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MINSK, 1 September (BelTA) – Belarus’ National Tourism Agency together with the Belarusian Embassy in France organized a tour of Belarus for photographers Elena Vantrillon and Jean-Jacques Gautreau at the end of August, BelTA learned from Yelena Likhimovich, Deputy Director of the National Tourism Agency.

The French photographers visited popular Belarusian tourist centers (Minsk, Mir, Nesvizh, Grodno, Brest) and some small places with picturesque sights such as Slonim, Zhirovichi, Kossovo, Ruzhany, Chernavchicy, Zheludok and Murovanka. The photographers took pictures of Belovezhskaya Pushcha, the Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War, the Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Lifestyle, the Historical and Cultural Complex Stalin Line and other places.

The visit is expected to result in a promo album titled as Belarus Through the Eyes of French photographers. It will also include the photos made by the French photographers and journalists who came to Belarus on a familiarization tour in August 2016. Back then they visited the places of the battles of the War of 1812, a felt boots factory and the Marc Chagall Museum in Vitebsk.