Mr. Veliky Novgorod (Russia 3*)
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Departure to High Volochek.
It's a tour.
13:30
Lunch at the city's restaurant.
14:30
Departure to Valdai, formerly a village, then a palace and monastery village belonging to the Iberian monastery and only from Catherine the Great received the status of a city. He gained fame thanks to the development of blacksmithing and foundry, the manufacture of the famous Valdai bells.
A visit to the Museum of Bells (or the Museum Bell Center), the difference of which is that the exhibits can not only be viewed, but also listen.
Iberian monastery, located on one of the islands in the middle of Lake Valdai. The monastery was founded in 1653 in honor of the Iberian Icon of the Mother of God. This is a unique monument of architecture, the center of tiled production, wood and stone carving.
17:30
Departure to Veliky Novgorod.
Accommodation in the hotel "Russia 3*" Veliky Novgorod.
20:00
Dinner at the hotel restaurant.
2 days
08:30
Breakfast at the hotel restaurant.
09:30
Excursion to Veliky Novgorod: - the first capital of Ancient Russia. Veliky Novgorod is one of the oldest cities in Russia, located at the origins of the Volkhov River and Lake Ilmen. Novgorod is rightly called the city-museum of Ancient Russia. There are many monuments of architecture and monumental painting of the XI-XVII centuries.
Acquaintance with the city will begin from the left Sofia side – the Novgorod Kremlin. The ancient name of the Kremlin complex is Detinets, it was founded by Yaroslav the Wise in 1044. Detinets is the oldest defensive structure in Russia, 9 of the 13 towers of the Kremlin have survived to this day. St. Sophia Cathedral is one of the most outstanding monuments of ancient Russian architecture, where unique fragments of the original painting on the central dome and in the Martirievskaya porch have been preserved. The main shrines of the cathedral are the ancient miraculous icons of the Mother of God the Sign, the icon Sophia the Wisdom of God, the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God.
We will continue our acquaintance with Novgorod at the Yaroslavl Palace and the ancient Novgorod trade. The trade side got its name from the trade located on it, which was the economic center of the city. Shopping rows are the busiest place in the city, in the XVI century.
There were barns and shops, trade was boiling. Immediately behind the Trading there were “yards”, where merchants came from all corners of the world. In the XVII - XVIII centuries. on the site of the trade was built Gostiny Dvor. Here are architectural monuments of Veliky Novgorod - the Nikolo-Noble Cathedral, the Church of Procopia, the Church of Paraskeva Friday, the Church of the Assumption, the Church of George.
14:30
Lunch at the city's restaurant.
15:30
Free time.
On request for an additional fee, a trip to Staraya Russa:
A guided tour of the city.
Visit the “Manor of the Medieval Rushanin” – an open-air reconstruction museum.
The museum allows you to plunge into the atmosphere of the medieval city, get acquainted with the life and traditional salt-making of the inhabitants of Staraya Russa. At the moment, visitors are presented to the view: a vat place consisting of a unique operating vat with a woodcutter, an operating barn with a grazing for livestock, a Russian bath in black, a complex of residential buildings (a large residential hut connected by hays with a wall), a cooling tower (constructed recently; a device for extracting salt by evaporation, thickening salt solution) elements of urban improvement (frequency, wooden pavement), as well as several buildings for economic purposes.
The layout, location, configuration, size of the buildings are reproduced based on real data of archaeological excavations in Staraya Russa. Scientists have tried to recreate the yard of the saltwater as reliably as possible.
The pride of the museum is a salt plant. The brine extracted from Old Russian mineral springs was fed to Varnitsa. These were wooden rooms in which salt was boiled. Here they installed an oven over which the cren was hung - a kind of evaporation pan. The fire was constantly kept in the oven, the brine boiled. The work of the solarium was complex, required skill, experience and remarkable strength. The master with assistants prepared the cren for cooking, monitored the state of boiling brine, removed dirt, scale, captured the moment when salt began to form. The resulting salt was raked and dried.
Souvenir salt, which is sold in the estate, is also evaporated from the old Russian mineral water. Water for the preparation of this salt is taken in the Tsaritsyn mineral spring.
20:00
Dinner at the hotel restaurant.
3 days
08:00
Breakfast at the hotel restaurant.
09:00
Continuation of the excursion program in Veliky Novgorod:
Visit to the Museum of Wooden Architecture "Vitoslavlitsy". In the architectural and natural reserve, various types of preserved wooden churches are collected: a tented “eight on four”, crucified on a subclet with three thrones, tiered and cage churches, as well as a magnificent collection of houses and items of peasant life. Here are collected unique authentic wooden buildings - churches, huts, outbuildings.
You will visit one of the most beautiful - St. George Monastery. The monastery became a kind of gate of Novgorod on the way "from the Varangians to the Greeks" and the most significant monastery in Russia, after the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra.
13:30
Lunch at the city's restaurant.
Departure to Moscow.
21:30
Approximate time of arrival in Moscow (to the metro station "VDNKh").