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This is the extraordinary ice city built in China

The Harbin Ice and Snow Festival, one of the largest in the world, attracts millions of visitors every year

The Harbin Ice and Snow Festival , one of the largest in the world, ends to inaugurate its thirty-third edition with hundreds of sculptures, constructions and recreational activities spread over some 800,000 square meters.

Thirty degrees below zero, snow-paved streets and buildings built on ice blocks welcome , not very hot by the way, to Harbin, the coldest city in China .Near the border with Russia, this city of almost five million inhabitants, capital of the northern province of Heilongjiang, celebrates between January and February its famous Ice and Snow Festival, its main tourist attraction.

This is the extraordinary ice city built in China

Fires artificial burst on the ice sculptures exhibited in the thirty-third edition of the Harbin-EFE International Ice and Snow Festival/Wu Hong

Thanks to its freezing temperatures, huge ice palaces that remind the Forbidden City of Beijing remain frozen during these two months, huge Buddhist pagodas, medieval castles and even a New York skyscraper that looks like the Empire State Building.In the middle of a closed night with reflections of aurora borealis that is cast over four in the afternoon, they all glow in the dark with colored lights placed inside of the tempanos.

Every winter, thousands of tourists defy the thermometer and, wrapped in several layers of thermal pants, pano shirts, wool sweaters, fur-lined coats, Scarves, gloves, hats and even balaclavas enjoy a unique spectacle that cuts your breath.Not only for the cold, but for the monumentality of dozens of buildings that will not melt until spring.

This is the extraordinary ice city built in China

A man and his daughter play alongside a 31-meter-high snow sculpture in the thirty-third edition of the Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival (China)-EFE/Wu Hong

The ice is so consistent that you can climb to the top of some buildings and slide from them thanks to some polished tempanos in the form of steps and slides .green, blue, red and yellow lamps inside, the ice palaces glow majestically as their colors change intermittently.During the day, you can also visit the Sun Island Park to contemplate its splendid snow figures.Skating on the ice rinks or sliding on sleds pulled by« huskys» Siberians, visitors are photographed ecstatic before the snow sculptures scattered around the enclosure, adjacent to the frozen Songhua River and whose channel can be crossed on foot at this time of the year to the city center, in the other shore.

There, between the Stalin Park and the Zhongyang pedestrian avenue, you can see the Russian influence on Harbin, known as the St.Petersburg of the East since a Trans-Siberian branch was built in 1898.Together with the beautiful baroque buildings that, with their squares and scalloped towers, populate the Daoli district, the Santa Sofia Orthodox Church stands out, the shops where dolls are sold « matrioskas» and the cafes where they are served« piroshki&raquo ;, stuffed dumplings similar to« dumplings» Chinese.

To complete the excursion to Harbin, you should not miss a visit to the Siberian Tiger Park , a reserve where a hundred animals of this species live in danger of extinction The hottest counterpoint for the city of ice.

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