President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder examined one of the Gottorf Castle\'s main sights — the Gottorf Great Globe.
The Great Globe is a functioning model, restored in 2004, of the original globe, which is in the M.V. Lomonosov Museum in St. Petersburg.
The globe is a two-walled hollow sphere with a diameter of more than three metres, inside which is a planetarium.
After looking at the globe, Mr Schroeder hosted a dinner in the Gottorf Castle’s Deer Room for the participants in the consultations.
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Visit to Germany
December 20 − 21, 2004