Polotsk: Walking In-app Audio Tour of the Historical Center

Once in Freedom Square, we will analyze the details related to the events of the major wars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, we will project the influence of those eras on the current architecture in the city.

Walking under the crowns of trees, at different points along the alley, we will meet a number of monuments that have become the ground for a story about the Belarusian language, literature, cinema.

Going down to the Western Dvina River, we will raise the topic of medieval trade and the influence of the Scandinavians and Germans on the city in different periods of history.

After leaving the point associated with the wars, we will head to the religious and most ancient part of Polotsk, where St. Sophia Cathedral and a number of other temples have been towering for many centuries.

After we get to the Jesuit collegium, which tells about the cultural continuity in the city, and from this point we will go across the Red Bridge to the monastery where the relics of Euphrosyne of Polotsk rest.