer-songwriter Zoë Bestel .

On Tuesday 26 th January the fiddle-led group Fara will take to the stage. They will be joined by an eclectic mix of Scottish talent in the form of singer-songwriter Rachel Walker , folk trio Assynt , fiddler Chloë Bryce and singer Amy Papiransky .

Wednesday 27 th January will showcase two Celtic Connections shows, with the first being ‘Home on the Sea’ (sponsored by CalMac) .

Celtic Connections favorites Cherish the Ladies will return for the online edition of the festival also on Wednesday 27 th January. Their performance will be well and truly warmed up by sets from Nae Plans with Hamish Napier & Adam Sutherland and folk quartet Westward the Light .

Thursday 28 th January will welcome a night of piping with The Conundrum 2021 – a line-up of pipers that includes Finlay MacDonald , Ross Ainslie , Malin Lewis , Ailis Sutherland , Conal McDonagh , Bradley Parker and a band of Steven Blake , Steve Byrnes and David Foley . Also joining this bill are Tryst , the 10-member band of pipers. The neo-trad trio Project Smok will open the night of entertainment with a number of tunes built around the distinctive piping of BBC Young Traditional Musician of the Year 2020 Ali Levack.  

Friday 29 th January will showcase a Celtic Connections flagship event, Transatlantic Sessions , which will welcome the regular all-star line-up from here in Scotland and across the pond. The festival will also air a concert that celebrates the music of Quebec with QuebecFest , featuring Le Vent du Nord , De Temps Antan & Isle Gross .

The final weekend offers another jam-packed entertainment offering with the first of the Saturday shows coming from Inverness where indie-folk band Elephant Sessions perform a 75-minute gig from The Ironworks venue.

Starting at 9pm on Saturday 30 th January will be Roaming Roots Revue with this year’s theme aptly being Songs for Survival. The renowned festival favorite will welcome an all-star line-up of Simon Neil of Biffy Clyro fame, indie/art rockers Field Music , Ricky Ross and Lorraine McIntosh (Deacon Blue), folk trio The Staves , experimental triad LAU , singer-songwriters Heir of the Cursed and Rachel Sermanni , all beautifully accompanied by the inimitable house band of Roddy Hart & The Lonesome Fire.

The afternoon of Sunday 31 st January will showcase the festival’s third and final New Voices Commission from Steven Blake of Rura fame.

A special show celebrating Edwin Morgan at 100 will be aired on the Sunday night which will showcase a selection of performances of songs that have been written to Edwin Morgan’s poems by artists such as Roddy Woomble and Karine Polwart . The festival has also commissioned a new piece of work from Gavin Bryars who has written a choral work based on poems by Morgan called the Sonnets from Scotland (this show is in collaboration with Edinburgh international book festival).

The later show on Sunday 31 st January comes from Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi . They will be supported by Orkney singer-songwriter Kris Drever (Lau), Americana singer Dean Owens who will perform alongside Calexico’s Joey Burns , Cahalen Morrison will complete tonight’s bill.

On Monday 1 st February, Uist’s Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum & Arts Centre have commissioned a special show that celebrates the talent that has come out of or been inspired by the island.

Ticketing Information

The ‘All Access’ ticket is priced at £40 and this will give access to all of the concerts taking place across the 19 days.

It is also now possible to purchase tickets for individual shows.

More information on ticketing and programming at www.celticconnections.com

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Transatlantic Sessions Tour 2024

Nearly a quarter-century on from the original Transatlantic Sessions TV series, the live version is securely ensconced as an annual highlight not only of each year’s Celtic Connections , but - thanks to its now-annual post-festival tour - of many fans’ musical calendar throughout the UK. As No Depression put it in their 2018 review (citing co-musical director Aly Bain ), “the ‘special relationship’ across the Pond has come under scrutiny recently, but in the context of this music it remains as strong as ever.”

The incomparable Transatlantic ‘house band’, led by Shetland fiddle maestro  Aly Bain  and dobro virtuoso  Jerry Douglas , featuring  Russ Barenberg ,  Phil Cunningham ,  John Doyle  ,  Michael McGoldrick ,  John McCusker ,  Donald Shaw ,  Danny Thompson  and  James Mackintosh  will be joined by a generation-spanning array of guests for 2019. Among them, Nashville-based New Yorker  Gretchen Peters  recently followed up her double AMA Award-winning Blackbirds with more rave reviews for Dancing With the Beast, whose characteristically vivid, eloquent story-songs address post-Trump and #MeToo themes. It’s always a treat to welcome back the great  Tim O’Brien , whose own new release, Where the River Meets the Road, covers songwriters from his native West Virginia including Doc Williams, Larry Groce, Bill Withers and the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers.

