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If you’re a high school student making your college list , you’re probably juggling all sorts of priorities. Maybe you know you want a liberal arts school on the smaller side. Perhaps you want someplace with strong academics, and you know you can compete in a fairly selective admissions process. If this is the case, there are many small schools in the Northeastern United States that might be on your list. But what if you prefer a warmer climate or a West Coast vibe? Would Southern California fit the bill?

Pomona College , tucked into the surprisingly New England-esque college town of Claremont, California, is a selective liberal arts school that is part of the larger Claremont Consortium . Through its unique partnership with four undergraduate institutions and two graduate institutes, it offers students the small-college experience in the context of large university resources and opportunities.    

Pomona is located about 35 miles west of Los Angeles and is routinely ranked in the top ten National Liberal Arts Schools by U.S. News and World Reports . It offers 45 majors to choose from, and with an enrollment of just around 1,700, it boasts a student-to-faculty ratio of 8:1.

Are you considering Pomona College, where the breeze is warm, the days are bright, and the school somehow manages to feel like a New England liberal arts institution nestled into a small town in Southern California? If you’re planning a visit, you can expect to meet an engaged and intellectual community of learners, scope out the broad variety of on-campus housing, and see both classic and modern teaching facilities. But there’s much more that you should plan to see as well. If you’re considering a visit to Pomona College, be sure to check out these top eight Claremont sites.

1. José Clemente Orozco’s Prometheus mural in Frary Dining Hall

Orozco was one of the three great Mexican muralists, along with Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Pomona College is home to Orozco’s Prometheus mural created in 1930 on a wall inside Frary hall, which is now one of two primary dining halls on campus. The work is widely recognized as one of the artist’s masterpieces, though it sometimes goes unnoticed as students dine beneath it three times a day.

Whether you’re an art history aficionado or not, you’ll appreciate this bold artwork for its sheer size and powerful stance, towering over the formal dining hall. It becomes even more powerful when you learn that this is the first modern fresco mural to be painted in the U.S. by a Mexican artist, and it exists at Pomona thanks to the fundraising efforts of students in the 1920s. Be sure to check it out on your campus tour. While it is of course hard to miss, it’s also easy to pass beneath it without a full understanding of its significance.

2. Oldenborg Center for Modern Languages and International Relations

The Oldenborg Center serves as the foreign language residence hub at Pomona, as well as dining hall and academic administrative office. It offers a unique living and academic experience to its 129 residents, who live in foreign language sections where they speak the language amongst themselves.

The Center provides language sections in Spanish, French, German, Russian, Japanese, and Mandarin Chinese, with each directed by graduate student language residents who are native speakers of their languages. The formal requirements for living in Oldenborg include a year’s study of a foreign language at the college level (or the equivalent) and a willingness to join in on the Center’s extracurricular activities, including meals served at foreign language tables.

Oldenborg is also known on campus as a bit of a maze. Its unique appearance and labyrinth-like hallways were the former home of Joe Menosky, class of 1979, who went on to become the writer and co-producer of three series of Star Trek sequels ( The Next Generation , Deep Space Nine, and Voyager ). It is rumored that he named The Next Generation’s Borg after his old Pomona residence hall, which does have an undeniable starship-like exterior. He has never confirmed nor denied these rumors, but the parallels between the two Borgs are definitely convincing.

3. Dialynas and Sontag Halls

Pomona’s newest residence halls, the Dialynas and Sontag Halls, were completed in spring of 2011 and are home to more than 30 suites, comprised of about 150 single bedrooms. Suites range in size from 3 bedrooms to 6 bedrooms, and each suite has a common living room. But what makes these residence halls remarkable is not their room configuration.

These dorms are truly unique in their construction, having been built to LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) platinum standards, the highest level of sustainable building. As such, these new residence halls are among the greenest in the country. They boast solar hot water heating, solar voltaic panels, an electricity cutoff switch for each suite, daylight sensors, and low water-use fixtures. Sontag Hall also has a full kitchen on each of its three floors, equipped with Energy Star appliances, and a rooftop garden and patio area.

Although these impressive new structures are home to only upperclassmen, they could well be your future home if you end up attending Pomona College. 

4. Smith Campus Center

The Smith Campus Center is the hub of student life on campus. It houses several dining options, including the COOP fountain where you can purchase snacks and casual meals like burgers or chicken fingers, along with the Sagehen Cafe, a student-run restaurant where you can expect a slightly more refined dining experience including waited tables and meals like french onion soup or grilled chicken salad.

In addition to its restaurants, the Smith Campus Center also offers comfortable study spaces featuring couches, arm chairs, and even working fireplaces. Here you will also find the Smith Campus Center Student Programs Office where you can pick up discount tickets to local attractions (think Disneyland, Six Flags, and the Los Angeles Museum of Modern Art!) and find student clubs. It is also home to the Associated Students of Pomona College (ASPC) Office & Senate operations, the Student Mail Center, email & printer stations, the Writing Center, and the Asian American Resource Center.

It’s easy to see why the Smith Campus Center is always booming. You’ll be hard-pressed to find a Pomona College student who doesn’t pass through it on a daily basis, and many students find themselves here for various reasons several times a day.

5. Studio Art Hall

Pomona’s impressive Studio Art Hall was completed in 2014. At over 35,000 square feet with more than half the building’s exterior made of glass, it is definitely hard to miss.

The Studio Art Hall is described as “a village of interconnected studios to bring together disciplines” ranging from sculpture and painting to digital arts and multimedia. Its open, free-flowing interior lends itself well to interaction and collaboration between both artists and mediums. Its prominence on campus is intended to make the arts — music, theatre, dance and the visual arts — more visible for the entire college community, and it’s an impressive spot to visit regardless of your experience as an artist. You never know, you just might get inspired! 

6. Pendleton Pool

It’s not every college that is located in a climate where pool days can occur year round, but Pomona is one of the lucky few. Though the average temperatures in January drop to the 50s, these are still offset by random spikes into the 70s and even 80s. Many students take advantage of this mild climate by visiting the pool.

