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Route: Minsk → Logoisk → Smolevichi → Minsk → Mir → Nesvizh → Brest → Kamenyuki Belovezhskaya puscha → Minsk
- Distance: 990 km
- Duration: 4 day
- Excursion subject: Excursions to the castles, Excursions in Minsk, Ecological, Weekend tours, Tours to Belarus, For schoolchildren, Patriotic excursions
- Kind: Bus tours
- Language of training: Russian
In 4 days you will get acquainted with the country and see the most striking and famous sights of Belarus: the capital - the city of Minsk, the castles of the Mir and Nesvizh included in the UNESCO World Heritage List, the Khatyn memorial complex, the legendary Brest Fortress, and the unique protected forest - Belovezhskaya Pushcha.
Show program excursions
The excursion program- Minsk - Khatyn - Barrow of Glory - Mir - Nesvizh - Brest - Belovezhskaya Pushcha (4 days)
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Gathering the group at the railway station Minsk -
Breakfast -
tour Minsk city tour
During the excursion Minsk will open before you the person: wide avenues and cozy streets, a variety of architectural complexes and parks. For the long story of existence the city was repeatedly destroyed, burned, but every time it revived and built up. And today Minsk is a modern European megalopolis with the multimillion population. He develops and becomes promptly more beautiful, combining greatness of heritage of old times and an innovatorsky thought of the present.
You will see: Privokzalnaya Square (visual inspection), Independence Square, Nezavisimosti Avenue, Freedom Square, Ruins of Minsk ancient castle (visual inspection), Trinity suburb, National Library of Belarus, Island of courage and sorrow, A sports complex Minsk-Arena (visual inspection) -
Lunch -
Check in -
Free time - 2day
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Breakfast
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tour Khatyn - The Mound of Glory
We prepared for you a travel in the historical places storing heavy pages of military history of our country. In different corners of Belarus which lost every third inhabitant in 1941-1945 fortification constructions are restored, symbolical memorial complexes are created, the monuments devoted to events of the most tragic and bloody war on the Belarusian lands are established. You visit two memorial complexes: Khatyn and The Mound of Glory.
You will see: Memorial complex Khatyn, The Mound of Glory -
Lunch
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Belarusian State Museum of the Great Patriotic War
Surprising invention - the museums, having visited one museum it is possible «to live» the whole era or to experience experiences and the tragedy of the whole state. Not so long ago in Minsk the new and modern complex of the Belarusian State museum of the Great Patriotic War is created. Here the hot topic is most deeply opened always. Are presented to expositions as important documents and samples of the equipment in an original amount, and installation of military operations. In a complex all aspects which are related to military operations are disclosed - difficultly to describe it words. You should visit him! -
Free time
- 3day
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Breakfast
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Moving in Mir (100 km) -
Holy Trinity Church in Mir
(visual inspection)Holy Trinity Church in the village Mir - an architectural monument of the XVI century, which represent an elongated cross with five domes. This church was built near the Mir Castle under the guidance of Duke Nichola Radziwill Sirotka and was demaged several times and rebuilt, it was changed to the Uniates, and then again returned to the Orthodox believers.
The church was destroyed in the huge fire in the second half of the XIX century, after which was once again rebuilt in Russian Revival style. There was a revered The Virgin Mary icon of the XVI century until 1925, but even now this place evokes a feeling of humility and reverence before God. -
St. Nicholas church in Mir
(visual inspection)St. Nicholas church in Mir was built in the Renaissance style in 1605 on the place of a former wooden church when the Radzivill family became the owners of the Mir Castle. After the uprising of Tadeush Kostyushko king's government give it to the Orthodox Church, and during the war it was closed at all. Despite this St. Nicholas church reached our time almost in its original form. A powerful 4-storey tower-bell tower meets the parishioners, and within the church you can listen to the penetrating pries and get blessing. -
Chapel-burial vault of Svyatopolk-Mirsky family
Chapel – 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. -
Mir Castle Complex
The world – 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. -
Moving in Nesvizh (30 km)
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Lunch
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Nesvizh town hall
(visual inspection)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. -
Nesvizh Shopping Arcade
(visual inspection)Nesvizh shopping arcade - an architectural monument of the XVI century, which combines the Renaissance and Baroque styles, and forms, together with the Town hall a single ensemble on Nesvizh main square. Market stalls, arranged symmetrically on both sides of the town hall, were shared by narrow passages. Goods were delivered to the courtyard shops.
In the XVIII century, the arcade was rebuilt and decorated with arches, forming P-shaped internal courtyard, and their shop window faced the square. It was very lively at the town square: a justice dispensed, trade flourished, concerts and celebration were held. -
Nesvizh Jesuit monastery complex
(visual inspection)Nesvizh Jesuit monastery complex is a unique architectural monument of the XVI-XVII centuries, which history is closely connected with a well-known Radzivill family. Farny Church with the Jesuit College and a complex of monastery buildings were the first construction of Baroque style at the territory of Belarus, and the tower castle gate - the first stone building in the city. Later the chapel of Bulgarin was included into this complex.
Niasvizh Church of Jesuits was built by the famous Italian architect Jan Maria Bernardoni at the expense of Duke Nikolaya Radzivill Sirotka. The crypt of the church is a tomb of Radzivill family, the only surviving family burial in the Eastern Europe. -
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. -
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 in Brest (260 km)
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Check in
- 4day
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Breakfast
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Check out
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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. -
Brest railway station
(visual inspection)Brest railway station is a museum of marble in the open air, is one of the monuments of architecture of the Republic of Belarus.
The railway station of Brest is one of the oldest in Belarus, its opening took place on May 28, 1886 in the presence of the royal family, headed by Alexander III. The unique construction of the station building harmoniously fits into the style of the modern city and is a kind of gateway of the country to Europe. -
Church of St. Nicholas in Brest
(visual inspection)Church of St. Nicholas in Brest - is a magnificent example of a temple in retrospective Russian style, the first mention of which dates back to 1390. According to legend, the church was built with the means of a merchant who, having got bogged down in the river, was able to free himself only by giving a promise to build a church in Brest in the name of St. Nicholas. The church had its own long history - so, here was one of the oldest in Belarus cathedral brotherhood, operated a hospital. -
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. -
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Lunch
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Moving in Kamenyuki Belovezhskaya puscha (60 km)
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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. -
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. -
Transfer to the railway station -
Moving in Minsk (365 km)
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➥The end of the tour
Traveller's reviews
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29-October-2019 Я очень часто вожу детей в поездки и это было первый раз когда и этап согласования, и этап оплаты, и сама экскурсия для меня ,как организатора, прошла комфортно и без лишнего напряжения. Павлу отдельное огромное спасибо. Он не просто хорош, а очень хорош.