«Palaces & Mosques» at the WTM London exhibition

Sergey Ivanov, Chairman of the State Committee on Tourism of the Republic of Tatarstan presented the Palaces & Mosques – a new interregional route during WTM London exhibition. The State Committee on Tourism of the Republic of Tatarstan and the Saint-Petersburg Committee for Tourism Development prepared this route in 2017. At this moment, four tour operators of Kazan and St. Petersburg implemented it.

The Palaces and Mosques tour allows the tourist to see in one trip the best of the best sights of two cities of Russia: St. Petersburg and Kazan. In Northern Venice, you will get acquainted with outstanding examples of architectural conception – palaces in the baroque and classicism style, in which the atmosphere of the past centuries is still felt due to preserved or filigree recreated interiors. The thousand-year-old city of Kazan on the bank of the Volga River opens to the tourist the spiritual heritage of the Republic of Tatarstan, amazes with the beauty of stately mosques and acquaints with other monuments of Muslim culture.