Videos tagged with "water fountains"

Tashkent - Uzbekistan 2011 [05:43]
History lessons come alive .. Tashkent to me conjures up the city where our prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri died under mysterious circumstances on 11th. January 1966 one day after the peace treaty was signed by India and Pakistan. What i found in post Russian Tashkent is a clean pretty city , with overbearing and sometimes much too grandeous architecture and monuments , what touched my heart completely are the warm and friendly people of Uzbekistan , the food , their markets , their culture which has survived despite dry , cold , successive and supressive regimes - even to date.
Tags: Tashkent, Uzbekistan, tourism, music, culture, post russia, architecture, communist, street art, people, portraits, public spaces, water fountains, viraj sushi karnik, 2011

"Gold Fountains " Andrewy's photos around Peterhof, Russian Federation [02:05]
A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Peterhof, Russian Federation by TravelPod blogger Andrewy titled "Gold Fountains !!!" Andrewy's travel blog entry: "Hi Everyone, Today is my last day in St. Petersburg, so I am doing the last, but the best of the excursions, Petrodvorts or Peterhof. This is a small town 19 km to the west of St. Petersburg build in the 1700s so that Peter the Great can oversee the construction of the military fort on an island in the Gulf of Finland. The Palace and the garden here is just spectacular. But the center piece here is the water fountain and statues amongst them. Every statue is covered in Shiney Gold, under the sun the sparkles of gold figures just blows me away. I started the day by taking a luxury hydrofoil from St. Petersburg to Peterhof then walk around the the water fountains. I then entered the spectacular Grand Palace. back inthe 1800s the Palace reached its peak with maximum luxury interior, furnitures, paintings and fine dining room plus reception areas. However, during WWII, the Soviets closed this placeremoving all the valuables inland to prevent the advancing Germans from holding their victory new year party inside the palace. the rest of the palace was badly damaged by the German planes, and it is not until the 1960 to 1970 the restoration started and now it is back to its former glory. The rooms are full gold plated statues, carvings and every room is loaded with the artifacts from the 1800 and 1700s now back ...





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