The memory of Great ancestors. Along the Belgorod line

08:00 Breakfast at the hotel.

09:00 Meeting with the guide in the hotel lobby.

Travel information along the road that runs past the place where the Bolkhovets fortress once stood, and today there are living witnesses of that time - the remains of an earthen rampart.

Continuing the tour, we arrive in the village of Kolotilovka, Krasnoyaruzhsky district (81 km ~ 1 hour), where the "Historical and Cultural complex "Novaya Sloboda" was opened.

A picturesque craft park is located a few minutes' walk from the main building of the complex.

It represents an ethnic village in the image of an ancient settlement of the XVII century.

The workshops of a potter, a cooper, an icon painter, a distiller, an oil churn and a master of vine weaving are located in six huts surrounded by front gardens.

And behind the houses, three columnar mills stood proudly, one of which is accessible to the public.

Tasting of wines and tinctures with a traditional snack in the distiller's hut.

After a tour of the huts and lunch, you can take part in your favorite master classes (extra charge) You will be offered one of several options to choose from:

• A vine–weaving hut is a product made of a vine/ harness;
• Icon painter's hut – painting icons/boards;
• Potter's hut – to make a toy / or paint;
• Cooper's hut – making a stand for hot food / gingerbread painting.

All products can be taken home.

13:00 Lunch at the butter churner's hut.

With traditional herbal tea, dumplings and honey for dessert.

14:30. Departure to the village of Golovchino, Grayvoronsky district (55 km ~ 1 hour).

Visit to the village of Khotmyzhsk, Borisovsky district – in the past, the fortress city of the Belgorod region.

Inspection of the Resurrection Temple, the Peoples' Friendship Arch, an observation deck, the Khotmyzhskoye settlement – an archaeological monument of ancient Russian culture.

15:30 Arrival in the village of Golovchino.

A tour of one of the most interesting and at the same time mysterious architectural monuments.

The circular building is about 200 years old.

This is an unusual building of the late 19th century, there is no other such example in Russian architecture.

The unusual space-planning composition is a cylinder within a cylinder.

Until now, scientists are arguing about the purpose of the building.

Now a museum of ancient life has been created in the building.

16:30 Departure on the way back to Belgorod.

17:45 Return to Belgorod (70 km ~ 1 hour 15 min.)

Free time.

Meals – 2 meals a day (breakfast, lunch).

Overnight at the hotel.

09:00 Departure for an excursion to the Korochansky district of Yablonovo village (69 km ~ 1 hour).

10:30 In front of us is the fortress city of Yablonov, formerly one of the largest cities in the Belgorod region.

He occupied an important place in the defensive line, covering the Izyumsky line.

The reconstructed complex is close to the original of the 17th century.

Tour of the complex.

Presenting ourselves as the ancient defenders of the fortress or its inhabitants, we go to the city of Koroch (14 km ~ 13 min).

The emergence of the city of Koroch is also associated with the construction in 1635-1658 of a defensive line of structures of the so-called Belgorod line.

Monument to the founder of Koroch – stolnik and voivode Andrei Vasilyevich Buturlin, the "messenger" bell weighing 12 pounds is a copy sent to Koroch by Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov in 1677.

A visit to the Yasny Well spring, which has its own legend and unusual history.

The chalk mountain rises above it, on which the first Korochan fortress stood in the distant 17th century.

13:30 Lunch at the Old Fortress cafe.

After lunch, a tasting of beer produced at the brewery of the Old Fortress brewing company.

In the old building, a cultural heritage site, there is a bar for tasting unpasteurized beer produced using Danish equipment from beautiful spring water.

for children and those who do not drink alcohol, it is planned to replace beer with several varieties of carbonated water produced at the plant.

After the tasting, beer, kvass, and mead produced at the plant will be available at the company store.

16:30 Return to Belgorod (56 km ~52min.).

Transfer to the railway station.

The end of the program.

Items are handed over to the station's luggage room (for an additional fee).

Free time to buy souvenirs, have dinner, walk through the quiet streets of the central part of the city.

Meals – 2 meals a day (breakfast, lunch).

22:10 departure by train to Moscow (according to the time schedule).