Excursions and tours for inclusive tourists in Grodno Oblast

Walking sightseeing tour around Bolshaya Berestovitsa

Itinerary: Meeting point in the square near the monument to Vladimir Lenin

Sights: Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker – Squirrel Museum – Vladimir Lenin Monument – Monument “Mass Grave of the Soviet Wars” – Sculpture "Tree of Life" – Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Monument to the Grieving Mother – Monument to the Family – Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord – Monument to the Chernobyl Clean-up Workers

Distance/duration: 2.5km/2 hours

Type: Overview, cultural and educational

Recommended for: Wheelchair users, blind, visually impaired

Historical Chronicle of Volkovysk

Itinerary: Bagration Volkovysk Military History Museum  – Lenin Square – St. Nicholas Church

Sights: former estate (Bagration's hous"), the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, Lenin Square, the sculpture of the wolf

Distance/duration: 2km/1.2 hours

Type: Overview, cultural and educational

Recommended for: Blind, visually impaired

 

The Road to Bread

Itinerary: farm-stay Olkhovo, 33 the village of Olkhovo

Sights: farm-stay Olkhovo, a baking workshop

Distance/duration: 1.5 hours

Type: Cultural and educational

Recommended for: Blind, visually impaired

 

 

 

Ancient Garadzen [Grodno]

Itinerary: Turist Hotel – Yanla Kupala Avenue – Sovetsky Border Guards Street – Boldina Street – Leninsky Komsomol Boulevard – Gorky Street – Lermontov Street – Kolozhskoye Suburb (exit to Borisoglebskaya Church) – Bolshaya and Malaya Troitskaya Streets – Gorodenskogo Street (exit to the castles, synagogues, Farny Cathedral and Bernardinr church) – K. Marx Street – Cosmonauts Avenue (exit to the Mound of Glory) – Budenny Street – E. Orzeszko Street (exit to the Cathedral, Orzeszko House-Museum,  "Swiss Valley", city park, Tyzenhaus Square, Bogdanovich house-museum, Lutheran Church) - Lenin Street

Sights: St. Francis Xavier Cathedral (Farny), Kolozha Church, New Castle, Old Castle, Lutheran church, Holy Protection Cathedral, Museum of the History of Religion, Pharmacy Museum, Festivalny Cultural Center, St. Brigit Church, Eliza Orzeszko House-Museum, Mound of Glory, historical building in Tyzenhaus Square, 2, Turist Hotel, Neman Hotel, aqua center, Neman sports complex, a synagogue

Distance/duration: 45km/4.30 hours

Type: Overview, bus and walking l

Recommended for: Wheelchair users, blind, visually impaired, hard-of-hearing people

"A Touch of Nature" (Republican Landscape Reserve Ozery)

Circular itinerary: Novaya Ruda village, 1B. The starting point is 53.815986, 24.234999 (behind the visit center of the Ozery reserve)

Sights: stumps with odorous plants growing from them - mint, lemon balm, and others. Nearby is a gazebo, benches, a recreation spot. Everything is created exclusively from natural materials.

Distance/duration: o.5 hours

Type: Sensory

Recommended for: Visually impaired

“One day in Dyatlovo”

Itinerary: 17 September Square – Sovetskaya Street – a park – Pobedy Street, 1 – 2A Pobedy Street – intersection of Pervomayskaya and Krasnoarmeyskaya Streets

Sights: 17 September Square, Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Monument to Ignat Dvorchanin, mass grave and memorial to the Heroes of the Soviet Union Major-General Yan Fogel and Colonel P.G. Petrov, Church of the Transfiguration of the Saviour, Radziwill (Soltanov)Palace, Monument to I.Y. Filidovich

Distance/duration: 3.5km/3 hours

Type: Overview, cultural and educational

Recommended for: Wheelchair users, blind, visually impaired

The Golden Ring of Ivye

Itinerary: Ivye – Lipnishki – Geraneny – Subbotniki – Zhamyslavl – Ivye

Sights: Ivye Museum of National Cultures, mosque, former Bernardine monastery (Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul), Church of the Holy Martyr Child Gabriel of Bialystok, Slutsk, former synagogue, Ivye Spring (Ivye), St. Nicholas Church, ruins of the castle of the 15th - 16th centuries (Geraneny), St. Vladislav Church, tomb of the Umyastovsky family (Subbotniki), Umyastovsky estate (Zhamyslavl), St. Casimir Church (Lipnishki)

Distance/duration: 70km/6 hours

Type: History, architecture

Recommended for: Wheelchair users

Ivye of Many Religions

Itinerary: Ivye

Sights: open-air exposition Wheel of History, a memorial sign "In Honor of Friendship and Harmony of the Confessions of Ivye”, a complex of synagogues, the Church of the Holy Martyr Child Gabriel of Bialystok and Slutsk, the former Bernardine monastery (Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul), a mosque, the Ivye Spring, Komsomolskaya Square

Distance/duration: 12km/90 minutes 

Type: Religious, history and architecture

Recommended for: Wheelchair users

“You will no longer meet them on the streets of the city”

