Polotsk and St. Sophia Cathedral

Vitsyebsk Region · Belarus

Polotsk and St. Sophia Cathedral, Belarus
Photo: Vasilii Martynov, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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May to September
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The oldest town in Belarus preserves a baroque-rebuilt St. Sophia Cathedral above the Western Dvina. A monument marks it as a claimed geographic center of Europe and a cradle of Slavic literacy.

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