Aged just 25, and already crowned in 2017 as the first-ever female IBMA Awards Guitar Player of the Year, Californian wunderkind Molly Tuttle picked up 2018’s AMA Instrumentalist of the Year, plus Song of the Year at the International Folk Music Awards – all before releasing her debut album.

Celtic voices among the line-up include the incomparable Cara Dillon , whose transcendent interpretation of traditional exile and emigration songs, on her latest album Wanderer, were summed up by the Observer as “gorgeous homesick blues”. Scotland’s own Paul McKenna has long been ranked among our finest younger singers and songwriters, whose voice and passionate conviction are often likened to Dick Gaughan.

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Moscow Metro

The Moscow Metro Tour is included in most guided tours’ itineraries. Opened in 1935, under Stalin’s regime, the metro was not only meant to solve transport problems, but also was hailed as “a people’s palace”. Every station you will see during your Moscow metro tour looks like a palace room. There are bright paintings, mosaics, stained glass, bronze statues… Our Moscow metro tour includes the most impressive stations best architects and designers worked at - Ploshchad Revolutsii, Mayakovskaya, Komsomolskaya, Kievskaya, Novoslobodskaya and some others.

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The guide will not only help you navigate the metro, but will also provide you with fascinating background tales for the images you see and a history of each station.

And there some stories to be told during the Moscow metro tour! The deepest station - Park Pobedy - is 84 metres under the ground with the world longest escalator of 140 meters. Parts of the so-called Metro-2, a secret strategic system of underground tunnels, was used for its construction.

During the Second World War the metro itself became a strategic asset: it was turned into the city's biggest bomb-shelter and one of the stations even became a library. 217 children were born here in 1941-1942! The metro is the most effective means of transport in the capital.

There are almost 200 stations 196 at the moment and trains run every 90 seconds! The guide of your Moscow metro tour can explain to you how to buy tickets and find your way if you plan to get around by yourself.

Celtic Connections announces an array of new acts for the 2023 line-up

Celtic Connections, the home of world-class music and one-off collaborations, has announced a host of new acts to be added to the dynamic bill for its celebratory 30th edition this January. The internationally renowned event will mark its 30th festival with an ambitious and eclectic programme of music that will be showcased between Thursday 19th January – Sunday 5th February 2023 .

Thousands of musicians will perform at venues across the city over the course of the 18-day event, with concerts and performances spanning traditional folk, roots, Americana, jazz, soul and world music. 

Post-punk indie rockers The Twilight Sad are back after having to cancel their performance at last year’s festival. Famed for their notoriously loud live performances, the band will bring a very special and intimate show to Celtic Connections, featuring stripped-back songs from across their critically acclaimed body of work. 

Glasgow’s southside venue Tramway will host two very special performances across the last weekend of the festival. Genre-defying Scottish composer and performer Anna Meredith will bring her acoustic and electro performance to Celtic Connections 2023 on the final Friday, straddling the different worlds of contemporary classical, art pop, techno, large-scale installations, and experimental rock. The penultimate night will welcome Malian singer and guitarist Vieux Farka Touré to the Tramway stage to present his new album Ali , described by Elton John as “ one of the albums of the year .” 

Gaelic supergroup Dàimh will also set the Celtic Connections stage ablaze this January. Regarded as giants of the bagpipes and fiddle, Angus Mackenzie and Gabe McVarish lead the melodic powerhouse, with fellow founder member Ross Martin underpinning the groove on guitar. The band are joined by ’new guy‘ Murdo “Yogi” Cameron on mandola and accordion to complete the instrumental line up. Joining them on vocals is the Gaelic firmament’s rising star, Ellen MacDonald .

Joining Dàimh on this bill will be Irish singer-songwriter Karan Casey who has been blazing a trail for over 25 years. A lover of ballads, love songs and searing versions of social justice songs, as well as a great storyteller, Karan has toured the world connecting with her audience through Ireland’s past, while crucially repositioning women and songs in a universal and a modern setting.

Award-winning folk band CARA will celebrate their 20th anniversary as a band with a special anniversary line up, including Jeana Leslie (FARA), winner of the 2010 World Bodhrán Championship, Aimee Farrell-Courtney , and Steffen Gabriel (Northern Light). 

