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| Tourism |
MOSCOW, 19 September (BelTA) – Representatives of tourism organizations and mass media of CIS countries will visit tourism facilities of Gomel Oblast within the framework of a special tour organized by the Belarusian Sport and Tourism Ministry. The tour will take place on 20-21 September, BelTA learned from the press service of the Embassy of Belarus in Russia.
CIS experts will visit landmarks connected with the history and culture of Gomel Oblast. The tour will include visits to the Rumyantsev-Paskevich Palace, the Vetka Folk Art Museum, the Pripyatsky national park, the towns of Turov and Mozyr.
The program of the tour includes visits to other places of interest, namely hotels and public catering facilities. |
| Cultura |
Gomel may become the CIS Capital of Culture in 2011, Deputy Culture Minister Tadeush Struzhetsky told reporters on 19 January, BelTA has learned.
According to Tadeush Struzhetsky, after the implementation of the Belarusian Capital of Culture project, the Council of Ministers decided to designate Gomel as the CIS Capital of Culture. “The Culture Ministry has suggested Gomel, but it has not made the final decision yet, ” Tadeush Struzhetsky said. The next meeting of the working group will take place in February 2011, and the Culture Ministry hopes that Gomel’ candidacy will be approved. Gomel may become the Belarusian and the CIS Capital of Culture at the sane time. |
| Sights |
The settlement appeared in the territory occupied by the Slavic tribe of Radimichi that together with Krivichi and Dregovichi made a basis of the Belarusian ethnos. For a long time Gomel remained a small settlement exposed to numerous devastation during the long wars between the Grand Principality of Lithuania and the Moscow Principality, and then between Rzech Pospolita and the Russian Empire. Only in 1852 Gomel really became a town and a regional center of Mogilyov province in the structure of the Russian Empire. Gomel has become a large industrial city in Polessye, an important railway junction and one of the busy trade centers by the end of the XIXth century.
The main Gomel sight is the extensive Rumyantsev-Paskevichy’s Palace-Park Ensemble. Started by the hero of the Russia-Turkish War Marshal P. Rumyantsev on the place of a wooden castle, this wonderful architectural sight was then rearranged by its next owner prince I. Paskevich in the middle of the XIXth century. It is one of the first examples of constructions in Classicism style in Belarus. The late Renaissance motives of the outstanding Italian architect A. Palladio are reproduced in this fine specimen of architecture. The hovering over the city palace is surrounded by a large landscape garden with rare species of exotic trees. The ensemble also includes the magnificent Peter and Paul Cathedral (1824) and a chapel (1889) with Paskevichy’s family tomb. |
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