Tour Minsk - Dudutki - Lida - Grodno - Belovezhskaya Pushcha - Brest (4 days)

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Route: Minsk → Ptych → Minsk → Lida → Grodno → Kamenyuki Belovezhskaya puscha → Brest

Distance: 1050 km

Duration: 4 day

Excursion subject: Ethnographic, Excursions to the castles, Excursions in Minsk, Ecological, Weekend tours, Tours to Belarus, Patriotic excursions

Kind: Bus tours

Language of training: Russian

We invite you on a great trip to Belarus. The program includes Minsk, the most beautiful city in the country - royal Grodno, the oldest nature reserve in Europe - Belovezhskaya Pushcha and Father Frost's Estate, Brest Fortress-Hero.

The excursion program

The excursion program - Minsk - Dudutki - Lida - Grodno - Belovezhskaya Pushcha - Brest (4 days)

1day
Gathering the group at the railway station Minsk
Breakfast
tour Dudutki
Past and present , measured life of vintage nobles estate XIX century and convenience of the modern tourist center occur in Dudutki. Here you will get to know the culture of nobles court, the work of the artists, culinary heritage of our ancestors, charming nature, surprising fauna. All artifacts can be touched and tasted.

You will see: Museum complex of ancient national crafts and technologies Dudutki
Lunch
Check in
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.

