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I Didn't Know (2016) 

The tram to San Marino 

EUROVISION COUNTRY: San Marino
KYIV DESTINATION: Puscha Vodytsa

Kyiv has Europe's oldest tram system after Berlin and Budapest. One of the main reasons it was built was to link people in the city to the countryside.
Tram stops

The No12 tram leaves Kontraktova Ploshcha and with your 10 cents ticket drives you for an hour out of the city to the holiday village of Pushcha Vodytsa. Half of the trip is in the city and the other half in a wondrous forest tunnel. Occasionally the tram stops at stops in the middle of the forest planted on the order of Tsar Peter the Great.
At the other end you reach the conference centre and sanatarium village of Pushcha Vodysta, which includes the San Marino Conference Centre, complete with the San Marino Restaurant, covered in San Marina memorabilia.
If you are thinking of making a pilgrimage then note the centre is only open to people staying in the Pushcha Congresss hotel http://puscha-hotel.com.ua/en/about in its grounds.

However there are numerous park, woodland and lakeside walks here, and a very attractive church.
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