Kizhi

Duration:
This tour is designed for 2 days

Description:

Kizhi Island is the most visited and recognizable place in Karelia. The Kizhi Museum-Reserve, located on the island, is the center of the traditional peasant culture of the Russian North, one of the largest and most famous open-air museums in Russia. Thoroughly and painstakingly, scientists and masters of wooden architecture for many years brought here architectural monuments, icon paintings and household items that were created in Karelian, Veps and Russian villages for centuries.

But the main treasure - the Kizhi churchyard, consisting of the Transfiguration, Intercession churches and the bell tower - has been standing here for more than 300 years. The greatest monument of wooden architecture, built by local craftsmen according to legend, without a single nail. Hundreds of thousands of tourists from all over the world come to the museum to admire this ensemble - a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Tour Plan:

1 day
Departure from Petrozavodsk. Arrival on the island of Kizhi. Inspection of the ethnographic complex. Church of the Transfiguration, Intercession Church. Tent bell tower. Pogost. Mill. Accommodation in guest houses in the village of Vasilyevo.

2 day
Large hiking trail, the house of Nestor Oshevnev, Poklonnaya Cross, Chapel of Our Lady of Sorrows. Also visit the museum "Vasilievo", departure from the island. Return to Petrozavodsk.

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