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Advantages Free, easy to access, fairly interesting
Disadvantages Hustlers and hawkers, it's just some steps when all is said and done
Who would have thought that a simple flight of steps could be so interesting? The steps I am talking about are the Potemkin Steps in the Ukrainian city of Odesa, opened in 1841. Curiously, for a city that is home to lots of attractive buildings, it is this set of stone stairs that visitors flock to see. Allow me to explain… The steps were not made famous by the 1905 uprising of sailors on the Russian battleship Potemkin, but by Sergei Eisenstein’s film account of the event which was made in 1925 and is today regarded as a cinematographic classic. The uprising was fairly significant at the time ...
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