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Distance: 760 km
Duration: 2 day
Excursion subject: Weekend tours, Tours to Belarus
Kind: Bus-Walking tours
Language of training: Russian
You will visit the city where to this day the tradition of lighting lanterns lives - the lantern has become the most recognizable inhabitant of Brest. The most recognizable attraction and symbol of the courage of the people is the Brest Fortress. Further you will visit the ancient reserve of Europe - Belovezhskaya Pushcha, where the mighty bison live. The magnificent towers will be met by one of the most beautiful castles in Europe - Mirsky. And the most legendary city of Belarus will open the doors to the magnificent Nesvizh Palace.
The excursion program - Brest - Belovezhskaya puscha - Mir - Nesvizh (2 days)
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Gathering the group at the railway station Brest -
Breakfast -
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.
You will see: Brest railway station (visual inspection), The historic center of Brest, The Square of Liberty in Brest, Cathedral of St. Simeon in Brest (visual inspection), Museum of the defense of the Brest fortress, Brest Fortress, Church of the Cross in Brest (visual inspection), Church of St. Nicholas in Brest (visual inspection), Museum «Fort № 5» -
Lunch -
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.
You will see: Kamenets Tower (visual inspection), Museum of nature of National Park Belovezhskaya Puscha, Demonstration open-air cages with wild animals, The estate of the Belarusian Dzed Moroz -
Transfer to the hotel. Check in - 2day
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Early Breakfast -
Moving in Mir (260 km) -
Mir Castle Complex
The world – 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. -
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. -
Chapel-burial vault of Svyatopolk-Mirsky family
Chapel – 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
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Moving in Nesvizh (33 km)
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Nesvizh town hall
(visual inspection)In the center Nesvizha the fine example of architecture of the 16th century – a city Town hall – self-government institutions is located. She can tell you all mysteries of the medieval city and citizens: here the court was managed and sentences were pronounced, there was a city archive and treasury, control scales were stored here, and nearby there took place fairs. Heart of the oldest Town hall in Belarus and fights today rhythmically – each 15 minutes from a high tower remind of time hours. -
Нouse on the market (home of craftsman)
(visual inspection)The house of the handicraftsman or lodge in the market located at the market square, undoubtedly draws attention – there are no others such, not only in Nesvizhe, but also Belarus. And 3 centuries ago building of the area around a town hall quite so looked: lodges of handicraftsmen with graceful baroque facades which, as if a maple leaf, elegantly cover a 2-skatny wooden roof. The house in the Market - the only example of city housing of the first half of the 18th century which has remained in Belarus with a peculiar baroque facade. -
Benedictine Monastery in Nesvizh
(visual inspection)Nikolay Hristofor Radzivill Sirotka who has got a good education in Europe and his wife Elzhbeta Evfimiya from Vishnevetsky' family who for beauty and mind was often called "the Savsky queen" and in Nesvizhe sought to develop formation of the European level. At the initiative of Evfimiya, in 1596 in Nesvizhe the female Catholic monastery, the first in the territory of Belarus, has been founded. Here girls from the shlyakhetskikh of families studied. The tradition of education stands out through all history of the city - and thread isn't torn off. Today in the building of the monastery the Nesvizhsky state college of Yaqub Kolas is located. -
Sluckaya brama
(visual inspection)She for centuries met dealers and handicraftsmen, poets and composers, princes and kings. Or not it? At the end of the 16th century it was possible to get to Nesvizh through one of 5 gate – other options were not. Up to now only one remained – Slutsk. Whether often to you gate to the city meet? Is not present? Then surely make a photo for memory and make a wish, having passed through them. -
Nesvizh Church (Church of Jesuits)
"Bow to your temple in your fear" - meets by these words parishioners a majestic and God's monumental Nesvizhsky church of a body. Built in the 16th century, it became the first in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth temple in Baroque style: magnificent frescos, pictures, marble and gilding. Under a church the crypt Radzivillov – тревья in Europe a tomb by the number of burials settled down. Really atmospheric fascinating place. -
Nesvizh palace Radziwill
It is stale – one of the oldest and most mysterious cities of Belarus where there is the well-known Nesvizhsky palace. In the 16th century beauty and magnificence of finishing it competed with many royal palaces: a parquet from the most valuable breeds of a tree, the unique finishing of a ceiling, walls covered with gilding. This really mystical place and one of the most mysterious in Belarus within the walls of which looks for calms of a shower of Barbara Radzivill – the Black lady Nesvizha. -
Transfer to the railway stationto the city of Minsk. The transfer to the railway station of the city of Brest is possible. -
➥The end of the tour