Pendleton Pool is Pomona’s secondary pool, not to be confused with the Haldeman Aquatic Center where the swim teams and water polo teams practice. Tucked away behind the freshman dorms, Pendleton has a much different vibe, and if it feels more like a community pool, that’s because it is — this is where many local children grew up learning to swim! Now, you can visit on the weekends, lay out your towel, and show off some stunts from the diving board, if you aren’t too busy working on your tan.

7. Some Crust Bakery

Take a five-minute walk down Bonita Avenue, and you’ll find yourself off campus in what is commonly referred to as The Village. This is downtown Claremont, and it’s just about as quaint and picture-perfect as any college town you can imagine. With shady tree-lined shops and more local storefronts than chains, you might feel like you’re in upstate Vermont instead of Southern California.

One of The Villages’ true treasures and a real institution among locals is the Some Crust Bakery. Located at 119 Yale Ave, this building has been home to a bakery for over 100 years and home to Some Crust for nearly 40.    

Open daily, the bakery serves up sandwiches, baked goods, tea and coffee to a discerning crowd. Stop here for a quick lunch before you leave, and you won’t be disappointed. Just keep in mind that if you visit on the weekend, the line might weave its way out the door. Don’t worry, though. The wait will be worth it.

8. Folk Music Center Museum and Store

Another site not to be missed in The Village is the Folk Music Center. Part museum, part store, part home to the local music community, this place is also buzzing with activity and its collection of both traditional and rare instruments won’t disappoint even the most experienced musicians.

Speaking of experienced musicians, this store has raised at least one well-known Grammy winner. Opened in 1958 by Ben Harper’s maternal grandparents, Charles and Dorothy Chase, this store was where Ben Harper grew up learning to build, repair, and play musical instruments. The store is still in the family, now owned by his mother, and Harper still sometimes hangs out there, along with his brothers, Joel and Peter, both of whom are musicians themselves.

In a 2014 article in the LA Times , Harper referred to the Folk Music Center as “an oddity that has produced the last 20-some years of my adult life making music. Not only musically but the principles of this place — its music, its art, its poetry, its politics, its spirituality.” You can experience its spirituality yourself by stopping by its 220 Yale Ave storefront during the afternoon, Tuesday-Sunday. You’re sure to be greeted warmly as you browse its eclectic collection, and if you’re lucky, you just might catch an impromptu performance by a member of the Harper family.

If you’re interested in attending Pomona College, a campus visit is bound to lend some insight into the Pomona vibe and values. Both on and off campus, you will likely find a diverse and engaged community. On campus, you’ll find a mix of classic buildings dating back to the 1800s and modern architecture built to the highest levels of sustainability. There’s something to suit almost any interest from the arts to engineering to recreation. Off campus, you’ll find a cozy downtown, easily accessible by foot and brimming with culture.

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Welcome! Thank you for visiting Pomona College. We're here to help you explore the campus and to discover what distinguishes Pomona from other colleges. You can read the text for each stop, or click on our audio tour to hear senior Nick Lawson narrate.

You are starting the campus tour in front of the Oldenborg Center for International Relations and Modern Languages. Oldenborg is a unique dorm that houses 147 students who are studying foreign languages. There are halls for Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Russian and Spanish, with an additional two halls – Italian and Arabic – offered based on student interest. Students live with language residents, who are graduate students from a country where the respective language is spoken natively. 

Additionally, Oldenborg has a dining hall that serves international food. At lunch, students practice their foreign language skills at tables representing 24 languages, each designated by a country’s flag. The Center features lunchtime lectures on international topics, and the Oldenborg Theatre is a gathering place where students watch international films. Directly behind you is Sumner Hall, the College's oldest building. When Pomona College was started in 1887, the founders planned to build the school in nearby Pomona, California. Meanwhile in Claremont, a hotel was built near the end of a land boom. The hotel owners offered this building – which is now Sumner Hall -- to the College, and we stayed put while deciding to keep our original name. 

Sumner Hall, moved and reoriented from its original nearby location many years ago, is now home to the Office of Admissions, the Office of Study Abroad, and the Office of Campus Life. 

Mudd-Blaisdell Hall, Frank Dining and Seaver Theatre Complex

The largest dormitory on campus, Mudd-Blaisdell, houses 280 students in singles, doubles and suites. It has recreational rooms and courtyards where students can read, hang out or enjoy the sun. 

Currently, we're on South Campus, the part of Pomona College that lies below Sixth Streeth. Mostly first-year and sophomore students live on South Campus. First-year students live in sponsor groups consisting of 10 to 20 first-years and two or three returning-student sponsors, who act as mentors. The sponsor group program is designed to help new students make a successful transition to college life. Another dormitory, Gibson Hall, is located in the courtyard of Mudd-Blaisdell. It houses 36 students in 21 rooms. Mudd-Blaisdell and Gibson, like all dorms at Pomona, are coed. Pomona is a very residential campus. 97 to 98% of students choose to here for all four years.

As you walk back down Bonita Avenue the east, you'll see Frank Dining Hall, one of three dining halls on campus. In addition to our dining halls, Pomona students may also eat at the four dining halls located at the other Claremont Colleges. One of the great things about our dining halls is you’ll always see professors having a meal with students.

At the eastern end of Bonita Avenue is the Byron Dick Seaver Theatre. It opened in 1990, and features many theatre performances throughout the year. There’s a 350-seat theatre, a smaller blackbox theatre, classrooms, a design studio, scene shop, recording studio, and makeup and dressing rooms.

Walking slightly to the east, you'll find Frank Hall. One of three dining halls on campus, Frank serves most of South Campus’ residents. Pomona students may eat at any dining hall on campus, the student-run snack bar called the Coop, or dining halls on the other Claremont campuses as a part of their college meal plan. At the eastern end of Bonita Avenue is the Byron Dick Seaver Theatre, which opened in 1990. The theatre complex includes Seaver Auditorium, which seats 350, the Virginia Princehouse Allen black box theatre, classrooms and design spaces.

Pendleton Dance Center and Pool

As you proceed to the west along Bonita Avenue, you can see The Pendleton Dance Center and Pool located to the south through the courtyard. The Pendleton Dance Center has two fully equipped dance studios. Next to the Center is the Pendleton Pool, one of two pools on campus. 

