| Bilder av Grodno
Bilder av Grodno på Panoramio
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Travel råd og advarsler Grodno
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The city is located 300 kilometers away from Minsk. Railways connect it with Mosty, Bialystok (Poland) and Vilnius (Lithuania), and motorway link the city with Minsk, Kaunas (Lithuania) and Lida.
Grodno was first mentioned in historic papers in 1116 as a fortress founded on the bank of the river Neman to control merchant vessels. In the 13th century the city became part of the Great Principality of Lithuania.
In 1284 the city was seized by crusaders, later it was many times attacked by Teutonic Knights. |
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In the XVIth – XVIIIth centuries formed the unique complete ensemble of the city building pattern which even today sets Grodno out of other cities of Belarus. The number of monuments of history, architecture, and town-planning that have remained intact in the city on the Nieman river allows to speak of it as the museum-city with a special inherent charm. One can keenly feel here the presence of the past and the historical pulse of the city. . .
Grodno has more than 300 thousand residents. National societies of the Russians, Poles, Lithuanians, Tatars, Germans, Jews and Ukrainians operate here. Therefore, every other year the International Festivals of National Cultures are held in Grodno. |
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