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Palanok Castle
Mukacheves highlight is the hilltop castle that pops up from the surrounding plain as you approach Mukacheve from Uzhhorod, like something in a fairy-tale fantasy. This 14th-century castle, famous as the site where Croatian-Hungarian princess Ilona Zrini held off the Austrian Emper
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Donbass Arena
Yes, the football arena that hosted one of the Euro 2012 finals is the main attraction in the relatively young and industrial Donetsk. Its home to the countrys best team – Shakhtar Donetsk, oligarch Akhmetovs favourite toy. At the clearly marked Shakhtar museum , you can arrange a
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Mt Chatyr
Mt Chatyr-Dag (1527m) lies west of the Alushta–Simferopol road and is renowned for the numerous caves that lie beneath it. The most famous are the Mramornaya Cave and the Eminé-Bair-Khosar . Theyre not world-beating, but maybe are worth seeing if youre staying longer in Crimea.Mram
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Khotyn Fortress
While Kamyanets-Podilsky is awesome taken as a whole, its castle building is upstaged by Khotyn Fortress . Eastern European filmmakers love to use this massive fort overlooking the Dnister River as a location; recently refurbished, it served as Warsaw Castle in the recent Russian-l
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Mt Demerdzhi
The Valley of the Ghosts under Mt Demerdzhi (1356m) contains some stunning rock formations created by the wind erosion of sandstone. The freaky pillars have vaguely human features and are certainly memorable. The nearby village of Luchistoye (Лучистое) has a couple of lodges boasti
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Swallows Nest
Like many movie stars, Swallows Nest is shorter in real life than it appears in pictures. This toy-town castle is a favourite subject for Crimean postcards, but its only big enough to house an expensive and exceedingly disappointing Italian restaurant.Instead, its the castles preca
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Jewish Cemetery
Levi Yitzhaks mausoleum is in Berdychivs eerie, overgrown Jewish Cemetery. While the mausoleum itself has been looked after, several-hundred odd boot-shaped tombstones lie hideously askew and virtually hidden by weeds, neglected almost to the point of disbelief. Many tombstones, et
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Sviatohirsk Lavra
One of only three lavra (super monasteries) in Ukraine, Sviatohirsk monastery obtained this status in 2004. It is probably not nearly as ancient as Kyevo-Pecherska Lavra – monks moved in here in 1620, burrowing into the chalk cliff, which they transformed into a five-storey dwellin
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Arkadia Beach
An evening at Arkadia is a must when in Odesa and this is definitely the citys best place to see and be seen. Here you can play old-school arcade games, dress up like a tsar or tsarina for a photo op, or hang out in a variety of cafes, bars and clubs.The central part of the beach i
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Korolyov Cosmonaut Museum
Named after acclaimed Soviet rocket engineer and local lad Sergei Korolyov, this surprisingly well-curated museum is famous across the former Soviet Union. Suitably space-aged music plays and fake stars glimmer as you walk around a dark hall packed with assorted mementos of the Sov
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Chekhov House
With many of Yaltas attractions a short distance away, the Chekhov House-Museum is the only must-see in town. Its sort of The Cherry Orchard incarnate. Not only did Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) pen that classic play here, the lush garden would appeal to the most horticulturally challe
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Sofiyivka Park
Sofia Pototsky was a legendary beauty, and Umans stunning park is her husband Count Felixs monument to her physical perfection. Having bought Sofia for two million zloty from her former husband (she had been sold into slavery at an early age by her parents), the Polish count set to
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Genovese Fortress
Its vertiginous location is one of the major appeals of Sudaks Fortress. This once-impregnable complex is perched on a massive seaside cliff and in true Ukrainian fashion youre allowed to clamber all over it, at times perhaps unsafely.Built during the 14th and 15th centuries, the f
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Ploshcha Rynok
Lviv was declared a Unesco World Heritage Site in 1998, and this old market square lies at its heart. The square was progressively rebuilt after a major fire in the early 16th century destroyed the original. The 19th-century Ratusha stands in the middle of the plaza, with fountains
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Vorontsovsky Palace
Crimeas most exotic palace-park complex is wedged between the coast and Mt Ay-Petri, in a stunning setting 16km west of Yalta at Alupka. The palace was designed by English architects for the English-educated Count Mikhail Vorontsov, the immensely rich regional governor, and its a b
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Pyrohovo Museum of Folk Architecture
Ukraine is dotted with open-air museums like this, full of life-size models of different rustic buildings. However, the Pyrohovo Museum of Folk Architecture, 12km south of Kyiv, is one of the most fun and best maintained.Two things make it stand out. Firstly, the quaint 17th- to 20
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House of Chimeras
Hard to say which other national president has a bunch of otherworldish creatures peering into his window, but the Ukrainian one does for his office is face-to-face with Kyivs weirdest edifice. The chimeras, which cover every patch of architect Wladislaw Horodeckis creation, are in
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Chornobyl Museum
Its hard to convey the full horror of the worlds worst nuclear accident, but the Chornobyl Museum makes a valiant attempt. It is not so much a museum as a shrine to all the firemen, soldiers, engineers, peasants and whole villages that perished in the aftermath of the explosion of
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Antoniy Caves, Illynsky Church & Trinity Monastery
About 2km southwest of St Catherines Church youll spot the 58m bell tower of the Troyitsko-Illynsky Monastery (Trinity Monastery). The Antoniy Caves , Chernihivs answer to Kyivs Kyevo-Pecherska Lavra, lurk beneath the ground a short walk north of this monastery, under the early 11t
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Khortytsya Island
The Zaporizhska Sich on Khortytsya Island was the most important cradle of Ukrainian Cossackdom, where hetman (leader) Dmytro Baida united disparate groups of Cossacks in the construction of a sich (fort) in 1553–54. The island was perfect: strategically located below the Dnipro ra
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