Fair on Tverskaya Square schedule. New Year's Bolshoi Theater
At each site of the Journey to Christmas festival, guests will be greeted by green beauties in different outfits. Trees will be decorated with orange slices, felt boots, figurines of angels, firebirds. And the spruce next to it will look like the Kremlin tower with chimes and a ruby star.
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The main site of the festival will be Red Square - the heart of the capital. It will be decorated abstractly and symbolically (in the style of the works of Kandinsky and Chagall), the atmosphere of a different reality will be complemented by bright lights, festively decorated spruce and fairgrounds. Here you can meet Santa Claus and Snegurochka, watch street performances, go ice skating and buy gifts.
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Tverskaya Square is home to a real Christmas town with shops, restaurants and an elegant spruce tree. Every day - festive program with a national flavor: guests will learn about the New Year traditions of Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Denmark and others European countries... In the square, you will meet fairy-tale characters and heroes of Christmas stories.
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Tverskoy Boulevard will be covered with a magical canopy of thousands of glowing snowflakes - a 100-meter long light tunnel will be installed here. After taking New Year's selfies, you can actively relax: go skiing, sledding, ice-skating, play hockey and curling. The animation house will offer to make exciting journeys in virtual reality helmets.
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Pushkinskaya Square will be transformed by the New Year: the organizers will revive the fountain that sleeps in winter and make it a Musical Forest. This is a light and music installation that will delight guests with Christmas melodies and cozy lights. There will also be a fair with warm clothes and souvenirs, and for children - master classes on 3D modeling and creating cartoons.
Pushkinskaya square
At the "Time for the Sweet Tooth" site, lovers of desserts and delicacies will find themselves in a real paradise. Guests will get acquainted with the delicious New Year traditions of warm countries, learn how to make hot chocolate with chili peppers, sweet bread with candied fruits, fried bananas. And if you can't wait, all these and many other sweets can be bought at the fair.
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No less tasty program awaits the guests of the Candle Courtyard. Children and their parents will learn the secrets of making New Year's treats different countries: Italian fruit pizza, Lithuanian poppy milk, Laurent pie with bean inside. After the culinary experience, guests will be able to taste their masterpieces and taste what others have done.
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If you are sure that a book is the best gift, we suggest you take a look at the Christmas Book-Market. There will be presented new items from domestic publishing houses, as well as designer notebooks, pens, notebooks and other pleasant little things for creativity. Every day there is an open library with books for children and adults, writers, musicians and actors perform.
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You can plunge into a culinary fairy tale on the Arbat. French pancakes, Belgian waffles, gingerbread men and non-alcoholic mulled wine - all these treats you can cook and, of course, taste. At the fair you will find Christmas tree decorations, sweets, dishes, napkins and tablecloths in New Year's decoration.
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You can update your wardrobe for the New Year at the "Time of Magic" site, which will become the territory of high fashion and good taste. Clothes and jewelry of Russian designers, both young and well-known, will be presented here. While parents are transforming, kids will be able to play, master the craft of a magician or circus performer and take part in acting master classes.
st. Kuznetsky Most (in front of the Central Department Store)
If you want to arrange a themed holiday, say, in Russian style, we recommend visiting the Happy Minute venue. Here, the townspeople are told about the New Year's balls of the 19th century, about traditional treats, about the celebration of Christmas in the Russian village. The matter is not limited to conversations: lessons on cooking various dishes and sweets are held for everyone.
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Look for all the most delicious for the New Year's table at the "Gourmet Time" site. The fair will sell all kinds of sweets, farm cheeses, meat delicacies, red and black caviar. They did not forget about the beauty here either: master classes on creating vintage Christmas tree decorations, carnival masks and postcards using the scrapbooking technique are held for guests.
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The heroes of their favorite cartoons and fairy tales will meet the children at the Vremya active rest". Younger guests will get acquainted with ballroom etiquette, dance at a disco with the Snow Maiden, learn about traditional winter fun in Russia. Children are also expected to play outdoor games based on the cartoon "Winter in Prostokvashino".
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To make Christmas toys and carved candles with their own hands, to paint pictures with sand, to take part in theatrical performances will be offered to the guests of the "Time of Handicraft" site. You will learn about New Year's traditions in Russia, learn how to make interesting souvenirs, master the technique of 3D-painting of stones. Both children and adults are expected at the master classes.
