The St Zosima and Savvaty Monastery in the Village Velikaya Krakotka
In the north-western part of Belarus there is the Grodno region. Here there is the village of Great Krakotka, which is popularly called "the Belarusian Switzerland". The legend says that in the XVI...
The Ruins of the Transfiguration Temple in the Village Novospassk
Sometimes fates of temples are similar to these of people. Like a man, a temple in the course of time changes, suffers some troubles. Some temples preserve their original appearance; others are da...
Not so long ago in Grodno a monument has appeared – the sign "The Chase to Grunewald". Its installation was timed to the anniversary of the famous battle, which was than six hundred years on 15 Ju...
The Monument to Soldiers of the First World War in the Village Danyushevo
The Republic of Belarus is located in the heart of Europe and has many times become a place of fighting. The country has been conquered, divided and joined. A few dozens of years after the bloodth...
All Belarusians know the phrase "blue-eyed Belarus". And, of course, all Belarusians know that our country is called so due to the large number of swamps and lakes, which are located in the territ...
Lake Svityaz is located in the very center of Novogrudok hill, near Valevka village, in Grodno region. Unique landscapes, scenic coastline and the most beautiful vegetation create around the lake ...
The Belarusian land over its existence “has given birth” and has grown many talented people that has proved themselves in different spheres of science, culture and art. One of them is a writer tha...
The Museum of Belarusian Literature and Ethnography in Gudevichi village
Gudevichi village is situated in Mosty district of Grodno region and it is ready to share a curious legend about its origin. It is believed that the place where the village is now located was very...
The tomb of the 1863-64 uprising participants in Minevichi village
The large uprising of 1863-1864 led by Kastus Kalinovsky covered a huge territory resisting the tsarist Russia that took possession of Poland, the North-Western Country (Belarus was called so at t...
The site of the quarters of the German division in Yuratishki Township, Grodno Region
Despite the fact that the First World War passed like the wind throughout the Belarusian land a hundred years ago, its echoes are heard even now. The front of the First World War was in the t...
The settlement of Krasnoselsky, which population is a little over six and a half thousand people, is located in the western part of Belarus in the territory of Volkovysk district.
It is 12 k...
The Assumption Cathedral in the village of Zhirovichi
In the Grodno region, a small village Zhirovichi is ten kilometers fr om Slonim. You will find the majestic Orthodox Assumption Monastery, unique architectural ensemble, well-known not only in Bel...
The Church of St. Michael the Archangel in Lida
What can be more wonderful than the beauty of an ancient church, the walls of which conceal unique enigmas and events of the past centuries?......
The Church of St. Michael the Archangel in the village of Synkovichi
Belarus, as you know, is considered the very center of Europe. Our country has a huge tourist potential for this and many other reasons. The extant ancient Orthodox and Catholic Churches are in con...
The Church of St. John the Baptist in the village of Lunno
If you drive 38 kilometers to South-East from Grodno, you will find yourself in a small village called Lunno. Today here live more than a thousand people, but the villagers have something to show t...
The Church of St. Elias in the urban village of Lyubcha
The small urban village of Lyubcha, where today live a little more than a thousand people, is located in Novogrudok district, Grodno region. Its name, by the way, the village received from the kind...
The Church of St. Demetrius of Thessalonica in the village of Shchorsy
The picturesque agro-town of Shchorsy, which is in Grodno region, is very attractive for tourists who want to visit the Naliboki Pushcha, or to see the ancient manor house of the Khreptovich family...
The Church of St. George was built in 1875 on the territory of a cemetery and it was intended as just a chapel. But the fate of the temple was different; it was consecrated in honor of St. George t...
The Church of St. George in the village of Zhirovichi
The village of Zhirovichi is a famous center of Orthodoxy in Belarus. Here is a place which attracts thousands of pilgrims – the Monastery of the Holy Dormition, where the miracle-working icon of t...
Krevo is an agro town in Grodno region where live a little over six and a half hundred people. 22 kilometers from here is located the district center – Smorgon, and 100 km is from here to the capit...
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