Stories and secrets of New Year's Vyborg

Breakfast at the hotel restaurant.

10:30 Meeting with the guide.

Walking day.

10:30 Walking tour of the center of Vyborg.

Each epoch and culture has left its own vivid impressions in the appearance of the city.

The narrow, cobblestone streets are adjacent:

• The oldest stone house in Russia, which has been inhabited by ordinary citizens for 400 years.;
• The witch's house;
• various towers: Clock Tower, Round Tower, Town Halls;
• Burgher's, knight's, merchant's houses;
• schools: Russian, Finnish, Swedish.

There are three cascaded squares, each with its own church: Cathedral Square with an Orthodox one, Theater Square with a Lutheran one, and Market Square with the "temples" of trade and banks, and the Vyborg tram in the middle.

Krasnaya and Sigovaya squares, although not neighbors, but two Russian rulers "live" there.

Bears, squirrels, goat's heads, sheep's heads and rich floral ornaments — all these and other inhabitants of the northern territory on the portals and facades of the creations of the Art Nouveau era we will see on the streets of Vyborg.

12:00 p.m. 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.

13:30 Lunch for an additional fee (1200 rubles).

15:00 Master class at the Chocolate Museum.

You will learn the history of chocolate, get acquainted with the secrets of its preparation and personally master the culinary techniques that chocolatiers know.

You will receive a chocolate figurine prepared and decorated by you, as well as a diploma "Young Chocolatier", which will be a pleasant reminder of this wonderful experience.

Free time.

09:00 Breakfast in the hotel restaurant.

10:00 Meeting with the guide.

10:30 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.

Take a walk along the park alleys along the sparkling waters of Vyborg Bay, listen to the birds singing and the breathing of stone boulders inscribed in the water, sit on a bench near a hundred—year-old birch tree and 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.

12:30 Lunch for an additional fee (1200 rubles).

14:00 Guided tour to the Alvar Aalto Library.

You can discover the amazing architecture of functionalism by visiting the only library in Russia, designed by the outstanding Finnish architect Alvar Aalto.

This building was built specifically to house a library, taking into account all the processes taking place in the book house.

16:00-17:00 Free time to buy souvenirs.

17:00 Departure from Vyborg to St. Petersburg at Moskovsky railway station.

Return to St. Petersburg is approximately 20:00-23:00.

Due to the unpredictability of the traffic situation, we recommend taking tickets for night trains or booking accommodation in St. Petersburg in advance.