Shad Tchup Ling Monastery (translated from Tibetan - “Place of Practice and Realization”) was founded in 1995 in the north of the Sverdlovsk region near the territory of the Perm Territory and the border between Europe and Asia on Mount Kachkanar (878 meters above sea level) not far from the city of...
The mausoleum of Itemad-ud-Dauly on the banks of the Jamna (Yamuna) River is considered the prototype of the Taj Mahal, it is sometimes called the "Small Taj". It is a tomb with surrounding buildings and gates in a beautiful garden.
Smolinskaya cave near Kamensk-Uralsky in the Middle Urals with underground halls and grottoes is of karst origin, it is inconspicuous from the outside, but the length of the passages is 890 meters.
Initially, this place was the "Roller Coaster" of the creator of "Moulin Rouge" Oller. The Olympia hall appeared in 1893, the peak of popularity came with the advent of the impresario Bruno Coquatrix, who secured the status of a concert hall with a capacity of about 2000 spectators in 1954 for the O...
The history of the Flomsbana railway goes back over 75 years. It goes from the town of Flå m (in the local dialect it is a narrow valley between the mountains) with a pier on the banks of the Sognefjord, where motor roads also fit, to the main Oslo-Bergen railway line opened in 1909, along whic...
Padishah Akbar the Great from the dynasty of the Great Mongols ruled the country from 1556 to 1605. During his reign, he patronized the development of culture, art and science, which contributed to the prosperity of the country.
When Emelyan Pugachev and his army came to the Urals, the bulk of the mining workers stood up to protect the Ural fortified factories from robbers, many of the workers later received awards for their loyalty.
The first steam locomotive in Russia was designed and manufactured by the father and son Cherepanovs Efim and Miron in 1833 at one of the Nizhny Tagil factories. In the Mining Journal, the novelty was described as follows: “The land steamer, arranged by them, now goes in both directions along cast-i...
Monument to the original poet of the Golden Age of Spanish poetry, Luis de Gongora, whose peculiar language largely determined the foundations of modern poetry, opened in 1994 "" Enjoy your neck, hair, lips and forehead before what was in your golden age, gold, lily, carnation, sparkling crystal, Not only in silver or truncated viola come back but you are together on land, in the smoke, in the dust, in the shade…”
Oktyabrskaya Square is a relatively recent attraction of the city, first here - on the embankment of the City Pond on the Iset River - the Drama Theater moved from the old building, then administrative buildings were built, now hotels have been added.
Mount Sugomak is considered by some to be a "place of power" - a place that can have a healing effect, add vital energy to a person. The origin of the name has not been established.
After the expulsion of Napoleonic troops from Spain in Madrid in 1814, a monument was erected to those who died for the liberation of the country from the invaders. The monument, created by I.