Valday National Park

Valdai

 Attractions Valday Valday National Park is a real pride of the Novgorod Region. Just imagine: the beautiful forests stretching for dozens of kilometers, drowning in the greenery and flowers of the clearing and several hundred cleanest lakes, are all rich in the natural park of Valday.

Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Valday

Valday

 Attractions Valday In the list of Valdai's sights visited by tourists, the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, located on Liberty Square, is mentioned. The temple, executed in a gently pink color, is not inferior in beauty and grandeur of the main Orthodox monastery Valday - Iversky monastery

Valdai lake

Novgorod region

 Attractions Valday Valdai lake, on the waters of which are several large islands, has an area of ​​almost two thousand hectares. It stretched out almost 40 kilometers, and in depth reaches as much as 60 meters. But not in size Valdai lake is famous.

Iversky Monastery

Valdai

 Attractions Valday The main orthodox landmark Valday - Iversky Monastery - is located on the Selvitsky Island of the Valdai Lake. The monastery was founded in the middle of the 17th century in the likeness of a monastery on Mount Athos.

Bell Museum

ul. Truda, 2A, Valdai

 Attractions Valdaya Today the museum of bells is the only one in Russia, and it is located in Valdai. The town in the Novgorod region has long been famous for its workshops and factories for the production of bells, and so where else should such a museum appear?

Museum of the county town

ul. Lunacharsky, 7, Valdai

 Attractions Valday The first museum of the county in Russia appeared on Valdai almost a century ago. Therefore, everything that is connected with the history and traditions of the region, you can find out by visiting this landmark. The museum is located in the center of Valdai, in a two-story noble residence of the 19th century

Valdai Architecture Monuments

Valdai

 Attractions Valday It's hard to find a place where there are so many old manor complexes and Orthodox shrines , as in the Valdai. And although the time has not spared many monuments of architecture Valdai, the interest of tourists to them today is not weakening. So, what monuments of Valdai architecture are worth seeing?

Valdai is often called "small Switzerland". The town, which is home to 15,000 people, stretches on the shore of a picturesque lake. But by the number of attractions, Valdai, perhaps, can compete with any European capital.

Attractions Valdai is also famous natural sites: the national park and the cleanest Valdai lake, stretching almost 40 kilometers.

Only Orthodox shrines here dozens . The most famous of the religious sites in the city of Valdai is the Iversky Monastery, located on the Selvitsky Island. The beauty of the monastery is not inferior to the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, which is located on Liberty Square. To get acquainted with other equally interesting churches and chapels is possible on trips to places with old monuments of architecture of this region.

Attractions of Valdai are also famous natural objects: the national park and the cleanest Valdai lake, stretching almost 40 kilometers and having an area of ​​almost two thousand hectares.

Separately it is necessary to say about the cultural sights of Valday - museums. There are not many of them in the city, but they are, if I may say so, unique.

So, here is the only museum of bells in Russia. And another cultural institution - the museum of a county town - is also considered the first museum in the history of the city in our country.

Despite the modest by the standards of today's megacities, the territory and the population of Valdai can boast its own metro. You can travel to the sights of Valdai both on your own car and as part of an organized tour group.