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Valdaysky National Park is a popular tourist destination with developed tourism infrastructure. It is enlisted in the UNESCO MAB Programme biosphere reserves list of. In the Valdaysky National Park the recreation area is developing as well as measures are taken to protect lakes and forests. The Park has about 200 lakes, of which 56 largest occupy an area of over 20 hectares, the most famous of them are Valday and Seliger. Since ancient times this area (the territory of modern Novgorod region) was settled by Slavic tribes, so it has a great number of monuments of history and culture. In the list of archaeological sites are 82 objects: ancient sites (VII-VI centuries BC), ancient settlements, hills, mounds. Here is 9 monuments of landscape art: old manors with parks; 22 the most valuable monuments of wooden architecture of the XVII-XIX centuries. Among them is the Valday Iversky Monastery, founded in 1653 on Selvitsky island in Lake Valdayskoye by Nikon, Patriarch of all Rus; Catherine Church of XVII century in the town of Valday is a great creation of the Russian architect Lvov, now there is located the Valday Bell Museum.
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