Under the Badge of Culture

Itinerary: Minsk - Vitebsk - Polotsk - Disna - Minsk | Duration: 5 days/ 4 nights

Under the Badge of Culture - Minsk
  • Sightseeing tour of Minsk
  • The National Art Museum
  • The State Memorial Complex Khatyn
  • Marc Chagall House-Museum and Art Center
  • Sightseeing tour of Polotsk

DAY 1.

Late Arrival in Minsk. Meeting at the airport.

Transfer to the hotel. Check-in.

Visit to the Opera and Ballet Theatre or to a Concert Hall.

Late dinner at a local restaurant. Minsk at night.

DAY 2.

Breakfast at the hotel.

Sightseeing tour of Minsk, including the main avenues (Independence avenue with - Victory square, Pobediteley avenue) and architectural monuments of the 17th - 20th cents (Upper Town with the St Spirit Cathedral, temples and monasteries and old streets of Trinity Suburb). Tourists will visit the «Isle of tears» and see the monument, that commemorates the soldiers who were perished in different times in different centuries, will see the Victory Monument, the National Library.

Visiting the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus.

Departure for the State Memorial Complex Khatyn (World War II). The small village of Khatyn was burnt down together with its 149 residents by the Nazis on March 22, 1943.

Departure for Vitebsk.

Dinner in Lepel.

Check-in at the hotel.

Night excursion in Chagall's Vitebsk.

DAY 3.

Breakfast at the hotel.

Sightseeing tour of Vitebsk, the Paris of Eastern Europe, Chagall's birth place, where the painter spent his early youth. Marc Chagall House-Museum and Art Center.

Lunch.

Visit to the Art School. Opportunity to buy the works of young painters.

Visit to the workshop of a well-known sculptor V.Moguchij (creator of the Chagall monument).

Town Hall in Vitebsk.

Departure for a farmstead. Meeting with local people. Lunch at a farmstead with a national cuisine.  Folklore group.

DAY 4.

Breakfast at the hotel.

Departure for Polotsk,  the city of museums. St. Sofa Cathedral. A page in history of Vikings, the cradle of Belarus. Time at leisure.

Lunch in Disna, the smallest city of Belarus, meeting the mayor of the city.

Short visit to the unique place in Glubokoye district: geographical centere of Europe.

Late arrival in Minsk. Night at the hotel.

DAY 5.

Breakfast at the hotel.
Time at leisure. Shopping.
Departure from Minsk (evening flight if available).