1st day - Meeting in Lutsk train station.
- Accommodation to hotel.
- Breakfast.
- Lutsk City tour: historical-architectural reserve "Old City" with unique monuments of architecture (Lutsk Castle 14 cent., the St.Peter and St.Paul Church 17 cent., Orthodox church of the Cover 15 cent., German Church, the Synagogue).
- Dinner in Volynian national cafe
- Trip to Zymno, winter residence of Volynian princes since 11 cent.; mosern complex of Svyatogorskiy Zymnenskiy monastery - it's not only temples and monks dormitory, and labyrinthes of vaults with cave church of the period when the christianity has come to Volhynia. An ornament of a monastery is Uspenskaya church constructed 1495.
- Trip to Volodymyr-Volynskiy. Town tour. The name of this town is closely connected with a name of the Kyiv prince Vladimir Svjatoslavovich which people named Great, Saint and which was the initiator of introduction of christianity in Ukraine. Since "the Story of Time Years", Volodymyr-Volynskiy is mentioned in written documents of 105 times!
- Trip to Kolodyazhnoe. Excursion to Lesya Ukraynka's museum-house.
- Return to Lutsk.
- Supper.
2nd day - Breakfast.
- Visit museum of the Volynian icons.
- Trip to Berestechko-Plyasheva - the smallest town of Ukraine - Berestechko which has got the world glory after fight in June, 1651. Excursion on a memorial complex "Cossack tombs" will acquaint you with history of cossack war under Bohdan Khmelnitskiy's leadership.
- Dinner in cafe (extra charge UAH 20).
- Transfer to hotel.
- Supper.
- Transfer to the train station.
Price includes:accommodation, meals by the program, excursions with entry tickets, guide services, transport services and transfers
Supplements:dinners, translator
V03. Castles of Volynia
Valid from 2006-01-20 to 2006-09-30
Group pax from15people.
Duration: 1 night
Program:
1st day - Meeting in Lutsk train station.
- Accommodation to hotel.
- Breakfast.
- Lutsk City tour: historical-architectural reserve "Old City" with unique monuments of architecture (Lutsk Castle 14 cent., the St.Peter and St.Paul Church 17 cent., Orthodox church of the Cover 15 cent., German Church, the Synagogue).
- Dinner in Volynian national cafe
- Trip to Ostrog - "a patrimonial jack" of the richest and influential Ukrainian princes Ostrozhskie. Svyato-Troytskiy monastery-fortress, a source in St.Nikolay's grotto.
- Return to Lutsk.
- Supper.
2nd day - Breakfast.
- Trip to Dubno, one of ancient cities of Western Ukraine. Walls and towers of the Dubno Castle were witnesses of many military fights. Rough events of first half of 17 cent. connected with the lock of princes Ostrozhskie and Lyubomirskie, were described by outstanding Russian writer Nikolay Gogol in the known story "Taras Bulba".
- Dinner in cafe (extra charge UAH 20).
- Trip to Berestechko-Plyasheva - the smallest town of Ukraine - Berestechko which has got the world glory after fight in June, 1651. Excursion on unique architectural monuments, among which St.Mykhaylo's church in which under the legend before Berestechko battle Bohdan Khmelnitskiy prayed. There is a 50 m descent in an underground course in the center of church, uniter St.Mihaylo and St.Georgy churches which comes to the end with a sarcophagus with remains of the lost cossacks.
- Transfer to hotel.
- Supper.
- Transfer to the train station.
Price includes:accommodation, meals by the program, excursions with entry tickets, guide services, transport services and transfers
