New Year's trip to Kostroma. An abbreviated program

10:00-12:00 Breakfast in the restaurant "Metelitsa" (buffet).

Free time.

Breakfast in the restaurant "Metelitsa" (buffet).

09:30 Room release. 

Things can be left at the hotel. 

Departure for the excursion program.

10:00 Snow Maiden's Tower. 

Bayun the cat and his brownie assistants will show the house where the Snow Maiden and her fairy—tale friends live, tell about miracles, Berendeyev legends and traditions. 

You will see a puppet tale about the Snow Maiden and, most importantly, get to know the Snow Maiden herself, touch the ancient tale of the Snow Maiden with your soul. 

11:00-13:00 Sightseeing tour of New Year's Kostroma. 

The main square of the city is the heart of Kostroma, its business card is Susaninskaya Square (popularly called "frying pan").

Along the perimeter of the square there are the most elegant and representative buildings of the late classicism era of the nineteenth century: Borshchov's house, provincial offices, guardhouse, fire tower — the best fire tower in the Russian province is in the northern part of the square, and on the opposite side, on the site of the old auction, there are about 15 stone rows. 

The largest Red Rows with the Church of the Savior and Large Flour Rows built into them, and for the first time, a century later, the revived golden dome of the bell tower of the Assumption Cathedral of the former Kostroma Kremlin rises. 

13:00-14:30 Interactive program "Snow Maiden adventures" in Kostroma settlement. 

The architectural, ethnographic and landscape museum-reserve outside the walls of the Ipatievsky Monastery is one of the most popular and vibrant places of the Golden Ring of Russia, an open-air museum of wooden architecture. 

Kostroma Sloboda is a one—street village on the banks of the Igumenka river with peasant huts of various incomes, barns, baths on stilts and churches of the early XVIII century. 

The museum is unusual: it is home not only to authentic monuments, but also to the protected nature of the Kostroma region. 

In her room, the Snow Maiden treats everyone to tea with gingerbread. 

15:00-15.40 Lunch at a cafe in the city. 

16:00-17:00 Excursion to the cheese museum with the program "Cheese stories" and tasting of Kostroma cheeses.

An extensive exposition on the world history of cheese making is presented in an ancient merchant's mansion of the late XVIII century (Reschikov house).  

Learn about cheese tales and traditions of different peoples, cheese records and the most unusual varieties, have fun on an interactive tour and, most importantly, try real Kostroma cheeses — all this can be done in a new unusual and unique Cheese Museum in Kostroma!