Itinerary: Minsk –Mir – Lida – Grodno | Duration: 4 days/ 3 nights
- Sightseeing tour of Minsk
- The Museum of Folk Handicrafts and Technologies Dudutki
- Mir Castle and Lida castle
- Sightseeing tour of Grodno
| DAY 1. |
Arrival in Minsk.
Transfer to the hotel. Check-in at the hotel.
Sightseeing tour of Minsk, including architectural, historical and cultural monuments of the 17th - 20th cents: Independence square, St Simeon and Helena Church (The Red Church), Independence avenue, Victory square, City Hall, St Spirit Cathedral, historic heart of the city - Trinity Suburb and Nemiga street, the National Library.
Lunch in a local restaurant.
Visit to the Museum of Folk Handicrafts and Technologies Dudutki (40 km from Minsk). "Dudutki" is a unique museum of material culture in Belarus with living national trades. This place can be hardly called a museum-so alive are all the displayed "objects". A magnificent reconstruction of the traditional way of living in Belarusian village that can be not only seen but even touched: in the old-time bakery you can make a loaf by yourself, in the ceramic workshop become a potter or have some training as a blacksmith or miller... And certainly you will never forget the amazing taste of delicious homemade food with real traditional samogon (home made vodka).
Dinner in a local restaurant with a folk show.
| DAY 2. |
Breakfast at the hotel.
Trip to Mir - Lida.
Visit to Mir Castle. Mir Castle is a unique architectural monument, included into the list of World Cultural Heritage by UNESCO. The castle combines the traits of roman style and style of the renaissance. Mir castle is also a historical monument, true legend, which used to belong to several aristocratic families: Ilyinichi, Radzivills, Vithghenstein, Svatopolk-Mirskie.
Lunch in the local restaurant (in Lida).
Visit to Lida castle - fortress, which was built in 1323-1325 by the Grand Duke Gedimin and which for many centuries used be a inaccessible citadel over the western lands of Belarus. The grandson of Gedimin, the Grand Duke Vytaut, rebuilt the castle and made it the most powerful stronghold in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. King Jogaila also preferred the castle as a place to stay and even signed some famous historical documents within its walls. In 1422 the great feast devoted to Jogaila's wedding with his 4th wife took place in the Lida castle.
In the evening you could participate in the historic animation "Jogailo's Wedding", costume performance, presenting the reconstruction of the event of the Middle Ages. The animation includes folk band appearance, knight fights, opportunity to try on the knight armour suit, exercises with knight arms, bow shooting, as well as a magnificent dinner in the Old Belarusian style.
Departure for Grodno.
Check-in at a hotel.
| DAY 3. |
Breakfast.
Sightseeing tour of Grodno.
Grodno is one of the most ancient cities of Belarus. Its name is tightly connected with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The famous Lithuanian Grand Duke Vytaut was the prince of Grodno from 1376 to 1392, and he stayed there during his preparations for the Battle of Grunwald (1410). In 1793 the last Sejm in the history of the Commonwealth occurred at Grodno. It was in the New Castle of Grodno that in 1795 the last Polish king and Lithuanian Grand Duke Stanislaw August Poniatowski abdicated.
Grodno City Tour includes Roman-Catholic Farny St. Francis Ksavery Church, St. Brigitte Monastery, St. Bernard Monastery, Old and New Castles, Castle street, Kolozhskaya (XII century) church.
Lunch in a local restaurant.
Departure for Minsk.
Check-in at the hotel.
Time at leisure.
Dinner at the hotel.
| DAY 4. |
Breakfast at the hotel. Time at leisure. Shopping.
Departure for the airport (railway station).