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Christmas on sea coast, a snowman made of sand and a coconut smoothie on the festive table - exotic New Year traditions will be told at the Time of the Future site. Every day for children and parents, master classes on cooking treats from India, Japan, the Philippines and other warm countries are held.
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The largest living spruce, the height of which will be as much as 17 meters, will be installed on Manezhnaya Square. The fair will sell antique Christmas tree decorations and handmade carnival masks. In the meantime, children will learn to create their own cartoons and master the basics of the profession of a reporter.
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Colorful musical show ballets on ice will be shown on Revolution Square. We'll see the Nutcracker, Swan Lake"," Cipollino "and" Snow White ". Beginning at 19:00, admission is free.
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It is not only children who will want to slide down this huge mountain. Megagorka will be installed between two squares - Revolution and Manezhnaya. The design will be decorated with an ice clock. Fairgrounds will be located nearby.
between Revolution Square and Manezhnaya Square
Hand-made lovers will appreciate the exhibition of New Year trees on Kuznetsky Most. Visitors will make decorations for the exposition themselves at creative workshops, each tree will turn into a unique art object.
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There is never too much sweet on holidays! Novopushkinsky Square will be a paradise for those with a sweet tooth: be sure to try traditional Russian gingerbread cookies, gingerbread cookies and other sweets. It will also be possible to learn robotics and attend fun English lessons.
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Families with children will love walking along the festive Rozhdestvenka street. A special children's fair will unfold here: toys, board games and sweets will be sold. And the special New Year's decoration of the street will make the walk even more pleasant.
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The site of the "Journey to Christmas" festival on Tverskoy Boulevard actively invites to spend the holidays. All the holidays there will be playing curling, hockey and snowballs. And in shopping chalets, everything is necessary for winter outdoor activities: from sledges and ice-floes to warm hats and mittens.
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This site organizes daily interactive workshops for children. It will be possible to get acquainted with circus professions, make a postcard or unusual constellations that glow in the dark.
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Do you want to know how Christmas is celebrated in different countries - how they dress up, what music they listen to, what they eat? In Kamergersky Lane, culinary shows will be held on the preparation of national dishes from different countries: Belgium, Italy, Mexico and others. Meanwhile, the children will prepare meals from their favorite cartoons.
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Lovers of sweets will definitely drop by the Arbat in search of Belgian waffles with toppings and shortbread cookies. The chalet will sell dishes and cutlery for the festive table, and master classes will teach how to bake pancakes with orange flambé and how to cook non-alcoholic mulled wine.
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The site with monastic goods will be located on Gogolevsky Boulevard, next to the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. It will be possible to purchase icons, candles, books, scarves, honey and much more.
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The best Russian publishing houses will take part in the children's section of the giant book fair "Buk-Market". On the shelves there are books, gift editions, designer pens and notebooks. A children's library will open nearby - stop by to read books and warm up with hot tea. But don't dig too deep into the books, otherwise you will miss the parade of snow angels and Santa Clauses.
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Christmas processions and parades (from 15:00 to 16:00), as well as performances by street musicians (from 17:00 to 19:00) will take place almost every day as part of the book fair on Novy Arbat.
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For everyone who cannot live without coffee even in new year holidays, coffee ceremonies will be held in Stoleshnikov Lane. They will also teach latte art here. Those who prefer tea will also not be offended: come to tea ceremonies and choose unusual varieties in the stalls.
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Literary readings of winter poems by Korney Chukovsky, Agnia Barto, Samuil Marshak and other Russian poets will be held on Sheremetyevskaya Street. The Christmas Bells master class will teach you how to play the xylophone and rattles, and the Wonder Forest class will feature a New Year's performance.
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Everyone knows Russian Father Frost and Snegurochka, as well as Santa Claus. We will find out who comes to children in France, China and Finland, and also learn Christmas songs in foreign languages and stage mini-performances based on the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault.
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While adults are choosing souvenirs and Christmas tree decorations, children will guess riddles, compete in sports relay races and play chess.
Europe Square
In Zelenograd, festival guests are going to be treated to a special Christmas drink with orange and cardamom, as well as culinary master classes for all ages.
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A magical journey to Christmas awaits Muscovites again during the winter holidays: at Christmas and New Year 2017 in the capital for the fourth time the New Year and Christmas festival, so beloved by the townspeople, will be held.
