"CROSSROADS BETWEEN TWO CONTINENTS" YEKATERINBURG
Tour program
Day 1
YEKATERINBURGArrival in Yekaterinburg. Transfer to the hotel of your choice. Overnight at hotel.
Day 2
YEKATERINBURG – NEVYANSK - YEKATERINBURGBreakfast. 7-hours tour with a lunch. Today you will visit the historic town of Nevyansk located 80 km (50 miles) north of Yekaterinburg. You will enjoy the picturesque views of the Middle Urals while traveling. Back in the early 1700s, Nevyansk was founded as a center of metallurgical industry for the entire Urals region. For a long time, it was home to orthodox old believers who played an important part with respect to economic growth. You will visit Nevyansk state historical and architectural museum to learn more about the Urals as the “forge” of Russia. You will also visit the local pottery workshop to take a master class in pottery and in art painting of earthenware. You will visit the real gem of Nevyansk, the leaning tower, which has turned into a museum nowadays. Originally, it was built as one of the metallurgical plant premises which distinguishes it from every other “leaning” tower throughout the world. During the excursion, you will have a traditional peasant lunch in the Russian izba house. Overnight at hotel.
Day 3
YEKATERINBURGBreakfast. 6-hours tour with lunch. Yekaterinburg grew up around Plotinka Dam which harnessed the water in the Iset River for the town's ironwork factories. The dam has been reconstructed twice, and now it holds back the water in the City Pond, at the heart of the city. Around the City Pond, the majority of Yekaterinburg museums are located. You will see the historic center of the city with splendid Church of Spilled Blood at Tsar Nicholas II Death Site as well as the Chapel of St. Elizabeth. You will observe the beauty of downtown Yekaterinburg, gorgeous 19th century Urals’ gold merchants’ houses and monumental buildings of Stalin’s neoclassicism style. After lunch in a Russian tavern, you will visit the "One foot in Europe, another one in Asia" monument located on the outskirts of the city. It is installed on crossroads of two parts of the world and made of typical local stones mined in the Ural Mountains. You will also visit Ganina Yama. Ganina Yama is the mineshaft where the remains of the last Russian royal family were hidden after the execution, six miles away from downtown. Today an orthodox monastery with six wooden churches is located there. The churches were erected without any nail, in the old-fashioned Russian way. Overnight at hotel.
Day 4
YEKATERINBURGBreakfast. Transfer to the station/airport.
Accommodation during the tour
Accommodation
Hotel
3 nights
Comfort
Onegin Hotel 4* or similar in Yekaterinburg
It's important to know
Price includes
- Accommodation in TWN/DBL BB (SGL BB) in the 4* hotels (ONEGIN, FOUR SEASONS, or similar) for 3 nights with breakfast.
- Round-trip transfers station-hotel-station or airport-hotel-airport with drivers only
- 7-hours Nevyansk excursion with lunch
- 6-hours Ekaterinburg excursion with lunch
Extra payment
- Porter services
- Alcoholic beverages
- Fees for photography at museums
- Tips
- International or domestic flights
- Railway tickets
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