Brest is a fortress city of Belarusian fashion. Brest is like a little Paris. Cozy cafes and branded clothing stores await you in the city center. And in the evenings a lamplighter walks along one of the streets of the city and lights the lanterns.



Brest is the westernmost Belarusian city. Brest is practically Poland, you can walk on foot. It is a border town. Once Brest was the first outpost of the Soviet Empire.



The building of the Brest railway station, built in the imperial style, reminds of those times. You come to Brest, it does not matter, by the way, from which side - Warsaw or Moscow, and this is how the platforms of the Brest railway station are divided, and immediately you understand - this is a security city, a fortress city, a border city.

Fortress and forest

And from the history of the twentieth century, the history of the Great Patriotic War, we remember the Brest fortress. About how the soldiers fought to the last, preventing the Nazi troops from crossing the border in the area of ​​the fortress. German troops reached Minsk, and the Brest fortress was still fighting ...

And, of course, the first thing a tourist will remember when he is in Brest is the Brest Fortress. Today it is a museum and is definitely worth a visit.



What else can Brest be associated with? Not far from Brest is the National Park "Belovezhskaya Pushcha" - a huge array of pristine forest.

Bison are found in Belovezhskaya Pushcha - large wild forest bulls, similar to bison. The bison is the last wild bull in Europe. Today, these rare animals can be found in Belovezhskaya Pushcha, both in Belarus and in Poland. And also in Belovezhskaya Pushcha there is the residence of the Belarusian Father Frost, which, by the way, can be visited not only during winter holidays, but throughout the whole year.

So, the fortress and the forest around, so where are the branded clothing stores here?



And the story is simple, since the 1990s Brest has become the sewing city of Belarus, the center of the fashion industry. The most successful brands of Belarusian clothing today, well-known not only in Belarus, but also abroad, are from Brest. For example, Lakbi or Nelva. Perhaps, the development of light industry in Brest and the Brest region was also facilitated by the fact that Brest is a free economic zone of the country.

Fashion and shopping in Brest

But back to shopping. In the center of Brest there is a very long (practically from the station itself to the Central Department Store) Sovetskaya Street. This is a completely pedestrianized street full of cafes and shops. Moreover, most of the stores are clothing stores from Belarusian brands and, by the way, not only of Brest production.



And this is just an amazing idea - to collect shops with clothes from Belarusian brands on the same street. Here you can find everything - underwear, for example, from Milavitsa or Mark Formelle, and Belarusian knitwear, for example, from Pinsk, and clothes for the whole family from the Kalinka brand, and more expensive and stylish suits and dresses from Lakbi.



Almost clothes of any price segment, for example, Lakbi, like Nelva, are already high fashion, these brands have taken part in Belarus Fashion Week more than once. And "Kalinka" or Pinsk jersey is a mass market. Alena Goretskaya store - designer clothes.



You can also buy Belarusian accessories while walking along Sovetskaya Street - there is a ZIKO jewelry store on the street. And the jewelry of the Belarusian young jewelry brand ZORKA will be very interesting and original, both as a gift and for oneself.



And when you are tired of shopping, you can have a coffee with dessert or a cup of hot chocolate in the Kommunarka coffee shop, also a Belarusian, though already chocolate, brand.







Route options to Brest
So, if you like to travel by train, then on the way to Prague or Paris, or even better on the way back, so that you have the opportunity to arrange a full-fledged shopping for yourself, you can stay for a few days in Brest.

The second option is medical tourism. You can come to any of the sanatoriums of the Brest region, but at the same time be sure to visit the city of Brest itself.



And finally, you can just purposefully come to Brest. Believe me, this city is worth it. And next year, 2019, Brest will be 1000 years old, so this is also a very serious reason to visit this city, a city with a thousand-year history.