Sergiev Posad
Russia · Moscow Oblast · 230 m
Description
Sergiev Posad (Сергиев Посад) grew up around the Trinity Lavra of Saint Sergius, the most important monastery in Russia and the spiritual centre of its Orthodox church. The walled compound holds a dozen churches in one enclosure, the white Trinity Cathedral of 1422 among them, where the Rublev Trinity hung for five centuries before it went to Moscow. A blue and gold bell tower rises eighty eight metres above the rest. Pilgrims queue for the relics of Saint Sergius and fill bottles at the covered spring. The town is the closest of the Golden Ring stops to Moscow.
Length of stay
Recommended length of stay: 1 to 2 days (optimal 1 day)
Travel season
Best time to visit: May – September
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Highlights
- Trinity Lavra of Saint Sergius (UNESCO World Heritage)
- Trinity Cathedral and its icon screen
- Blue and gold bell tower of the Lavra
- Assumption Cathedral with its star-spangled domes
- Holy spring in the monastery courtyard
- Painted refectory of Saint Sergius
- Abramtsevo estate and its artists' colony(Day trip)
- Toy Museum and the matryoshka workshops
- Konny Dvor museum complex
- Gremyachy Klyuch waterfall(Day trip)
- Chernigovsky Skete and its cave cells
- Radonezh and the birthplace of Saint Sergius(Day trip)
Getting there
- Train stations:
- Sergiyev Posad