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Pearls of Golden Ring

Duration: 
2 days / 1 nights

Tour program
1

Sightseeing tour of Vladimir:

• Assumption Cathedral - a unique monument of ancient Russian history and art, included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. The Assumption Cathedral is a rare combination of architecture, wall paintings, icon painting, decorative and applied art of the 12th-19th centuries.

• Dmitrievsky Cathedral - one of the most remarkable monuments of the Russian Middle Ages, built in the 1190s. as the palace temple of the great Vladimir prince Vsevolod the Big Nest. In 1992, Dmitrievsky Cathedral was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

• Monument to Vladimir the Saint of the Golden Gate and the Diorama - a monument of military architecture of the 12th century. Today at the Golden Gate, which is the core of the city's defensive structures, a military-historical exposition is placed. The central place in it is occupied by the diorama “The decisive assault of Vladimir by the troops of Khan Batu on February 7, 1238”.

- Visit to the museum "Old Vladimir" with a viewing platform.

- Excursions in Bogolyubovo:
• Visit to the Holy Bogolyubsky monastery
• Visit to the Church of the Intercession on the Nerl - poems made of stone. In the middle of the flood meadow, at the confluence of the Nerl River in Klyazma, the white-stone Church of the Intercession 1165, one of the most lyrical creations of ancient Russian architects.

Overnight in the hotel.


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Suzdal.

In the city-museum of Suzdal, more than 100 monuments of Russian architecture of the XIII-XIX centuries have been preserved. On the territory of the Kremlin - Christmas Cathedral, Bishops' Chambers. In the center and on the outskirts of Suzdal are ensembles of monasteries: Spaso-Evfimiev, Rizpozolensky, Pokrovsky, Aleksandrovsky.

- Sightseeing tour of Suzdal with a visit
• Spaso-Euthymius Monastery - a UNESCO World Heritage Site, located on the left bank of the Kamenka River in the northern part of Suzdal. It was founded in 1352 by the Suzdal-Nizhny Novgorod Prince Boris Konstantinovich as a fortress designed to protect the city from external and internal enemies.
• Pokrovsky Monastery - located on the right bank of the Kamenka River in the northern part of Suzdal. It was founded in 1364 under Prince Dmitry Konstantinovich, but the present appearance of the ensemble only took shape in the 16th century, when the monastery turned into a place of imprisonment of representatives of aristocratic families cut off as nuns. In the XVI-XVII centuries, the monastery was one of the largest in Russia.

- Excursions:
• The Suzdal Kremlin - the oldest part of the city, the core of Suzdal, archeologically existing since the X century, and according to the chronicles - since 1024
• Museum of wooden architecture.