Manor and park complexes of Minsk district

After visiting the Vankovichi manor house, tourists will finf out about the life and work of the outstanding Belarusian artist Valenti Vankovich, his famous works and his friends contemporaries, who often visited the artist, who also contributed to the development of national culture - Jan Damel, Stanislav Moniuszko, Vintsuk Dunin-Martsinkevich. Besides it, visiting the House of Vankovichi, the tourists will learn about its features, the archaeological excavations conducted here and the stone dungeons discovered during the archaeological works.

We will look back: 4 centuries ago the manor Big the Gadfly whose owner were powerful magnates - Radzivilla's princes was at this place. A bit later it passed to lands of a noble family Vankovichey. And those, and other owners loved parks, landed the found breeds of trees here: plane tree, Manchurian nut, krasnolistny oak. As the history of the Forest park and its owners was written, you learn at an excursion.

From the middle of the XVI century the manor on merge of two rivers is known: Svisloch and Losha. For many centuries of existence here owners repeatedly changed, so and the history of a farmstead and park complex is rich in events and noblemen - you learn about them at an excursion, having walked on rich interiors of the palace. And shady avenues of the park will share legends of gray old times.

Near the city of Minsk, on the bank of Ptsich, the orthodox monastery was located. Aginskie, Ivanovy, Oshtorpy, Gorvaty and Gutten-Chapskiye - each of owners changed the estate after the own fashion. And the monastery has turned into the estate in the middle of the 18th century. During this period legends of "the captivated lock in Priluki" belong. Whom and as he has been captivated, you will be told by the guide. We will note only that the estate has been shrouded in legends and terrible baizes of locals of the existence at all times: from Oginsky to Emerick Zakharyash Nikolay Severin fon Gutten-Tschapski.

Many centuries back on this place there was a wooden church, being only for parishioners. In the middle of the 19th century the count Emerick von Gutten-Tschapski has begun construction of the new stone temple - has redeemed the project of the imperial architect Ton. With active participation of locals construction went till 1858 - the temple was consecrated in honor of the Prelate and Wonder-worker Nikolay. What he represents to you today the guide will show and will tell.

The estate which has become the platform of filmings according to the most famous work is known since the end of the 14th century. In the middle of the 19th century one of the most valuable collections of pictures, coins and minerals in Europe was stored here. And today we are met by ruins and a part of the remained constructions. The appearance of the palace can be presented according to descriptions, and here Skarbnitsa, stylized under the small knight's castle with four Gothic towers and narrow windows loopholes I have remained up to now. It was the real museum of the time, storing magnificent library and numerous count collections for owners and guests.

The center of ecological tourism of Stankovo is an opportunity to learn about history and the interesting facts from life of Dtherzhinshchina and to have a rest among the nature. Here it is possible to reserve a cottage or an arbor, to try dishes of the ethnic cuisine and to take a walk in a zoo. Such walk will be interesting to both adults and children. The Stankovsky zoo divided into two thematic platforms on which representatives of classes of the Bird and Mammals live. The class of birds is presented by domestic and wild exotic birds, and the class of mammals is presented by generally wild animals. In cozy lodges open-air cages bisons, a yak Jascha, lamas, wolves, dappled deers, roes, sheep and Cameroonian goats, the Vietnamese pigs, wild boars, Vasilis's bear cub, foxes and other inhabitants of the woods and fields have settled down.