Sumy Altanka

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9 september 2017Travel time: 9 september 2017
An open wooden gazebo and a symbol of the city. It belongs to the rarest direction of architecture in local development - historicism and is an example of small architectural structures.

There are two versions of the authorship and time of construction of the Altanka. According to one of them, the gazebo was built on the site of an oil well (oil was not found! ) by the Pole I. Leshchinsky and named the Polish word Altanka (Altanka) - a light structure in the park.

According to another version, the draftsman of the Zemstvo Council of the city M. A. Shchavelev was the author of this building. According to his drawings, it was built around 1900-1905. Altanka.

Note to tourists. The entire area around Altanka is a free Wi-Fi zone.
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