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Dendrarium |
Do you think it's possible to make a trip round the world while having a rest in Sochi ... in two hours? Of course, it is! And you won't need ocean liner, high-speed airplane or passport. To make it you just need a camera. Your trip round the world will take place in the park “Dendrarium” which is situated on both sides of Kurortny prospect. Even those people, who have already travelled inside out and seen such places as park Tuilries in Paris, Hyde Park in London and Central Park in New York, are charmed by “Dendrarium”. And all the named above parks can’t be compared with “Dendrarium” in Sochi which is a particle of paradise, the best place on Earth!
In “Dendrarium” more than 1,700 species of plants and bushes from all the continents of the world are collected on the territory of a bit more than 20 hectares. Annually this park is visited by more than 700,000 people.
“Dendrarium” is a wonderful monument to landscape art. It was founded at the end of 19th century by a famous Russian journalist Sergei Khudekov. His parents were petty-landed gentry from Razan province. The editor bought 50 tithes on the slope of mount Vereshchaginskaya not far from the centre of Sochi and founded a new park. Dacha which was decided to be build in the centre of the park was called in honour of his wife.
Generally in 1892 forming of the park was finished and now this year is considered to be the year of “Dendrarium's” foundation.
The name “Dendrarium”origins from a Greek word “Dendron - Tree”, and means “Collection of Trees”. The collection of the park in Sochi is not only huge but also unique. At the end of the 19th century a famous gardener Frantz Lampau was engaged into the park foundation on Sergei Khudekov’s initiative.
The founders, while thinking about the core idea of the park formation, tried to bring into concord the elements of Italian terraced garden and English landscape park. The entire plant zones were created – Mediterranean, Chinese, Australian, Caucasian departments, Himalayan, Japanese, Mexican nooks.
“Dendrarium” is a park of continuous blossoming. One can be dazzled seeing so many exotic plants: Lebanese cedar and Algerian oak with uneven cork rind (bark), Japanese beresklet and Mexican agave, Californian palm ànd Australian eucalyptus feel like growing at home.
From January till the beginning of a real spring flower-beds of the park are decorated by local flowers, Japanese quince-tree, acacia, honeysuckle, guelder rose and many others. Guests’ astonishment knows no limits when in the middle of winter at New Years Eve’s night one can see scarlet fires of picarantus and tender rose petals of asmantus peeping out through snow.
In spring and at the beginning of summer the park is covered by flowers and fresh verdure. Hydrangeas and trees of pomegranate strike by their splendour almost everyone. Here one can find a unique collection of pines - 80 of 120 that grow worldwide, more than 60 species of oaks including cork-oak, more than 20 species of cypresses.
“Dendrarium” is not only a collection of exotic trees and bushes but also variety architectural ensemble where plants play first fiddle. Of course not a single park can exist without architectural compositions. Being aware of it the creator of the park Sergei Khudekov has started thinking of not only delivering here rare trees and bushes but also decorating park with decorative pavilions, fountains and sculptures since the very beginning. And everything was done thoroughly.
Now 17 units in “Dendrarium” are included into the catalogue of architectural and town-planning monuments significant for the whole Russian Federation and this is a rare case for our country.
The main entrance is adorned with an elegant semicircular building - a symbol of "Dendrarium".
The park is divided into upper and lower parts.One of the main places worth seeing in the park is dacha "Nadezhda", staircases of which are decorated by sculptures and decorative vases. There are lots of pavilions and the most famous is, no doubt, Moresque, made in Arabic style with original columns and a minaret.
If Moresque pavilion makes remember about the traditions of eastern legends from "Thousand and One Nights", V. Bogatyrev's fountain "Fairy-tale" conjures up Russian bylinas - it's the best place to read A. Pushkin's "Tale About Tsar Saltan".
"Dendrarium" is "alive" park. You can seen walking peacocks, in a special open-air cage ostriches live, squirrel jump in the trees, in a special aquarium everyone can see various Black Sea fish, including a famous Black Sea shark - katran and standing by the pools you can marvel for hours at black and white swans.
Sochi "Dendrarium" is one of the most beautiful places on the Earth, a paradise made by people's talent and hard work
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