Harwood, Lyon and Lebus Courts

You are now at Harwood Court, a dormitory that houses 164 students that was constructed in 1921 and renovated in 2010. Lyon Court, a residence hall located directly behind Harwood Court, was completed in 1990. The dormitory is composed entirely of large doubles and houses 82 students. Wig Hall, just west of Harwood, provides housing for 106 students in single and double rooms. All three house first-year students, their sponsors, and other students at Pomona.

Directly across Bonita Avenue from Harwood is Lebus Court. It was built in 1915, the first building in the Pomona Valley devoted solely to art. It houses classrooms, the Art and Art History faculty, and the Visual Resources Center. 

Lyon Court, a residence hall located directly behind Harwood Court, was completed in 1990. The dormitory is composed entirely of large doubles and houses 82 students. Wig Hall, just west of Harwood, provides housing for 106 students in single and double rooms. All three house first-year students, their sponsors, and other students at Pomona.

Directly across Bonita Avenue from Harwood is Lebus Court, built in 1915, the first building in the Pomona Valley devoted solely to art. It houses the classrooms, the Art and Art History faculty, and a Visual Resources Center. 

Rembrandt Hall, Museum of Art and Thatcher Music Hall

Walk down the path to the left of Lebus Court to enter Lyon Garden. The buildings surrounding the gardens house Pomona’s Art, Art History, and Music Departments. On the south side of the courtyard you will see Rembrandt Hall and the Pomona College Museum of Art. Rembrandt Hall currently houses all of the studio art classes, such as photography, drawing, painting, and sculpture. They are accessible to all students enrolled in art classes, regardless of major, 24 hours a day. Located in the southeast corner of the courtyard, The Museum of Art showcases student and faculty art shows, and mounts a number of traveling shows and exhibitions throughout the year, including the senior showcase for graduating art majors. On Thursday evenings, the community gathers for Art After Hours, featuring different art and music events.

Walk down the path to the left of Lebus Court to enter Lyon Garden. The buildings surrounding the garden house Pomona’s Art, Art History, and Music Departments. On the south side of the courtyard you will see Rembrandt Hall and the Pomona College Museum of Art.

Rembrandt Hall currently houses all of the studio art classes, such as photography, drawing, painting, and sculpture. They are accessible to all students enrolled in art classes, regardless of major, 24 hours a day, and majors get to use their own studio space. The Museum of Art mounts a number of exhibitions throughout the year, including the senior showcase for graduating art majors. It also offers interns the opportunity to curate shows. On Thursday evenings, students and other community members gather for Art After Hours, which features different events like live music, art workshops, and lectures.

Walk through the Thatcher Music Hall on the northern side of the courtyard. It is the location of Pomona’s Music Department, classrooms, offices, and practice rooms. Students can take a wide variety of courses, from the History of Jazz to music theory to performance classes, and can audition for the Orchestra, Band, Jazz Ensemble, Glee Club and Balinese Gamelan. The music facilities are accessible to all Pomona students, as are private music and voice lessons, which are available to students on financial aid or majoring in music for free. Thatcher is also the home of The Claremont Colleges’ on-campus radio station, KSPC 88.7 FM, broadcasting since 1956. Students can volunteer as DJs, promoters, newscasters and other positions.

As you exit the Thatcher Music Hall, take a look to your right. The Bridges Hall of Music is one of the architectural gems of the Pomona College campus. Known as Little Bridges, it was built in 1915 and is home to dozens of musical events each year, including many featuring student musicians , as well as ceremonies like Convocation, which welcomes the newest class of first-years to campus.

As you exit the Thatcher Music Hall, take a look to your right. The Bridges Hall of Music is one of the architectural gems of the Pomona College campus. Known as Little Bridges, it was built in 1915 and is home to dozens of musical events each year, as well as ceremonies like Convocation.

Carnegie Hall and President's House

You are now standing in front of Carnegie, which is home to the Politics, Economics, International Relations, Public Policy Analysis, and Philosophy, Politics and Economics departments. Built in 1908, it was originally Pomona’s first library building, made possible by a gift from Andrew Carnegie. In 1952, the collection was moved to a shared Claremont Colleges’ library and Carnegie became an academic building.

Behind Carnegie Hall is Hahn. Completed in 1998, it is home to the Anthropology,  Latin American Studies and Sociology Departments. It also houses the Pacific Basin Institute, which has an archive and programming devoted to the study of the Asia-Pacific region, just one of the many ways Pomona College helps its students examine global issues. 

Looking south, you'll notice The President's House at the southwest corner of College Avenue and 4th Street. It’s been the home of Pomona’s Presidents since 1900, and is currently the residence of President David Oxtoby. When first-year students arrive on campus, President Oxtoby invites the entire class to a barbecue in his backyard. President Oxtoby also holds office hours and hosts dinner for every graduating senior over the course of their last year, and you’ll often see him at events on campus.

Looking across the street to the east, you'll see a lovely view of Marston Quad and Bridges Auditorium. We'll discuss those locations on a later tour stop.

The Academic Quad

This is the Stanley Academic Quad. Mason Hall, to the west, houses History, Romance Languages and Literatures, Asian Languages and Literatures, Asian Studies, German Studies, and Russian Studies. Crookshank Hall, in the middle, is home to Pomona’s English and Gender and Women’s Studies departments, as well as the Media Studies program. The Ena Thompson Reading Room in Crookshank often has readings and other literary events. Facing College Avenue on the eastern side of the quad, Pearsons Hall is our oldest academic building on campus. It was originally built in 1899 and is home to the Classics, Religious Studies and Philosophy departments.

The Gates, Seaver Science Center and Millikan Hall

If you look north, you'll see the stone gates at the corner of Sixth and College Avenues. The gates, which when built in 1914 marked the northern boundary of the College, bear the words of the fourth Pomona President, James A. Blaisdell. 

On Orientation Day, new students run through the Gates together to mark the start of their college experience. The Gates welcome them with the inscription: “Let only the eager, thoughtful, and reverent enter here.” Prior to graduation, seniors exit past the Gates' departing message: “They only are loyal to this College who, departing, bear their added riches in trust for mankind.”