Festival "Journey to Christmas" 2016-2017 promises to be no less colorful than the previous ones, while remaining the same long: the holiday will take place from December 16, 2016 to January 15, 2017 - a whole month!
At 42 thematic venues located in different districts of the capital (mainly in the center), festival visitors will be able to see unusual art objects and light installations, exciting street performances and concerts, as well as take part in various master classes. The grounds of the "Journey to Christmas" festival will be located on the streets and squares of the city and will be decorated in the spirit of the New Year and Christmas: this year, 144 live Christmas trees will be placed on them.
In addition, quests and contests await the townspeople: by taking part in the "Happy Time" quest, festival visitors will be able to test their knowledge of the traditions of celebrating the New Year and Christmas and receive special festival coins that can be exchanged for gifts.
Festival venues
The Journey to Christmas Festival will be held at 42 venues, b O Most of which - and the most interesting - will be located in the city center.
... Manezhnaya Square:"Magic time". The highest living New Year tree of the festival (17 meters), brought from the forests of the Tver region, will be installed on the site. Here, children will be given master classes in journalism, animation and making New Year's gifts, and adults will be able to attend a thematic fair, which will sell Christmas tree decorations (including antique ones), exclusive souvenir watches, carnival masks and gifts.
... Revolution square:"Magic Ice Theater". On the Revolution Square, daily shows await visitors of the festival: ballets on ice "The Nutcracker", "Swan Lake", "Snow White" and "Cipollino". More than 50 professional skaters are involved in theatrical performances; when there are no performances, the "Ice Theater" works like a skating rink, on the ice of which anyone can ride.
... Revolution square:"Milky Way". In addition to the "Magic Ice Theater", a 100-meter ice slide, which will be located near Manezhnaya Square.
... Pushkin Square:"Cozy time". The fountain turned off for the winter will turn into the "Musical Forest" installation, which will combine the New Year and Christmas melodies loved by the public with a light show. Animation and drawing workshops for children fairytale heroes in Adobe Photoshop, as well as creating Christmas tree decorations using 3D printing.
... Novopushkinsky square:"Gingerbread Village". In Novopushkinsky square, visitors will be drawn into the world of fairy tales; here you can taste traditional Russian gingerbread cookies, curly gingerbread cookies, pumpkin crumpets and other sweets. Lessons will also be held on the site of English language and master classes in robotics.
... Kuznetsky Most:"Time of magic" and "Gallery of magic trees". Kuznetsky Most Street will become the home of haute couture and style, where you can buy items from the collections of Russian designers. Theatrical and acting master classes will be held for children. In addition, an exhibition of magical New Year trees will open on the street.
... Gogolevsky Boulevard:"Star of Bethlehem". The site near the Cathedral of Christ the Savior will be dedicated to the Nativity of Christ. Here you can buy monastic goods.
... Tverskaya Square:"European Christmas Market". On Tverskaya Square, near the monument to Yuri Dolgoruky, as part of the "Journey to Christmas" festival, there will be a real Christmas village with houses, restaurants and an elegantly decorated Christmas tree. Here you can buy gifts, sweets, Christmas tree decorations and tableware from France, Spain, Czech Republic, Denmark, Switzerland, Germany and other European countries. Also, there will be Christmas trees for children in the traditions of different countries (Finland, Austria, Czech Republic, Spain and others), as well as Christmas trees in Russian traditions, master classes in needlework, poetry readings and concerts.
... Stoleshnikov Lane:"Warm time". Festival visitors will be able to take part in coffee and tea ceremonies, as well as master classes on needlework, New Year's table decor, latte art and New Year's drinks preparation.
This year, the "Journey to Christmas" festival will acquire a truly international format: 15 countries will take part in it, representatives of which will acquaint Muscovites with their New Year traditions, and the festival sites are preparing to receive (according to the organizers' plans) as many as 12 million guests from Moscow and various cities of Russia and the world.
Trade fairs
As before, bright fairgrounds and trade chalets will open their doors to the visitors of the festival. This time, Muscovites were allowed to take part in the formation of the range of fairground chalets: the Active Citizen portal voted on what the townspeople would like to see on sale at the festival sites.
