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Excursions
Present your guests with a chance to discover the rich culture and history of our country, and invite them to make a guided excursion to the famous places of Belarus.
Besides, such tours will become an excellent present for your colleagues on holidays and important events in the history of your firm.
Minsk is the Capital of Belarus.
It is a bus tour of Minsk which will give you a pleasure to see the sights, architectural, historical and cultural monuments of our city. It includes Independence Square, Red Catholic Church. Freedom Square, Trinity Suburb, «The Isle of Tears», a monument to soldiers who died in Afghanistan, Yanka Kupala Park, Victory Circus, Yakub Kolas Square.
Architectural monuments of Slonim and Zhirovichi.
The monastery in Zhirovichi is as important in Belarus as the Trinity and Sergi Monastery in Russia or the Kiev-Pecherskaya Lavra in Ukraine. Here you can see the ancient monastery, and in it — the miraculous sacred object, the icon of God's Mother. You will make an excursion to St. Assumption Cathedral. Listen to the service, wash your face in the Holy Spring and see the historic monuments in Slonim. Your guides in Zhirovichi will be students of the Theological Seminary.
Memorial Khatyn.
The Memorial «Khatyn» is a monument to the victims of Hitler's terror on the occupied Belarusian Land. You will see the streets of the former village, walk by the chimney-like obelisques that stand in the places where houses stood, and you will hear the mournful sounds of the bells that remember those sad events of our history.
Polotsk Chronicle.
The cathedrals, churches, museums, houses and streets of ancient Polotsk, the birthplace of St. Euphrosyne of Polotsk, keep a thousand-year layer of culture. This town gave the world three geniuses of enlightenment — Francisk Skaryna. Simeon Polatski, Kiril of Turov. You will visit the museum of Belarusian printing, St. Sophia's Cathedral, the nunnery, you will listen to the concert of organ music. Zaslavl Is an Ancient Town.
During the excursion you will hear a wonderful story of the town's young years, you will see its architectural sights — St. Transfiguration Orthodox Church (16th century). Catholic Church of Virgin Mary. Among the dwelling houses you will find the steam mill (early 20th century), the forge, the bas-tiouary castle. In the local museum you will learn about some archeological finds, and about one of the folk arts, painted carpets. «Architectural Monuments of Mir and Nesvizh» 8 hours
Nesvizh is known as the capital of one of the most outstanding magnate families in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania — the Radzivils. The Palace and Park Ensemble make Nesvizh incomparable. You will visit Farny (Parish) Catholic Church, the Town Hall with trading rows, the Slutsk Gate, you will hear interesting legends and tales. The Castle in Nesvizh has a ghost — Black Lady — who wanders along the dark corridors of the palace on moonless nights.
«Memorial «Khatyn» 4 hours
The Memorial «Khatyn» is a monument to the victims of Hitler's terror on the occupied Belarusian Land. You will see the streets of the former village, walk by the chimney-like obelisques that stand in the places where houses stood, and you will hear the mournful sounds of the bells that remember those sad events of our history.
«Polotsk Chronicle» 14 hours
The cathedrals, churches, museums, houses and streets of ancient Polotsk, the birthplace of St. Euphrosyne of Polotsk, keep a thousand-year layer of culture. This town gave the world three geniuses of enlightenment — Francisk Skaryna, Simeon Polatski, Kiril of Turov. You will visit the museum of Belarusian printing, St. Sophia's Cathedral, the nunnery, you will listen to the concert of organ music.
«Dudutki: an open-air Museum» 6 hours
People say that if you have guests, especially from abroad, and you have a desire to show them something unusual and really national, you have a way — go to Dudutki!
Dudutki is the only museum of material culture with working handicraft industry. It is a wonderful revival of traditional Belarusian life style in the countryside which can be seen with your own eyes and tasted with your own tongue. It is a unique place, and it can hardly be called a museum, as all the exhibits here are alive. In the ancient bakery you will have a chance to bake you own round loaf, in the pottery shop you will try your hand at making pots, you will also become a smith or a miller for a time. And you will surely not forget the unusual taste of Belarusian Cuisine, accompanied by a glass of real, home-made spirits (samahonka). You can also order a picnic on the «clearing of pagans», if your fellow-travelers are eager to have it.
«Berezinski Biosphere Reserve» 8 hours
You will hear a story about the protection of rare animals and plants which are under the threat of disappearing; you will see open-air cages with wild animals, you will visit the museum and walk along the ecological path.
«Memory of Belarusian Land» 15 hours
That is an excursion to Brest and Brest Fortress. You will hear a story about the defenders of the fortress in June 1941, you will visit the museum of valuable relics and the archeological museum of the 11th century «Berestye».
«Sweet Images of Native Land» 8 hours
That is an excursion to the birthplace of Yakub Kolas, People's Poet of Belarus, to Stolbtsy Area, where you can visit «Kolas' Preserve» amidst picturesque landscapes. That is Akinchytsy, a small village in the past, now the outskirts of the town Stolbtsy, where K. M. Mitskevich (Yakub Kolas) was born. That is Albuts, where he spent his childhood and young years. That is the farmstead Smolnya, where in 1912 Yakub Kolas and Yanka Kupala first met. The branches of the Yakub Kolas Literary Museum are located in Akinchytsy, Albuts and Smolnya.
«The Town on the Menka» 4 hours
During the excursion you will see the bars of the site of an ancient settlement (11th century) on the river Menka which runs into the river Ptich. Nearby is another sight — the Skansen Museum in the village Strochitsy (15 km from Minsk).
«To Ancient Vitebsk» 14 hours
If you wish to have a glimpse of Marc Chagall's art, come to the town of his childhood and youth. Far from Motherland he said: «There is my soul». Within 20 km of Vitebsk, on the picturesque bank of the Western Dvina, you can visit the estate of Ilya Repin, the great Russian painter. In Zdravnevo he painted a lot of wonderful lyrical pictures.
«Architectural Monuments of Mir and Novogrudok» 12 hours
Novogrudok, the first capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, has kept the ruins of the mighty medieval castle, Sts. Boris and Gleb Orthodox Church and Dominican Catholic Church. You will learn much about the history of Novogrudok in its local museum, and about the life and work of Adam Mickiewicz — in the House-museum. Mir Castle is a unique monument of Belarusian architecture. It is on the UNESCO list of world heritage. It was built in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
«Kupala's Land» 4 hours
This excursion is a journey to the place where the great poet was born and wrote his first poems. That is the village Viazynka, 50 km from Minsk. You will also visit the historic and cultural museum-reserve «Zaslavl» and the Yanka Kupala House-museum.
«Stalin's Route» 4 hours
You will see the fortified buildings of the 30-40ies of the last century and models of military weapon and technique, you will hear a real military story
