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City in Grodno Region, Belarus
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Sts. Boris and Gleb Church
A 12th-century Orthodox church, one of the few surviving monuments of the Old Rus period in the country.
A fine Baroque basilica, once a church of a Jesuit monastery, now the city's Roman Catholic cathedral.
The present appearance of this royal residence was mostly shaped in 16th century, when it was renovated in Renaissance fashion for King Stephen Bathory. Only a few elements of the previous Gothic castle survive.
The old Fire Tower built at the end of 19th century. Every day at midday a trumpeter dressed in historic costume goes 120 stairs up and plays a tune on the top of the tower. Interestingly, a fresco on the tower has a lady with the face of Mona Lisa.
Hrodna Zoo is next to the railway station. It was the first Belarusian Zoo, opened in 1927. There are over 300 kinds of animals in the Zoo nowadays: predators, small predators, hoofed animals, birds and a terrarium. Total area is 5.35 ha.
Good pizzas here. The menu is only in Russian, but some staff speak English, and some dishes (not the pizzas) have pictures to point to.
Good pizza and poor coffee.
The hotel is very nice, right up to "western" standards. It has air conditioning, and everything is clean and modern. There is a pool in the hotel. The location is very convenient: when you get off the bus, look for where there is lots of traffic, walk up there and cross the road: that is Semashko, about 100 m up. Some of the service was a little bit less than ideal, but nothing is out of the ordinary in this part of the world.
The modern hotel has 69 fully equipped rooms: conditioning, 32-inch LCD TV-set and cable TV, modern furniture, orthopedic bed, telephone, bathroom with shower/bathtub, additional black-out curtains, hair-drier, refrigerator, kettle, mini-bar. There are also Wi-Fi and secure parking, restaurant "Neman" and pub. Hotel proposes weekend discounts for staying on Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
Mini hotel has 22 comfortable rooms: individual conditioning, LCD TV, telephone, bathroom, mini-bar. Other services: Wi-Fi, secure parking, cafe, in-room dining. Hotel offers 10% discounts for staying on week-end.
152 comfortable rooms are well-appointed with TV, telephone, bathroom; classic interiors. Hotel services: High Speed Internet Access, restaurant "Tourist" with European and national cuisine, express-cafe, dental office, solarium, massage room, currency exchange office, hairdresser and a business center.
All rooms are equipped with telephone, mini-bar, personal safe, LCD/plasma TV, hair-drier, fluffy bathrobe and slippers. High speed Internet access in the lobby.
Рынок Корона
A huge supermarket in Walmart style, conveniently located on the way to Lithuania.
By plane
On Fridays and Tuesdays, there are flights from Kaliningrad. Kaliningrad to Grodno at 09:10, and Grodno to Kaliningrad at 11:30. Flight duration is around 45 minutes.
By train
The train station at Grodno is where the change of car trucks (wheels and axles) takes place to accommodate different track gauges on east and west routes.
By car
Roads are pretty good, you can easily get here from Minsk, Brest, Vilnius (Lithuania), Białystok, Warsaw (Poland).
By bus
There are a lot of buses from Minsk (costs around 45 Belarus rubles for the express route, which takes 4 hr) from Vostochnyj Station or from Druzhnaya Station (behind the main train station), few…
There are plenty of buses and trolley buses going around town. In the evenings though, they get down to travelling on the outskirts once an hour or two.13 rubles. Buy the tickets from kiosks near the bus stops.
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