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Snow-covered Sofiyivka – national dendrological park
1 Comment · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Nature, Photos, Travel
Park “Sofiyivka” was founded in 1796 by the owner of the town of Uman, Polish magnate Stanislav Potocki. The park was named in honor of his wife Sophia Witt-Potocki and presented to her in May 1802.
Today it is a popular holiday destination. Every year the park is visited by about 500,000 people. The total area of the park is about 180 hectares. “Sofiyivka” is a monument of world landscape gardening art of the late 18th – early 19th century. Photos by Vitaliy Milevich
Tags: Cherkassy oblast · Uman city
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Dr. Brendel Hubert Germany · April 13, 2013 at 4:22 pm
This is a wonderful information of this beautiful park