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Routes
Upper Town and the Opera
4 stops, from October Square to National Opera and Ballet of Belarus.
- Distance
- 1.8 km
- Walking
- 23 min on foot
- Stops
- 4
Stops
October Square
October Square is a square in the center of Minsk, Belarus, which is located between Independence Avenue, Engels streets and International Street. To its east side there are areas limited to buildings of the Palace of Culture of Trade Unions, the Museum of the Great Patriotic War and the Minsk Palace of Republic. Around the Square is the Central House of Officers, the residence of the President of Belarus, and the Janka Kupała National Academic Theater.
610 m to the next stop
Cathedral of the Holy Name of Saint Virgin Mary
Cathedral of the Holy Name of Mary is a Roman Catholic baroque cathedral in Minsk. It is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Minsk-Mohilev. It was built under the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth rule in 1710 as a church for the Jesuit College in Minsk until 1773 when pope Clement XIV suppressed the Jesuit Order.
320 m to the next stop
Holy Spirit Cathedral
The Holy Spirit Cathedral or the Holy Ghost Cathedral is a cathedral in Minsk, Belarus. Consecrated in honour of the Holy Spirit, it the mother church of the Belarusian Orthodox Church. It was built between 1633 and 1642 as a part Bernardine monastery during the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in a place of former male Orthodox monasteries.
800 m to the next stop
National Opera and Ballet of Belarus
The National Academic Grand Opera and Ballet Theatre of the Republic of Belarus is located in a park in the Trinity Hill district of Minsk. Local people call it the "Opierny Teatr" or the "Opera and Ballet Theatre". While the theatre opened on 15 May 1933, in the beginning, it did not have its own performance venue.