Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...charm of an unkempt graveyard. Block after block of ramshackle, weather-leached houses seemed to lean into each other for support. Rockefeller threw his formidable support into founding and nurturing Colonial Williamsburg, Inc., a richly endowed corporation that transformed the city's old section into a tourist attraction by painstakingly restoring its splendor as Virginia's former capital. Ever since, Colonial Williamsburg has been successfully transforming history into a lively happening...
Close Compendium. Nearer to Moscow, an inquiring tourist can now find and enjoy a compendium of Russia's best architecture...
...Vladimir, a scenic three-hour journey by car from Moscow, is one of the most popular tourist sights. An important trading center on the Volga River routes in medieval times, Vladimir was named for the prince of Kiev who brought Christianity to Russia in A.D. 988. His emissaries, the story goes, were so taken by the beauty of the Byzantine liturgy and Constantinople's churches that they urged the prince to adopt that mode of Christianity. Vladimir's churches reflect the Russian efforts to carry on the Byzantine architectural tradition. The most spectacular is the Cathedral...
...been restored to look just as they did in the 17th century. The beautiful 18th century Church of the Transfiguration was moved to its present site from another village. Over the next two or three years, the Soviet government plans to turn the Suzdal area into a new national tourist center, and will build an open-air museum and three new restaurants, as well as restore many other churches, peasant cottages and windmills...
Except in Russia and East Germany, Westerners may travel freely throughout Communist Europe. If they trouble to stray outside the tourist reservations, they meet with a warmth and welcoming generosity that is unmatched anywhere in the world. In the countryside, peasants offer to share their meal and provide a place to spend the night. This innocent unworldliness, one of the redeeming features of peoples living under Communism, is as yet unspoiled by the worst aspects of Western culture now being imported for the sake of hard currency. As a tourist attraction, it beats striptease and roulette and is surely...