Pechory

This town is situated on the Russian-Estonian border, 50 km. off Pskov. As the Russian poet Igor Severyanin said about Pechory: “Now it is buried in the crevice, now it is raised on a hill, all in the tender verdure Old Russian town”. Pechory, one of the ancient towns in the Pskov region, is a very interesting monument of city building. Still, here you can see the historic buildings, monuments of traditional defense and civil architecture, traditional for this area homesteads with gates and household buildings made from local limestone. The main attraction of the town is the Holy Pskov-Pechory Assumption Monastery of the caves. The monastery, originally located in the caves, gave the name to the town (in ancient Russian language “cave” sounded like “pechera”). The face of this monastery is fabulous and unique. It was founded in 1473. The monastery is situated in beautiful valley with sand caves. It is a big spiritual and cultural center, one of the biggest in the country male monasteries with ancient history, remarkable historic and architectural buildings of XVI-XIX cent.