Transcript The National Library of Belarus was founded on 15 September 1922, it is now located in a new 72-metre (236 feet)

The National Library of Belarus was founded on 15 September 1922, it is now
located in a new 72-metre (236 feet) high building in Minsk, Belarus. The building
has 22 floors and was completed in January 2006. The building can seat about 2,000
readers and features a 500-seat conference hall. Its main architectural component has
the shape of a diamond. The library's new building was opened on 16 June 2006.
The library service is in great demand. More than 90 thousand citizens of Belarus
are library users, who annually request 3.5 million documents. Every day the library is
visited by more than 2,200 people. The library delivers about 12,000 documents daily.
The Mirsky Castle Complex is a UNESCO World Heritage site in Belarus located
in the town of Mir in the Karelichy District of the Grodno Region.
The construction of the castle began at the end of the 15th century, in the Gothic
architecture style. Building of the castle was completed by Duke Ilinich in early 16th
century near the village Mir. Around 1568 the Mir Castle passed into the hands of
Mikołaj Krzysztof "the Orphan" Radziwiłł, who finished building the castle in the
Renaissance style. A three-storey palace was built along the eastern and northern walls
of the castle. Plastered facades were decorated with limestone portals, plates, balconies and
porches.
Lake Skachalskoe keeps a lot of
secrets. The lake is surrounded by a
forest. It’s not very big (0.45 sq. km.
) but very beautiful.
There are some stories about its
origin. One of them tells that the lake
replaced the church which fell through
deep into the earth.
Another story tells that many years
ago there was a great drought. A piece
of a swamp burnt and came down.
The place filled up with water.
This place is popular with native
people and visitors. They believe that
its water can cure and it makes people
cheerful. It’s true because there is very
much oxygen in the water.
The CN Tower is the tallest building in Canada.
It is also one of Ontario’s most popular places to
visit. It’s about 553m tall.
With more than 6 million cu ft (168,000 m³) of water falling over its brink per
minute, Niagara Falls is the most powerful waterfall in North America and the most
famous and one of the largest in the world. Niagara falls also marks USA’s and
Canada’s border.
The town of Niagara Falls is best known as a honeymoon spot, attracting millions of
romancing couples every year.
The Sears Tower should definitely be on your list of Chicago attractions which you
should visit during your stay in the windy city. The Sears Tower has 110 floors and was at
one time the tallest building in the world.
The Grand Canyon
was formed with
Colorado River. It is
one mile deep and 277
miles ( 363 km) long.
There are different
plants and animals on
opposite sides of the
canyon. The south side
is dry and desert
country. The north
side has tall forests.
The canyon looks
different at different
times of the day, and
in different seasons
and weather.
Mount Rainier is one of the many mountains
in the Cascade mountain range. It is the highest
point in all of Washington. It is 14,410 feet
tall. Every year more than about 2,500 people
climb Mt. Rainier and it is also a dormant
volcano.
The Space Needle is a tall, thin structure with a sort
of circular object on the top. It was built for the 1962
Seattle World’s Fair.
The Space Needle is an attraction that pulls tourists
into Seattle. On the top there is a restaurant that
rotates 360° in 47 minutes. This is a very popular
attraction because you can dine and see the city.
There is an upper deck also open to the public where
you can also see the wonders of our city Seattle.
All of Obidos has been declared a national monument.
It is known as the "Wedding Present Town" because it was a gift King Dinis gave to Queen Isabel
on their wedding day in 1282, but that alone is not what makes it such an extraordinarily romantic
place -what make it one of Europe's most romantic medieval villages are its incredibly picturesque
cobblestone streets lined with colorful houses filled with geraniums and bougainvillea, Gothic doorways
and windows, whitewashed churches, flowerpots and dazzling tiles -- all encircled by the walls of a
12th century castle.
Scaling its 13m (45ft)-high medieval walls is the best way to admire this picture postcard-perfect
place.
Built in the 1840s, it is one of Europe's most fantastic palaces, often compared to
Neuschwanstein and the other mock-medieval castles of Ludwig of Bavaria in Germany,
although it was actually built more than two decades before those. It includes a
drawbridge, a conglomeration of turrets, ramparts, and domes, and a gargoyle above a
Neo-Manueline arch, all washed in an array of pastel shades.
The extravagant
interior is decorated in
late Victorian and
Edwardian
furnishings, rich
ornaments, paintings,
and priceless porcelain
preserved just as the
royal family left them.
The monastery was founded in
the eleventh century by monks
Antoniy and Feodosiy who
established their cells in the caves
(in Ukrainian: pechery — hence
the name Pechersk). The
monastery soon grew to be a
major monastic community with
churches, refectories, buildings of
monk cells occupying a large
territory. Lavra is a title which
was awarded only to very large
and important monasteries. The
Pechersk Lavra Monastery in
Kyiv was a bulwark of
Christianity and an important
cultural center.
That date to the pre-Christian times and may be as ancient as twenty five hundred
years old or even older, dot the vast Ukrainian steps; these idols may have seen the
invading army of the mighty Persian king Darius whom the wily Scythians forced to
retreat ignominiously.
A natural boundary «Cascades» near the village of
Zlynky in Maloviskivskii district is a corner of exotic
things of primitive nature with the real waterfalls which
noisily run between enormous granite stones.
The Faisal Mosque in Islamabad is the largest mosque in Pakistan and South
Asia and the sixth largest mosque in the world. It was the largest mosque in the
world from 1986 to 1993.
The Karakoram Highway (KKH) is
the highest paved international road in the
world. It connects China and Pakistan
across the Karakoram mountain range,
through the Khunjerab Pass, at an
altitude of 4,693 m/15,397 ft as
confirmed by both SRTM and multiple
GPS readings. It connects China's
Xinjiang region with Pakistan's GilgitBaltistan and also serves as a popular
tourist attraction. It is now part of the
route officially known as as N-35 within
Pakistan. Due to its high elevation and the
difficult conditions in which it was
constructed, it is also referred to as the
"Ninth Wonder of the World
The Badshahi Mosque (Urdu: ‫ )بادشاھی مسجد‬or the 'Emperor's Mosque'
in Lahore is the second largest mosque in Pakistan and South Asia and the fifth
largest mosque in the world. Epitomising the beauty, passion and grandeur of the
Mughal era, it is Lahore's most famous landmark and a major tourist
attraction.