Panoramic Roof

St. Petersburg is so magnificent and so crowded every day, so that we can't adapt to wandering around small Russian cities. Because we wanted to hide, we came to Viborg, a 2-hour drive from St. Petersburg. Close to the border between Russia and Finland. At the Finnish railway station in St. Petersburg, self-service ticket machines with Chinese can buy tickets to Viborg smoothly. The name of the train station in Russia is very interesting, in addition to the Finnish train station, there is a Moscow train station in St. Petersburg, which is named according to the destination of the train. Finnish train station to Finland, Moscow train station to Moscow. Viborg is obviously a not lively and slightly deserted city, and it really fits our intention to escape the city. There are many Swedish and Finnish imprints to be found here. Viborg Castle is a product of the Swedish period. Fortunately, the sky cleared briefly when we arrived at Viborg Castle. Unfortunately, Viborg Castle was being renovated and the observation deck could not be reached. There was only one museum left, all Russian that I couldn't understand. Viborg has a forest coverage that does not lose to Nordic neighbors, and it is green everywhere. Walking in the city, walking on the cobblestone trails has a leisure. Viborg is very low-key without St. Petersburg's gold and silver. From the traffic parked on the streets, the city is not rich, and time should stay here in the 90s. 

Walking through so many cities, there are always one or two cities that make people feel particularly amazing, and St. Petersburg in Russia is one of them. Before going to St. Petersburg, mentioning the city was associated with a few terms that were often heard in world history classes: the Soviet Union, World War II, the Tsar, Leningrad. However, this city and the war inseparable from the desolation, but presents a bright, gorgeous, simply people "eye-eye". St. Petersburg is one of the first cities in the world to be built in a unified style, including almost the 18th to the twentieth century of the world and Russia's classic architectural style, architectural gems are numerous, the city itself is an open-air architectural museum. Looking at the world, St. Petersburg's architecture is quite a sense of the times, the city center can not see a modern building, this feature is rare in the world's major cities, with this, St. Petersburg is enough to be the world's classical city forest. These centuries-old buildings are both baroque and rococo; both symmetry and balance-breaking; both grandeur and sculptural detail, each of which is embedded in the architectural detail is described in unique language in St. Petersburg's past.

The charm of St. Petersburg is the majestic temperament given by the tsar's ancient capital, the romantic style rendered by the "European window", and the sparkling transmission of the crisscrossed canals. From the beginning of Peter the Great's relocation, every step of St. Petersburg city planning pushed her to the heights of architecture and art, and now strolling in St. Petersburg can already be from her streets of libraries, opera houses, galleries, museums, Feel the extraordinary cultural city. Everything makes you addicted to it and reluctant to leave. After Peter the Great took St. Petersburg from the Swedes, he vowed to make this Eden a European-style Tsar-Russian city. So he integrated the most lacking water landscape in the interior of Russia into the planning and construction of St. Petersburg, the river canals are crisscrossed, the islands are scattered, the scenery is beautiful, more than 700 bridges throughout the city 100 islands, in one place in the city, the water waves are all tender and fascinating. St. Petersburg has the title of "Venice of the North", every night, the colorful neon lights reflect on the slow flowing river, in the slight waves of the lights are beautiful, ups and downs.

When I was a child, playing Russian cubes, the physiological reflection of two things, one is its soundtrack, whenever I hear it, I will hum unconsciously; One is the beautiful onion head church, every time I see it is very excited, it is also a strong driving force that has always driven me to Russia, and this trip to St. Petersburg made me get what I wanted, and finally got close contact with the onion head of the Russian national characteristic helmet (onion head), Its church dome is topped with wooden frames with a lead, copper shell, and then held up by a drum seat slightly smaller than the dome, similar to a helmet, hence its name. The traditional Russian onion head shape, the church top is a dome with a cross, according to religious interpretation this refers to the heaven, the number of the garden top has its symbolic meaning. Two domes represent Jesus Christ, the one of the heavens and the human; three domes represent the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Five domes represent Jesus and the four authors of the Gospels, and thirteen domes represent Jesus and the twelve apostles. Each of the gardens is supported by a cylindrical dome, with the windows of the dome illuminating the inner temple of the church, and according to religious interpretation, the church building is the incarnation of the special universe, the cylindrical and vault symbolize the sky, and the walls symbolize the earth.

I met such a beautiful dome, but I didn't meet you... in Moscow and St. Petersburg