New Year's Eve in medieval Vyborg. Bus tour from Moscow

Breakfast at the hotel is a buffet.

Transfer to Vyborg.

Travel tour "On the way to medieval Vyborg".

A master class on baking Vyborg pretzel at the Pretzel Factory in Domus Posso at the intersection of "5 balconies". You will learn about the history of Vyborg pretzel, recipes and participate in the manufacturing process yourself. We will try an authentic medieval pretzel recipe.

Accommodation at the Druzhba 3, Vyborg 3* hotel.

Lunch at a cafe.

Interactive program "Christmas at the manor" (hosted by the cheerful Joul Pukki, the Finnish Santa Claus). The program includes:

• a story about the traditions of celebrating Christmas in the Scandinavian countries;
• the story of the Burgher Estate, two neighboring monasteries, about the symbols of Vyborg – the witch Louhi, the cat Totti, the Franciscan monks and the Dominicans;
• tasting of the famous Vyborg pretzel and glega, a Scandinavian hot berry drink with spices and spices;
• medieval theater — reincarnations of the heroes of medieval Vyborg (Finnish reindeer herders, dwarfs, knight, monk, Finnish townspeople, Swedish king);
• funny fortune–telling (they pull out playful fortune-tellers - who was who in medieval Vyborg).

Free time to prepare for the New Year.

Additionally: New Year's banquet at the hotel (extrapayment), information will be provided later.

Bus and walking tour "New Year under the Northern sky" (extra charge, to be booked and paid on the spot).

23:20 Departure from the hotel by bus. Let's go to Cathedral Square. It is an element of a complex rarely found in urban planning — a "cascade" of three squares located on the same spatial diagonal (Cathedral, Theater and Market).

Vyborg was both a Swedish and a Finnish city, but thanks to the efforts of Peter the Great in 1710 it became Russian. It was during the Russian period of Vyborg that Cathedral Square was formed.

We will celebrate the new year in Russian, but still with Finnish and Swedish accents. The Snow Maiden and the dwarfs will decorate our New Year.

Traditional chimes, a glass of champagne, tangerines, sweets. Non-alcoholic champagne for children.

A fun New Year's quiz with prizes awaits us and a win-win lottery in which no one will be left without a gift.

At 02:00, our bus will leave for the hotel, and those who wish can continue their walk around New Year's Vyborg.

The cost of the program is 2000 rubles/adult, 1500 rubles/ school.

Breakfast at the hotel is a buffet.

Guided tour of Russia's only rock landscape park Monrepos. The name in French means "my rest", "my rest", "my rest".

The rock landscape park of Monrepos of the XVIII-XIX centuries is located on the lands of a former private estate, the owners of which for 150 years were the Barons Nicolai, who served Russia in the field of education and diplomacy.

This place is imbued with romanticism and the spirit of its creator. Walking along the park alleys, along the sparkling waters of Vyborg Bay, listening to the birds singing and the breathing of stone boulders inscribed in the water.

For a second, sitting on a bench near a hundred—year-old birch tree, you can see how tempting distances leading to the Baltic Sea open up to your eyes - and then, who is not a poet becomes a poet…

That's how the people who visited this amazingly beautiful place describe the actions.

Lunch at a cafe.

Guided tour of Castle Island, where the medieval knightly Vyborg Castle, the symbol of the city, is located. Vyborg Castle is a symbol of the city, its heart and core. It was from him that the difficult history of the city and people began, and all roads in Vyborg lead to the Castle.

Is that all? Was there a secret passage? Where is the Matveev hole? Why was Peter the Fool 1 nicknamed the "Vyborg Beard"? Who lived in the castle? And kings, and servants, and military men, and even prisoners. Vyborg Castle will be 732 years old in 2025.

We are greeted by the following witnesses of the legend of the deep antiquity: castle towers: the tallest in South Karelia — the tower of St. Olaf, the most unusual with a Heavenly name; artifacts of maritime archaeology — a Swedish anchor and cannon from 1790; real medieval walls in a cozy courtyard.

Lunch at a cafe.

Walking tour of the center of Vyborg — our guide will tell you about the history of the city, its legends and secrets. You will see the Market Square, the Peter and Paul Cathedral, the Transfiguration Cathedral, the Panzerlaks bastion, and the Town Hall Tower.

Guided tasting tour at the Chocolate Museum. The curator of the museum will tell you:

• the history of chocolate;
• What is real chocolate made of?;
• how many cocoa beans are needed to make one chocolate bar;
• what are the types and how to store chocolate correctly?;
• how to distinguish real chocolate from fake ones!

You will hear legends and unusual stories about chocolate, and you will also be able to taste all kinds of chocolate that are used to create the museum's products, which can also be purchased as a gift.

Free time.

Breakfast at the hotel is a buffet. Check out with your belongings.

Transfer to St. Petersburg.

Thematic tour "Suppliers of His Imperial Majesty's Court". To receive a badge of distinction and become a Supplier to the Court of his Imperial Majesty was the dream of any conscientious manufacturer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It wasn't that easy, and many people have been striving for this title for years.

You will find a fascinating history of the formation of the most famous trade and industrial names and the history of their enterprises in Russia.: The Eliseevs, Abrikosovs, Kuznetsovs, Faberge, Singer, Smirnov, etc.

And each of them not only maintained the quality of goods at a high level, but also applied new technologies for the production and marketing of goods.

We will visit the famous Yeliseyev merchants store, which to this day combines a multifaceted concept — it is not only a grocery store, but also restaurants, a theater and a formal living room for formal receptions.

Excursion to the Faberge Jewelry Museum, located in the Shuvalov Palace. Following the principle of the great master, the modest facades of the Shuvalov Palace hide the real wonders of jewelry art.

The museum has an unparalleled collection of Russian jewelry and decorative and applied arts of the XIX-XX centuries. The most valuable and famous items in the museum's collection are 9 imperial Easter eggs created by Carl Gustaf Faberge.

14:00 Lunch at a cafe in the city.

15:00 Departure to Moscow.

The estimated time of arrival in Moscow at the VDNKh metro station is approximately 23:30-00:00.