Sights and entertainments:
wooden architecture, ancient buildings, merchant houses, historic center, orthodox churches, White House, monument to the Decembrist's wife, Angara River Embankment
Detailed program
Irkutsk is a city of contrasts: here the modern architecture and beautiful wooden houses with surprising beauty are combined with carving and quant shapes. You will fall in love with this town at first sight – it has its Siberian character and image.
During the 3-hour excursion along Irkutsk you will enjoy:
- visiting the historic center of the city with ensemble of 3 churches (Spasskaya, Epiphany Cathedral, the Polish church),
- you will see a monument to the founder of the city and plunge into its history from the moment of development of the Siberian lands;
- you will be driven along small streets with merchant wooden houses and plunge into the atmosphere of the old times;
- you will walk along the central Karl Marx Street with its stone buildings not similar to each other
- you will get acquainted with the life stories of Decembrists in Irkutsk , which will take your breath away
- you'll learn how the White House in Irkutsk appeared
- also you will dive into the modern world of the 130th quarter with its cozy small restaurants and little souvenir shops