Audio tours around Narva and Ivangorod fortifications

Audio tours around Narva and Ivangorod fortifications

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Narva tour (48 min.) 5,7 km.

01 General intro

02 Introduction

03 Entrance to the Castle Park

04 Narva Fortress

05 Kristerval half-bastion

06 The Old Gates, the bridge

07 The artillery platform in front of the gates

08 Defensive passage at the top of western wall

09 The upper part of the Kristerval Bastion

10 The south-western corner tower

11 Shore mortar

12 Foundation of the Southern Tower

13 Viewing platform on the river and Ivangorod

14 Convent house

15 Gates to the Northern Yard

16 Large Stone Hall

17 Rondel Tower

19 Border between two governorates

20 Viewing Platform

21 Southern part of the castle

22 Narva bastions

23 Spes half-bastion

24 Well Tower of the castle

27 Victoria Bastion

28 Honour Bastion

29 The fifth ravelin

30 Location of the Dark Gates

31 Gloria Bastion

32 Royal Earth Mound

33 Peter's Square

34 Triumph Bastion

Narva thematic tour "Legends and facts" (75 min.) 4,5 km.

01 Legend about three layers of gold in Narva Castle

02 Legend about a witch / Narva battles of 1700 and 1704

03 1700 A.D. Bravery of Semyonovsky and Preobrazhensky Regiments of Tsar Peter the Great Army

04 Legend about a conduit

05 Legend about Olaf, the warrior, and his bride

06 Legend about Inger

07 Death of Pontus De la Gardie

08 Peter the Great stops slaughter in the city

09 Legend about a maiden of Narva

10 Pirates of the Baltic Sea

11 Legend about imprisonment of Archbishop Arseny

12 Peter the Great in the city in 1704

13 Just Juel, the Danish messenger, about Peter the Great

14 Batmen of the Narva bastions

15 Whipping Post

16 Story about Brigitte execution

17 Weathercock and Main Entrance Doorway

18 Peter the Great approves the city emblem

19 Legend about a walled-in monk

20 Peter the Great deprives the city of its churches

21 Story about St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and Hodegetria, Mother of God icons

Ivangorod tour (44 min.) 1,5 km.

01 Introduction

03 Portcullis grate

04 Three curtain walls

05 Fragments of the destroyed wall

06 Corps de garde

08 A loophole for low-level shooting

09 Entrance gates to the Watch Bell Tower of the 15th century

10 Watch Bell Tower

11 The Large Boyar City

13 Shore mortar

15 New Water Tower

16 Food supplies store

17 St.Nicholas Church

18 Virgin Mary Dormition Church with the Pokrov Chapel

19 Curtain-wall

20 Fortress in 1492

21 Gunpowder Magazine

23 Curtain wall between the Wide Tower and the Food Supplies Tower

24 Food Supplies Tower

25 Viewing platform of the Well Tower

27 The 16th century cloakroom

28 Gunpowder Tower

30 Governor Tower

31 Boyar Earth Mound

32 Long Neck Tower

33 Exhibition in the Watch Bell Tower

Ivangorod thematic tour "Legends and facts" (72 min.) 1 km.

01 Legend about the name of Maiden Hill. Legend about the marriage of the merchant’s daughters.

02 Legend about the blinding the architect of the fortress

03 Legend about merchant Nikita Pan’s treasure

04 Legend about a cunning man who sold boiled eggs instead of raw eggs
to a warlord in charge of the fortress erection

05 Six orthodox monks

06 Stolbovo Treaty and speech of the Swedish king

07 Legend about the construction of St. Nicholas Church in one day.
Legend about the conquest of Narva in 1558 and about the construction of the stone church.

08 Ivangorod fortress in the beginning of December 1920
through the eyes of a writer Jaroslav Hašek

09 Legend about the "horse skin"

10 Legend about an assault of the quadrangular fortress by the Swedish troops in 1496

11 Death of Sheremetev’s horse army

12 Catherine II about Narva women

13 Legends and facts of the Great Northern War of 1700-1704.
Courage of Semenovsky and Preobrazhensky Regiments.

14 Legend about the knight Indrik von Berengaupt and the underpass

15 About conditions of withdrawal of Swedish troops from Ivangorod Fortress

16 Legend about an artilleryman

17 Kutuzov on his drive-by visit to Ivangorod and Narva

18 Facts about Ivan Vyrodkov, the craftsman

19 Kolyvan gates

20 Wild animal attacks

These audio tours have been produced with the financial assistance of the Estonia – Latvia – Russia Cross Border Cooperation Programme within European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument 2007 – 2013. The contents of tours are the sole responsibility of “EstRusFortTour-2” project partners and can under no circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of the Programme, Programme participating countries, alongside with the European Union.