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Panoramic
city tour
(3 hours)
The tour acquaints with the main architectural and
historical landmarks of the city including Holy Spirit
Cathedral (1844), Assumption Church (the 19th century),
Chernivtsi Theater of Music and Drama with Theatre square
in front, St. Michael Cathedral (1939), Market square,
etc.
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City
tour including visit to Chernivtsi University
(3,5 hours)
Chernivtsi University is considered to be the most beautiful
architectural complex in the city. This unique architectural
ensemble was built as the residence of Archbishops of
Bukovyna and Dalmatia. The tour also includes visiting
Botanical Garden located in the marcs of University
campus.
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City
tour with a concert program in the organ music hall
(4 hours)
The city tour finishes with visit to former Armenian
Catholic Church (1875), that houses organ concert hall
now. Visitors are offered concert of organ music (45
min.)
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Chernivtsi
Museums
The Museum of Local Folklore offers rich collections
of Easter eggs (pysankas) and national costumes. The
Museum of Bukovynian Diaspora acquaints with the history
of Bukovynian immigration lives and activities of Bukovynians
by origin and their descendants. The Museum of Folk
Architecture and Rural Lifestyle features local ethnography,
mode of life, village architecture of Bukovyna.
Tourists can combine the mentioned museums into one
tour or select among them.
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Trip
to the Carpathian Mountains
The tour includes visiting two famous Carpathian resorts
- Yaremche and Vorokhta surrounded by beautiful mountain
landscapes.
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Yaremche is a well-known mountain resort and
center of Hutsul Art with several craft works bazaars. In
Vorokhta town tourists are offered excursion at the longest
in Ukraine sky lift with beautiful panoramic views. In between
Yaremche and Vorokhta the group travels through Carpathian
National Park area.
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Trip
to Khotyn and Kamyanets-Podilskyy
The town of Kamyanets-Podilskyy is first mentioned in
medieval chronicle in the 11th century. Located along
picturesque canyons the city has presented elements
of various cultures and different historical epochs.
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A feudal era fortress (the 1lth - l6th centuries)
deserves special attention
The tour also includes visiting Khotyn fortress – monument
of Cossack glory located on the Dnister river bank. The complex
includes four defensive towers (1480), commandant’s palace,
a church with fragments preserved from the 16th century, a
Russian church (1835) now housing the Khotyn Ethnographic
Museum. Many pitched battles were fought below the fortress
walls. One of the greatest battles took place in Khotyn in
September 1621, when unified Slavic units won a victory over
the 150,000-strong Turkish army.
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Trip
to Kolomya
(60 km, half day)
The tour includes city tour of Kolomya town and visit
to the Museum of Hutsul Applied Art with unique collections
of national costumes, ceramics, woodcarving, as well
as the only one in the world museum of Easter eggs –
Pysanka Museum. The central part of it has the form
of 13 meters high Easter egg.
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Rohatyn
(Ivano-Frankivsk Region)
. In 1520 Tatars abducted a local girl named Nastya
Lisovska, who was sold into the harem of Turkish Sultan
Suleiman II (the Magnificent). Later known as Roxolana,
she became his wife and played and influential role
in Turkish politics. Visit Holy Spirit Church (1598,
restored in 1895) with its renowned Iconostasis, it
is one of the most outstanding examples of Galician
folk architecture.
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Yaremche
Is one of the major tourist centers of the Hutsul Region.
Drive to the foothills of the highest mountain of the
Ukrainian Carpathians, Hoverla (2061 m). If you are
brave, climb to the top and you will be captivated by
the magnificent panoramic views.
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Kolorove Nebo