“Golden Ring” of Ivye”
Route: Ivye – Subbotniki – Zhemyslavl – Geraneny – Lipnishki – Ivye.
Route length: up to 70 km
Route time: 6 hours
Type: bus and walking tour, bicycle
Type: historical and architectural
Organizer: Ivye Museum of National Cultures Management Company, the sports and tourism sector of the Ivye Regional Executive Committee.
Contacts: 801595 68035, 801595 69077
The route is marked.
Description of the main attractions along the route:
Ivye
It includes the following objects: cultural institution “Ivye Museum of National Cultures”, a mosque, the Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, the Church of the Holy Martyr Baby Gabriel of Bialystok, Slutsk, the building of the former synagogue, Ivye Spring (Ivye),
Subbotniks
The main attraction of the ag. Saturday is the Church of St. Vladislav. The high three-tiered belfry is expressively drawn against the sky by a spire thinned to the size of a needle. The gate looks the same, built into a fence with chapels following one after another. The church was built by Vladislav and Yanina Umyastovsky. The still unfinished temple was consecrated in 1904. Its founder was buried in it, and then the remains of his relatives were brought into the tomb. This is reported by a memorial plaque installed in 1931 in the crypt of the church, where the family tomb of the Umyastovskys is located. On the tombstone intended for Ioannina (she prudently took care of him herself), there is neither name nor dates: the countess died far from the family nest – in Rome.
Zhemyslavl
The Umyastovskys’ estate is a monument of manor-park architecture of the 18th-19th centuries. The formation of the estate began in the 2nd half of the 18th century. Since 1805 the estate has been the property of the Umyastovsky family. The Umyastovsky Palace (1877) is a copy of the Warsaw palace of the last king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth – Lazenok. Service and outbuildings are well preserved: an office, a glacier, a barn, stables, a distillery building. The landscape park is home to many exotic trees. One of them is the ash-tree of Zhemyslavl – a natural monument of national importance. In addition, there are a lot of small architectural forms in Zhemyslavl: drops, sculptures, memorial signs that illustrate pages from the life of the owners of the estate.
In the middle of the 20th century, a dam was built in Zhemyslavl on the Gavya River and a small hydroelectric power station began to operate. In 2010, the hydroelectric power station began operation again after reconstruction, with a total capacity of 120 kV. In the Soviet era, the board of the state farm was located in the Zhemyslavl Palace.
Geraneny
The ruins of the castle are an unpreserved monument of the palace and castle architecture of the late 15th – early 16th centuries. Belonged to the Lithuanian magnates Gashtolds.
The Church of St. Nicholas is a Catholic church in the village of Geraneny. Belongs to the Ivye deanery of the Grodno diocese. An architectural monument in the late Baroque style with elements of classicism. Included in the State List of Historical and Cultural Values of the Republic of Belarus.
Lipnishki
Church of St. Casimir
The church in the Lipnishki village was built in 1910. The temple was built in the neo-Gothic style.
A Catholic parish and a wooden church appeared in Lipniški in 1510. For half a millennium, the temple disappeared several times from the map of the village and reappeared on it.