You will see: Privokzalnaya Square (visual inspection), Independence Square, Nezavisimosti Avenue (visual inspection), Freedom Square, Ruins of Minsk ancient castle (visual inspection), Trinity suburb, Island of courage and sorrow, National Library of Belarus, A sports complex Minsk-Arena (visual inspection)
2day
Breakfast
Check out
Moving in Lida (170 km)
Exaltation of the Cross church in Lida
Long time in Lida attempts construction of Catholic temples anyway became. However all of them came to the end extremely tragically – pagan aggression, disapproval of the prince, the fires of crusaders. So was to the middle of the 18th century. In 1770 in the city the Roman Catholic Parish Church of Erection of the Sacred Cross appeared. The outstanding architect, the founder of refined architectural style, after called "vilensky baroque" - Johann Christoph Glaubits became the architect of the project.
Cathedral of St. Michael The Archangel in Lida
Having seen it, you hardly learn in the cathedral is mute. Before you the beautiful palace will be. However, having thumbed through pages of the past of Sacred and Mikhaylovsky church, you learn in what a secret of its shape and history. How fate of the temple existing since the time of Public relations of the 17th century up to now was?
Lidа castle
In 1323 the prince Gedimin gave the order to put the stone lock to cover to knights the road to the center of lands of the principality Lithuanian. In 5 years the kostel was built. Time the lock was besieged by the English, German, French knights. The Lidsky lock is "time machine" and a fascinating travel to the Middle Ages where continually there is a place to romanticism and knightly valor. Here everyone will be able to feel as the ancient soldier, having tried on an armor and to like the mystical atmosphere, having learned what ghost protects a citadel.
Lunch
Moving in Grodno (115 km)
New Castle in Grodno
Quite often the fate of locks and palaces are shrouded in legends and mystical stories. And in a case with the royal residence - it is inevitable. One of 2 locks in Grodno – the summer residence of the grand duke Lithuanian and the king Polish Augustus III has received glory of the damned place. And, nevertheless, exactly there passed general diets of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the agreement on her section in 1793 and here, in 1795 has been signed here, Augustus Ponyatovsky has appended the signature under the act of renunciation.
Grodno Choral synagogue
To your attention the most beautiful synagogue in Europe, the biggest in Belarus and the oldest in the former Soviet Union. Her long story begins in the 16th century. Constructed on the project of the architect Santi Gucci, more than once suffering from the fires and destructions, it nevertheless has informed of solemn vernal shape and well remained interior up to now.
Catholic church of Our Lady of Angels and Monastery Franciscan
Historical center of Grodno
The historic center of Grodno - a place of international importance, included in the State list of historical and cultural heritage of the Republic of Belarus. Having a long history from the castle on a hill near the Gorodnichanka river, to the residence of great Lithuanian princes, Grodno is considered to be one of the most beautiful cities in Belarus and Eastern Europe, and its historic center includes about 400 objects of various eras and styles.
The cultural heritage of Grodno mainly consists of its brilliant architectural complexes of XVIII-XIX centuries mainly - the monuments of ancient architecture, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Classicism and other styles.
The monastery of bazilian in Grodno
The monastery of bazilian in Grodno - a monument of the national significance, which is interesting for its history. Prechistenskaya Church was built here in the XII century, which excavations you can see today at the territory of the monastery. In the XVIII century the Church of Nativity was built here and combined Baroque and Classical styles. It was used for a museum of atheism and religion in Soviet times.
Today, the complex includes the Holy Nativity Orthodox Women's Monastery, residential buildings, a chapel and Sunday school.
Old Grodno Castle
Old and New locks in Grodno are located absolutely nearby. It is a big rarity, even considering that in the territory of Belarus, in the Middle Ages, locks it was possible to meet through each 40 km. And both locks – royal. Powerful defensive system, high abrupt shaft, waters of Neman and Gorodnichanki – the residence under reliable protection. The unusual shape raises the mass of questions – the answer one: before you examples of the Belarusian defensive architecture. And today, the stone chronicle opens for «the amator ў» all new pages of historical reality.
Dominican monastery in Grodno: Educational Building
Moving in Kamenyuki Belovezhskaya puscha (220 km)
Check in
3day
Breakfast
Demonstration open-air cages with wild animals
Demonstration open-air cages are located near the Museum of the nature of Bialowieza Forest. On the area about 20 hectares you will see main types of the animals living in Bialowieza Forest. Here close it is possible to see also forest inhabitants, to treat with a bread piece, apple or a branch of the bisons who got used to visitors, elks, boars, a tarpanovidny horse or a bear.
Museum of nature of National Park Belovezhskaya Puscha
The museum of the nature of National park Bialowieza Forest – one of the most visited in Belarus. He will acquaint with seasonal features and the most striking traits of the nature in different time of the year and also with inhabitants of a dense forest during different historical eras. In it there are three main thematic halls with one thousand exhibits where against the background of history of Bialowieza Forest its nature is presented.
The estate of the Belarusian Dzed Moroz
The excursion in the Belarusian Father Frost's Estate laid the foundation for formation of new tradition of a celebration of New Year's holidays for children and adults. This really magic place attracts to itself not only school students, but also people of more advanced ages. Already at the entrance you get absolutely to other world, forgetting about daily vanity, completely plunge into the fairy tale. Father Frost's house with workshops, the Snow Maiden's lodge, the museum of children's letters where letters, drawings and hand-made articles which are sent by children from the whole country, a windmill, a magic well and two knights on an entrance are stored: Dub-Dubovich and Vyaz-Vyazovich. Each visitor will receive a New Year's gift from Father Frost and the Snow Maiden.
Lunch
Free time
4day
Breakfast
Check out
Moving in Brest (60 km)
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 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.
Brest railway station
Brest railway station is a museum of marble in the open air, is one of the monuments of architecture of the Republic of Belarus.
The railway station of Brest is one of the oldest in Belarus, its opening took place on May 28, 1886 in the presence of the royal family, headed by Alexander III. The unique construction of the station building harmoniously fits into the style of the modern city and is a kind of gateway of the country to Europe.
Cathedral of St. Simeon in Brest
The Brest Cathedral of St. Simeon is the main Orthodox church in the city, which is its true decoration and pride. Built in 1865 in the pseudo-Russian style, the cathedral looks especially majestic in the evening in the rays of night illumination. One of the main shrines of the temple are the relics of St. Martyr Athanasius, Abbot of Brest, who despite tortures and torments did not renounce Orthodoxy. Today, the monument to Athanasius of Brest was installed near the cathedral.
12:30 The historic center of Brest
The historic center of Brest belongs to the historical and cultural heritage of the Republic of Belarus and is submitted to the State value list, which includes more than 250 sites and facilities. In Soviet times, the powerful ancient Brest city with a rich cultural heritage has been destroyed, and the fortress was built in its place. So today the city's historic center is mostly former residential and administrative buildings - houses, schools and grammar schools, hospitals and banks that belong to the second half of XIX - early XX century.
Lunch
Free time
Transfer to the railway station
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