Fortresses of the Northwest. Veliky Novgorod and Pskov. Spring-Summer

Breakfast at the hotel.

Attention! 12:00 check-out time. Room release before departure for excursions (things in the hotel's luggage room).

Collection from hotels in the city.

• 10:30 a.m. Volkhov Hotel 4*.
• 10:45 a.m. Intourist 3* hotel.
• 11:00 Sadko 3* hotel.

There may be a slight delay in the delivery of the vehicle. In this situation, we recommend that you keep in touch with the guide.

11:00 a.m. 4-hour car tour of the city and surrounding area "To the stars of the blue domes".

During the sightseeing tour of the city you will get acquainted with the main sights of the ancient Novgorod architecture.

Visit to the current, largest of the Novgorod monasteries – St. George the Victorious, traditionally called St. George, St. George's Cathedral in 1119 (visit on your own).

This temple was used as the tomb of the Novgorod princes. Alexander Nevsky's mother and brother, Dmitry Shemyaka, and others are buried here.

12:30 Excursion to the wonderful village of Vitoslavlitsy – learn about the traditions and life of the peasants of the Novgorod province in a living open-air museum. Architectural and natural reserve of wooden architecture.

Visiting huts with a set of peasant household items and tools, a forge, a threshing floor. Acquaintance with the Novgorod traditions of the Novgorod province.

13:30 Free time on the territory of the complex.

Purchase of souvenirs, independent visits to locations on the territory of the museum of wooden architecture – "economic yard" (free admission on the guest's card), the manor house of Countess A.A. Orlova-Chesmenskaya.

14:00 Lunch at the Yuryevskoye Podvorye restaurant complex – additional charge. 1000 rubles/person.

We recommend booking with a tour due to the inability to purchase lunch on the spot.

14:45 Departure to the city center. Those who wish to stay can return by public transport No. 7, No. 7a (stop at the Vitoslavlitsy gas station).

15:00 Free time in the city center.

Independent sightseeing according to the guest's card.

17:00 Transfer to the train station.

17:50-21:57 Transfer to Pskov (by comfortable high–speed train or bus - the ticket is included in the price of the tour).

Pick up from the train, transfer to the hotel.

Accommodation in Rizhskaya 3* (Rizhsky Prospekt, 25).

Breakfast in the hotel cafe.

Attention! 12:00 check-out time. Room release before departure for excursions (things in the hotel's luggage room).

09:00 Walking sightseeing tour of Pskov "Admiring Pskov. My God, what a big city! Definitely Paris!..."

One of the most powerful fortresses in Europe and Russia, consisting of 5 belts of stone walls with 39 combat towers, secrets and traps. The Pskov Kremlin is an open–air museum that includes Dovmont City, the Pskov Pompeii, Vechevaya Square, a symbol of freedom and the first experience of democratic government in our country, Trinity Cathedral, one of the first Christian churches in Russia, Kromsky Cape, the confluence of the winding Pskov River with the deep Velikaya River, and the first the Pskov settlement.

The historical and architectural center of the city, the monuments of civil architecture of the 17th century, the history of buildings and the life stories of their owners, the legends of the city and outstanding real events, for example, the "Battle of the Ice" in 1242.

11:30 Izborsk Chududaty and Krylata Fortress tour

Arrival in Izborsk. Sightseeing of the fortress, a walk to the holy springs "Slovenian keys".

Izborsk or "Iron City" is one of the oldest Slavic settlements, shrouded in legends. The story of the ancient settlement, the seat of the legendary Varangian Prince Truvor, and the story of the stone fortress built on the mountain with the poetic name "Crane" unfolds before you.

From these ancient sites, endless expanses open up, among which the Izborsk-Malskaya valley plays a dominant role with a mirror of lake waters, and with sounding springs-waterfalls – Slavic springs.

14:00 Lunch.

Excursion to the men's active Holy Dormition Pskov Caves Monastery, acquaintance with shrines and sights.

Pechory is the "second miracle of Russia" (according to the results of the World Pathfinder magazine competition in 2008). One of the largest and oldest monasteries in Russia, Pskov-Pechersk Holy Dormition Monastery, originally located in caves.

The tombs of the ancestors of V.N.Tatishchev, M.I.Kutuzov, M.P.Mussorgsky, and A.S.Pushkin have been preserved in the monastery caves.

A historical and architectural ensemble of 11 churches of the XV-XX centuries, outbuildings and a large belfry with a preserved set of ancient bells. The fortress of the XVI century with 9 fortress towers and a full complex of wall fences.

Departure to Pskov.

Release of the storage room. Transfer to the railway station.

19:30 Departure of train No. 10 Pskov – Moscow.

The company reserves the right to change: the objects of the display to equivalent ones, the order of excursions, including by day, without changing the total volume of the program.