Tag: Baroque

In the old part of Vitebsk, at the crossroads of today's Lenin and Suvorov streets, there used to be a massive church of St. Anthony of Padua. At a time when the temple had not yet been destroyed, this section of the city was called the Town Hall Square. In the picture...

The village of Germanovichi is mentioned in chronicles as early as the middle of the 16th century as the possession of the Sapieha Ikaznenskys. From them, the estate passed to Baron Gilsen (this family had a family residence in Osvey). Then the Germanoviches went to Ignatius ...

Fashchevka is a fairly large village in the Shklovsky district, Mogilev region. The first mention of the town in the annals dates back to the 17th century, then it was the possession of Sigismund III Vasa. Unfortunately, the main and most important attraction in...

The history of the Jewish Kletsk begins in the first half of the 16th century, it is from that period that chronicles appear with a mention of the Jewish community. Probably even then there were wooden temples, but the solid stone building of the main synagogue ...

One of the main attractions in the city of Orsha can safely be called the College of the Jesuits. Today, this building has been restored in accordance with its original appearance, and inside there is an art gallery, an exhibition hall of the museum and a children's library named after Korotkevich. Story...

Bernardine monks settled in Dubrovno, Vitebsk region, as early as the beginning of the 17th century. By 1630, through the efforts of the Vilna castellan Nikolai Glebovich, a wooden monastery was built. Unfortunately, the buildings of those times have not survived to this day, but ...

Once upon a time, Orsha could rightfully be called a city-monasteries, but today only a few buildings with information shields on rebuilt facades remind of those times. So in the central part of the city there was a monastery of the Order of the Trinitarians with a massive...

One of the oldest sights of Orsha is the Kuteinsky Monastery and the Trinity Church. The construction of the Epiphany Monastery began in the first half of the 17th century. The complex included many buildings: a cathedral, a church, a gate-bell tower, residential buildings...

Druya ​​is a place rich in history with a large number of historical monuments. Unfortunately, some of them have not survived to this day, but have been preserved only in old photographs and in book articles. One of...

The main attraction in the agricultural town of Druya ​​is the ancient Trinity Church, together with the building of the former monastery of the Bernardine Order. Back in the first half of the 17th century, by the decision of the then owner Kazimir Lev Sapieha, Bernardine monks were invited to Druya ​​....