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Tour Nesvizh - the capital of uncrowned kings

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Route: MinskNesvizhMinsk
Distance: 240 km
Duration: 08:00 hour
Kind: Bus-Walking tours
Language of training: Russian

They say that each city has the spirit patron - the genius of the place. Possibly, at Nesvizha it has special force. How differently to explain such number of outstanding personalities? For example, Nikolay Hristofor Radzivill Sirotka is the educator and the patron. At it Nesvizh was reconstructed in a stone - the infinite set of monuments of architecture and the Nesvizhsky palace appeared. And it is only one of 17 ordinat of Nesvizha. One of a huge dynasty of "uncrowned kings" Radzivillov, with history and which creations you will get acquainted during the excursion.

The excursion program

The excursion program - Nesvizh - the capital of uncrowned kings

  • Gathering the group
    Gathering the group
  • Moving
    Moving in Nesvizh (120 km)
  • Attraction
    Attraction Nesvizh town hall
    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.
  • Attraction
    Attraction 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.
  • Attraction
    Attraction 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.
  • Attraction
    Attraction 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.
  • Lunch
    Lunch
  • Attraction
    Attraction 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.
  • Attraction
    Attraction 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.
  • Moving
    Moving in Minsk (120 km)
  • The end of the tour

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