Excursions and tours for inclusive tourists in Minsk

Independence Square excursion

Itinerary: Minsk Hotel, 11 Nezavisimosti Avenue - Sovetskaya Street - the intersection of Volodarskaya Street and Sverdlov Street - the intersection of Berson Street and Sovetskaya Street - Nezavisimosti Square - Maksim Tank Belarusian State Pedagogical University 

Sights: Independence Square, Minsk Hotel, Main Post Office, Independence Avenue, former revenue houses, Monument to the Architect, Pishchalovsky Castle, Gorky Drama Theater, Sts Simeon and Helena Church, Archangel Michael sculpture, The Bell of Nagasaki, Government House, Lenin monument, Belarusian State University, Maksim Tank Belarusian State Pedagogical University

Distance/duration: 1km /2 hours 15 minutes

Type: Overview, cultural and educational

Recommended for: Wheelchair users, blind, visually impaired, hard-of-hearing

Walking and cycling route "Memory Lane"

Itinerary: Island of Courage and Sorrow - Embankment of Internationalist Soldiers - Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War - Victory Park

Sights: Island of Courage and Sorrow, Embankment of Internationalist Soldiers, Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War, Victory Park

Distance/duration: 2km/2 hours

Type: Overview, cultural, educational, patriotic

Recommended for: Wheelchair users, blind, visually impaired, hard-of-hearing

Sightseeing tour of Minsk (by bus and on foot)

Itinerary: 1 Kirova Street - Independence Square - Independence Avenue - Freedom Square - Sports Palace – Minsk Arena

Sights: Privokzalnaya Square, Independence Square, Independence Avenue, Svobody Square, Sports Palace, Minsk Arena

Distance/duration: 40km/2 hours 15 minutes

Type: Overview, cultural and educational

Recommended for: Wheelchair users, blind, visually impaired, hard-of-hearing

Upper Town excursion

Itinerary: Meeting place at Svobody Square near the Voyt sculpture - walk through Svobody Square - the Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Bernardine Monastery - Muzykalny Lane

Sights: Svobody Square, Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Bernardine Monastery, Muzykalny Lane

Distance/duration: 1.5km/1 hour 30 minutes

Type: Overview, cultural and educational

Recommended for: Wheelchair users, blind, visually impaired, hard-of-hearing

Theaters of Minsk excursion

Itinerary: National Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theater of Belarus

Sights: National Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theater of Belarus

Distance/duration: 1km/1.5 hours

Type: Overview, cultural and educational

Recommended for: Wheelchair users, visually impaired, hard-of-hearing

 

Loshitsa Park excursion

Itinerary: Loshitsa Park

Sights: Loshitsa Park, including Loshitsa Manor Museum

Distance/duration: 1.5km/2 hours

Type: Overview, cultural and educational

Recommended for: Wheelchair users, blind, visually impaired, hard-of-hearing

 

Botanical Garden excursion

Itinerary: Botanical Garden

Sights: Botanical Garden of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus

Distance/duration: 1km/1 hour 15 minutes

Type: Overview, cultural and educational

Recommended for: Wheelchair users, blind, visually impaired, hard-of-hearing

 

Alivaria Beer Museum excursion

Itinerary: Alivaria Beer Museum, beer tasting

Distance/duration: 1km/1 hour

Type: Factory tour, gastronomic tour, cultural and educational tour

Recommended for: Wheelchair users, blind, visually impaired, hard-of-hearing

 

 

Minsk Arena excursion

Itinerary: Minsk Arena multifunctional cultural and sports complex

Sights: Minsk Arena multifunctional cultural and sports complex

Distance/duration: 1km/1 hour

Type: Sport, cultural and educational

Recommended for: Wheelchair users, blind, visually impaired, hard-of-hearing

 

Dinamo Stadium excursion

Itinerary: Dinamo National Olympic Stadium

Sights: Dinamo National Olympic Stadium

Distance/duration: 1km/1 hour 15 minutes

Type: Sport, cultural, educational

Recommended for: Wheelchair users, blind, visually impaired, hard of hearing

 

A Feel of Minsk excursion

Itinerary: the tour starts and finishes in Svobody Square

Sights: walking tour along Svobody Square in Minsk with the help of tactile models and bas-reliefs of historical buildings' facades

Distance/duration: up to 1 km/1 hour

Type: Overview, cultural and educational

Recommended for: Wheelchair users, blind, visually impaired

 