In beautiful chalets decorated in the style of New Year and Christmas, festival guests can buy sweets and sweet gift sets, New Year and Christmas souvenirs, home decorations and toys, as well as holiday accessories and paraphernalia.
Visitors looking for a bite to eat or warm up can buy pastries and hot drinks.
Learn more about the program and content of all festive venues festival "Journey to Christmas", and you can also get acquainted with the announcements and a detailed schedule of events on the official website of the festival:
Every year Moscow is transformed before the New Year - the central squares are filled with New Year's paraphernalia, Christmas fairs and other entertainments appear. This year, the annual Journey to Christmas festival will run from December 16 to January 19, 2017. We decided to walk around the main venues on the opening day and celebrate the most interesting ones. Hot on the heels of sharing a review.
If earlier we looked with interest at photographs of European Christmas markets and dreamed of seeing it with our own eyes, now Muscovites and guests of the city do not need to go anywhere, because in Moscow every year there are many New Year fairs, sites with giant New Year decorations and installations, and how many winter entertainment! Winter 2017 was no exception, the "Journey to Christmas" festival, parks, shopping centers and the skating rinks prepared so many surprises that it is not easy to choose what to see in New Year's Moscow, where to take a walk, where to arrange a photo session, where to go with children. We have selected the most interesting places and the events of New Year's Moscow, went out into the street with a camera and prepared for you a guide around the New Year's center of the capital.
Perhaps the most anticipated New Year's surprises are as follows.
1. Designer Christmas trees: Kuznetsky Most street, possession 6-3 (near the Bolshoi restaurant)
2. Christmas tree 3D-toys and magic animation on Pushkinskaya square
3. Tverskoy Boulevard: light tunnel on
4. Hundred-meter ice slide: Revolution Square (transition to Manezhnaya Square)
5. Skating rink and Christmas market on Red Square
6. Magic Theater on Revolution Square: free ice performances
7. Fairs
8. Christmas tree-carousel, 160-meter light tunnel and starry sky at VDNKh
The long-awaited illumination in Moscow came on on Friday evening, December 16. We, forgetting about the cold, set off on a journey through the center of Moscow. In order to spend the time most efficiently, we preliminarily drew up a route: they decided to start from the Teatralnaya metro station (from the Bolshoi Theater), then walk to the Central Department Store, walk along Stoleshnikov to the fair, which is located opposite the Moscow City Hall. From there it was planned to walk to Pushkin Square. Well, it was decided to end our first New Year's walk at Revolution Square. Although it is best to start the journey with the latter - but first things first.
New Year's Bolshoi Theater
At about 19-30 we met near the Teatralnaya metro station, went to the Bolshoi Theater. The first thing we saw was a light composition similar to the crown from the Nutcracker play. Imagine our surprise that the Bolshoi Theater did not have any fair this year, but in the previous years it did. Well, let's go further.
View from the Bolshoi Theater.
The Central Department Store (TSUM), shimmers like a precious diamond before the New Year.
TSUM showcases, as always, surprise - the fruit of the inflamed imagination of the designers, but it is very funny to look at them.
Fair on Kuznetsky Most
With a brisk step, we reached the first fair on our way - the fair on Kuznetsky Most. This year, the shape of the houses in which the fair was located surprised me a little. The outlets are glass pavilions decorated with LEDs. Modern, but does not create a holiday feeling.
We went into one of these houses and bought mulled wine - the frost was raging in earnest.
According to my companion, the most beautiful Christmas trees in Moscow are located near the Cartier store on Kuznetsky Most. Perhaps I agree.
Very nicely decorated Shopping mall Petrovsky Passage - there we also dropped in to warm up - silence, beauty, no one there.
Then we went to Stoleshnikov lane in the direction of the City Hall. Almost all pedestrian streets are decorated in the same way - the ubiquitous LED trees. It is beautiful, but since they are in Moscow all year round, they did not cause much surprise in us.
There were truths and such interesting compositions - a symbol of the holiday. Either a watch, or a carriage.
Fair near the monument to Yuri Dolgoruky (Moscow City Hall)
A fair was opened near the City Hall, aimed at showing on television - everything is very beautiful, in a European way.
There are retail outlets along the perimeter of the square, where you can buy Christmas goods from different European countries.
Further, we leave on Tverskaya street. The main feature of Tverskaya is the special design of the lighting poles - if you look closely, you can recognize glasses of champagne in these lights.
