Day 1

Arrival in Minsk. Check-in at the hotel.

Dinner.

Breakfast.

Sightseeing tour of Minsk including architectural, historical and cultural monuments of the 17th - 18th cents., historic part of the city - Trinity Suburb.

Lunch in a local restaurant.

Visit to the Nationl Art museum.

Time at leisure.

Dinner at a local restaurant.

Breakfast.

Departure for Mir. Mir Castle is a unique architectural monument, included into the list of World Cultural Heritage by UNESCO. The castle combines the traits of roman style and style of the renaissance. Mir castle is also a historical monument, true legend, which used to belong to several aristocratic families: Ilyinichi, Radzivills, Vithghenstein, Svatopolk-Mirskie.

Departure for Novogrudok. Novogrudok's history starts in 1044, when a fortress on this site was erected by Yaroslav Mudriy. Lots of times Novogrudok suffered from Red Cross Knights' invasions. Particularly Novogrudok entered the historic chronicles as the first capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The Grand Duke Mindaug, the founder of this powerful and flourishing state, was crowned in Novogrudok in 1253 as the King of Lithuania. The remaining fragments of Novogrudok Castle are speechless witnesses of those events.

Lunch in  local restaurant (in Lida).

Visit to Lida castle - fortress, which was built in 1323-1325 by the Grand Duke Gedimin and which for many centuries used be an inaccessible citadel over the western lands of Belarus. The grandson of Gedimin, the Grand Duke Vytaut, rebuilt the castle and made it the most powerful stronghold in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. King Jogaila also preferred the castle as a place to stay and even signed some famous historical documents within its walls. In 1422 the great feast devoted to Jogaila's wedding with his 4^th wife took place in the Lida castle.

In the evening, participation in the historic animation "Jogailo's Wedding", costume performance, presenting the reconstruction of the event of the Middle Ages. The animation includes folk band appearance, knight fights, opportunity to try on the knight armour suit, exercises with knight arms, bow shooting, as well as a magnificent dinner in the Old Belarusian style.

Check-in at Lida hotel.

Breakfast.

Departure for Grodno. Accommodation at the hotel

Sightseeing tour of Grodno. Grodno,  one of the most ancient cities of Belarus. Its name is tightly connected with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The famous Lithuanian Grand Duke Vytaut was the prince of Grodno from 1376 to 1392, and he stayed there during his preparations for the Battle of Grunwald (1410). In 1793 the last Sejm in the history of the Commonwealth occurred at Grodno. It was in the New Castle of Grodno that in 1795 the last Polish king and Lithuanian Grand Duke Stanislaw August Poniatowski abdicated.

Grodno City Tour includes Roman-Catholic Farny St. Francis Ksavery Church, St. Brigitte Monastery, St. Bernard Monastery, Old and New Castles, Castle street, Kolozhskaya (XII century) church.

Lunch at a restaurant.

Visit to the Museum of History and Culture.

Time at leisure.

Dinner at a restaurant.

Breakfast.

Visit to Ruzhany, which began its life in the late 16th century as the site of Lew Sapieha's castle. Between the 16th and 19th centuries Ruzhany was the main seat of the senior line of the Sapieha noble family, known as the "Sapiehas of Ruzhany". It was rebuilt several times, but remaining fragments still remember fancy balls, that took place within its walls in 17-18 centuries.

Departure for Kossovo - the birthplace of Tadeush Kostiushko and the site of the famous Kossovo Palace, built in 1830 by Puslowski family in a spectacular romanticism style.

Departure for Slonim - the city of various churches and monasteries, erected in different centuries and in different architectural styles.

Dinner at a restaurant. Check-in at Slonim hotel.

Departure for Niesvizh. Visit to Radzivills' Palace - a former residence of Radzivills family (medieval Belarusian magnates) with its beautiful park ensemble, Farny Roman-Catholic church and Church of the 16th century designed by Bernardoni. Niesvizh Palace is included into the List of World Heritage UNESCO.

Lunch at a restaurant (in Niesvizh).

Departure to Minsk.

Arrival in Minsk. Check-in at hotel.

Breakfast.

Transfer to the airport.