Local Sightseeing

Braslav

Braslav is one of the most ancient towns in Belarus. It was first mentioned in chronicles in the 11th century. According to the legend, it was founded by Polotsk Prince Bryachislav. The town has not lost its historical appeal.
Historical layout of the town (19th – 20th centuries) has survived. Local landmarks include an ancient settlement (14th – 15th centuries), a Roman-Catholic Church (19th century), a Russian Orthodox Church (19th century), two granaries, houses (1920s, architect Y. Klos).

Modern Braslav is the center of Braslav District and the administrative center of the National Park "Braslav Lakes".

In the town you can find a community center, a cinema house, libraries, a children's sanatorium, a tourist facility, a local lore museum and a museum of traditional culture, a monument on the mass grave of soldiers and partisans who died in 1941-1945, a monument to Stanislav Narbut, the famous Braslav doctor.

One kilometer east of Braslav there is the Dubki botanical reserve.

Five kilometers west of the town, there is an ancient settlement and a burial mound near Ratsky forest.

Akhremovtsy

Belmont Park was laid down at the end of the 18th century. It is the largest park of the Romanticism epoch in Belarus. It occupies about 65 hectares. Near the park there is a 19th century chapel built in the pseudo-Gothic style. The Park is home to Siberian larch and other exotic plants.

Half a kilometer to the south of the village there is a burial mound of the early Iron Age consisting of 75 embankments in round and oval shape.

There is a mass grave of war soldiers and partisans.

Bogino

Local landmarks: a burial mound; a Church of the Patronage of the Mother of God (late 19th century) with marble slabs in honor of the Russian army soldiers who died defending Braslav District in 1915-1916.

Vidzy
Local landmarks: a Holy Trinity Church in the Neo-Gothic style, one of the highest in the country;
a grave of Tomasz Wawrzecki, a distinguished public figure and statesman, one of the leaders of the 1794 uprising;
two mass graves of soldiers and partisans;
a museum of the Vidzy School.

West of the village, in the village of Vidzy-Lovchinskie, there is a park with exotic trees and a manor. At the end of the 19th century the place was home to the famous Lazienki resort with sulfurated springs.

Dalekie
Local landmarks: a burial ground; a St. Stanislav Church, a specimen of wooden architecture of the 1930s.

Drisvyaty
Local landmarks: an ancient castle of the 11th -15th centuries, a church (1907), a wooden Sts Peter and Paul Church (1927-1929) built in the so-called Belarusian style (architect l. Vitan-Dubeykovsky). Next to the church is a grave of the Russian army soldiers. Near the church is the hydroelectricity plant “Friendship of Peoples", which was built in 1952-1953 by three neighboring collective farms of Belarus, Lithuania and Latvia.

Druya
The historical layout and traditional urban planning of the 19th-20th centuries have survived. Local landmarks: the Bernardine monastery (17th -18th centuries), the earliest surviving architectural monument in Braslav District; a wooden chapel on the cemetery; a manor and a park; ruins of the Annunciation Church; a stone district of the early 20th century; a mass grave of soldiers and partisans; a grave of civilians executed by the Nazis. Museum of the Druya School.

Zamoshie

An ancient settlement and a burial mound. A home station of Zhukov’s partisan brigade. A monument to young partisan Olya Maksimovich. A common grave of partisans. A few kilometers to the south-east of the village is a monument commemorating the village of Repovshchina that was burned down together with its residents by the Nazis in 1942.

Zarachie

Local landmarks: a watermill, a specimen of traditional industrial architecture of the 18th -19th centuries. The foundation and the walls with masonry of the watermill have survived without changes (large quarry stones and decorative ornaments made of small dark-colored stones on lime white). There is also a mass grave of the soldiers of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.

Ikazn
Local landmarks: an island citadel of the 15th -17th centuries; St. Nicholas Church built in 1905 in the Russian Revival style; a Roman Catholic Church of the early 20th century (Neo-Gothic style). Venochny Dvor (or a wreath-type farmstead) is the most ancient type of a peasant farm where buildings form a closed garland (wreath) on perimeter. To the south-east of the village, on the shore of the Uklya River, there is an ancient settlement and a mound.

Kozyany
Local landmarks: a Holy Trinity Church built in the early 20th century; a communal grave of the soldiers of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.

Maskovtsy

Maskovtsy is interesting for its ancient settlement of the 11th -12th centuries.

Opsa
Local landmarks include a burial ground, a manor and a park complex of 1904 comprising a manor, an annex, outhouses and a park; an old oak, a Neo-Gothic Roman Catholic Church of the early 20th century and a communal WWII grave.

Ratyunki

Ratyunky is an ancient settlement, which dates back to the 5th century B.C. – 4th century A.D.

Slobodka
Local landmarks: two ancient settlements; a Roman Catholic Church of the early 20th century, which is a specimen of the Neo-Gothic and Neo-Romantic architecture; a manor house, a specimen of the 20th century folk art; the Slobodskaya Gryada nature sanctuary. Six kilometers north-west of the village you can find the Mezhozerny landscape preserve.

We offer:
Water tours
Excursion of Vidzy   
Excursion of Grodno
Excursion of Druya
Excursion of Minsk
Excursion of Minsk-Arena
Excursion of Dudutki
Excursion of Polotsk

Drivyatich
License No.02310/0531499 as of 11.09.2009
Sport and Tourism Ministry of the Republic of Belarus 
TIN  391021630
OFFERS
100% national tourist product
Farmsteads of Braslav District offer unforgettable holidays in the most picturesque places of Belarus. Farmstead keepers will be glad to offer you comfortable accommodation, national cuisine, Russian baths, water and bicycle trips.

We provide visa support to promote cross-border cooperation between Belarus, Lithuania and Latvia.

BUS EXCURSIONS TO:

Grodno, Minsk, Brest, Gomel, St. Petersburg, Khatyn, Dudutki, Mir, Novogrudok, Nesvizh, Mogilev, Lithuania.

CORPORATE WEEKENDS

If you want to solidify your team and help your business reach new heights, corporate tourism is an excellent way to enhance attitude, morale and performance. Joint activities of co-workers many of whom are friends are as important as hard work during weekdays.

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Tents
Sleeping bags
Mats
Kettles
Backpacks
Balls
Volleyball nets
Skis
Skates
Boats
Bicycles

Address: 2 Krasnoarmeyskaya Street, Braslav, Vitebsk Oblast
Phone: 8 01253 22 735
E-Mail : drivyatich@tut.by