From the Gates, facing north, the buildings on the left side of College Avenue are the Seaver Laboratories. Seaver South was dedicated in 1959 and is the home of the Biology and Neuroscience departments, as well as the Science, Technology and Society program. Behind Seaver South on Sixth Street is the Seaver Biology Building. Built in 2005, the Seaver Biology Building is one of most sustainably designed science buildings in the country. Pomona’s Chemistry department is found in Seaver North.

Construction is ongoing on Millikan Laboratory, which is on the northeastern corner of College and Sixth. The new science hall, which will be finished in 2015, will house the Mathematics and Physics departments. Those departments are being temporarily housed just north of Millikan in the Seeley Mudd Library.

Alexander Hall and Smith Campus Center

This is Smith Campus Center, the heart of activity at Pomona College. First, on your way here, you passed Alexander Hall, which opened in 1991 and is home to many of the College’s administrative offices, including the President’s Office, Financial Aid, the Dean of Students, the Dean of the College, and the Career Development Office. The Career Development Office helps to connect students with internships, graduate fellowships and job opportunities, as well as provides access to the Sagehen alumni network across the world. 

Standing in the courtyard of the Smith Campus Center, you'll see the Coop Fountain, our student-run snack bar, open late during the academic year. To the left is the Coop Store, and on the other side is the Sagehen Café. Many events on campus are held at the Rose Hills Theatre, which is beneath us in the basement, and in Edmunds Ballroom, where our award-winning Claremont Colleges Ballroom Dance Company practices and hosts events. Also downstairs, you’ll find Doms Lounge, a popular event space for students that hosts lectures, club events, music performances, comedy shows, and other events. 

Above Doms is the Fireplace Lounge and the mail room. It's a popular place to relax and study, especially on our rare cold days. Also located in Smith Campus Center are the Asian American Resource Center, the Quantitative Skills Center and the Writing Center – some of the many offices at Pomona that help support students.

Behind you is Stover Walk where every September, students share their summer research projects. Pomona offers tremendous opportunities for undergraduate students to pursue research, either working closely with professors or independently.  Some students even get the opportunity to present their research at academic conferences or co-author papers with professors.

Here, at SCC, you'll see the Coop Fountain to the north. It's a student-run snack bar, open late during the academic year. To the left is the Coop Store, and on the other side is the Sagehen Café. The SCC also has a 200-seat auditorium and movie theater, a ballroom, the student mailboxes, an ATM, student government and organization offices, meeting and social rooms, and more. 

Turrell Skyspace and Lincoln and Edmunds Halls

On your way here, you walked through the Edmunds Hall breezeway. Edmunds Hall and Lincoln Hall were built together in 2007. Edmunds Hall houses Geology, Psychology, some Environmental Analysis offices, and the intercollegiate departments of American Studies, Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, and Chicana/o-Latina-o Studies. Lincoln Hall houses the Computer Science, and Cognitive Science and Linguistics departments.

Here in front of us is Dividing the Light , a Skyspace installation by artist James Turrell, Class of 1965. This popular and notable public artwork allows visitors to gather at dusk and dawn beneath the canopy to watch the sky as gradient light slowly changes colors, heightening the viewer's awareness of light, sky and perception. 

North Campus and Library

Honnold-Mudd Library is located at the northernmost end of College Way at the center of the Claremont Colleges. Today, the collection has grown to 4.7 million volumes, thanks to the shared resources of the seven Claremont schools. The library's Link Plus program allows you to borrow books from other libraries in Southern California, too.

As you walk to the east, student residence halls line the walkway leading to Bixby Plaza, with the Bosbyshell Fountain and Smith Tower. Most North Campus dorms are built around courtyards, with private entrances to single rooms and two-room doubles. Walker Hall, on the left side of the walkway, provides housing for 106 students and is the location of The Student Life, Pomona’s longest standing student-run newspaper. On the right, Clark V houses 96 students and is typical of the courtyard-style dorm common on North Campus. 

Residence halls, Bixby Plaza, Walker Wall and Frary Dining Hall

Looking north from the Bosbyshell Fountain in Bixby Plaza, you will see Walker Wall lining the grassy area called Walker Beach. Walker Wall is a free-speech wall where students can express themselves by painting messages or pictures. Students use the wall to convey ideas, advertise events, or simply wish friends a happy birthday. We call Walker Beach a beach because on sunny days, students will bring out their beach towels to study, relax and soak up the sun.

Let's take a moment to orient ourselves with the other Claremont Colleges. Right behind Walker Wall, the large building you see is Claremont McKenna College's Kravis Center. It marks the western edge of that college, which extends several blocks to the east. North of Kravis, you'll find Scripps College. Above Scripps is Harvey Mudd, while Pitzer College is located to the northeast.

Clark I, the northernmost of the Clark dormitories, lines the east side of Walker Beach. Its 116 students live in rooms that have private entrances that open up into three separate courtyards. Norton Hall/Clark III, referred to as Norton-Clark, makes up the southern edge of the plaza and is home to 119 students. Pomona’s newest and most sustainably designed residence halls, Sontag Hall and Pomona Hall, located northeast of Norton-Clark, were completed in 2011. 

Pomona Hall is home to the Outdoor Education Center, a great resource for students who want to explore the California outdoors. The Center plans Orientation Adventure, which are four-day trips where first-years get to know each other before starting classes. It also offers PE classes, certification training, equipment loans, and support for field trips for departments like Geology. One of the most popular clubs at the Claremont Colleges is On the Loose, an organization that plans subsidized weekend trips all around California.

Frary Dining Hall, up the stairs to your right, is distinguished by its arched ceiling and wood paneling reminiscent of the dining halls of Oxford. Students gather at Frary not only for regular meals, but also for the extremely popular evening snack served as a study break for students, who are often serenaded at the base of the steps by one of Claremont’s eight a cappella groups. Inside Frary is the famed fresco Prometheus (1930) by renowned artist José Clemente Orozco.

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You are now at the Rains Center. Completed in 1989, the center houses the Memorial Gymnasium (basketball, volleyball, badminton), the Voelkel Gymnasium (three basketball courts), and an all-purpose room. There are also squash and racquetball courts, offices, training rooms and a fitness center. All athletic facilities are open to Pomona students regardless of their athletic participation. Students at Pomona may choose from 10 Division III varsity sports for men and 11 for women, as well as numerous club and intramural teams.

