Dudutki - Slutsk - the museum of the History Slutskys belts

Dudutki — the place where the Belarusian traditions and crafts will recover on your eyes. In the museum the most talented masters of blacksmithing, a solomopleteniye, weaving, woodworking, fulling work. Will not leave indifferent and ancient Belarusian recipes according to which here still cook bread, oil, alcohol and many other things. You will taste the most tasty products of local production. Besides workshops the only windmill in Belarus which will slightly open for you a curtain of a secret and fulfillment of desires remained here. Bright impressions will leave also rare models of retrocars. In free time in a complex it is possible to take a walk in a zoo and to sweep on horses.

The factory «Slutsk belts» is the only enterprise on which the unique technology of weaving of the Slutsk belts was recreated. Excursion to the factory introduces the technology of folk handicrafts - weaving. Here you can observe how masterpieces of art culture are created by weaver-craftsmen, see analogues of these Slutsk belts reconstructed with modern equipment. In the museum you can also see the machine of German company Mageba, made by special order and having no analogues all over the world. After the tour there is an opportunity to purchase souvenirs for memory.

The chapel of St. Barbara was built of wood in Slutsk in the 1990s. The architecture of the chapel traces the traditions of church architecture of the Russian North of the XII century. It is believed that the Christian martyr Saint Barbara (Barbara) of Iliopolska died in 306. For the prayer help to Varvara they are in danger of sudden death. Also, they address it when threatened by fire, lightning and fires. She is considered the patroness of sappers, firemen, architects, masons, miners, marines and artillerymen.

Of the many churches that once existed in Slutsk, to this day only one remains - Mikhailovskaya. It is a wooden church built in the second half of the 18th century, formerly a parish church, and now a cathedral of the newly-formed Slutsk Diocese.