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Tour Dudutki - Slutsk - the museum of the History Slutskys belts

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Route: MinskSlutskMinsk
Distance: 250 km
Duration: 11:00 hour
Kind: Bus-Walking tours
Language of training: Russian

Belarus is a country with a rich history and magnificent architecture, with pristine nature and colorful personalities. Among other things, an honorable place in this list is also occupied by an authentic cultural heritage. Near Minsk there is a complex where folk craftsmen keep sacredly ancient handicrafts and technologies - Dudutki. And in the ancient city of Slutsk many centuries ago the Radziwills founded a manufacturing factory for the famous and unique Slutsk belts.

The excursion program

The excursion program - Dudutki - Slutsk - the museum of the History Slutskys belts

  • Gathering the group
    Gathering the group
  • Moving
    Moving in Ptich (44 km)
  • Attraction
    Attraction Museum complex of ancient national crafts and technologies Dudutki
    Dudutki — the place where the Belarusian traditions and crafts will recover on your eyes. In the museum the most talented masters of blacksmithing, a solomopleteniye, weaving, woodworking, fulling work. Will not leave indifferent and ancient Belarusian recipes according to which here still cook bread, oil, alcohol and many other things. You will taste the most tasty products of local production. Besides workshops the only windmill in Belarus which will slightly open for you a curtain of a secret and fulfillment of desires remained here. Bright impressions will leave also rare models of retrocars. In free time in a complex it is possible to take a walk in a zoo and to sweep on horses.
  • Lunch
    Lunch
  • Moving
    Moving in Slutsk (81 km)
  • Attraction
    Attraction Factory of Slutsk belts
    The factory «Slutsk belts» is the only enterprise on which the unique technology of weaving of the Slutsk belts was recreated. Excursion to the factory introduces the technology of folk handicrafts - weaving. Here you can observe how masterpieces of art culture are created by weaver-craftsmen, see analogues of these Slutsk belts reconstructed with modern equipment. In the museum you can also see the machine of German company Mageba, made by special order and having no analogues all over the world. After the tour there is an opportunity to purchase souvenirs for memory.
  • Attraction
    Attraction St. Barbaras Chapel in Slutsk
    The chapel of St. Barbara was built of wood in Slutsk in the 1990s. The architecture of the chapel traces the traditions of church architecture of the Russian North of the XII century. It is believed that the Christian martyr Saint Barbara (Barbara) of Iliopolska died in 306. For the prayer help to Varvara they are in danger of sudden death. Also, they address it when threatened by fire, lightning and fires. She is considered the patroness of sappers, firemen, architects, masons, miners, marines and artillerymen.
  • Attraction
    Attraction Church of Michael in Sluck
    Of the many churches that once existed in Slutsk, to this day only one remains - Mikhailovskaya. It is a wooden church built in the second half of the 18th century, formerly a parish church, and now a cathedral of the newly-formed Slutsk Diocese.
  • Moving
    Moving in Minsk (100 km)
  • The end of the tour

Map of the tour route Dudutki - Slutsk - the museum of the History Slutskys belts