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Independent check-in at the hotel. Things in the luggage room.
Earlier check-in is subject to availability. Guaranteed — for an additional fee.
09:45 Meeting with the guide at the accommodation hotel.
If you book a hotel yourself, then you need to approach the Pur-Navolok hotel 10 minutes before the start of the tour.
10:00 Country tour to the Museum of Wooden Architecture and Folk Art "Maly Korely".
Malye Korely is one of the largest open—air museum-reserves of wooden architecture in Russia and the main attraction of Arkhangelsk.
Once in Maly Korely, you will find yourself in a northern village of the XVIII-XIX centuries: peasant huts, slender tent temples of Kargopol, Mezen, Pinega, Podvinya surrounded by a winter northern forest create a feeling of patriarchy and extraordinary peace.
A tour of one section of the museum. Free time for self-inspection and participation in the festivities "Pomorskie New Year", buying souvenirs.
Return to Arkhangelsk.
14:00-15:00 Lunch at the cafe. Check-in to the rooms.
15:00 Sightseeing tour "Arkhangelsk — the capital of Pomerania".
Arkhangelsk is a city with a beautiful name, the first commercial seaport in Russia, founded at the end of the XVI century by decree of Ivan the Terrible.
On the shore of the Northern Dvina on the cape with the mysterious name "Pur-Navolok" you will learn about why the city was founded here and how it got its name, get acquainted with the centuries-old history: from the times when brisk trade was booming here, Peter the Great founded the first state shipyard and launched the first commercial the ship "St. Paul".
You will hear about famous people, about Arctic expeditions, the first of which set off from the docks of Arkhangelsk, about the sights located along the Embankment of the Northern Dvina.
A walking tour along the reserved street is a continuation of exploring the city.
Here, on a pedestrian avenue in the heart of Arkhangelsk, which the Archangelgorodians call "Chumbarovka" in their native language, wooden houses built in the late XIX – early XX century are assembled. Each of them has its own amazing fate and history.
Pedestrian Street is not only a story about how houses were built in the Russian north about their inhabitants, specifics and features, it is a place loved by citizens and guests for amazing sculptures to famous northern storytellers and heroes of their works, harmoniously complementing the atmosphere of a pedestrian street.
For an additional fee on request:
Visit to the exhibition dedicated to the Arkhangelsk gingerbread "kozule" and a master class on its painting. The name of the traditional gingerbread "goat" comes from the Pomeranian word for "curl", "snake".
Arkhangelsk goat is flat, made of gingerbread dough, with white sugar and colored glaze.
Once gingerbread men in Arkhangelsk began baking goats two months before Christmas in molds made of iron, and in December they were painted with elegant sugars. Goats were given to children and used as decorations, and recipes were passed down from generation to generation.
Free time. Dinner on your own.
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