Sam Kelly & the Lost Boys will also take to the Celtic Connections stage as part of its 30th edition. The brainchild of BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winning singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Sam Kelly , The Lost Boys band has gained a reputation as one of the best live acts in the UK, with the virtuosic talents of Jamie Francis (banjo), Graham Coe (cello), Toby Shaer (whistles/fiddle), Archie Moss (melodeon) and Evan Carson (drums) showcasing an eclectic and innovative reworking of traditional songs and tunes from England, Scotland, Ireland and the USA. 

Former BBC Radio Scotland’s Young Traditional Musician of the Year Claire Hastings will perform her varied repertoire of traditional, contemporary and original songs, with the accompaniment of her full band.  

The Friel Sisters will bring their traditional Irish music and song to the festival, while Shetland fiddle player Ross Couper will make his return to Celtic Connections, this time with his own band. Joining him is BBC Radio Scotland’s Traditional Musician of the Year 2021, Michael Biggins and drumming legend Paul Jennings . This will be the first outing of The Ross Couper Band and it’ll be a chance to hear some material from his greatly received Celtic Connections New Voices commission last year, alongside some new material. 

Rokia Koné , aka the Rose of Bamako, visits Celtic Connections for the first UK live performance of her debut album Bamanan , a collaboration with Irish-born, California-based rock producer Jacknife Lee (U2, R.E.M, Snow Patrol, The Killers)

Rokia’s voice soars – pure, clear and true — above bass and synths, traditional percussion and infectious Mande guitar grooves. A stop-you-in-your-tracks voice instantly familiar to anyone in Mali, West Africa – and previously a core member of supergroup Les Amazones d'Afrique - her captivating performances run the gamut of emotion from joy to despair and fury to tenderness, wielding her astounding voice with grace and power. Jacknife Lee has become one of the most sought after and highly influential producers, having worked with some of the most influential artists on both sides of the Atlantic including Taylor Swift, U2, R.E.M, Snow Patrol & The Killers. Working together across three continents on Bamanan , Rokia and Jacknife have reimagined the Malian sound in ways leftfield and groundbreaking.

Marking 100 years since Jam es Scott Skinner recorded ‘ The Strathspey King ’, Alice Allen (cello) and Patsy Reid (fiddle) will celebrate this milestone at next year’s festival by releasing their own take on his last, iconic recording from London, 1922.

Patsy and Alice both grew up steeped in the Northeast fiddle tradition, becoming effortlessly fluent in their native strathspeys, reels and airs, whilst simultaneously pursuing a hybrid musical education, achieving much sought-after string technique (that Skinner himself flaunted) whilst remaining true to their respective roots. Together, Alice and Patsy breathe new life into these wonderful tunes, and it is hoped their recording may be enjoyed by Scottish music lovers for another century.

Cottiers Theatre will be the venue for a unique Celtic Connections show entitled When Mountains Meet / Jub Milain Pahaar: A musical adventure from Scotland to Pakistan . The performance will showcase a unique musical journey with Scottish and South Asian influenced music and storytelling, alongside striking visual images. Composed and musically directed by Scottish violinist Anne Wood (The Raincoats, Deacon Blue, Michael Marra) the show will navigate along her unforgettable voyage from the Scottish Highlands to the Himalayas, in search of her Pakistani father whom she had never met.  

Scottish folk quartet Westward the Light will bring their powerful and dynamic music to the 2023 edition of the festival. Comprising musicians Charlie Grey , Sally Simpson , Owen Sinclair and Joseph Peach , they will also be joined by Scottish Uilleann piper, flautist and composer, Calum Stewart and percussive Scottish step dancer, Sophie Stephenson . 

Other names added to the 30th edition of Celtic Connections include, Adam Sutherland , Ainsley Hamill , Alastair McDonald ,  Amythyst Kiah , Archie Fisher , Assynt ,  CLR Theory , Early James , Firelight Trio , Fraser Bruce , Gavin Paterson , Grainne Brady , Hamish Napier , Ian Bruce , Madison Violet , Malcolm MacWatt , Nae Plans , Pete Clark ,  Ron Jappy , Scott Wood Band , Seckou Keita , Session A9 , Staran , Sylvia Barnes , Terra Kin , The Coaltown Daisies , The Routes Quartet , The Special Consensus , Tim Baker and William Prince.

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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)

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Metro stations:.

Komsomolskaya

Novoslobodskaya

Prospekt Mira

Belorusskaya

Mayakovskaya

Novokuznetskaya

Revolution Square

Sparrow Hills

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Victory Park

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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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