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The Best Attractions In Lyepyel'

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City Hall (Ratusha)

Marc Chagall Home

Saint Sophia Cathedral

Khatyn Memorial

Saint Euphrosyne Monastery

Uspensky Cathedral

Lepel is a town located in the center of the Lepiel Raion in the Vitebsk Province of Belarus near Lepiel Lake. Lepiel is situated at about 54°52′N 28°40′E and its population in the 1998 census was 19,400. The coat of arms of Lepel incorporates the Pahonia symbol.
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The Best Attractions In Lyepyel'

1. Uspensky Cathedral Vitebsk
2. Khatyn Memorial Lahojsk District
3. Marc Chagall Home Vitebsk
Marc Zakharovich Chagall was a Russian-French artist of Belarusian Jewish origin. An early modernist, he was associated with several major artistic styles and created works in virtually every artistic format, including painting, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramic, tapestries and fine art prints. Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century . According to art historian Michael J. Lewis, Chagall was considered to be the last survivor of the first generation of European modernists. For decades, he had also been respected as the world's preeminent Jewish artist. Using the medium of stained glass, he produced windows for the cathedrals of Reims and Metz, windows for the UN and the Art Institute of Chicago, and the ...
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4. Saint Sophia Cathedral Polotsk
The Cathedral of Holy Wisdom in Polotsk was built by Prince Vseslav Briacheslavich between 1044 and 1066. It stands at the confluence of the Polota and Western Dvina Rivers on the eastern side of the city and is probably the oldest church in Belarus. The cathedral is, like the Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev and Saint Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod, named after the Holy Wisdom of God. After building his own cathedral, Vseslav, who was an izgoi prince, tried to seize the Kievan throne. Failing in that attempt, he raided the surrounding principalities; in 1067, he raided Novgorod the Great and looted the Cathedral of Holy Wisdom there, bringing a bell and other loot back to decorate his own Cathedral of Holy Wisdom. The cathedral is mentioned in The Tale of Igor's Campaign, where it says that V...
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5. City Hall (Ratusha) Vitebsk
6. Saint Euphrosyne Monastery Polotsk
Spaso-Euphrosyne Monastery is a women's Orthodox monastery in Polotsk, one of the oldest and largest centers of Orthodoxy in Belarus.
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7. Lyepyel Lake Lyepyel
Lepel is a town located in the center of the Lepiel Raion in the Vitebsk Province of Belarus near Lepiel Lake. Lepiel is situated at about 54°52′N 28°40′E and its population in the 1998 census was 19,400. The coat of arms of Lepel incorporates the Pahonia symbol.
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