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Part II. Recommended cities to visit in Ukraine: Kyiv

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Kyiv (Kiev) is the capital of Ukraine. It celebrated its 1500th anniversary.
Kyiv was and through centuries remained the cultural centre and a major cradle for the Kievska Rus. Its most famous historical architecture complexes are the St. Sophia Cathedral and the Kiev Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves), which are recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. More information about Kyiv can be found in Wikipedia which is translated into 114 languages.
As well you can visit Hotel Maps / Ukraine to find the best cheap accomodation, sightseeings on the interactive map, and even book a flight to Kiev.

Part I. Recommended cities to visit in Ukraine: Lviv

2010-06-15T01:06:00.000-07:00

I'd recommend Lviv wich celebrated its 750th anniversary. The city is regarded as one of the main cultural centres of today's Ukraine.
The historic city centre is on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

In 2009 the Ukrainian magazine Focus assessed Lviv as the best Ukrainian city to live in.

More information about Lviv can be found in Wikipedia.

Lviv is so popular that its Wikipedia article is translated into 64 languages.

As well you can visit Hotel Maps / Ukraine to find the best cheap accomodation, sightseeings on the interactive map, and even book a flight to Lviv.

Travel to Ukraine

2010-06-14T01:39:00.000-07:00

Ukraine is a big country center in Europe that stretches from Poland to the West to Russia to the East, and from Belarus to the North to the Black Sea to the south. Ukraine also has borders with Hungary, Slovakia, Moldavia and Romania.

Most of Ukraine is lowlands, but there are although Carpathian Mountains located in the West and Crimean mountains in Crimea. Climate is moderate continental, and Mediterranean at the southern coast of Crimea.

There are 22 national parks and 21 nature reserve (4 - biosphere reserves, and 17 - natural reserves) in Ukraine.

The territory of Ukraine had been settled even in the Stone Age, but as a state, Ukraine appeared in third quarter of the first millennium. 882 was the year of establishment of Kievska Rus.

For centuries, Ukraine was part of neighboring states - Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Austro-Hungary. A nd finally, Ukrainian National Republic was proclaimed in 1917.

Millenary historical heritage left its mark in the 60 historical and cultural reserves.

It makes Ukraine very popular touristic place. Thus, Ukraine took 8th place of International tourist arrivals by country of destination 2007 (23.1 million tourists) and 7th place of International tourist arrivals by country of destination 2008 (25.4 million tourists).

More information about Ukraine can be found in Wikipedia, and Ukraine portal.