Vyborg Christmas lights

One-day tour in St. Petersburg.

Meeting at 09:15. Departure from Begovaya metro station, parking "Atlantic City" at 09:30. Sign "Vyborg" Vasily Friedland.

Departure at 09:30 from the metro station "Begovaya". Drive along the Scandinavia highway to Vyborg. Acquaintance with the history of the southern part of the Karelian Isthmus from the first peoples who settled these places to the present day. The tour of Vyborg is presented in bus and pedestrian format, so as not to miss all the interesting sights of this city with a medieval castle on the island, narrow streets and cozy squares that have preserved the charm of bygone times and bring up thoughts about the importance of the heritage inherited from our ancestors.

Lunch.

Walking through the Market Square is another historical place. Here, on the New Year holidays, a Christmas fair opens in the best traditions of old European towns. Around the Christmas tree there are stylized trading tents, where everyone can buy souvenirs, handmade products, honey, sweets and many other products. An interactive entertainment program for children and adults will be held on the big stage every day for an hour. In addition, those who wish will be able to take part in master classes on the manufacture of New Year and Christmas products. On the opposite part of the Market Square there will be a children's town with rides and carousels.

15:00 Thematic excursion "Mysteries of the Old Bastion"

The tour begins from the entrance to the Hermitage-Vyborg Exhibition Center along the walls-alleys of the Panzerlax Bastion, built in 1580.

Recently opened after a long restoration, Kazemat in the left flank of the Panzerlax Bastion: 3 floors with loopholes, passages and a prison. (Wishers can go down to the lower floors in the dungeon and see the ancient rocks on which Kazemat stands.) Powder cellar: an exhibition of finds of the Institute of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences - dishes, shoes, household equipment, coins, jewelry. The history of the coat of arms of Vyborg. In the courtyard between the Powder Cellar and Casemat, a Swedish gun of 1732 was raised from the bottom of the Baltic Sea from the Swedish battleship Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte, which took part in the naval battle of 1890.

17:00 A visit to the Alvar Aalto Library, which is part of the excursion, expands not only the idea of the development of architecture and construction practice in the first third of the 20th century, but also shows the importance of the library in the information age as an integrated multicultural space with a pronounced socially oriented mission. There's something to be surprised about...

End of program.

Until 21.00 arrival to the metro station "Begovaya".

• bus
• sightseeing
• museum entrance tickets
• luncheon