New Year's kaleidoscope in Nizhny Novgorod

Breakfast at the hotel.

09:50 Gathering in the lobby of the Ibis Hotel.

10:10 Gathering at 52 Bolshaya Pokrovskaya St. (at the sculpture of a cyclist, for tourists from the Courtyard Hotel).

Walking tour of Nizhny Novgorod.

During the tour you will visit different parts of the historical center of Nizhny Novgorod and stroll along the famous streets.

Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street is one of the oldest pedestrian streets in the city.

Today, the walking street has turned into a real museum.

A street paved with cobblestones and granite, full of cafeterias, restaurants, shops, with ancient mansions and manors, which is opened by a bronze policeman, inviting tourists to marvel at the beauties of the ancient city.

Rozhdestvenskaya Street is one of the oldest and most beautiful streets in Nizhny Novgorod.

There are many large and beautiful stone houses preserved here, the history of which dates back to the middle of the XVIII century.

According to official data, there are about 35 architectural monuments here.

Rozhdestvenskaya Street is the second most important street in the city after Bolshaya Pokrovskaya, a place of concentration of restaurants, cafes and nightlife in Nizhny Novgorod, along with the adjacent Markin Square and Nizhnevolzhskaya Embankment.

The street connects the National Unity Square in front of the Kremlin with the square in front of the Annunciation Monastery.

13:00 The tour ends on Rozhdestvenskaya St. – free time, tourists get to the hotel on their own.

Optional: City of Lights tour (1200 rubles/person). Duration: 3 hours (2 hours by bus + walking tour along New Year's Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street), starting at 19:00. It is ordered and paid for when booking the tour.

Breakfast at the hotel.

Free day.

Optional: City of Lights tour (1200 rub/person).

Duration: 3 hours (2 hours by bus + walking tour along New Year's Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street), beginning at 19:00.

It is ordered and paid for when booking the tour.

Breakfast at the hotel.

08:00 Gathering in the lobby of the Courtyard Hotel.

08:10 Gathering in the lobby of the Ibis Hotel.

Sightseeing tour of Arzamas.

The main focus of religious buildings in Arzamas is located on Cathedral Square, and it is not for nothing that it is so called.

The majestic five-domed Resurrection Cathedral and the church of the life-giving spring, and the complex of the Nikolsky Convent, where the miraculous icon "deliverance from troubles" is located.

Transfer to Diveevo.

Visit to the Holy Trinity Serafimo-Diveevsky Convent.

You will walk through the territory of the Diveevsky monastery, get acquainted with its history and customs in the monastery.

Then you will visit the Trinity Cathedral, where the relics of St. Seraphim of Sarov are kept, and the Transfiguration Cathedral.

In the temples it will be possible to venerate the holy relics, to put candles.

Free time to submit notes and requests.

It will be possible to purchase candles, icons, books, St. Seraphim's biscuits.

Walking along the Holy Groove of the Virgin, reading a prayer.

You can go to one of the refectories on the territory of the monastery and buy monastery pies, bread, pancakes.

Free time for meals

After that, you will have a trip to the spring (Kazan or Mother Alexandra), a set of holy water, bathing in the spring (optional).

For bathing, a cotton shirt (for women) and a shirt (for men) are necessary.

19:00 Return to Nizhny Novgorod.

Breakfast at the hotel.

08:20 Gathering in the lobby of the Ibis Hotel.

08:40 Gathering in the lobby of the Courtyard Hotel.

Check-in of rooms, take your things with you and immediately transfer to the railway station after the tour.

During a sightseeing tour of Gorodets, you will visit the so-called "museum quarter" of Gorodets, where almost every house is unique, decorated with delicate carvings, and together these streets recreate the spirit of an ancient merchant town.

The Feodorovsky Monastery.

The monastery houses a venerated list of the Feodorovskaya Icon of the Mother of God, one of the most revered icons of the Mother of God in Russia.

You will walk through the beautiful, well-kept territory of the monastery, get acquainted with its history and traditions.

The museum is a City of Craftsmen.

During the tour you will get acquainted with various crafts of the Nizhny Novgorod region: works of ancient Russian painting, products of Gorodetsky painting, gold embroidery, guipure embroidery, wood carvings, pottery and Zhbannikov whistle.

The special value of the architectural structures lies in the fact that they represent the history of "deaf" house carvings in all its richness and beauty, in the manner typical of Gorodetsky master carvers.

The Museum of the Russian Samovar Gallery.

The Samovar Museum is a unique collection, the largest collection of samovars in Russia.

The Samovar Museum opened in Gorodets in 2008 in the house of merchant Grishaev.

The exhibition includes more than 1,000 samovars.

Free time for meals.