Welcome to Kiev

Located in the central part of Eastern Europe, Kiev - one of the most beautiful cities of Ukraine. Lying on both banks of the Dnieper River, the city will surprise you with its versatility and beauty. Coming here again, you can never forget the amazing atmosphere and the time spent here.

At high Dnieper hills stretches Kiev-Pechersk Lavra - a huge complex of churches and monasteries. Laurus will impress not only pilgrims and tourists and simple, passion story. Indeed, during a tour of these holy places, You can trace the history of Kievan Rus to the present day, to go down into the dark narrow cave monastery, visit the tomb of the great reformer of Stolypin.

           

Kiev-Pechersk Lavra

Generally, churches in Kiev huge set and each of them is good in its own way. Vladimir Cathedral, artfully painted a great artist Mikhail Vrubel, the famous St. Andrew's Church, in which never got married Golokhvastov and Pronia Prokopivna, the main temple of ancient Russia - Sofia Kiev ... the beauty of these places you just feel dizzy!

Kievan Sophia

          

St. Andrew's Church                                                                    Vladimir Cathedral

But not only the temples and holy sites of interest Kiev. Indulge in the pleasure to see the city from the Dnieper River - a third the length and width of the river basin in Europe. During a romantic boat trips you will find buried in the green hills of Kiev, Vladimir majestic - Baptist, who stood over the city, a beautiful island Truhanov.

Volodymyr the Great Monument

Trukhanov Island

And after a nice river walk is the time to explore the city's oldest and popular areas of Kiev - Podil. Small houses and narrow winding streets plunge you into atmosphere of old Kiev, and you will feel as if found yourselves at the beginning of the twentieth century.

District Podol

Kiev - the city of the mysterious and mystical. Fans of any "devilry" gladly pass through the mysterious streets of the hem, will rise to the legendary Lysa (Gora) mountain, where according to legend, every year going to the coven, or drink tea on the veranda of the house of the great writer and mystic Mikhail Bulgakov. Equally interesting will be to them architectural masterpieces Vladislav Gorodetsky - the famous house with chimeras decorated many figures bizarre mythical creatures, the Church of St. Nicholas, the National Art Museum of Ukraine.

Castle Hill

House with Chimeras

Probably only in Kiev harmoniously coexist past and present. After rising from the hem along the winding "Uzvozam", you will immediately find yourself in a modern European capital and experience the crazy rhythm of the city.

Incidentally, Kiev - the eighth most populous city in Europe, after Moscow, London, Paris, Istanbul, St. - Petersburg, Berlin and Madrid.

In the center of Kiev - Independence Square, a huge number of beautiful and whimsical fountains, which in the summer bathing ceremony guests and residents of the Ukrainian capital. Here and "Love" lights - modern and unusual, a little comic sculpture. By the way, these unusual monuments in the city very much. You can arrange a whole "quest" on the streets of Kiev. You just do not notice how you spend the whole day searching for bronze chestnuts, piano in the bushes, ballerina Panikovski, hedgehog in the fog, funny cats, who settled on the landscape alley and the little prince.

Maidan Nezalezhnosti

No less interesting are the traditional sights of Kiev. Among them - a huge park - an open air museum dedicated to the heroism of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War. Huge, eighty-five meter sculpture "Rodina - Mother" is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the tallest statue in Europe and eleventh highest in the world.

Men of all generations will be interesting not only to visit the Museum of the Great Patriotic War, and a visit to the stadium of the legendary Kiev "Dynamo", where so many games in a row for his team experienced a great football coach Valeriy Lobanovskyi.

Stadium «Dynamo»