The city of Staritsa: "A path of seven centuries"

The tour takes from 3 to 4 hours. During this time, I must have time to acquaint you with the basic history of the city and its attractions.
Detailed tour plan:

• Meeting of tourists on Lenin Square of the Leningrad side of the city;
• general story about the city, its importance, location, a story about the plan and rules of the excursion;
• Visiting the ruins of the former Ascension convent in the city garden: a story about the history of the foundation of the monastery, its appearance in different periods of history, about the local venerated Pelagia, the modern state;
• visit to the embankment of the Volga River: a review story about the history of the foundation and interesting facts of the churches of Preobrazhenskaya and Our Lady-Christmas (without visiting them), information about two living houses (V.P. Chernyatin-Konsky and D.F. Filippov), a story about the commercial square of the city, the history of the construction of a new bridge, about the significance of the Volga River in the city;
• Transition to the New Fortress: a story about blacksmithing and the history of the construction of the city's forges;
• visit to the New Fortification: a story about the settlement on the new settlement, the time of its improvement, destination, basic information about the history of the construction of the new Boris-Gleb Cathedral (without visiting it);
• transition to the observation deck next to the mass grave of Soviet soldiers: a story about the founding of the city, the problematic issues of its chronology, location, about the main radical shifts in the history of Staritsa ("blooms" and "sunsets"), about the XVI century. when Staritsa was a specific principality and overview historical information about visible objects of the Moscow and Leningrad sides of the city;
• Visit to the Old Fort: information about the layout of the ancient city and its main buildings;
• walk along the bulk earthen rampart of the Old Fortress with a view of the Upper Old Lady River, the local landscape;
• Transition to Lenin Square, boarding a car or bus and going to the Holy Dormition Monastery.
• visit to the Holy Dormition Monastery: a story about the main milestones in the history of the monastery, a mandatory visit to the Assumption and Trinity Cathedral, acquaintance with the history of the construction of the Vvedenskaya and John theologian churches (without visiting them), the history of the monastery necropolis (by time).

• Tour of the city with a visit to the Holy Assumption Monastery.