In short dashes we ran to Pushkin Square. Here, as if not to burst: near the monument to Pushkin, the Musical Forest composition is located, and on Tersky Boulevard there is a light tunnel. What to do? We decided to examine everything in order and started with a cheerful, oh, with a musical forest.
Musical forest on Pushkin Square
Every 10 minutes, music plays and this whole white composition is filled with different bright colors. The sight is very beautiful! In addition, you can get into the very heart of this composition.
In the center there is a kind of fabulous white tree, decorated with balls and icicles. There are so many people that it is very difficult to even take a picture. Everyone wants to plunge into a fairy tale!
On Pushkinskaya Square, there are also glass pavilions selling balls, Christmas trees and all kinds of New Year's rubbish.
Fairly by this moment freezing, we decided on Pushkinskaya Square to go to warm up in the famous self-service restaurant with the letter "M". I was a little surprised that at all these fairs there were practically no places to eat. And so I wanted to eat a hot sausage in the cold!
Light tunnel on Tverskoy Boulevard
The main attraction of Tverskoy Boulevard is, of course, the light tunnel, which this year was moved closer to the people, closer to the metro.
We went through the tunnel and expected to see the fairgrounds, but we saw only one, and in it ... a guard lives. A little further along Tverskoy Boulevard, we made out an ice town, apparently intended for playing snowballs.
The second part of Tverskoy Boulevard seemed to us somewhat dark and not comfortable - so we decided to turn around and head towards Okhotny Ryad and Manezhnaya Square.
On Tverskaya Street, in addition to the aforementioned "glasses of champagne" opposite Kamergersky Lane, one can note a chess composition, where the royal throne is located in the center.
We lingered here a little - to admire the Kamergersky lane.
Okhotny Ryad is ready for the New Year
The end of the evening, and we are just getting close to the "Heart" Christmas festivities. On Okhotny Ryad we see a New Year's carousel and numerous Glass boxes-stalls. By 10 o'clock they were all closed.
Traditional carousel.
Large postcards based on Soviet motives.
Against Historical Museum an unusual ice town is located.
After seeing the fair on Okhotny Ryad, we go to the Revolution Square.
Revolution Square before Christmas
The Ice Theater is deployed not far from the metro. He looks pretty impressive and beautiful from all sides. To get here for the performance, you need to carefully study the program. It even became interesting how it will accommodate all comers? Ice ballet starts at 19-00.
To finish our visit to the first day of the festival with dignity, we decided to look at Nikolskaya Street. Nikolskaya is decorated in the same way as last year - with Italian LED arches.
This is how our almost four-hour walk through New Year's Moscow flew by unnoticed.
So, the most interesting sites in my opinion are:
1. Ice Theater on Revolution Square
2. Ice slide on Revolution Square
3. Musical forest on Pushkin Square
4. Light tunnel on Tverskoy Boulevard
In general, when walking around New Year's Eve, you get a strong feeling that you have already seen all this last year. Glass pavilion houses are probably more comfortable for sellers, but they do not create a New Year's mood.
Traditional light tunnel on Tverskoy Boulevard. This year it was located at the very beginning of the boulevard, next to the metro. It's so long that you can't even see the end of it! There is enough room for everyone to take pictures. #tverskoy boulevard # travelChristmas #Christmaslight #MoscowNew Year # newyear2017 #newyear2017 #skoronovyear #merrychristmas # travel of Russia
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Addresses of Christmas markets in the center:
1. European Christmas market on Tverskaya Square
2. Manezhnaya Square, possession 1
3. Pushkin Square5. Novopushkinsky square - gingerbread cookies, pastries, kurabye
6. Sweet Christmas trees and mulled wine: Arbat Street, 19
7. Handmade decor items on Kutuzovsky prospect
8. Tea and coffee traditions in Stoleshnikov lane
9. Christmas toys and masks at Rozhdestvenka
10. New Year book fair "Buk-market" on Novy Arbat
11. Square in front of the Sokolniki park
12.There will be a Sweet Fair at 62 Leningradsky Prospekt
13. Fair near the Raikin Plaza shopping center on Sheremetyevskaya street
14. VDNKhAll this is my subjective opinion, but otherwise - everything is fine, everyone with the coming!
The next post will be about the festival grounds on Novy Arbat.
