Pereslavl-Zalessky - how to get from Moscow and what to see?

2024 Author: Harold Hamphrey | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:06

In the historical center of Russia, there are a number of ancient cities that are included in the Golden Ring route. Some of them, like Moscow, were founded by Yuri Dolgoruky, for example, in 1152 - Pereslavl-Zalessky. With a small population, it contains a significant number of attractions. In this article, we will figure out how to get to Pereslavl-Zalessky from Moscow.

Ride on the bus

This city differs from Rostov Veliky in that there is no rail transport to it, so there are fewer options. How to get to Pereslavl-Zalessky from Moscow by bus? You need to leave from the bus station near the VDNKh metro station or from the bus station near the Shchelkovskaya metro station. Buses run every hour or more often from 7 am to 11 pm. The ticket costs from 300 rubles, the ride is two hours. Not all of them follow these flights exactly to Pereslavl-Zalessky, some go further, to Yaroslavl, Kostroma and Cherepovets. This is important to consider when planning a route.

The bus station in Pereslavl-Zalessky is located on the southern outskirts of the city, on the Moscow highwayd.113. From it you need to walk a couple of kilometers to the historical center.

In the opposite direction, buses on the route Pereslavl-Zalessky-Moscow run even at night, these are passing flights from Kostroma. Thus, you can leave at any time from 10 am to 3 am.

Combined version

How to get to Pereslavl-Zalessky from Moscow by rail? Since there are no direct trains and electric trains, it is worth looking for a ticket to the nearest station - in the ancient city of Rostov, and then transfer to the bus. A good option for those who want to leave Moscow in the morning, walk around Rostov in the afternoon, and arrive in Pereslavl in the evening, where you can stay for the night, and in the morning see the city and return to the capital. This will make for a good weekend getaway.

At 07:35 a branded express leaves Moscow for Rostov. It has seating cars with tickets for 690 rubles. The train arrives in Rostov at 10:15. Buses between Rostov and Pereslavl run around the clock, they depart from the bus station near the railway station. The trip takes 1-1.5 hours. A ticket costs from 200 rubles.

Drive a car

How to get from Moscow to Pereslavl-Zalessky by car. Very simple, you need to leave through Mytishchi along the E-115 highway and move north through Sergiev Posad.

This route is also a bypass for Pereslavl, you can enter the city from the south and east.

What to see along the way?

Distance from Moscow toPereslavl is small, but along the way you can visit several interesting places:

1. Ivanteevka. This city has two beautiful churches - the middle of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th centuries, a moderately interesting local history museum, a recreation park and various monuments, for example, on the theme of the Second World War.
2. Pushkino. In this city there is also a local history museum in the building of the estate of the beginning of the 20th century.

3. The Abramtsevo Museum-Reserve, which contains various buildings, such as a miniature neo-Russian church, a banya-teremok and a hut on chicken legs.
4. Sergiev Posad. A city with the famous Trinity-Sergius Lavra (one of five), as well as interesting museums: toys, Russian soap, local history. It is worth admiring the religious buildings and taking a walk to the Chernigov Skete on the bank of the pond.
5. Spring Gremyachiy key. You can go there if you turn off the E-115 highway. Beautiful wooden buildings and holy water.

What to visit in Pereslavl and its surroundings?

The city stands on the shore of Lake Pleshcheyevo, if you walk to its eastern shore, you can find a 12-ton pagan boulder - the Blue Stone.

If you go the other way to the northeast corner of the lake, you will find a unique narrow-gauge railway museum in the village of Talitsy.

The city itself is old and pretty. Six monasteries, several churches and the oldest cathedral in the region, built in the middle of the 12th century, are scattered in a small area. It is 200 years older than the oldest stone buildings in Moscow.

BPereslavl about 10 museums, you can walk around them all day.