The Marriott Royal Aurora is within comfortable walking distance of Moscow's most famous visitor attractions, with the Kremlin and Red Square less than 15 minutes' walk from the hotel. The Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow's internationally-renowned opera and ballet theatre, is housed in a grand 19th-century building only 300 m from the Royal Aurora, making the hotel one of the best places to stay for ballet and opera lovers.
The Marriott Royal Aurora is located on Ultisa Petrovka, one of the most beautiful historic streets in Moscow, which takes its name from the Vysokopetrovsky Monastery, a religious house which dates back to the 14th century and is located about 400 m north of the Marriott Royal Aurora. The street has a long history of prominence in Moscow, once as the most fashionable residential address in the city, and now as the centre of Moscow's most luxurious shopping district, with numerous up-market boutiques and the Petrovsky Passazh shopping arcade, built in 1906, which is just across the road from the hotel.
Housed, somewhat incongruously, in the courtyard of the building next to Petrovsky Passazh is Moscow's Museum of the GULAG, a small but intensely moving exhibition that chronicles the political and cultural repressions of the Soviet Union.
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| Distance: | 1 kilometer |
| On Foot: | To reach the main visitor entrance to the Kremlin from the Marriott Royal Aurora Hotel will take just over ten minutes. On leaving the hotel, turn right and right again along Dmitrovsky Pereulok. At the end of the alleyway, turn left on Ulitsa Bolshaya Dmitrovka and walk to the end of the street. Turn right, and walk one block to the pedestrian underpass at Okhotny Ryad Metro Station. Use the underpass to cross to the left onto Manezhnaya Ploshchad, and walk diagonally left across the square, past the Manezh Exhibition Centre, and straight on until you reach the entrance to the Kremlin in the Kutafya Tower. Show walking route |
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| Distance: | 800 meters |
| On Foot: | From the Marriott Royal Aurora, it takes less than ten minutes to be standing on Red Square. Turn right out of the front entrance and walk straight to the end of Ulitsa Petrovka. Turn right, passing the Bolshoi Theatre, Teatralnaya Metro Station and the State Duma Building. Use the pedestrian underpass at the corner of Ulitsa Tverskaya to cross to the left. On exiting the underpass, you will straight in front of you the Resurrection Gate, which leads straight onto Red Square. Show walking route |
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| Distance: | 300 meters |
| On Foot: | The walk to the theater will take only five minutes. Turn right out of the main entrance of the Marriott Royal Aurora on Ulitsa Petrovka and walk straight down the street 200 m until you reach the back of the Bolshoi. Show walking route |
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