Sheltozero tour
Description:
Guide guide meets tourists with a sign "Karelia Lines".
When booking a tour, you can choose a convenient departure time from the city and a meeting place with our guide and driver.
Departure to the village of Sheltozero (89 km). Travel time is about 1.5-2 hours.
On the way, the guide will acquaint you with the history of the Karelian region, local traditions and rituals.
- Visit to the Sheltozero Veps Ethnographic Museum named after R.P. Lonin.
Time of stay in Sheltozero - 2 hours (excursion ~ 1 hour + free time ~ 1 hour).
The museum is located in a traditional Veps house, built in 1814 by merchant Melkin. This is one of the most beautiful and large houses of the Veps volost, which is a monument of wooden architecture of Karelia.
The museum presents the interior of the Veps peasant dwelling of the late 19th – early 20th centuries.
- In the yard: sleigh-wood, a broom with two wheels, a boat made of a single piece of aspen, sewn with pine roots; tools and tools for processing linen, agricultural equipment; blacksmith fur and anvil, tools of a blacksmith, carpenter.
The guide will tell about the history, traditional culture, crafts and main occupations of the Veps people.
- Return to Petrozavodsk.
The price includes:
Comes to: Outbound
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