Regions

Golden Ring

A loose circle of old towns with white-stone churches, monasteries and wooden houses, easy to reach from Moscow and well suited to slow weekend trips.

Landmarks in Golden Ring

• UNESCO World Heritage

  Golden Ring

  Sergiev Posad (Trinity Lavra)

  Russia's most important monastery, with blue-and-gold domes inside a fortified wall an hour from Moscow.

• UNESCO World Heritage

  Golden Ring

  Suzdal

  A small riverside town of white-stone churches, wooden houses and monasteries, best explored on foot.

• UNESCO World Heritage

  Golden Ring

  Vladimir's Assumption Cathedral

  A twelfth-century white-stone cathedral on a hill above the Klyazma River, once the model for Moscow's churches.