I'll send it over a thousand years. This city is mentioned in ancient Russian annals. If you adore history, then you need to visit Zaslavl, then to brag to your friends: I saw where Princess Rogneda lived. The sense of time travel will be strengthened by the local ethnographic museum, where you can taste national dishes and take part in the ancient Belarusian rite.
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How to get
In Zaslavl it is convenient to reach by private car or bus. The city is located 15 kilometers from MKAD on the Minsk-Molodechno highway. By train or train, you need to go to the station "Belarus".
All suburban buses that can be flown to Zaslavl leave Minsk.
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Transport
According to Zaslavl, it is best to travel by bus. The urban areas are connected by three districts plus a cottage community and industrial zone, which are nearby. The fare is 800 Belarusian rubles. Without a ticket you will not pass - the passengers are watched by the conductors. Buses run regularly, so you can reach the destination with a breeze.
Kitchen and restaurants
With cafe and restaurants in Zaslavl napryazhenka. Public catering is not developed well. However, you can find a decent institution for breakfast or lunch. With the first, second and third. Or with your favorite students fast food to have a quick lunch. For more detailed work cafe with Belarusian cuisine.
Judging by the opinions of local residents, the most decent restaurant in the city is Shynok. He attracts the national color - interior, kitchen and stuff. Here you can try exclusive dishes and drinks like "Krupnik" - it's alcohol based on 20 different herbs. The average cost of dinner in this restaurant is from 400 Russian rubles excluding alcoholic drinks.
Zaslavl hotels
Zaslavl is a small city, therefore hotels are here once or twice - and obchelsya. In the city stands the hotel "Avenue". In it you can rent a standard two-room suite or a suite, which will have a double bed, wifi and TV. Standard room will cost $ 50 per night, improved - in 75 "green."
As an option - you can rent a house next to Zaslavl. Today in Byelorussia in a fashion farming is a kind of agrotourism. In a farm near the town, a house for 5-10 people will go to 2500 rubles per night. The benefit is obvious, especially since you will be offered to take a steam bath and understand the morning fishing.
Shops
In the city you can buy Belarusian souvenirs, but they should be looked for well. They are easier to buy in the museum-reserve "Zaslavl." That's where the eye rejoices in all sorts of crafts: ceramics, glass, porcelain, faience, toys, wood products.
Fans of fresh products should know that in the local market prices are biting. Local residents themselves are not thrilled with such a policy. The cost of some goods is 1, 5 times more expensive than in Minsk. So saving is better for going to ordinary grocery stores.
- Ride on the ship - in the city is a huge artificial pond, which is called the Minsk Sea. On the shore of the reservoir there are sanatoriums and boarding houses. You can go sailing on the boat. There is also a windsurfing station.
- Wander through the ruins of the restaurant "Zaslavl" - once it was a powerful public catering. Today the restaurant has turned into ruins, and tourists wandering around the abandoned halls feel like Stalkers. Landscapes resemble a gloomy virtual reality.
Entertainment, sightseeing and sightseeing Zaslavl
These are the main attractions of Zaslavl, which you need to see every self-respecting tourist.
Zaslavl Museum-Reserve
The museum-reserve is spread over a hundred hectares of land and includes a number of important monuments for Belarus: the ancient settlement "Zamechek" and "Val", burial mounds of the 11th century, the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary and others.
This museum is a paradise for archaeologists. These people here can spend hours here examining various pieces of glassware, tiles, ironware, fragments of amphorae, bone wares and ornaments that their colleagues extracted from the ground. The second big collection is weaving. These items were bought by the creators of the museum during expeditions among residents of different regions of Belarus.
From other expeditions researchers brought products from ceramics and glass, as well as artistic creativity from straw, wood, bone, horn, stone, porcelain and faience. In general, everything that was at hand, the Belarusians turned into art.
Savior Transfiguration Church
This is one of the main attractions of Zaslavl. The church was built in the middle of the 17th century as a Calvinist church, and in 2 centuries it became Orthodox. The building was rebuilt - you can see that loopholes were attached to the church.
In Soviet times, there was a branch of the Belarusian State Historical Museum. In the 90s, the church was badly damaged by the fire, so it had to be restored for a long time. Today, it again accepts parishioners.
Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
This Catholic church, standing on the Market Square, was built in the late 18th century. The church was erected on the initiative of the owner of the Zaslavl county - Anthony Pszeszewski. He remained Catholic for a little over a century, as the Russian authorities decided to make him Orthodox. The church was rebuilt, but the locals asked to leave the ancient image of Our Lady, adorned with the main altar. At the same time, they did not change the name either.
At the end of the last century, the church was returned to Catholics. Until now, the building has returned to its original form, restoration work is continuing here. In the lower part of the church there used to be the shrine of the family of Pszeszewski.
Palace and park complex of Pszeszewski
Przeszdecki, who actually owned Zaslavl for several centuries, built a complex with parks and palaces in a European way. Architecture - something in between baroque and classicism. The green zone intensified with trees and bushes written out with continents. It turned out a large "tribal" nest with an eye for the coming years 300-400.
Up to now, the complex has not been completely preserved. Today you can view fragments of palace buildings, as well as a large industrial complex with household buildings, fish ponds, hydropathic institutions, construction plants, greenhouses, a stud farm and agricultural lands.
The most valuable exhibit is the building of the Hermitage Palace, which is located in the Upper Park. There was a palace library, an art gallery and a stage for theater performances.
The hillfort "Zamechek"
In the 10th century, on the outskirts of Zaslavl, a fortress was built to protect the country from enemy raids. Today from the fortress there are only ruins that are of interest to archaeologists and tourists.
It was a grandiose structure with a waterless moat, powerful towers and geometrically regular fortifications, which allowed to mark the enemy in time and strike. The fortress fulfilled its functions until the end of the 11th century. Then the fortified city center moved to another area, and the soldiers left here.