Сities

Minsk is one of the cleanest and greenest cities of Europe, and the only city in the world with a thousand years of history, that was almost completely destroyed as a result of the war and restored thanks to enthusiasm of architects and city-dwellers during several decades.

A giant of the Belarusian history, Polotsk is still not completely studied and seized to the bottom. But it could open its secrets to the ones who love the city with all their heart.

According to a legend, the city was founded in 974 by the Kiev princess Olga. She was captivated by the beauty of local high mountain at the merge of two rivers – the Western Dvina and the Vitsba (the latter possibly gave the name for the city)

Grodno has been recorded in written sources since 1128 as the center of an apanage princedom.

It is the second largest city of Belarus. Placed on a high bank of the river Sozh, an inflow of the Dnieper, Gomel is more than 860 years old. But archeologists have long been challenging this conclusion, considering that the city is about 1000.

At present Brest is not large but clean, this city welcomes everyone who comes to Belarus with its hospitality. Distinctive traits of Brest inhabitants’ character are calmness, tolerance and benevolence.

It is often called the capital of the Belarusian Polessye – the land of woods, bogs and fogs.

Zaslavl celebrated its 1000^th anniversary in 1985. Its most ancient relic is “Zamecheck”, i.e. the Small Castle.

There is the largest orthodox monastery of Belarus in Zhirovichi.

The latter village is a live exhibit of the museum for it has retained its old lay-out and interesting wooden constructions.

There is an unusual ethnographic museum “Dudutki” just 40 km to the south of Minsk.

Nesvizh is a real pearl of the Middle Aged Belarus, and it is impossible not to visit it when coming to the country.

Novogrudok (Grodno region) is a town where the Belarusian statehood was born. Time stopped there and the town preserves trembling breath of the past epochs that fascinates everyone who gets there.