Architectural ensemble of the Round Square

What? - Architectural ensemble of the Round Square

Description

The starting point in the plan to build the square was March 1802 - the time when Poltava was proclaimed the center of the province of the same name. The new provincial status required a new city center. The former historical one - Red Square - due to lack of space could not accommodate all the necessary administrative institutions of the provincial Poltava.

A talented architecter Mykhailo Amvrosymov, suggested that Poltava Governor-General Olexii Kurakin place administrative buildings in a circle west of the historic center in the new square, and the compositional center of Poltava's central square became a green park.

Buildings of the Round Square beg. XIX century. - is the only architectural ensemble in Europe in the style of classicism, which has survived to this day in its original form and forms the image of the city in the imagination of guests of Poltava.

Date1805-1841

Speciality

Projects of "exemplary" buildings of provincial cities are brought together only in Poltava, representing a unique compositionally complete architectural ensemble of the era of provincial classicism.

Where to findSobornosti Street, 29