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Beautiful plant with flowers at the end of the walking street, splendid in style and appearance with marble covering and a lot of benches, where young and old people meet, having a chat, day and night.
The city answer for ”Trafalgar Square” encircled by beautiful buildings and the Chatolic Cachedral.. Here you find the largest book store and the largest supermarket with at wide selection of products. Address: Savetskaya Square
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High and proud the Roman-Chatolic Church (later cathedral) stand near the Savetskaya Square. It is a visit worth. The history go back to the 1700 century, where it was build. Later it has been residence of the Jesuits. The main facade is decorated with sculptures of St. Peter, St. Paul and St. Fr. Ksavery. There are 14 alters in baroque and rococo styles inside the cathedral. The nave is decorated with late 1700 frescoes. The main alter is unique: 21 m high. Address: Savetskaya SquareDirections: Church. Cathedral
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Starting from the 1st of November 1941 the Jews of Hrodna started being ghettoized. There were 2 ghettos in Hrodna, one in the old town, one in the outskirts. The Ghetto 1, in the old town, is close to the Synagogue and hosted abot 15,000 Jews. The ghetto was fenced and the entrance was from the nearby castle.
These days there's no fence anymore but just a little memorial, a plaque and a sort of fence/entrance commemorating the Jews killed in Hrodna during the WWII.
Walking there around is pleasant and nice, unless you think about all the pain those people suffered along those streets... and I think it's impossible not to think about it. Leave a Comment
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The most important church and landmark in Hrodna is without any doubt the catholic Cathedral of St. Francis Xavier, which can be seen from almost any part of the town. It was formermy known as the Jesuit church and it's supposed to be one of the oldest Jesuit churches in the World. It lies in Savetskaya square (a catholic church on Soviet square... quite unusual!), a huge soviet square which surely looked much nicer before WWII and the communists...
If you have been to Vilnius you'll feel quite familiar with this church since the high Baroque style is really very similar to several churches in the nearby Lithuanian capital. The church is more than 50 metres high and its construction was started in 1678, but consecrated only 27 years later. Of course at that time Hrodna belonged to the Polish-Lithuanian kingdom. Leave a Comment Address: Savestkaya square
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Walking around Hrodna is always a nice experience and you can find some very nice places to walk around. There's a pretty central park in the very centre of the town, close to Lenin square, where once again it's easy to meet wedding couples taking nice pictures by the little river and bridges among the green.
There are some nice old wooden houses as well as some stone ones and some ugly communist block too, but not so many fortunately. And there's the big statue of Lenin, of course, in front of the Regional Building (I guess).
Here you can also find Eliza Orzeszkowa's house (a detail in the pictures), a Polish novelist of the 19th century which was born around Hrodna. Leave a Comment
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 Church of the Discovery of the
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It was originally built in the 16/17th centuries and I suppose it was reconstructed after the WWII. All the part of the old town around the Savetskaya square seems to have been bombed, in fact in the past there was not this huge empty spaces and there houses are really not old.
The church is by the way very nice and once again you feel like you were in Vilnius... or in Italy! :) Leave a Comment Address: Savestkaya square
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This is just information for all males who love pretty girls.
Really Belarus has a huge amount of the beautiful girls and women in one place. I am well married with one of them. Anyway when you are in this city you can’t avoid see the beauties walking up down the streets. If you like the feminine look of models – then take a few days in Grodno or another city in Belarus. You will fall in love many times a day. Now I know why president Lukashenko don’t want the women to leave Belarus. He want all of them for himself.
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 Bernardinian Church from
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