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Tour Brest - Belovezhskaya puscha - Mir - Minsk (2 days)

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Distance: 580 km
Duration: 2 day
Kind: Bus-Walking tours
Language of training: Russian

In just two days you will visit 2 of the 4 UNESCO World Heritage sites located in Belarus. You will visit the oldest protected forest in Europe and see the bison. And in the Mir with majestic towers you will be met by one of the most beautiful castles in Europe - Mirsky. In addition, you will find a tour of the city Brest, where until now the lanterns are lit by the hand lamp, where the voice of Levitan is met by the Brest Hero Fortress. And the journey will end with an acquaintance with the Belarusian capital - the city of Minsk.

The excursion program

The excursion program - Brest - Belovezhskaya puscha - Mir - Minsk (2 days)

  • 1day
  • Gathering the group
    Gathering the group at the railway station Brest
  • Breakfast
    Breakfast
  • Excursion
    Excursion tour Brest - an ancient and modern city (from Brest)

    In the first half of the trip you will see the bus and walking tour of Brest - one of the oldest cities in Belarus with a rich history and a rich variety of events. The excursion will continue with a trip to the memorial complex "Brest Fortress - Hero" - one of the most significant places of Belarus, which keeps the memory of the great feat of the Belarusian people.

  • Attraction
    Attraction Brest Fortress
    During the excursion before you pages of history of terrible days of the beginning of war when at sunrise on June 22, 1941 the garrison of the Brest fortress the first assumed blows of fascist aggressors will open and more than a month held the fort in a full environment. Already on an entrance you will be met by a shrill voice of Yu. Levitan with the government message about attack on the Soviet Union of troops of fascist Germany and the song by A. Alexandrov the «Sacred war» which became the anthem of those years. On May 8, 1965 fortresses the rank «fortress hero» is given.
  • Museum
    Museum Museum of the defense of the Brest fortress
    The Museum of the defense of the Brest fortress is a museum whose exposition reflects not only the military actions of 1941 on the territory of the fortress, but also the history of its construction, as well as the largest battles of the Great Patriotic War and the liberation of Belarus from Nazi invaders. The Museum of the defense was opened in 1956, since that time its area and exposition have doubled up, items from excavations, works of art, military documents, photographs are presented here. The most valuable among all items of the exposition are the records of S.S. Smirnov with memories of the participants in the defense of the Brest Fortress.
  • Lunch
    Lunch
  • Excursion
    Excursion tour Visit the Ded Moroz residance Belovezhskaya Pushcha departure from Brest

    This excursion will give you a unique opportunity to get acquainted with the oldest nature monument, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List - Belovezhskaya Pushcha - one of the main natural reserves of Europe, a major tourist center of Belarus, where tourists from all over the world come to. Do not miss the opportunity to give yourself and your children a New Year's unforgettable fairy tale with good impressions and pleasant memories.

  • Transfer to the hotel. Check in
    Transfer to the hotel. Check in
  • 2day
  • Early Breakfast
    Early Breakfast
  • Check out
    Check out
  • Moving
    Moving in Mir (260 km)
  • Attraction
    Attraction Holy Trinity Church in Mir (visual inspection)
    Holy Trinity Church in the village Mir - an architectural monument of the XVI century, which represent an elongated cross with five domes. This church was built near the Mir Castle under the guidance of Duke Nichola Radziwill Sirotka and was demaged several times and rebuilt, it was changed to the Uniates, and then again returned to the Orthodox believers.
    The church was destroyed in the huge fire in the second half of the XIX century, after which was once again rebuilt in Russian Revival style. There was a revered The Virgin Mary icon of the XVI century until 1925, but even now this place evokes a feeling of humility and reverence before God.
  • Attraction
    Attraction St. Nicholas church in Mir (visual inspection)
    St. Nicholas church in Mir was built in the Renaissance style in 1605 on the place of a former wooden church when the Radzivill family became the owners of the Mir Castle. After the uprising of Tadeush Kostyushko king's government give it to the Orthodox Church, and during the war it was closed at all. Despite this St. Nicholas church reached our time almost in its original form. A powerful 4-storey tower-bell tower meets the parishioners, and within the church you can listen to the penetrating pries and get blessing.
  • Attraction
    Attraction Mir Castle Complex
    Mir – the town with a silent cosiness of streets where throughout centuries destinies, culture and life of Belarusians, Poles, Roma, Tatars, Jews closely intertwined. On the suburb of the town the medieval giant - Mir Castle Complex important settled down. Majestic towers and powerful walls are harmoniously combined with the beautiful park, being reflected in a pond mirror. The halls ornated by a carving and gilding, graceful furniture, abrupt ladders on which you not just will pass – you will turn into other reality, in other century.
  • Attraction
    Attraction Chapel-burial vault of Svyatopolk-Mirsky family
    The chapel-tomb of Svyatopolk-Mirsky is a ladder which will spend you from powerful walls of the lock to magnificent parks. In it the embodiment of modernist style style, so popular in the 19th century, - any symmetry and classics – a new view on architecture, fresh receptions and forms. This place chose also a lock ghost – Sonechk who, among others, is buried in a tomb.
  • Lunch
    Lunch
  • Moving
    Moving in Minsk (97 km)
  • Excursion
    Excursion tour Evening Minsk

    Minsk – the city with unique character and the person. For everyone it is the: at the same time Minsk remains both up-to-date, and ancient, and hasty, and slow, and business, and romantic … In a word, many-sided and cozy for each guest. The evening city will open before you absolutely on the other hand. Fires it is underlined modern constructions and will give magic and the night fairy tale to medieval constructions. In such atmosphere the feeling of a holiday does not leave for all evening.

  • Transfer to the railway station
    Transfer to the railway station
  • The end of the tour

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