Two Kremlins with a walk in the Pushkin Mountains

Breakfast at the hotel (except for the hotel On Prusskaya, without breakfast – tea/coffee/ snacks). 

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

10:30-11:00 Collection from the hotels of the city.

11:00 a.m. 3-hour auto-guided tour of the city and the surrounding area "To the stars of the blue domes" with photo breaks in the most beautiful corners. 

A trip to the current monastery, we will learn about the life of the monks. St. George's Cathedral was built on the territory, this temple was used as the tomb of the Novgorod princes. Alexander Nevsky's mother and brother, Dmitry Shemyaka and others are buried here.

Visit to the current, largest of the Novgorod monasteries - St. George the Victorious, traditionally called Yuriev, St. George's Cathedral in 1119.

Excursion to the Wonderful village of Vitoslavlitsy - learn about the traditions and life of the peasants of the Novgorod province in the open-air living 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 in the late XIX-early XX centuries."

14:00 Lunch break. Organization of lunch in the cafe - Additional. Payment.  700 rubles . Booking in advance.

15:00 Free time in the city center.

17:00 Transfer to the train station.

17:28-21:50 Transfer to Pskov (by comfortable high-speed train or bus - the ticket is included in the price of the tour).

Meeting from the train, transfer to the hotel. Accommodation in Rizhskaya 3* (Rizhsky Prospekt, 25).

Breakfast in the hotel cafe.

09:00 Excursion to the State Memorial Historical, Literary and Natural Landscape Museum-Reserve named after A.S. Pushkin: visit to Mikhailovsky, Trigorsky (or Petrovsky), the poet's grave in the Svyatogorsk monastery.

Lunch.

Continuation of the excursion program.

Return to Pskov

19:00 Free time.

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 battle towers, secrets and traps. The Pskov Kremlin is an open-air museum, which includes Dovmont city - "Pskov Pompeii", Veche 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 place where the winding Pskov River flows into the deep Velikaya River and the first the Pskov settlement. The historical and architectural center of the city, monuments of civil architecture of the 17th century, the history of buildings and the life stories of their owners, legends of the city and outstanding real events, for example, the "Ice Battle" of 1242.

11:30 Excursion "Izborsk wonderful and Krylata fortress"  

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 history of the settlement — the seat of the legendary Varangian Prince Truvor and the history of the stone fortress erected on the mountain with the poetic name "Crane" unfolds before you. From these ancient places, boundless expanses open up, among which the Izborsko-Malskaya valley plays a dominant role with a mirror of lake waters, and with sounding springs-waterfalls - Slavic keys.

14:00 Lunch.

Excursion to the men's active Holy Dormition Pskov-Pechersk monastery, acquaintance with shrines and sights.

Pechory is the "second miracle of Russia" (according to the results of the contest of the World Pathfinder magazine in 2008). One of the largest and oldest in Russia is the Pskov-Pechersk Holy Dormition Monastery, originally located in caves. The tombs of the ancestors of V.N.Tatishchev, M.I.Kutuzov, M.P.Mussorgsky, A.S.Pushkin have been preserved in the monastery caves. A historical and architectural ensemble of 11 temples 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.

The release of the storage room. Transfer to the railway station.

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