The festival of military-historical reconstruction and medieval culture "Iron City" recreates the events of 13-17 centuries of Russia and Europe, gives the opportunity to "dive" in the Middle Ages, acquaintance with the culture, traditions, customs, life and feats of arms of medieval warriors. The main festival site takes place on a plateau above the Gorodishchensky lake. The program of the event is diverse and interesting, including the grand opening of the festival, the passage and the construction of participants, a parade-presentation of clubs, a historical costume defile, a battle according to the rules of maneuvers, a foot tournament, an archers' tournament, equestrian competitions. The most spectacular event of the festival is the massive full-contact foot battles of warriors, clad in real armor - buhurts.

A special interest of the audience is the reconstruction of the battlefield episode "17th century in the history of Izborsk". Participants of the festival demonstrate techniques for handling muskets, pikes and artillery pieces. All actions during the event are accompanied by vocal commentary by professional historians explaining the rules to the audience, the course of the battle and the techniques used by the fighters.

During the festival, visitors will get acquainted with the daily life of our ancestors in the historical military camp located here on a plateau above the Gorodishchensky lake. The life of reenactors in the camp, regardless of the era presented, is characterized by full historical conformity.

Within the framework of the festival, there is a children's playground, where kids, putting on improvised armor, compete in soft swords, medieval fair and tavern, pass master classes and historical lessons.

Traditionally, at the walls of the Izborsk fortress, Kharkov folk group «SpiritualSeasons», which has become the mascot of the festival, performs with a concert program.

Analytical agency TurStat revealed the best and most popular tourist villages and villages of Russia in 2017, and Izborsk was in the top three most popular tourist villages in Russia, with the Iron Grad festival playing a significant role. This is one of the most famous historical reconstructions in the Russian Federation.

More than 30 clubs of historical reconstruction, representing cities of Russia - Pskov, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Veliky Novgorod, Krasnoyarsk, Yaroslavl, Krasnodar, Tula, Arkhangelsk, Perm, Kazan, Kharkov, Vladivostok, and others take part in the festival. Belarus, Latvia and Estonia. The total number of festival participants in different years ranges from 150 to 400 people.

Over the years, the festival is attended by from 4,000 to 10,000 people. Interest in the event is shown not only by residents of the Pskov region, but also in other regions of Russia, as well as guests from abroad.

Sights: Izborsk is one of the oldest Russian cities mentioned in the chronicles under the year 862. The State Museum-Reserve “Izborsk” is an open-air museum, it has an exceptional historical, cultural and natural value. On the territory of the museum-reserve there are numerous archaeological monuments of different eras, monuments of religious and civil architecture. The most famous of them are: Truvorovo Settlement of the VII-XIV centuries, Truvorov the XIV century cross. Izborsk fortress XIV-XVII centuries, Nikolsky Cathedral of the XIV century, merchant estates to. XIX - n. XX centuries, which housed the museum exposition. The architectural masterpieces of ancient Izborsk wonderfully fit into the landscape of the Izborsk-Malsky valley - a unique natural monument of the north-western part of the Russian Plain. At its very bottom, formed by a glacier, are the famous Slovenian Keys, Gorodishchenskoe and Malskoye lakes. Pskovo-Pechersky Holy Assumption Monastery is one of the largest and richest monasteries in Russia with a long history and the Pechora fortress, a monument of military defense architecture of the 16th century, located 20 km from Izborsk. In the immediate vicinity of the monastery is the Museum of the City of Pechora. The collections of archeology, art, ethnography reveal the history of the ancient Russian fortress city and the region from ancient times to the present day. 13 km from Izborsk, there is the only state museum of the small Finno-Ugric people of Seto in Russia, which has preserved a unique material and spiritual culture. The ethnographic exposition “Life and culture of the people of the network to. XIX - n. Of the 20th century ”, which tells about the life and life of many generations of the setosk peasants.

Accommodation facilities: • Guest house of the Izborsk State Museum-Preserve (Pechorsky District, village of Izborsk) • Country Hotel Pleskov (Pechora District. Pechki Village) • Recreation Center Kalatskoye (Pechora District, Kalki Village) • Recreation center "Lukomorye" (Pechora district, the village of Molochkovo) • Hotel "Planeta" (Pechora)