Tour Minsk - Dudutki - Mir - Novogrudok (2 days)

Route: Minsk → Ptych → Minsk → Mir → Minsk → Novogrudok → Minsk
Distance: 500 km
Duration: 2 day

Excursion subject: Ethnographic, Excursions to the castles, Weekend tours, Tours to Belarus, For schoolchildren
Kind: Bus-Walking tours
Language of training: Russian

The capital of Belarus is Minsk and the first capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania is Novogrudok. The medieval giant is the Mir Castle and its luxurious interiors. The place where folk masters cherish the ancient traditions of Belarus. In this round, the story will come to life day after day before your eyes.

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The excursion program- Minsk - Dudutki - Mir - Novogrudok (2 days)

1day
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
tour Dudutki
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.

You will see: Museum complex of ancient national crafts and technologies Dudutki
Check in
2day
Breakfast
Check out
tour Mir Castle
The world and Mir Castle Complex - two inseparably linked names. Tourists gather here from different corners of the planet that personally will enjoy idle greatness of the medieval giant. One of perfect examples of fortification of the time and an object of the World heritage of UNESCO will undoubtedly strike with both architectural wealth, and magnificent interiors, and fascinating history. However costs attention and the town – it is at least one century more senior than the lock and has not less interesting story opened by archeologists. Touch also you century history.

You will see: Holy Trinity Church in Mir (visual inspection), St. Nicholas church in Mir (visual inspection), Mir Castle Complex, Chapel-burial vault of Svyatopolk-Mirsky family
Lunch
Moving in Novogrudok (50 km)
St. Michael the Archangel Church in Novogrudok (visual inspection)
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.
St. Nicholas Cathedral in Novogrudok (visual inspection)
At the beginning of the 14th century the Grand duke Lithuanian Gedemin invited in Novogrudok Frantsiskantsev. About hundred years they worked on creation of the temple – Saint Anthony's church. The temple is complete - but in 50 years the Catholic award is forced to leave the monastery. However, despite destiny milestones, it reached our time, let a little modified. In the city you still should learn about its history and a role.
Adam Mickiewicz Museum
Pushkin, Ryleyev, Bestuzhev, Delwig, Vyazma admired Adam Mickiewiczs verses. He was born in the territory of present Belarus, wrote in Polish, lived and worked in Europe, and died in Turkey. However from everywhere soul pulled it home – on Novogrudchina where there will take place the excursion - among an infinite scope of the hills and fields penetrated by the rivers. There passed the childhood and Adam's youth, the house where he lived remained. In the city the monument to the best poet of an era of romanticism is established and man-made «Mound of Immortality» where long time people carried the earth from different regions of the World is built. Here the memory of the person who made a huge contribution to development of the Belarusian and Polish literatures is immortalized.
Novogrudsky Castle ruins (visual inspection)
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.
Farny Catholic Church in Novogrudok (visual inspection)
At the beginning of the 18th century, in the territory of one of the first Belarusian churches constructed by Vitovt in 1395, the Farny church was built. The excellent view of it opens from Zamkova Hora. The white monumental temple with a red roof favourably contrasts with fine landscapes of the hilly area.
Moving in Minsk (150 km)
Transfer to the railway station
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The end of the tour