Independence at the Tip of Your Fingers excursion

Itinerary: by appointment only, any point of the city

Sights: tour with an audio-tactile model of Nezavisimosti Square

Duration: 1 hour

Type: Overview, cultural, educational

Recommended for: Wheelchair users, blind, visually impaired

 

Bus No.100 excursion

Itinerary: Bus stop DS Slavinskogo/Old Airport - Kedyshko Street - Volgogradskaya Street - Nezavisimosti Avenue - Moskovskaya Street - Chkalova Street - Aerodromnaya Street - Brilevskaya Street and further along the route – end of route DS Slavinskogo/Old Airport - Slavinskogo Street - Kedyshko Street - Volgogradskaya Street - Nezavisimosti Avenue - Moskovskaya Street - Chkalova Street - Aerodromnaya Street - Brilevskaya Street and further along the route

Distance/Duration: 15km/1 hour

Type: Overview, cultural, educational

Recommended for: Wheelchair users, blind, visually impaired

Bus No.1 excursion

Itinerary: DS Vesnyanka/DS Vokzal - Pobeditelei Avenue - Lenina Street - Nezavisimosti Avenue - Sverdlova Street - Kirova Street (back: Bobruyskaya Street - Nezavisimosti Avenue and further along the route) - end of route DS Vesnyanka/DS Vokzal - Narochanskaya Street - Pobeditelei Avenue - Lenina Street - Nezavisimosti Avenue - Sverdlova Street - Kirova Street (back: Bobruyskaya Street - Nezavisimosti Avenue and further along the route)

Distance/Duration: 10km/1 hour 15 minutes

Type: Overview, cultural, educational

Recommended for: Wheelchair users, blind, visually impaired

National Library of Belarus excursion “Minsk in the Palm of Your Hand”

Itinerary: Meeting place at the entrance of the National Library of Belarus, visits to the museum of books and an observation deck (if desired)

Sights: National Library of Belarus

Distance/Duration: 1km/1 hour and 30 minutes

Type: Overview, cultural, educational

Recommended for: Wheelchair users, blind, visually impaired, hard-of-hearing

 

Temples of Minsk excursion

Itinerary: gathering of the group, tour of Saints Simon and Helena Church, tour of Saints Peter and Paul (Catherine) Church of Minsk, trip by bus, tour of Cathedral Church of Virgin Mary, tour of Holy Spirit Cathedral Church, trip by bus, tour of Saint Elizabeth Convent, end of the tour.

Sights: Church of Saints Simon and Helena in Minsk (the Red Church), Saints Peter and Paul (Catherine) Church of Minsk, Cathedral Church of Virgin Mary, Holy Spirit Cathedral Church, Saint Elizabeth Convent

Distance/duration: 20km/3 hours

Type: Sightseeing, religious, cultural and educational

Recommended for: Blind, visually impaired, hard-of-hearing

Minsk – Hero City excursion

Itinerary: gathering of the group near an entrance to Pobedy Park, tour of Pobedy Park, visit to the Minsk – Hero City stele, tour of the Great Patriotic War History Museum, end of the tour at the museum’s exit.

Sights: Pobedy Park, the Minsk – Hero City stele, the Belarusian State Museum of History of the Great Patriotic War

Distance/duration: 2,5 km/2 hours

Type: Sightseeing, patriotic, cultural and educational

Recommended for: Wheelchair users, blind, visually impaired, deaf and mute

Evening Minsk excursion

Itinerary: gathering of the group at 1 Kirova Street - Nezavisimosti Square - Nezavisimosti Avenue - Svobody Square - Sports Palace - entrance to the Minsk Arena sport complex (tour from the outside) – end of the tour at the Minsk Arena sport complex.

Sights: Privokzalnaya Square, Nezavisimosti Square, Svobody Square, Sports Palace, the Minsk Arena sport complex

Distance/duration: 40km/2 hours 30 minutes

Type: Sightseeing, cultural and educational

Recommended for: Wheelchair users, blind, visually impaired, hard-of-hearing

Governor’s Garden excursion

Itinerary: gathering of the group near the main entrance to Gorky Park – tour of the park – end of the tour near the main entrance to Gorky Park

Sights: Gorky Park: a stadium for grass hockey games and championships (the only one left in Minsk after the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945), a planetarium, an observatory and a meteorological station, an ice palace of the ice hockey club Yunost, a monument to Maxim Gorky, a monument to Zakhary Korneyev, a Ferris wheel

Distance/duration: 2km/1 hour

Type: sightseeing, cultural and educational

Recommended for: Wheelchair users, blind, visually impaired, hard-of-hearing