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Vileyskoye reservoir
Тhe largest artificial reservoir in the country invariably attracts tourists. The area of the reservoir is 65 km2, it was built in 1973 to improve the water supply of Minsk. During the construction, 9 villages were resettled.
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The building of the former hospital
The old hospital was built when the Russian-Japanese war began. The Art Nouveau building with some neo-Gothic elements belonged to the Nesvizh ordination of the Radziwills, the hospital buildings housed several dozen patients. The hospital operated until 1917, then it was closed for several years due to lack of funding. In 1995, the building was...
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Children’s Museum of Mythology and Forests
The only such museum in Belarus. In the semi-darkness of the hall, divided by a conventional path, on the one hand there are sculptures of mythological characters of ancient pagan beliefs of Belarusians, and on the other hand there are familiar forest inhabitants: animals and birds. The tour is conducted here by the witch Rogan...
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Slutsk Gymnasium
The history of the gymnasium No. 1 in Slutsk dates back to 1617, when Janusz Radziwill founded a Calvinist school in the city, which today is considered the oldest school in Belarus. In 1838, the wooden building of the gymnasium was replaced by a stone one. Part of this building has been preserved to this...
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“Dukorsky maentak”
Maentak is translated from Belarusian as an estate or estate. The history of the estate begins in the XV century, and the period of its heyday fell on the XVIII-XIX centuries. The palace was eventually destroyed, until today only the wing and the entrance gate have been preserved. Thanks to a private initiative, the historical...
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Minsk settlement
The archaeological complex of the IX-XI centuries is located near the village of Gorodishche. According to one hypothesis, it was the ancient Mensk, and after it was burned several times, the settlement was moved to the Svisloch and Nemiga rivers. This is one of the most important archaeological monuments of Belarus. High earthen ramparts, which...
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Nesvizh Park
The creation of the Nesvizh parks began in the time of Nikolai Christopher Radziwill Sirotka. Then a small “Italian garden”was laid out near the castle. In the time of Mikhail Kazimir Rybonka, the Consolation Park was laid not far from the palace, which belonged to the” French parks”, and small gardens were planted right at...
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Branches of the State Literary and Memorial Museum of Yakub Kolas
In the small homeland of Yakub Kolas in the Stolbtsovsky district there is a branch of the museum “Nikolayevshchina”, which unites the memorial estates of Akinchitsy, Lastok, Albut and Smolnya. The Akincitsy estate is the first place of service of Mikhail Mickiewicz, the poet’s father, who lived here with his family in 1881-1883. On the...
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St. Nicholas Church
At the beginning of the 16th century, it was built by the famous guardian and defender of Orthodoxy in Belarus, Prince Konstantin Ostrogsky, who became famous in the battle with the Tatars. By the end of the 18th-beginning of the 19th century, the temple, built by Konstantin Ostrogsky, existed in its original form. It was...
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Holy Resurrection Church
This is the only surviving architectural monument of the XVII century in Kletsk. Marshal Stanislav Kazimir Radziwill allocated a building in the center of Kletsk for the Dominican monastery, and on May 24, 1683, the church was solemnly built. Already on June 6, 1684, the church was consecrated under the title of the Annunciation of...
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