Belarus 7 days (Minsk - BELAZ - Dudutki - Mir - Nesvizh - Brest - Belovezhskaya Pushcha - Grodno - Lida - Novogrudok)

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Privokzalnaya Square Independence Square Nezavisimosti Avenue Freedom Square Ruins of Minsk ancient castle Trinity suburb Island of courage and sorrow A sports complex Minsk-Arena National Library of Belarus

Museum complex of ancient national crafts and technologies Dudutki

Mir Castle Complex Chapel-burial vault of Svyatopolk-Mirsky family Nesvizh town hall Нouse on the market (home of craftsman) Benedictine Monastery in Nesvizh Sluckaya brama Nesvizh Church (Church of Jesuits) Nesvizh palace Radziwill

Cathedral of St. Simeon in Brest Church of the Cross in Brest Brest railway station The Square of Liberty in Brest Church of St. Nicholas in Brest Brest Fortress Museum of the defense of the Brest fortress The historic center of Brest

Kamenets Tower Museum of nature of National Park ”Belovezhskaya Puscha” Demonstration open-air cages with wild animals The estate of the Belarusian Dzed Moroz

Gorodnitsa Francis Xavier Church in Grodno Church of the Finding of the Holy Cross and Monastery of Bernardine in Grodno Grodno Choral synagogue Old Grodno Castle New Castle in Grodno Kolozhskaya (Borisoglebskaya ) Church

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.

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.

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?

Novogrudok – the first capital of Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The city with thousand-year history kept surprising landscapes of hills and the woods, the view of which opens from Zamkova Hora. And on it ruins of the majestic castle where many centuries Mindovg was crowned back tower. The Novogrudsky lock, located at hill top, is visible for many kilometers from the city – its towers as if giants, are cut down from a boulder, from a distance reported about power and greatness of fortress.

At the beginning of the 17th century representatives of a Catholic award – Dominicans located in Novogrudka. For them the church was also built that combines elements of magnificent and festive baroque and late classicism. What was only not seen by the temple: soldiers and fires, granary and furniture warehouse, desolation and elimination of an award. However in the best times at a church the monastery and school worked. The writer and politician Adam Mickiewicz studied at school of this.