Vitebsk town hall
Vitebsk, st. Lenin, 36 Old Town Center - Town Hall Square with a remarkable medieval architectural monument, the Gothic Town Hall. The first mention of the building in the documents is the beginning of the 14th century. Depending on the degree of prosperity of the city, the building was expanded, rebuilt and decorated.
Governor's Palace of Vitebsk
Vitebsk, ul. Sovetskaya, 18 Governors of the Vitebsk region worked in the building. Later, the palace moved to representatives of another branch of power - now here is the administration of the KGB of the Republic of Belarus. The building is carefully monitored and maintained in excellent condition.
Chagal House Museum
Vitebsk, ul. Pokrovskaya 11 The house-museum of the famous artist Marc Chagall is located on Pokrovskaya street. It was built by the father of the master at the beginning of the XX century. Here the artist spent his youthful years, as he wrote in the book "My Life". In the museum you can see things of that time, archival documents that tell about Chagall and his family
Old town of Vitebsk
Vitebsk This zone was created in Vitebsk as a monument town planning 17-18 centuries. Here fragments of building of streets, apartment houses, civil establishments have remained. The architectural zone includes the Land Bank, which has been working for more than a century, and also the ensemble of the Town Hall Square
Blagoveshchenskaya Church of Vitebsk
Vitebsk, the 1000th anniversary of Vitebsk In the Soviet Union , it seems, they liked to blow up temples for the needs of society. If in Moscow the Cathedral of Christ the Savior was destroyed to build a basin, the Blagoveshchensk church was blown up in Vitebsk for laying tram railways
Botanical Garden of Vitsebsk
Vitebsk, the corner of the streets of Kommunisticheskaya and Uritskogo Initially, this garden was created for schoolchildren - so that they could walk here and study nature. Here it was possible to grow plants that are used to different environmental conditions. And all thanks to the soil and accessibility to the water - the Vitba River and two ponds are located nearby.
Repin Museum-Estate in Vitebsk
Vitebsky District, pos. Ruba This museum is located next to Vitebsk - 16 km from the city near the village of Ruba. In 1930, it was dismantled for firewood. The first restoration of the house was unsuccessful, it burned down. The second reconstruction took place in 1990 and fully corresponds to the original view.
So what to see: the Millennium Square, the center of the city, took the left bank of the Zapadnaya Dvina river, here stands the Annunciation Church, which was founded by Princess Olga . Monuments of the 18th and 19th centuries include the Holy Protection Cathedral, the Assumption Church, the Mitrofanov Church, the Church of St. Barbara, the Governor's Palace and the Jesuit Collegium . The building of the ancient City Hall was moved to the Vitebsk Regional Museum of Local History . Ks Tati, the great artist Chagall was born in Vitebsk and his work is dedicated to a separate museum . The complex of the museum-estate Zdravnevo, which is 15 km from Vitebsk, reflects the life and work of the artist And . Repina .