Excursion Pskov - Izborsk - Pechora

The tour is held weekly at 09:00

until 01.10.2023 every Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday

from 02.10.2023 to 22.04.2024 every Tuesday, Friday, Sunday

Meeting of the group at the monument to Lenin (on Lenin Square).

A classic sightseeing bus and pedestrian tour of Pskov + excursion to Izborsk and Pechora, in total, allows guests of the city to fully cover all the main attractions of Pskov and the surrounding area.

09:00 – 11:30 – a bus and walking tour of Pskov with a visit to the Kremlin: Olginsky chapel, monument to A. Nevsky on the Sokoliha mountain, the Kremlin, Dovmontov city, Vecheva Square, Trinity Cathedral.

Pskov is not only an ancient city, but also the largest fortress in Europe: the length of its fortress walls is 9 kilometers. You can appreciate the scale of the medieval city, its beauty and power on our bus and walking tour of Pskov. As part of the tour, you will find several short journeys, and a number of walking walks.

11:30 – departure for an excursion to Izborsk and Pechora. Near Pskov, just 30 kilometers away, is the village of Stary Izborsk. By the way, in the Middle Ages, Izborsk was a large city through which trade routes passed, and was one of the 10 oldest cities of Russia (the first mention of Izborsk in the chronicle dates back to 862). 20 kilometers from Izborsk, on the very border of Russia, there is a pearl of the Pskov land - the Holy Dormition Pskov-Pechersk Monastery. It is the only monastery in the whole of Russia, where the service has been going on continuously since 1473. The monastery operated both in the years of Soviet power and during the Great Patriotic War. But our monastery is not only a holy monastery, but also a fortress that fought from the time of Ivan the Terrible to the time of Peter I.

• 11:30 – 12:00 – moving to Izborsk (30 km). Track tour.
• 12:00 – 14:00 – excursion to Izborsk (Izborsk fortress of the XIV-XVI centuries, Slovenian keys).
• 14:00 – 14:30 – moving to Pechora (20 km). Track tour.
• 14:30 – 15:15 – lunch in Pechora.
• 15:30 – 17:15 – visit to the Pskov-Pechersk monastery. Tour, free time.
• 17:30 - Departure to Pskov (52 km).
• 18:30 - Arrival in Pskov. If necessary, transfer to the railway station.

We recommend girls and women to bring scarves and skirts to visit the Pskov-Pechersk monastery. You can also take empty bottles with you to collect water in the monastery well in Pechora and bread for white swans, which are huddled all year round on the surface of Gorodischensky Lake in Izborsk.

If you do not order lunch, we recommend that you bring a dry ration.

• bus-excursion
• entrance tickets for paid facilities

In addition (if desired), a comprehensive group lunch is paid - 500 rubles. Man.

Please note that the distant caves are the resting place of the monastery brethren. The caves have their own microclimate, the violation of which affects the state of sandstone (humidity increases), so access there is limited. In the format of a group tour, visiting the Far Caves is not possible.