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The Maryinskiy Palace
/photos/1.jpgMaryinskiy or Tsar’s palace in Kyiv is the monument of the history, the city-building and the architecture. It was built in 1750-1755. It was situated on the historical place between Kreshtchatyk and Pechersk, which had some names – “Klov”, “Palace’s part”, and “Lypky”.
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The Saint Yuriy Cathedral
/photos/2.jpgThe Greek-Catholic cathedral of Saint Yuriy is the pearl of Ukrainian architecture. The cathedral is situated on the west a little aside of historical centre of Lviv. Near the temple the park is approaching until the cathedral, the trees are calling with its silhouette and sculpture design. It as if goes on and finishes the hill’s slopes, creating the indissoluble whole of nature and architecture.
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The Saint Sofia Cathedral
/photos/3.jpgThe unique Kyiv’s Saint Sofia belongs to the world’smasterpieces of the architecture, monuments of the history, culture and religion cults. Kyiv has been compared with Jerusalem, Konstantinopol or Rome along almost a thousand years. In 1990 all complex of Saint Sofia’s cathedral had put down in the List of world cultural inheritance of UNESCO as the unique monument of architecture and monumental painting.
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The Svirzskiy Castle
/photos/4.jpgThe castle is situated on the picturesque hill surrounded from three sides with the wide pond. There are no documental facts about the time of its foundation. According to the researchers’ ideas it could be erected already in XV century.
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Kamianets-Podilskiy
/photos/5.jpgKamianets-Podilskiy heads the top-5 of the most popular tourist routs in Ukraine. The Old town of Kamianets, recognized the one of the seven Ukrainian wonders, has the unusual aura, which forces the tourists to come here again and again, in spite of that the places in some proper hotels must be reserved in some weeks before (such as “Gala-Hotel”, “Hetman”, “Cleopatra”, “Taras Bulba”).
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The Golden Gates
/photos/6.jpgThe Golden Gates in Kyiv – it is one of few monuments of Kyiv Rus defensive architecture, which had reached nowadays.Kyiv has been surrounded with high earth banks 3,5 kilometers long. These banks lied across the present streets of the central part of Kyiv – from the Lviv’s Square along the Yaroslaviv Val Street to the Golden Gates.
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The Powder tower
/photos/7.jpgThe Powder tower of 1554-1556 is if a single important fortification monument of Lviv’s building, which had kept till nowadays.Generally there were some powerful towers, gates and bastions, which had been defending the city, but the only one the Powder tower had left till nowadays.
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The Pototskiy Palace
/photos/8.jpgThe Pototskiy Palace is situated in Lviv. The palace had been built in order of count Alfred II Pototskiy in 1889 . The Palace, in style of classicism, was erected on the place of Pototski estate. The French and Polish architects had designed this wonderful palace.
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The castle "Palanok"
/photos/9.jpgThe castle Palanok, the main attraction of the city, is seen already in some kilometers before Mukacheve. Its foundation is the extinct volcono with the high of 68 meters. Palanok is the invincible and the photogenic relic of the Middle Ages.
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At the end of XVIII – the beginning of XIX century on the right bank of Ukraine some parks typical for the style of classicism were created. They portrayed the romantic spirit of the epoch, the philosophy of the unity with the nature and they most corresponded to the ideals of classicism. Sofiivka in Uman is the example of free landscapecomposition of classicism time, the completeness of the arts view and deeply thought interconnection of relief, water, vegetation, different architectural buildings and sculpture. Every detail has here its own esthetic and functional role. It’s the combination of man-made caves, waterfalls, mountain tops, canals, stone labyrinth, ponds with fountains, pavilions, arbors, sculptures and marble statues of ancient gods and goddesses, philosophers...