Description of the attraction
Kilometer zero of Belarus is the beginning of all Belarusian roads, a place that is the heart of the country.
The first sign of the zero kilometer in Minsk was installed after Minsk became part of the Russian Empire. The huge leviathan, which the country became under Catherine the Great, needed good roads, for which the holy empress spared neither human nor money. After the roads were put in order, in 1795 a zero-mile post was erected near the central post office of Minsk province.
In 1998, a global reconstruction of the main square of the capital of Belarus was carried out. In those years, the state symbols of the young country were especially important. Therefore, it was decided to move the sign of the zero kilometer of Belarusian roads exactly 1 kilometer from the main post office to Oktyabrskaya Square.
The shape of the pyramid is symbolic - eternity and wisdom. On the other hand, the pyramid is a universal mystical sign of the harmony of earth and sky. On the red granite pyramid there are bronze cartouches. One of them reads: "Via est vita" - Latin wisdom translates as: "The road is life", the other cartouche depicts a map of Belarus, the third says "The beginning of the roads of Belarus", the fourth - the verses of the national Belarusian poet Yakub Kolas:
Gifts, eternal gifts!..
Nyama kantsa to you, ni soup, You are alive to the skin chasіna.
On the basis of the granite pyramid, the distances to the major cities of Belarus and to the capitals of neighboring states are written. The pyramid is oriented to the cardinal points, which is confirmed by the inscriptions on the bronze markers that encircle the edges of the pyramid.
