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Northern Magic

Tourist routes of the «Northern Magic» offer to visit the two countries- neighbors are located in the North-West of the European continent - Russia and Finland. The combination of beautiful Northern nature and rich history.

Due to the border position of the Leningrad region these routes have long been interested inquisitive travelers. There is now an opportunity not only to visit Finnish neighbors, but also to find a lot of things along the way, both on the territory of the Leningrad region and in Finland.

The attention of tourists are offered three routes:

1. Scandinavia is built along the homonymous road and designed for tourists-individuals that are driving on the highway, will make stops at places of interest as monuments of nature or culture. Means of transportation can be a bicycle, motorcycle, car, and train.

This route can combine a nature-oriented component, as laid in the centre of the Karelian Isthmus and passes through beautiful scenery. But also, it contains a historical component and, as these places keep a great historical potential.

2. «Western» has «recreational and educational» in nature, goes along the seaside road and exploring tourist resources - natural and cultural - of the Vyborg area. This holiday location adjacent to the coast of the Gulf of Finland.

3. «East» has «cultural-cognitive» character with elements of outdoor activities. For the Finns - the former residents of the Karelian isthmus it has a nostalgic memorial character.

In the variants of routes: the «Western» and «Eastern» tourists also have rich opportunities to get acquainted with the history of the region, both peaceful and military, with the fates of people who lived on the Karelian isthmus, to take part in cultural and sport events to purchase Souvenirs, introducing folk arts and crafts of the region.

Developed international routes «North magic» « its parameters can be classified as tourism group and individual, family, children and youth, environmental and historical-cultural, ethnographic, nostalgic, military and Patriotic, sightseeing and recreation.

These routes allow you to develop tours that can be related in content to the form of historical tours aimed at the formation among tourists-Russians ‘ interest in national history and the history of the country-neighbor. This is the story of the settlement of the region, the history of the cultures of the ethnic groups inhabiting the region and using its natural resources,

It tours related pages peace and war a history of the two countries.