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Although not included on the walking tour, you are welcome to explore this area on your own. In addition to athletic facilities, in the wooded area commonly referred to as “The Wash” are Brackett Observatory, Sontag Greek Theatre, and the Pomona College Organic Farm. The 1.2-acre working farm hosts classes, allows students to tend their own vegetable plots, and work with chickens, bee hives, and fruit trees.

Marston Quadrangle and Bridges Auditorium

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Middle East Crisis Hamas Resists Israel’s Latest Cease-Fire Offer

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Hamas says its position is ‘negative’ on Israel’s offer but signals willingness to keep talking.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said on Wednesday that Hamas leaders could save Palestinian lives by accepting a proposed deal under which they would free 33 hostages in exchange for a six-week cease-fire and the liberation of many Palestinian prisoners.

“We are determined to get a cease-fire that brings the hostages home and to get it now, and the only reason that that wouldn’t be achieved is because of Hamas,” Mr. Blinken said at the start of a meeting in Tel Aviv with Isaac Herzog, the president of Israel. “There is a proposal on the table, and as we’ve said, no delays, no excuses. The time is now, and the time is now long past due to bring the hostages home to their families.”

But on Wednesday night, a spokesman for Hamas, Osama Hamdan, said in an interview on Lebanese television, “Our position on the current negotiating paper is negative.”

The Hamas press office later clarified Mr. Hamdan’s comments, saying that while Hamas’s leaders would not accept the current Israeli proposals without changes, they were willing to keep negotiating. “The negative position does not mean negotiations have stopped,” the press office said. “There is a back and forth issue.”

Mr. Blinken’s comments were part of a concerted campaign by President Biden and his top aides to press Hamas leaders to accept the six-week halt in fighting and possibly lay the foundation for a longer-term cease-fire.

Mr. Blinken made similar comments to reporters the previous evening outside a humanitarian aid warehouse in Zarqa, Jordan. Earlier this week, Mr. Biden urged the leaders of Qatar and Egypt to push Hamas to accept the terms, after Israel agreed to lower the required number of hostages released in the initial round to 33 from 40.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has said he supports the latest proposed deal, but at the same time he has vowed to carry out a major ground offensive in the city of Rafah “with or without a deal.” Israeli officials say their objective is to eliminate four battalions of Hamas fighters in Rafah.

Mr. Hamdan, the Hamas spokesman, said in his comments on Al Manar television, “If the enemy carries out the Rafah operation, negotiations will stop.”

Biden administration officials are opposed to a major ground assault in Rafah, where more than one million Palestinians have sought refuge during the war.

Mr. Blinken discussed the hostage and cease-fire deal on the table in a nearly three-hour meeting with Mr. Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Wednesday, according to a summary from the State Department. He also spoke about efforts to increase humanitarian aid in Gaza and the U.S. government’s “clear position” on Rafah, the summary said.

Israeli officials said a new crossing into northern Gaza, near the Erez kibbutz, had just opened to allow aid deliveries, and that 30 trucks with goods from Jordan had rolled through the crossing earlier on Wednesday. The opening was promised weeks ago, but the Israeli military said it had to build inspection facilities and pave roads on both sides of the border before the crossing could be used by aid trucks.

Hwaida Saad contributed reporting from Beirut, Lebanon.

— Edward Wong traveling in the Middle East with the U.S. secretary of state

Israel has softened some demands in cease-fire negotiations, officials say.

After a monthslong standoff, Israel is softening some of its demands in negotiations over a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip and the release of hostages held there.

As part of its latest proposal, Israel would allow displaced Palestinian civilians to return to northern Gaza, according to two Israeli officials, which is a sharp reversal on an issue that has been a sticking point in the talks.

For weeks, Israel has demanded that it be allowed to impose significant restrictions on Palestinians going back to the north because of worries that Hamas could take advantage of a large-scale return to strengthen itself. Now, Israel has consented to Palestinian civilians’ going back en masse during the first phase of an agreement, according to the officials, whose account was confirmed by a non-Israeli official familiar with the talks.

One of the Israeli officials said those returning to the north would be subject to no inspections or limitations, while the second said there would be nearly no restrictions, without elaborating. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to share details of the proposal.

It was not clear whether Hamas would accept the most recent Israeli proposal, which is part of negotiations that the two sides are conducting indirectly through mediators from Egypt and Qatar. As of Wednesday afternoon, the group hadn’t officially issued a response.

The cease-fire talks were a focus of Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken as he visited Israel on Wednesday. “There is a proposal on the table, and as we’ve said, no delays, no excuses,” Mr. Blinken said before meeting with President Isaac Herzog. He later discussed the talks and other issues in a nearly three-hour meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Hamas has long demanded that any deal include a permanent end to the war, which has forced most of Gaza’s more than two million people to flee their homes. The Israeli offer, according to one of the Israeli officials, doesn’t include language that refers explicitly to an end to the fighting.

Hanging over the negotiations is Israel’s threat to invade Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza where roughly a million civilians are sheltering, along with what Israel says are thousands of Hamas fighters. But even as it vows to carry out its plan for a ground invasion there, in defiance of pleas from world leaders and humanitarian groups, it is showing some willingness to make concessions in talks to stop the fighting and free hostages.

On Monday, The New York Times reported that, as part of its proposal, Israel had reduced the number of hostages Hamas would need to release in the initial phase of a deal. For months, it had been insisting on the release of 40 hostages, but in the new offer, the Israeli government said it would agree to 33.

That change was prompted in part by the fact that Israel now believes that some of the 40 have died in captivity , one of the officials said.

As details of Israel’s latest offer have emerged, Mr. Netanyahu has come under increasing pressure from his right-wing coalition partners to reject compromise. If they withdraw from the government over a deal, Israel could head to early elections, threatening Mr. Netanyahu’s political future.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a hard-line member of the coalition, has said that if Mr. Netanyahu gives up on invading Rafah immediately, a government under his leadership doesn’t have “the right to exist.”

On Tuesday, Mr. Netanyahu said an invasion of Rafah would take place, without saying when.

“The idea that we will halt the war before achieving all of its goals is out of the question,” he said in a meeting with the families of hostages, according to a statement from his office. “We will enter Rafah and we will eliminate the Hamas battalions there — with or without a deal — in order to achieve the total victory.”

