Owning a personal car is not important for people who live and work within the town limits. To get to work or to school, residents usually use a bus or a trolley, because it's cheaper. You see the horizon through a blue haze many kilometers away. And when you reach the Friendship Rotunda, you ll see an easy slope and the houses of the low town below. People come here if they want to rest or if they have nothing pressing to do.
Newlyweds arrive to drink champagne as they observe the majestic landscape.
Recent graduates come to the Friendship Rotunda to greet the sun the morning after their graduation party. This is a museum, and everything inside is the same as it was two hundred years ago, a fragment of the eighteenth century inserted into the twenty-first. But two hundred years are a mere heartbeat for the town. In 1999, Poltava celebrated its 825th anniversary. In 1998, archaeologists found proof that the town is no less than 1100 years old.