Central Street
Northeast China's Harbin is a unique and exotic city, has always been regarded and known as the "Eastern Moscow". The Central Street (Zhongyang Pedestrian Street) in downtown Harbin is a prominent representative and significant sign of Harbin. Where, Harbin’s hundred-year history can be traced in this story-rich street. As the city card, Harbin Central Street awarded "the Top Ten Famous Attractions of Harbin" in 2008.
Originally founded in 1898 (which seemed to synchronize with the construction of Harbin city) for the transportation of railway supplies and called "Chinese Street," Central Street was later floored with square stones based on the design of a Russian engineer in 1924. Since then, it has become home to numerous foreign shops, hotels, and bars. Russian leather, British woolen cloth, French perfume, German medicine and many more exotic commodities can be found here.
As the ultimate symbol of the city, Central Street starts from Songhua River Flood Control Monument in the North and to Jinwei Street in the South, extends the length of 1450 meters and with the width of21. 34 m. The whole street has 71 architecture of European-style and imitation of European-style, and has 13 buildings of variety of style of Renaissance, Baroque, Modern and Eclectic.
A small street, encompasses the history of Western architecture of the four most influential architectural genres, encompasses the most attractive in Europe for nearly 300 years cultural development of history, which encompasses long and deep history and the grand architectural art is rare one the world.
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