If Israel and Hamas strike an agreement, it would be the first cease-fire since late November, when a short-lived pause in the fighting allowed for the release of more than 100 hostages and 240 Palestinian prisoners.

Hamas and its allies captured roughly 240 Israelis and foreigners in their attack on Oct. 7, which prompted Israel to go to war in Gaza. More than 130 hostages are believed to still be held in Gaza, but some are thought to have died.

Aaron Boxerman contributed reporting.

— Adam Rasgon reporting from Jerusalem

Israeli settlers attacked aid trucks headed to Gaza, Jordan says.

Israeli settlers attacked several aid trucks on the way from Jordan to Gaza around dawn on Wednesday, including some that were headed for the newly opened border crossing on the north edge of the Gaza Strip, Jordan’s foreign ministry said.

The ministry said that the settlers dumped some of the aid onto the street . It condemned the Israeli government’s failure to protect the aid as a violation of its legal obligation to safeguard the flow of food and other humanitarian necessities to the devastated Palestinian enclave, and said the attack undermined Israel’s claim that it was working to allow more aid into Gaza.

Asked about the attack, the Israeli military said in a statement that overnight, Israeli civilians had “caused damage” to aid on several trucks from Jordan “secured” by Israeli forces.

Details about the attack, including where it happened and how much aid was dumped or damaged, were not immediately released by the Israeli military or the Jordanian foreign ministry, though both said the trucks ultimately managed to reach Gaza.

Honenu, a right-wing legal aid group that often represents Israeli extremists accused of violent crimes against Palestinians, said that four people had been arrested for blocking aid trucks near Ma’ale Adumim, one of the largest Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

The trucks were part of two convoys, one of which was headed for the Kerem Shalom crossing in southern Gaza, the Jordanian foreign ministry said. The other convoy was the first to enter northern Gaza through the Erez crossing, according to the Jordanian foreign minister, Ayman Safadi, who called the attack “despicable” on social media and called for global condemnation and international sanctions against Israel.

Israel agreed to open the Erez crossing on Wednesday, after some of its closest allies, including the United States, pressured it to allow more aid into Gaza in the aftermath of the Israeli military’s killing of seven World Central Kitchen workers in April. For months beforehand, United Nations officials and aid organizations had been pleading with Israel to open the crossing to allow aid to move directly into northern Gaza, in hopes of averting famine.

Honenu said on Wednesday that it had provided legal counsel to the four arrested individuals, and that they had been released after being issued a restraining order requiring them to stay away from aid convoys and not participate in illicit gatherings.

Israeli civilians have repeatedly blocked the passage of aid trucks — sometimes as Israeli security forces stand by — with many demanding that no aid reach Palestinians in Gaza until hostages held in the enclave are released.

The U.S. secretary of state, Antony J. Blinken, who has been on another wartime tour of the Middle East, was in Jordan on Tuesday at the warehouse where medical and food aid was being loaded onto the convoy heading to the Erez crossing. He praised Israel’s opening of the crossing as “real and important progress,” adding that “more still needs to be done.” On Wednesday, during a visit to Israel, Mr. Blinken included the Kerem Shalom crossing among his stops.

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Blinken’s visit to the Kerem Shalom crossing puts aid for Gaza front and center.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken visited an inspection checkpoint at the Kerem Shalom border crossing in Israel on Wednesday, part of an effort to prioritize the issue of humanitarian aid for Gaza during his Middle East tour.

Under pressure from President Biden after an Israeli airstrike killed seven aid workers , Israel announced last month that it would open more avenues for aid to enter Gaza . Israel has since expedited the flow of aid into Gaza amid intense international scrutiny, though humanitarian organizations say more is urgently needed to alleviate the severe hunger that is gripping the enclave.

Here’s a look at where things stand .

Border Crossings

Israel imposes stringent checks on incoming aid to keep out anything that might help Hamas, which it has pledged to eliminate. Since the start of the war, most of the aid for Gaza has been transiting through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt.

Israel opened the crossing at Kerem Shalom in December after pressure from the United States to speed up the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza. However, Israeli protesters have regularly gathered at the crossing, trying to block aid convoys from entering the enclave in the hopes of raising the pressure on Hamas to release the hostages.

The Rafah and Kerem Shalom checkpoints both touch southern Gaza. Aid officials pleaded with Israel for months to add additional entry points — especially in the north, where the risk of famine was deemed greatest by the United Nations.

Under pressure, Israel said last month that it would reopen the Erez border crossing into northern Gaza and that shipments bound for the enclave would be accepted at the Israeli port of Ashdod. On Wednesday, Israel said that the first aid trucks, 30 in total, had passed through the crossing after being inspected.

But the Erez crossing, which was primarily used for pedestrian traffic before the war, was badly damaged during the Hamas-led raid on Israel in October. As international officials and humanitarian agencies looked for signs that Israel was making good on its pledges, Israel said it would be opening another crossing into northern Gaza — not Erez.

Other Efforts

U.S. Army engineers also are working to construct a floating pier off the coast of Gaza. The pier — which Mr. Blinken said Tuesday would be operational in about one week — could help relief workers deliver as many as two million meals a day.

And the Jordanian military and government have in recent weeks increased the amount of aid arriving in overland convoys, which travel from Jordan through the West Bank and across part of Israel before reaching the southern Gaza border crossings. The Jordanian military carries out its own inspections. Government trucks are inspected by Israel.

Situation on the Ground

There are widespread food shortages in Gaza, and the United Nations has warned that a famine is looming . Aid groups and United Nations officials have accused Israel of systematically limiting aid delivery. Israel denies the assertion, blaming the shortages on logistical failures by aid groups, and has recently increased the number of trucks entering the strip.

In recent weeks, Israel’s efforts to increase the flow of aid have been acknowledged by the Biden administration and international aid officials. More aid trucks also appeared to be reaching Gaza, especially in the north.

On Wednesday, Mr. Blinken discussed how aid delivery has improved when he met with Mr. Netanyahu and “reiterated the importance of accelerating and sustaining that improvement,” according to the State Department.

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‘Thank you, American universities’: Gazans express gratitude for campus protesters.

