Friday, August 10, 2012

Castle in Kamenetz-Podolsk

 Kamenetz-Podolsk - it's actually an open air museum, is one of the oldest cities in Ukraine, numbering nearly thousand-year history. It was founded as a fortress, which has an important geopolitical position at the border of the Christian and Muslim cultures, the intersection of land and water routes. Located in the Khmelnitsky region, Ukraine, and is the administrative center of Kamenetz-Podolsk district.
Most major cities is a fortress, which consists of two parts - the Old and New Castles. The old castle was provided for the protection and maintenance of close combat. New - designed and built according to the new requirements when the bout was conducted has long-range guns, guns, guns. Trees and high walls of the Old Castle to protect all who were in the courtyard of the fortress from enemy arrows and spears, and the system of cellars with their food supplies and a deep well was provided in case of a long and exhausting siege. New Castle is larger in size, with curtains, a system of passages and casemates, polubastionami, ditches provided an opportunity to fight an artillery weapon, as well as the numerical presence of military garrisons.

Kiev Pechersk Lavra

Kiev Pechersk Lavra- one of the first of the founding of monasteries in Rusia covering nearly 30 hectares. Its territory is about one hundred buildings, 42 of which are unique. Most of the buildings of the Monastery dates from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and are a perfect example of Ukrainian Baroque style in architecture. Pechersk monastery Orthodox world has given one hundred and fifty holy ascetics, preserving incorrupt remains of 119 of them in their caves as sacred in some caches!
 The name "Cave" comes from the word "cave", which were found in this territory, and settled first in which the monks. The architectural complex of the monastery, and now makes a grand impression. On a sunny day, the reflections of numerous domes and bell towers dazzle the eye. Until the mid-twentieth century, the Great Lavra Bell Tower was the tallest building in Kiev.

Sophia Park


Sophia Park (Sofiyivka) - dendrology park in Uman-known far beyond Ukraine, for over 200 years is amazing its visitors a combination of gems of landscape architecture, engineering and technical ideas, embodied in the wonderful fountains, waterfalls, caves and underground rivers, which seems to have merged together with the stunning beauty of the natural landscape! Annually it is visited by about 500,000 people, the area of ​​the park - 179.2 hectares.
 As conceived by the architect L. Mettsel Park is a perfect illustration of the individual parts of the poems of Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey." "Sofiyivka" and is famous for the fact that based on a classical basis, because it is almost materialized in specific sites of the park Homer's "Odyssey." Any composition or a small architectural form is not only beautiful outwardly, but also contains a specific plan, the idea is a myth or an event, and everything is so well thought out and linked together, that in general, is discharged into a symphony of beauty.
Sophia Park starts at the main entrance to the street Gardening, followed by a central avenue.