"Do you look up and see that huge, onion-like dome? This is typical Byzantine architecture" "You see everyone is dressed so gorgeously, everyone is coming, let's go take a picture too" "No need to drive! From here, it's 10 minutes to ** Street"......
On February 12, the third day of the Lunar New Year, Harbin had blue skies and white clouds, the sun was shining, and the maximum temperature rose to above zero. The landmark building of Harbin and the Sophia Church, which was founded in 1907, is full of tourists, everyone checks in and takes pictures, tastes food, and buys cultural and creative souvenirs, and the square is very lively.
Sophia-shaped cake photo by reporter Wang Ruoxi.
I just saw a little girl holding a whole frozen pear in her hand and nibbling on it, I wondered why I didn't slice the 'small potato', and when I looked closely, I found that it was a small cake in the shape of a frozen pear, and it was too similar. At half past three in the afternoon, the cake shop of Sophia Church was crowded with tourists, and Internet celebrity cakes such as "Little Church", "Frozen Pear" and "Big Snowman" were very popular with tourists. Ms. Guo from Xuchang, Henan Province, told reporters carrying the "small church" she had just bought: "I came to line up at half past eight in the morning to get the number, and now it may be difficult for people who have just arrived at the store to buy it." ”
Ms. Guo's itinerary for the day was full: after receiving the number plate in the morning, she took a photo while there were few people first, had lunch at the Daoli vegetable market across the street at noon, entered the Sophia Church in the afternoon to see oil paintings, murals, and piano music, and then ordered an afternoon tea at the corner café by the square and waited for the night to fall.
Ms. Guo's "cross-dressing and taking a photo" is a very popular travel photography in recent years. Walking into Sophia Square, there is a "sweet princess" in three steps and a "domineering queen" in five steps. Dressed in princess dresses, wigs and elaborate headdresses, cloaks, wings, or wands, the majority of female tourists are transformed into beautiful landscapes under the guidance of photographers.
Tourists dressed in gorgeous costumes to take pictures Photo by reporter Wang Ruoxi.
With Harbin tourism out of the circle, the travel photography service in front of Sophia Church is also hot. At the beginning of November last year, the "Longjiang Creative Travel Photography Base" built by Golden Sun Investment Group was officially launched, and hundreds of photographers took pictures of tourists in Sophia Church every day.
Welcome everyone to Sophia Church as the first stop to Harbin, there are 3 big shopping malls around the square, wear less, feel cold, you can also update the equipment immediately, our locals are also here to buy, don't worry**. In the square and square, the local big brothers and sisters enthusiastically introduced to tourists.
Sophia Scenic Area renovated and renovated the toilets in the scenic spot, replaced exclusive rest seats, improved medical emergency, lost and found, item storage and other services, and equipped with professional tour guides to provide high-quality guide services for tourists. "We've also added a nighttime lighting program to extend the duration of the lighting. Zhang Lishuang, assistant general manager of Harbin cultural tourism assets management and director of Sophia Business Department, introduced.
In 2023, the second floor of the tourist service center will be turned into a corner café in Sophia Scenic Area, facing the Sophia Church through the window, where visitors can enjoy rich and mellow coffee while resting. "The café also has a free postcard for visitors to come and take a commemorative photo. Zhang Lishuang said that the square has also added a warm station for tourists to rest and heat, and installed geothermal heat, air energy air conditioning, hot air curtains and other equipment, and provided tourists with hot water, ginger tea, and warm stickers for free.
Warm station for tourists to rest and warm Photo by reporter Wang Ruoxi.
After arriving in Harbin, the mobile phone consumes power very fast, and I am in a hurry, so I see that it can be charged for free here, which is really in response to the sentence on the wall, "The sky in the northeast is cold, and our hearts are hot". Tourists chattered at the "energy station". (Author: China Tourism News reporter Wang Ruoxi; Editor: Song Yuqiu).