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Garden of butterflies Mindo
Garden of butterflies Mindo

You should definitely visit the Tropical center Mindo (former Museum of butterflies) to admire tropical butterflies. Those stunningly beautiful creatures flitter, drink the nectar of flowers and might let you get closer to take a picture. A giant chameleon, some rare kinds of parrots, colonies of turtles and ants also inhabit this...

Finland Station
Finland Station

The first building of the Finland Station was built in 1870 for the Finnish railway linking the capital of Finland. The road was built in the years 1862-1870 to the station Rihimyaki. In the early twentieth century the way the Finland Station was renovated. road level was raised to five meters above street level, so as not to interfere with the movement of the street. at Finland Station April 3, 1917, he arrived home from his exile Vladimir Lenin. The memory of that day on the square in the...

Moscow station
Moscow station

One of the five existing stations in St. Petersburg and one of the four stations, taking long-distance trains. Originally was called Nicholas. Building was built in the years 1847-1851, and was a “twin” of the Leningrad railway station in Moscow. In 1868, due to significantly increased flow of passengers building Nicholas station rebuilt. Added two-storey outbuilding for receiving luggage, the right wing of the building was connected to the royal chambers. In 1898 from Ligovsky...

St. Petersburg Planetarium
St. Petersburg Planetarium

The opening of the St. Petersburg Planetarium occurred November 5, 1959, he became the third in Russia after Moscow and Volgograd In it are five halls:. Star Hall, astronomical observatory, “Cosmic Voyage”, “planet” and laboratory entertaining experience Star hall is one of krupshenih in Russia. Its dome is 25 meters in diameter and 15 meters in height, it is designed so that it is not visible from the outside of the structure is installed in the hall device...

Monument to Alexander III
Monument to Alexander III

Monument to Alexander III is very different from the usual image of the Russian Tsars on horseback. He ponderously and quietly sitting on a horse, to match him, while the statue of Peter I the same radiates energy and excitement. The Emperor did not like so much of his image that he was not invited to the opening of the sculptor and thought to send a monument in Irkutsk. However, May 23, 1909 he was installed on Znamensky Square near the Moscow railway station today. Due to the roughness...

Mikhailovsky Palace
Mikhailovsky Palace

Mikhailovsky Palace, better known as the building of St Petersburg Russian Museum. It was intended for the younger brother of Alexander I-Duke Michael, and should be in place already posroen suschetsvuyuschi buildings, but then plans changed and the place vacant lot was selected, which was ennobled and built up in the same style. Beginning with the population of the Grand Duke, meetings and high-society receptions and continued after his death, has shifted towards the intelligentsia, there...