Itinerary: Ivye - Stonevichi - Ivye

Sights: Belarusian Jews exposition, open-air exposition Wheel of History, a complex of synagogues, a memorial sign "In Honor of Friendship and Harmony of the Confessions of Ivye", Komsomolskaya Square (buildings, former ghetto area) - K.Marx Street - memorial complex to the victims of fascism (Stonevichi)

Distance/duration: 7km/90 minutes 

Type: History 

Recommended for: Wheelchair users

 

History journey along Vilenskaya and Bernardinskaya

Itinerary: Ivye

Sights: Rynochnaya Square (Komsomolskaya), Bernardinskaya St. (K. Marx), Vilenskaya Street (1 May)

Distance/duration: 3km/60 minutes 

Type: History

Recommended for: Wheelchair users

 

 

Monuments to courage, glory and sorry

Itinerary: Ivye – Yatoltovichi – Yuratishki – Kosti – Stonevichi – Ivye

Sights: monuments of the Great Patriotic War

Distance/duration: 33km/120 minutes 

Type: Military history

Recommended for: Wheelchair users

The Umyastovsky Legacy

Itinerary: Subbotniki – Zhemyslavl

Sights: St. Vladislav Church, the tomb of the Umyastovsky family (Subbotniki), the Umyastovsky estate (Zhemyslavl)

Distance/duration: 54km/2 hours 30 minutes

Type: History

Recommended for: Wheelchair users

“Love of the Century”

Itinerary: Lipnishki – Geraneny

Sights: St. Casimir Church (Lipnishki), St. Nicholas Church, ruins of the castle of the 15th - 16th centuries. (Geraneny)

Distance/duration: 54km/ 2 hours 30 minutes 

Type: History

Recommended for: Wheelchair users

“Christian Heritage”

Itinerary: Dudy – Yuratishki – Traby

Sights: Church of the Miraculous Mother of God (Dudy), Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord (Yuratishki), Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, Church of the Virgin Mary Nativity in Traby (Traby)

Distance/duration: 72km/2 hours  

Type: History

Recommended for: Wheelchair users

“Taking the Roads of Two Wars”

Itinerary: Lelyuki – Nikolayevo – Barovo – Chernevichi – Bolshaya Chapun – Kozevichi – Pesevichi

Sights: monuments of the First and Second World Wars

Distance/duration: 39.8km/5-6 hours

Type: Military history

Recommended for: Wheelchair users

Architectural, historical and natural monuments of Mosty District

Itinerary: Mosty Pravye – Mosty – Dubno – Lunno – Gudevichi – Strubnitsa – Peski – Lipichanskaya Pushcha

Sights: Lipichanskaya Pushcha Natural Reserve, Catholic Church of Our Lady of Ruzhentsova in Peski, the Church of the Virgin Mary of the early 20th century in Bolshaya Rogoznitsa, Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity in Strubnitsa, St. Nicholas Church in Dubno, St. Anne Church in Lunno, Forest and Man Museum, Gudevichi Literary and Local History Museum

Distance/duration: 170km/8 hours

Type: Overview, cultural and educational

Recommended for: Wheelchair users

Novogrudok, First Capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

Itinerary: Novogrudok

Sights: Ruins of the castle, Mindovg Mountain, Adam Mitskevich Mound, Orthodox, Catholic and Muslim churches, monuments to Adam Mitskevich, St. Elisha Lavryszewski, Vladimir Vysotsky, monuments to the history of urban planning

Distance/duration: 3 km/2 hours

Type: Overview, cultural and educational

Recommended for: Wheelchair users, blind and visually impaired

 

Traveling in the Footsteps of Adam Mitskevich

Itinerary: Novogrudok – Lake Litovka – Vselub – former estate Chambrov – Valevka – Lake Svityaz – Lubcha – Shchorsy – Novogrudok

Sights: Adam Mitskevich House-Museum, Novogrudok Castle ruins, Adam Mitskevich Mound, Adam Mitskevich Monument, Transfiguration Church, Church of St. Michael the Archangel, Lake Litovka, O’Rourke family estate, Church of St. Casimir, Karpovich Chapel in Chombrovo, Lake Svityaz, K.Kachan Art Gallery, Museum of architectural miniatures of Novogrudok District “Lost Heritage”, Novogrudok arts and crafts center, Lubcha Castle, Lubcha District History Museum, Hreptovich family estate

Distance/duration: 140 km/2 days

Type: Cultural and educational

Recommended for: Wheelchair users, blind and visually impaired

Estates of Novogrudok District

Itinerary: Novogrudok – Lake Litovka – Vselub – Vereskovo – Lubcha – Shchorsy

Sights: K.Kachan Art Gallery, Adam Mitskevich House-Museum,  Transfiguration Church, castle ruins, Lake Litovka, O’Rourke family estate, Church of St. Casimir, Brokhotskiye estate, Lubcha Castle, Lubcha District History Museum, Hreptovich family estate 

