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

The excursion will spend you through the modern industrial city – Zhodino where you with own eyes will see as giants of the Belarusian and world mechanical engineering – BELAZ are born. They work in dozens of the countries of the world. Production of the plant won not one prestigious award of the international level and became the repeated champion of the Guinness Book of Records. Today "BELAZ" not only brand of the career equipment, but also brand symbol of independent Belarus.

BELAZ plant

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.

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

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.

Museum complex of ancient national crafts and technologies Dudutki

One-day tour to the castles of Mir and Nesvizh with the best guides in Minsk. In one day you will visit the most popular and interesting sights of Belarus - Mir Castle and Nesvizh Palace - two of the four objects from the UNESCO World Heritage List at once. A group tour from Minsk by bus starts from the railway station and is held regularly several times a week. Would you like to visit the castles individually? You can book for any day and any time. You don't have to pay extra for anything. Everything is included in the cost of the trip: lunch in a cafe, entrance tickets to castles with excursions, a professional guide. Prepare comfortable shoes and don't forget your cameras! А lot of impressions are waiting for you: from the chic halls of princes to dark cellars and narrow towers. Let's reveal the secret: the ghost of the Nesvizh Castle still exists, and the bewitching legend of the Black Lady definitely won't leave you indifferent...

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

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. A visit to the Defense Museum will give you the opportunity to learn, feel and understand the tragic events of the forty-first year and to confirm that the memory of them lives in the hearts of the post-war generations.

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

Grodno – the residence of the Lithuanian princes and Polish kings. He has conveniently settled down on high coast of Neman: magnificent landscapes of prinemansky edge in combination with the uncountable number of refined works of architecture. Having held in remembrance former greatness and traditions, it has passed for the most beautiful city of Belarus. And shroud the city where streets breathe old times in the atmosphere of the Middle Ages, definitely deserves your attention.

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.