10 THINGS TO DO in SERGIEV POSAD - СЕРГИЕВ ПОСАД | CITIES OF RUSSIA 

10 THINGS TO DO in SERGIEV POSAD - СЕРГИЕВ ПОСАД | CITIES OF RUSSIA
If you are interested in visiting cities around Moscow to explore Russian culture, I will tell you about the another city.
Sergiev Posad is one of the cities of Golden Ring of Russia.
Golden Ring is a touristic route which include ancient towns and unique monuments.
The population of the town is more than 103 444.
1)The Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra
Свято Троицкая Сергиева лавра
In 1993, the Trinity Lavra was inscribed on the UN World Heritage List.
This is the most popular place in Sergiev Posad.
The Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius is the most important Russian monastery and the spiritual centre of the Russian Orthodox Church. The monastery was founded in 1337 by one of the Russian saints, we saw his monument in the beginning, Sergius of Radonezh.
In 17 th century the Lavra was attacked by Poles and Lithuanian, by Germans and even by Russians in Soviet time
2) The central building is The Trinity Cathedral Троицкий собор
The interior walls were painted by Andrei Rublev. There are relics of Sergius of Radonezh.
3)Dormition Cathedral - Успенский собор появился через сто пятьдесят лет - в 1585-м. Он был построен по велению Ивана Грозного.
4) White pond- Белый пруд
5) Museum complex “Konniy dvor”- Музейный комплекс «Конный двор»
( Каравай - Хлеб (here you can buy monastery bread)
ул. 1й Ударной Армии, Sergiev Posad)
6) Kelarskiy Pond -Келарский пруд
7) Blinnaya Hill -Observation Deck -Смотровая площадка «Блинная гора»
8) Gethsemane Chernigovsky skete - Гефсиманский Черниговский скит
9) Holy water
Orthodox people have a tradition to fill their bottles with holy water and drink it. You can also try it
10) Gremyachiy Waterfall- Гремячий водопад
The other holy place near this town is Gremyachiy Waterfall- Гремячий водопад and here you can also drink the holy water and plunge into the font.
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