Russia🇷🇺, Karelia, Ruskeala

The Ruskeala Mountain Park is the main pride of Karelia. This is an amazing combination of marble mountains, turquoise lakes and lush greenery.

The main asset of the park is the combination of marble rocks coming to the surface with the greenery of the surrounding vegetation and turquoise lake water. The water-filled marble quarry in Ruskeala is a lake, above which rise 25-meter marble rocks, going deep under the emerald water. 

The canyon consists of mining workings that create amazing arches, halls with marble columns, as well as caves, although man-made, but looking like natural.

The deposit of marble was discovered in the middle of the XVII century. It was developed by order of Catherine II, when St. Petersburg needed material for the construction of palaces and temples. For these purposes, a huge amount of marble was required, and the nearest deposit turned out to be on the site of the current Ruskeala.