International Sand Sculpture Festival in St. Petersburg

 This year the festival sand sculpture, traditionally taking place on the beach Hare Island near the walls of the fortress, in honor of his albeit small, but X-anniversary-themed sculptures chose citations in the sand, "the masterpieces of world art," such as: architecture, in sculpture , art, literature, music, cinema, etc. The festival was attended by 30 international teams, which according to the organizers, were taken from the set of bidders around the world.

 So, sand trends Peter, Summer 2011-th - different art, fantasy castles and beach.
I intentionally did not point out the winners of this festival is that you do have the opportunity to decide he liked sand sculpture cakes, because it is possible that none of them did not captivate the imagination at all, or view pictures do not impress. But it is better to see once than to pay an entrance fee of 200 Rubles and not to see: especially in windy weather on the beach of the island Hare sandstorms occur - such as the Khamsin in Eastern countries - and then seemed to close at arm's length, sculptured art made ​​available.

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 As can be seen in the photo at the top left of the sand art statues - a fragile thing, but not so loose, as expected.

The largest sand castle

 Ed Jarrett built his first castle in 2003. Then he decided to make the castle more, then more and more. In total 1500 volunteers, he built the biggest sand castle in the world. On this they took 2,500 hours. first built the world's tallest sand castle in 2003, then broke his own record in 2007, and now his back with his third consecutive record, a 37-foot, 10-inch sand marvel.