Thousands of miles away from the campus protests that have divided Americans, some displaced Palestinians are expressing solidarity with the antiwar demonstrators and gratitude for their efforts.

Messages of support were written on some tents in the southern city of Rafah, where roughly a million displaced people have sought shelter from the Israeli bombardment and ground fighting that Gazan health officials say have killed more than 34,000 people.

“Thank you, American universities,” read one message captured on video by the Reuters news agency. “Thank you, students in solidarity with Gaza your message has reached” us, read another nearby.

Tensions have risen at campuses across the United States, with police in riot gear arresting dozens of people at Columbia University on Tuesday night and officers across the country clashing with pro-Palestinian demonstrators who had erected encampments and seized academic buildings at other institutions. The protesters have been calling for universities to divest from companies with ties to Israel, and some have vowed not to back down.

The protests have come at a particularly fearful time in Rafah, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel vowing to launch a ground invasion of the city to root out Hamas battalions there despite glimmers of hope for a temporary cease-fire.

Palestinians “are very happy that there are still people standing with us,” said Mohammed al-Baradei, a 24-year-old recent graduate from the dentistry program at Al-Azhar University who spoke by phone from Rafah.

“The special thing is that this is happening in America and that people there are still aware and the awareness is growing every day for the Palestinian cause,” he added.

Akram al-Satri, a 47-year-old freelance journalist sheltering in Rafah, said Gazans were “watching with hope and gratitude the student movement in the United States.”

“For us this is a glimmer of hope on a national level,” he added in a voice message on Wednesday.

Bisan Owda, a 25-year-old Palestinian who has been documenting the war on social media, said in a video posted to her more than 4.5 million Instagram followers that the campus protests had brought her a new sense of possibility.

“I’ve lived my whole life in Gaza Strip and I’ve never felt hope like now,” said Ms. Owda.

Nader Ibrahim contributed reporting and video production from London.

— Hiba Yazbek reporting from Jerusalem

Colombia’s president says the country will sever ties with Israel, calling its government ‘genocidal.’

Colombia will sever diplomatic ties with Israel over its prosecution of the war in Gaza, President Gustavo Petro announced in Bogotá on Wednesday, describing the Israeli government as “genocidal.”

His announcement came in a speech in Colombia’s capital city in front of cheering crowds that had gathered for International Workers’ Day.

“The times of genocide, of the extermination of an entire people cannot come before our eyes, before our passivity,” Mr. Petro said. “If Palestine dies, humanity dies.”

Colombia is the second South American nation to break off relations with Israel after Bolivia, which cut ties in November over its strikes in Gaza. On the day that Bolivia made its announcement, Colombia and Chile both said that they were recalling their ambassadors to Israel, and Honduras followed suit within days. Belize also cut diplomatic ties with Israel that month.

The Israeli government denounced Mr. Petro’s move on Wednesday.

“History will remember that Gustavo Petro chose to stand at the side of the most abominable monsters known to man, who burned babies, killed children, raped woman and abducted innocent civilians,” Israel’s foreign minister, Israel Katz, wrote on X . “Israel and Colombia always enjoyed warm ties. Even an antisemitic and hateful president will not change that.’’

Mr. Petro, Colombia’s first leftist leader and a critic of U.S. drug policy toward his country, had threatened to cut ties with Israel in March if it did not comply with a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza. And he called on other countries to do the same. In response to that threat, Mr. Katz wrote on X that Mr. Petro’s “support for Hamas murderers” who carried out massacres and committed sex crimes against Israelis was shameful.

“Israel will continue to protect its citizens and will not yield to any pressure or threats,” he added.

In February Mr. Petro suspended Colombia’s purchase of Israeli weapons in February after Israeli forces opened fire while a crowd was gathered near a convoy of trucks carrying desperately needed aid to Gaza City, part of a chaotic scene in which scores of people were killed and injured, according to Gazan health officials and the Israeli military.

“Asking for food, more than 100 Palestinians were killed by Netanyahu,” Mr. Petro wrote on X at the time, comparing the events to the Holocaust “even if the world powers do not like to acknowledge it.”

“The world must block Netanyahu,” he added.

— Genevieve Glatsky reporting from Bogotá, Colombia

Netanyahu’s pledge to invade Rafah could undermine efforts to reach a cease-fire deal.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel once again pledged on Tuesday to launch a ground invasion into the southern Gazan city of Rafah, a move that could undermine efforts to negotiate a cease-fire agreement after seven months of war in the Palestinian enclave.

The United States, Qatar and several countries have been pushing to get a cease-fire deal, with Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken visiting the region and expectations rising that Hamas and Israel might be edging closer to an agreement.

But with Hamas arguing that any agreement should include an end to the war, and with right-wing politicians in Israel threatening to leave the government coalition if the long-planned incursion into Rafah is delayed, Mr. Netanyahu made clear that Israel would reserve the right to keep fighting.

“The idea that we will halt the war before achieving all of its goals is out of the question,” he said in a meeting with the families of hostages held in Gaza, according to a statement from his office. “We will enter Rafah and we will eliminate the Hamas battalions there — with or without a deal, in order to achieve the total victory.”

Israeli officials have said repeatedly that they plan to move into Rafah, but over the weekend, they made clear they were open to holding off if it meant they could secure the release of hostages taken when Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7. One official also suggested that Israel was using the threat of an imminent military maneuver to press the armed group into a hostage deal.

In anticipation of an offensive, some families in Rafah have been moving north into areas of Gaza that had already been attacked by Israeli forces, but on Tuesday, the scale of the evacuation remained unclear. As of last week, more than one million Gazans, many of them previously displaced from other parts of the territory by Israeli bombardment, were still sheltering in the city in makeshift tents.

American officials and other allies have been pressing Israel to either avoid an assault on Rafah or develop specific plans to adequately minimize civilian casualties.

On Tuesday, Mr. Blinken met with officials in Jordan to discuss the war between Israel and Hamas, and to press for peace and an increase in humanitarian aid. There was no immediate reaction from the State Department to Mr. Netanyahu’s remarks.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of Britain spoke to Mr. Netanyahu on Tuesday, his office said in a statement. The British leader “continued to push for an immediate humanitarian pause to allow more aid in and hostages out” and said that Britain’s focus was on de-escalation, it said.

