"One Day with Yoshkar-Ola"

Tour programme

10:45 Collection of the group at the Monument to Lenin, address: Lenin Square

10:50 - 13:00 Your acquaintance with Yoshkar-Ola will begin with a sightseeing tour of the city. Today, the capital of the republic is a city with an unusual face, where you can find Italian and Flemish notes that are closely intertwined with Russian and Mari history and culture. Ancient streets and alleys alternate with new squares and embankments.

During the tour you will get acquainted with your favorite resident of Yoshkar-Ola - Yoshkin cat, sit with him on a bench and make a wish. You will be able to walk through Patriarchal Square and find out what records recorded in the Guinness Book of Records were set there, and you will see two unique dynamic sculptural compositions, which have no analogues in the world.

Well, if you travel with children, especially interesting you will find the Museum of fairy tales in the open air, where you can see the heroes of Russian, Mari and Disney fairy tales.

13:00 - 13:45 After the tour, we invite you to a cafe where a hearty lunch with elements of national cuisine will not leave even a gourmet indifferent.

14:00 - 14:45 After lunch you will visit the National Museum named after T. Evseev, where you will get acquainted with the archaeology, history and ethnography of the Mari people. Why Yoshkar-Ola is called the Red City, how many gods are in the Mari pantheon and why the Mari people are called the last pagans of Europe. All this information will be generously shared by guides in the museum.

15:00 - 16:00 At the conclusion of your tour around the city, we offer an excursion to the E. Sapaev Opera and Ballet Theater with an organ audition (about 15 minutes). A real pearl not only of the republic, but of the whole country. One of the best theaters in Russia in architecture and equipment, amazes the audience with an unusual interior and acoustics. The main place during the tour is given to a unique French organ, of which there are only three in Russia. You will hear the sound of a modern organ, enjoy its magical sounds that penetrate into the heart and remain in the memory forever.

Excursion and transport services, entrance tickets to the places of excursions, lunch with elements of national cuisine.

Dates:

• February 23
• March 7
• April 25
• May 2
• 23rd May
• 13 June
• June 27