Distance/duration: 85 km/8 hours

Type: Cultural and educational

Recommended for: Wheelchair users, blind, visually and hearing impaired

Valaam in Novogrudok District

Itinerary: Novogrudok, Lavrishevo – Gnesichi – Motcha

Sights: Church of St. Nicholas, Church of St. Boris and Gleb, Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Esiley Lavrishevsky Monastery

Distance/duration: 45 km/5 hours

Type: Cultural and educational, religious

Recommended for: Wheelchair users, blind, visually and hearing impaired

 

Retracing the War

Itinerary: Novogrudok – Skrydlevo – Kurovichskaya Gora – Chereshlya

Sights: Novogrudok History Museum, exposition “Jewish resistance in Novogrudok District during the Holocaust”, places of mass execution of civilians (Skrydlevo), Kurovichskaya Gora, memorial complex and partisan camp in the village of Chereshlya

Distance/duration: 60 km/6 hours

Type: Cultural and educational, patriotic

Recommended for: Wheelchair users, blind, visually and hearing impaired

Holy Joy of Belarus: Confessional Novogrudok District

Itinerary: Shchorsy - Lavrishevo – Gnesichi – Lubcha – Novogrudok – Katolyshy – Vselub

Sights: Church of St. Demetrius of Thessaloniki, fragments of the former palace and park of the Hreptovich family, Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Elisey Lavrishevsky Monastery, Church of St. Elijah, Lubcha Castle, Church of Sts. Boris and Gleb, Catholic Church of St. Michael the Archangel, Transfiguration Church, Church of St. Nicholas, mosque, monument to St. Elisey Lavrishevsky, exhibition “Jewish resistance in Novogrudok District during the Holocaust”, mosque and mizar (Katolyshi/Lovchitsy), St. Casimir Church, park and chapel-vault of the O’Rourke family, Church of St. Michael the Archangel

Distance/duration: 100 km/8 hours

Type: Cultural and educational, religious

Recommended for: Wheelchair users (in Novogrudok)

Ostrovets, Young City with Centuries-Old History

Itinerary: urban park - Catholic Church of Sts. Cosmas and Damian - Church of Sts. Peter and Paul - Island of Love -  Catholic Church of the Rise of the Holy Cross

Sights: Catholic Church of Sts. Cosmas and Damian, Catholic Church of the Rise of the Holy Cross, Church of Sts. Peter and Paul, stone sculptures in the park, near the building of the former mill and on the Island of Love

Distance/duration: 4 km/90 minutes

Type: Overview, cultural and educational

Recommended for: Wheelchair users, visually impaired

Pearl of Ostrovets District (Gervyaty)

Itinerary: church – dendrological park

Sights: Holy Trinity Church in Gervyaty

Distance/duration: 1 km/45 minutes

Type: Overview, cultural and educational

Recommended for: Wheelchair users

 

 

 

Ancient Slonim and its Suburbs

Itinerary: Monument to Leu Sapieha, Lenin Square - Vasya Krainy Street - Sovetskaya Street - Opernaya Street - Sovetskaya Street - Pervomaiskaya Street - Pushkin Street - Sapieha Square - St. Andrew’s Church, 1 Sapieha Square

Sights: Monument to Leu Sapieha, Lenin Square, mini-model of the Eiffel Tower, Slonim Drama Theater, Bernardine Monastery (now Holy Trinity Cathedral), osteria, citadel, Oginsky Canal, Town Hall, Synagogue, Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary (Bernardine Convent), Holy Transfiguration Cathedral, St. Andrew’s Church

Distance/duration: 3.5 km/2 hours

Type: Overview, cultural and educational

Recommended for: Wheelchair users, blind, visually and hearing impaired

Touring Shchuchin District

Itinerary: Shchuchin – Rozhanka – Zheludok – Murovanka – Ishchelno – Starye Vasilishki – Novyi Gvor – Kamenka

Sights: St. Teresa's Church, Collegium of the Piarists, Drutsky-Lubetsky Palace, Palace of the Chetvertinsky family, Church-Fortress of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Sts. Peter and Paul's Church in Starye Vasilishki, Czeslaw Niemen Club-Museum, Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Antony’s Church

Distance/duration: 151 km/6-7 hours

Type: Overview, cultural and educational

Recommended for: Wheelchair users, blind, blind and visually impaired (mobile audio-guide)

History in Stone (Svisloch)

Itinerary: Karla Marksa Square – 17 Sentyabrya Street – Lenin Street – Asilak Memorial Complex – urban park

Sights: Common grave of Soviet soldiers and partisans, Monument to Iosif Stalin, Monument to Vladimir Lenin, Monument to Romuald Traugutt, memorial sign to the soldiers of the undeclared war, the building of the Svisloch gymnasium, Monument to K. Kalinovsky; Count's Steeple, Asilak Memorial Complex, V. Tyshkevich park

Distance/duration: 3.5 km/2 hours 30 minutes

Type: Overview, cultural and educational

Recommended for: Wheelchair users. *The tour program can be divided into parts.