30 Aug 2023, 17:00 UTC129 views1 reactionsread 11 August 2026 Photo
Orange Tree Garden
The Garden of Orange Trees is the name used in Rome to describe the Savello Park. It covers an area of about 7800 square meters and is located on the Aventine Hill.
The park offers a beautiful view of the city. The garden as it is today was designed in 1932 by Raffaele De Vico. It was built in order to provide public access to the view from the hillside, creating a new ‘belvedere’, which will be …
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28 Aug 2023, 09:01 UTC79 viewsread 11 August 2026 Photo
Ioannovsky Bridge
This is the very first bridge in St. Petersburg, opened in 1703. At first, in its place there was a wooden floating structure crossing the Kronverk Strait.
Approximately to the same ancient times belongs the urban legend of the hare, which in this place escaped from the flood by jumping on the boot of Peter I. In 2003, the long-eared was immortalized by a small sculpture on a wooden protective pil…
25 Aug 2023, 13:01 UTC58 viewsread 11 August 2026 Photo
Donskoy Monastery
The monastery was named in honor of the Don Icon of the Mother of God, which, according to legend, helped to repel an enemy attack and permanently expel the Crimean Tatars from Moscow. A monastery was built on the place where a small field church stood.
The first cathedral was built, called the Small One. The temple was not made in the traditional style for monastic cathedrals, but later other chu…
24 Aug 2023, 09:01 UTC49 viewsread 11 August 2026 Photo
Nicholas Palace
The Emperor personally participated in the process of choosing the ideal place for the Grand ducal residence, and the famous architect Andrei Ivanovich Stackenschneider was commissioned to build it.
Stackenschneider preferred eclecticism: the facade in the style of the Italian Renaissance, rusts and pilasters on the ground floor, a mezzanine with wrought-iron balconies and large windows, unusual cor…
23 Aug 2023, 17:00 UTC37 viewsread 11 August 2026 Photo
Fountain of Books
The Fountain of Books is an unusual decoration that flaunts on the wall of the city archive of San Ivo alla Sapienza. The fountain with drinking water, of which there are thousands in Rome, is decorated in an intricate and original way, and asks for a photo!
The Fountain of Books was built in 1927 by architect Pietro Lombardi. The architect won a competition for the construction of several fountai…
21 Aug 2023, 09:02 UTC42 viewsread 11 August 2026 Photo
Lion Bridge
The Lion Bridge traces its history back to 1825. The outer part is decorated with cast-iron lions, which were created according to the project of the sculptor P. Sokolov.
Since 1926, the Lion Bridge has been modernized several times: wooden beams were changed to metal, cast-iron bars and lanterns were restored, the bridge structure itself was slightly changed. Despite all the changes, in 2000 the bridge…
17 Aug 2023, 09:01 UTC35 views1 reactionsread 11 August 2026 Photo
The Emerald City
Entering the magic courtyard, you will find yourself on a yellow brick path along which the characters of the fairy tale Toto and Ellie were heading to the Great Goodwin. The yellow path will lead you to the Emerald City surrounded by guards, the gates of which are guarded by Faramant. The wall of the house is decorated with a bas-relief of Villina, a kind sorceress, inviting you to visit a fairylan…
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