Spas-Nereditsy

Spas-Nereditsy is a locality in Novgorod Oblast, Northwestern Russia and has about 100 residents. Spas-Nereditsy is situated nearby to the suburb Ryurikovo Gorodishche, as well as near the locality Sel’tso-Shatërno.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Nereditsa Church and Annunciation Church, Gorodishche.

Nereditsa Church

Church

Photo: Larissa Datsha, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Saviour Church on Nereditsa Hill near Novgorod is a 12th-century Orthodox church dedicated to the feast of the Saviour's Transfiguration. The church, consecrated in 1198, became world-famous both for its remarkable state of exterior preservation and for the best preserved set of pre-Mongol wall paintings in the Russian Empire.

Annunciation Church, Gorodishche

Church

Photo: OlgaDenisova, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Elijah church on Slavno

Church

Photo: Леонид ВлК, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ryurikovo Gorodishche and Slavensky End.

Ryurikovo Gorodishche

Suburb

Photo: Vash Alex kun, Public domain.

Ryurikovo Gorodishche, the primary settlement in the area known in Scandinavian sources as Holmgård, was the 9th century predecessor of Veliky Novgorod.