Nawahradak: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

For a trip to Nawahradak involving visits to museums and churches, you may wish to include renting a holiday apartment in your own travel plans.

Culture and History

The Historical and Local History Museum of Novogrudok presents the history and culture of the city and region from the 10th century to the mid-20th century in nine exhibition halls. Its collection comprises around 22,000 museum objects in 14 collections. The museum also offers museum events, themed guided tours and lectures.

The Adam Mickiewicz House Museum is included in the list of the historical and cultural heritage of the Republic of Belarus. At the same time, it is an open-air museum located in a restored noble estate from the early 19th century, with a residential building, outbuilding, barn, well and pavilion. Adam Mickiewicz Hill was built up on the initiative of the Mickiewicz Committee between 1924 and 1931; it contains soil from the countries in which the poet lived.

The Museum of Jewish Resistance in Novogrudok was established in 2007 at the site of a former ghetto. It documents the escape through a tunnel built by prisoners, as well as the history of the Bielski Jewish partisan unit.

The exhibition “Jewish Resistance in Novogrudok during the Holocaust” opened in 2007 at the site of the former Jewish ghetto and is dedicated to the resistance of the Jews of Novogrudok and the surrounding area.

Novogrudok Castle was built in three construction phases from the 13th to the 16th century and had seven towers, a palace and a castle church. Its ruins are considered the oldest centre of the city and the former residence of Russian princes as well as the princes of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

The active Church of Saints Boris and Gleb was built in 1519 on the site of a 12th-century church and is an architectural monument featuring Gothic and Renaissance elements. The active Church of St Nicholas was built in 1780 as a church of the Franciscan Order and converted into an Orthodox church in 1846.

The active parish church of Novogrudok was built from 1712 to 1723. In 1422, the Polish King Jagiello and Sophia of Halshany were married there; Adam Mickiewicz was also baptised in the parish church of Novogrudok. The Church of St Michael the Archangel was founded in 1624 as a Dominican church and acquired its present appearance at the beginning of the 18th century. It is open to worshippers and tourists.

The art gallery in the centre of Novogrudok was built in 2012 and has two large exhibition halls as well as an artists’ workshop.

Landscape

Novogrudok and most of the district of the same name are located on the Novogrudok glacial marginal moraine upland, the highest part of the Grodno Region. Novogrudok is considered the highest-elevation city in Belarus. Over a distance of 22 kilometres between the highest point of Castle Hill and the level of the Neman, the difference in elevation is 250 metres.

Cycling Routes and Excursions

The signposted “King Mindaug” cycling loop is 2 kilometres long and leads from the tourist information centre via the city park and the parish church back to Lenin Square in Novogrudok. The signposted “Heart of Grazhina” cycling loop is 15 kilometres long and starts at the tourist information centre in Novogrudok.

The guided experience excursion “In the Footsteps of Adam Mickiewicz” begins in Novogrudok and includes a 120-kilometre route through Novogrudok, Lake Svityaz, Shchorsy, Lyubcha and Lake Litovka. The programme includes the Adam Mickiewicz House Museum, poetry and music from Mickiewicz’s era, an optional workshop on making a traditional souvenir, and a picnic at Lake Svityaz.

Distances

Novogrudok is located 22 kilometres from Nowojelnja railway station, 150 kilometres from Minsk and 162 kilometres from Grodno.

Other Places

Waukawysk, Karobčycy, Zеĺva, Lida, Smarhoń, Slonim, Žaludok, Astravets

To the higher-level travel overview: Grodno Region.