For weeks, cease-fire talks had been at a standstill. But Israeli officials have said that negotiators have reduced the number of hostages they want Hamas to release during the first phase of a truce, opening up the possibility that the stalled negotiations could be revived.

A senior Hamas official said on social media on Monday that the group was studying a new Israeli proposal.

A Hamas delegation met with officials in Egypt’s intelligence service on Monday, according to a senior Hamas official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to talk about sensitive discussions between Hamas and Egypt.

Adam Rasgon contributed reporting.

— Damien Cave

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On this tour you take in some of Moscow's most important and highly decorated stations. Carrying up to 7 million passengers a day and covering almost the entire city, the Moscow Metro is one of the most extensive mass transit systems in the world. It's famous for the fine examples of social-realism which decorate many of its stations.

Visit some of the most important stations and get the chance to admire spectacular baroque-style ceilings, marble statues, busts of Communist heroes, stained glass windows, and ceiling mosaics depicting the bright Soviet future. Visit the most remarkable stations like Komsomolskaya, Kurskaya, Kievskaya and others, with the experienced guide who will bring you a full insight into their fascinating history.

• Tour of Moscow's Metro system visiting beautifully decorated key stations on the network.
• System that carries more than 7 million passengers per day
• Views of the most opulently designed tunnels & platforms
• Significance to the country—known as the “People's Palace”
• History & stories relayed by an expert local guide

If you wonder why the Moscow metro is considered one the most beautiful in the world, this tour is made for you!

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• Professional English-speaking guide assistance. Other languages upon request (additional charge may apply)
• Hotel pick-up and drop-off
• Personal expenses
• Gratuities (optional)
• Food and drinks
• Confirmation will be received at time of booking
• Children must be accompanied by an adult

Departure and return point: nearest metro station to your central Moscow hotel  

Departure time:  flexible

Sights included in program

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Moscow Metro Tour

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Moscow metro private tours.

• 2-hour tour $87:  10 Must-See Moscow Metro stations with hotel pick-up and drop-off
• 3-hour tour $137:  20 Must-See Moscow Metro stations with Russian lunch in beautifully-decorated Metro Diner + hotel pick-up and drop off. 
• Metro pass is included in the price of both tours.

Highlight of Metro Tour

• Visit 10 must-see stations of Moscow metro on 2-hr tour and 20 Metro stations on 3-hr tour, including grand Komsomolskaya station with its distinctive Baroque décor, aristocratic Mayakovskaya station with Soviet mosaics, legendary Revolution Square station with 72 bronze sculptures and more!
• Explore Museum of Moscow Metro and learn a ton of technical and historical facts;
• Listen to the secrets about the Metro-2, a secret line supposedly used by the government and KGB;
• Experience a selection of most striking features of Moscow Metro hidden from most tourists and even locals;
• Discover the underground treasure of Russian Soviet past – from mosaics to bronzes, paintings, marble arches, stained glass and even paleontological elements;
• Learn fun stories and myths about Coffee Ring, Zodiac signs of Moscow Metro and more;
• Admire Soviet-era architecture of pre- and post- World War II perious;
• Enjoy panoramic views of Sparrow Hills from Luzhniki Metro Bridge – MetroMost, the only station of Moscow Metro located over water and the highest station above ground level;
• If lucky, catch a unique «Aquarelle Train» – a wheeled picture gallery, brightly painted with images of peony, chrysanthemums, daisies, sunflowers and each car unit is unique;
• Become an expert at navigating the legendary Moscow Metro system;
• Have fun time with a very friendly local;
• + Atmospheric Metro lunch in Moscow’s the only Metro Diner (included in a 3-hr tour)

Hotel Pick-up

Metro stations:.

Komsomolskaya

Novoslobodskaya

Prospekt Mira

Belorusskaya

Mayakovskaya

Novokuznetskaya

Revolution Square

Sparrow Hills

+ for 3-hour tour

Victory Park

Slavic Boulevard

Vystavochnaya

Dostoevskaya

Elektrozavodskaya

Partizanskaya

Museum of Moscow Metro

• Drop-off  at your hotel, Novodevichy Convent, Sparrow Hills or any place you wish
• + Russian lunch  in Metro Diner with artistic metro-style interior for 3-hour tour

Fun facts from our Moscow Metro Tours:

From the very first days of its existence, the Moscow Metro was the object of civil defense, used as a bomb shelter, and designed as a defense for a possible attack on the Soviet Union.

At a depth of 50 to 120 meters lies the second, the coded system of Metro-2 of Moscow subway, which is equipped with everything you need, from food storage to the nuclear button.

According to some sources, the total length of Metro-2 reaches over 150 kilometers.

The Museum was opened on Sportivnaya metro station on November 6, 1967. It features the most interesting models of trains and stations.

Coffee Ring

The first scheme of Moscow Metro looked like a bunch of separate lines. Listen to a myth about Joseph Stalin and the main brown line of Moscow Metro.

Zodiac Metro

According to some astrologers, each of the 12 stops of the Moscow Ring Line corresponds to a particular sign of the zodiac and divides the city into astrological sector.

Astrologers believe that being in a particular zadiac sector of Moscow for a long time, you attract certain energy and events into your life.

Paleontological finds 

Red marble walls of some of the Metro stations hide in themselves petrified inhabitants of ancient seas. Try and find some!

• Every day each car in  Moscow metro passes  more than 600 km, which is the distance from Moscow to St. Petersburg.
• Moscow subway system is the  5th in the intensity  of use (after the subways of Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai).
• The interval in the movement of trains in rush hour is  90 seconds .

What you get:

• + A friend in Moscow.
• + Private & customized Moscow tour.
• + An exciting pastime, not just boring history lessons.
• + An authentic experience of local life.
• + Flexibility during the walking tour: changes can be made at any time to suit individual preferences.
• + Amazing deals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the very best cafes & restaurants. Discounts on weekdays (Mon-Fri).
• + A photo session amongst spectacular Moscow scenery that can be treasured for a lifetime.
• + Good value for souvenirs, taxis, and hotels.
• + Expert advice on what to do, where to go, and how to make the most of your time in Moscow.

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