Search
Children's tour: Minsk - Sula - Castles - Brest - Grodno (6 days)
Tour descriptionPrice
per person
22'947 ₽
20'094 ₽
The cost of excursions is approved in Belarusian rubles and when paying in other currencies the final cost may differ from the one indicated on the site depending on the exchange rate of the card issuing bank (MIR, Visa, Mastercard).
Included in the price of the excursion:
- certified guide services
- entrance tickets
- transport services
- supply
- excursions according to the program
- accommodation
Description
We invite you to a six-day tour of the most interesting and iconic places in Belarus. On the first day - a city tour, the historical part of Minsk and new modern buildings, as well as a memorial to the victims of fascism in the village of Khatyn burnt with all residents. On the second day - Sula interactive history park with an animation program and tastings. The third day - UNESCO monuments the medieval Mir Castle and the palace in Nesvizh. On the fourth day, he goes southwest to the border with Poland to the city of Brest and visits the Brest Hero Fortress. Overnight in Brest. The fifth day - the oldest European reserve in Belovezhskaya Pushcha and acquaintance with the bison. Moving to the most beautiful city in Belarus - Royal Grodno. Overnight in Grodno. The sixth day of the program - we continue our acquaintance with Grodno, with the New Castle and the Farny Church and go back to Minsk, along the way - visit the Lida Castle.
Route
Minsk - Logoisk - Smolevichi - Minsk - Mir - Nesvizh - Brest - Kamenyuki Belovezhskaya puscha - Grodno - Lida - Minsk
Excursion type
Sightseeing
Distance
1260 km
Duration
6 days
Language of training
Russian
Excursion subject
Ethnographic, Excursions to the castles, Excursions in Minsk, Ecological, Tours to Belarus, Factory excursions, For schoolchildren, Patriotic excursions, Animation
Kind
Bus-Walking tours
Program
day 1
Gathering the group
Breakfast
Khatyn - The Mound of Glory
Lunch
Check in
day 2
Breakfast
Moving in Sula (65 km)
Pansky maentak Sula
In the Pansky maentak "Sula" will be glad to offer you acquaintance to way of the pansky yard, work of the masters recreating ancient technologies in operation. You will pass expensive Belarusian history of 10 000 years. The grand welcome accompanied by musicians and a horse escort will ship you in history of Belarus: Slavic beliefs, secrets and messages of megalytic constructions, cults, ceremonies and traditions of our pagan ancestors, participation in an Old Slavic ceremony of clarification by fire. In a weapon smithy the most dexterous and skillful will be able to shape an amulet for luck, to split a stone, for construction of the lock. And how leisure in the 18th century was corrected? You are waited by saber fight, demonstration the shlyakhetskikh of entertainments and traditions, master classes in old-world shlyakhetsky dances, tasting of specialty drink - Starka. The interactive program – a fascinating and fascinating way of acquaintance to history and traditions of the past centuries.
Lunch
Free time
day 3
Breakfast
Check out
Moving in Mir (100 km)
Mir Castle Complex
Mir – the town with a silent cosiness of streets where throughout centuries destinies, culture and life of Belarusians, Poles, Roma, Tatars, Jews closely intertwined. On the suburb of the town the medieval giant - Mir Castle Complex important settled down. Majestic towers and powerful walls are harmoniously combined with the beautiful park, being reflected in a pond mirror. The halls ornated by a carving and gilding, graceful furniture, abrupt ladders on which you not just will pass – you will turn into other reality, in other century.
Chapel-burial vault of Svyatopolk-Mirsky family
The chapel-tomb of Svyatopolk-Mirsky is a ladder which will spend you from powerful walls of the lock to magnificent parks. In it the embodiment of modernist style style, so popular in the 19th century, - any symmetry and classics – a new view on architecture, fresh receptions and forms. This place chose also a lock ghost – Sonechk who, among others, is buried in a tomb.
Lunch
Moving in Nesvizh (30 km)
Nesvizh town hall
In the center ofNesvizh 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.
Нouse on the market (home of craftsman)
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 Nesvizh, 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.
Benedictine Monastery in Nesvizh
Nicholas Christopher Radziwill the Orphan, who received a good education in Europe, and his wife Elzbeta Euphemia, who was often called the «Queen of Savskaya» for her beauty and intelligence, and in Nesvizh strived to develop education at the European level. On the initiative of Euphemia, in 1596 the first Catholic women's monastery in Belarus was founded in Nesvizh. Girls from noble families studied the word of God, music, embroidery, literacy, etc. here. The tradition of education runs like a red thread through the entire history of the city - and the thread is not broken. Today, the building of the monastery houses the Nesvizh State College named after Yakub Kolas.
Sluckaya brama
For centuries it has met traders and artisans, poets and composers, princes and kings. Or isn't she? At the end of the XVI century you could get to Nesvizh through one of 5 gates - there were no other options. Only one has survived to this day - the Slutsk. How often do you come across gates to the city? No? Then be sure to take a photo as a souvenir and make a wish after passing through them.
Nesvizh Church (Church of Jesuits)
«Bow before your temple in your fear» - with these words the majestic and monumental Nesvizh Church of the Body of God greets parishioners. Erected in the XVI century, it became the first church in the Rzeczpospolita baroque style: magnificent frescoes, paintings, marble and gilding. Under the church there is the crypt of the Radziwills - the third tomb in Europe in terms of the number of burials. A truly atmospheric and captivating place.
Nesvizh palace Radziwill
Nesvizh is one of the oldest and most mysterious cities in Belarus, where the famous Nesvizh Palace is located. In the 16th century the beauty and splendor of its decoration rivaled many royal palaces: parquet flooring made of the most valuable types of wood, unique ceiling decoration, walls covered with gilding. This is a truly mystical place and one of the most mysterious in Belarus, within whose walls the soul of Barbara Radziwill - the Black Lady of Nesvizh - seeks repose.
Moving in Brest (230 km)
Check in
day 4
Breakfast
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.
Lunch
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.
Free time
day 5
Breakfast
Check out
Moving in Kamenyuki Belovezhskaya puscha (60 km)
Museum of Folk Life and ancient technologies
The set of opening and surprises waits for those who will decide to go to an excursion to the depth of Bialowieza Forest. Exactly there the Museum of national life and ancient technologies was located. Very often guests of national park have a question: how did there live true pushchanets? What were they engaged in and what was their culture? After short and pleasant moving in the reserved ways, you receive answers to all questions interesting you.
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.
Lunch
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.
Moving in Grodno (220 km)
Check in
day 6
Breakfast
Check out
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.
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.
Kolozhskaya (Borisoglebskaya ) Church
In the 12th century, on a high slope of Neman, one of the first churches of Eastern Europe has been built. For unique shape and unique technology, she was entitled the historical and architectural reserve. Why most of people name her Kolozhska? The church in honor of Saints Boris and Gleb is lit. For what numerous jugs are walled in walls? In what a secret of the centuries-old temple and whether his destiny is so simple? After the excursion you with confidence will be able to answer these questions.
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.
Lunch
Moving in Lida (120 km)
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.
Moving in Minsk (170 km)
Transfer to the railway station
The end of the tour