Central Ukraine
Built of wood in the 10th to 13th centuries, then redesigned and rebuilt in stone by Italian military engineers in the 16th century, K-P's fortress is a…
Must-see attractions in Central Ukraine
Central Ukraine
Between May 1942 and July 1943, Adolf Hitler paid several visits (accounts vary) to his regional military headquarters in a vast bunker 8km north…
Avtomotovelofototeleradio Museum
Central Ukraine
Big name for a small museum but worthwhile for anyone with a wistful soft spot for the days of Soviet mass production. This octagonal building near the…
Museum of Strategic Missile Forces
Central Ukraine
It’s not easy to find, but deep in Ukraine’s agricultural heartland, 25km north of Pervomaysk, lies one of Ukraine’s coolest museums. Better known as the…
Cathedral of Saints Peter & Paul
Central Ukraine
The Old Town's most prominent church perfectly illustrates how the Polish and Turkish empires collided in Kamyanets-Podilsky. Built in 1580 by the…
Central Ukraine
The historic Polish section is dominated by the 19th-century Orthodox Church of St George, with its five spires painted a brilliant azure. One gets here…
Central Ukraine
Levi Yitzhak's mausoleum is in Berdychiv's huge Jewish Cemetery. For decades, with the exception of Yitzhak's mausoleum, the cemetery was overgrown and…
Central Ukraine
Sofia Pototsky was a legendary beauty, and Uman's stunning park is her husband Count Felix's monument to her physical perfection. Having bought Sofia for…
Central Ukraine
Named after acclaimed Soviet rocket engineer and local lad Sergei Korolyov, this surprisingly well-curated museum is famous across the former Soviet Union…
Central Ukraine
Ukraine's original big-time spray show (since 2011), the Roshen Fountain lights up the Pivdenny Buh River every night in the mild months. Built by the…
Central Ukraine
The impressive brick-walled complex hogging the horizon as you approach Berdychiv from Khmelnytsky is widely known as the fortetsya (fortress), but it's…
Central Ukraine
Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski was born in 1957 to noble Polish parents in Berdychiv, then part of the Russian empire, and spent the first 4 years of…
Central Ukraine
The second-most famous embalmed corpse in the former Soviet Union (after Lenin in Moscow) rests in the basement of a chapel in the suburb of Pyrohove…
Central Ukraine
The impressive Medzhybyzh Fortress stands proudly at the confluence of the Pivdenny Buh and Buzhok Rivers. Inside its gently crumbling courtyard are an…
Central Ukraine
Move over, Vinnytsya: there's a new fountain in the 'hood. Uman's is not as gigantic or as hyped as the one that illuminates the Pivdenny Buh to the west,…
Central Ukraine
This imaginatively presented museum with English explanations takes visitors through the archaeology of Podillya in six easy steps. You begin in a Stone…
Central Ukraine
Polish Market Sq is lorded over by the tall 14th-century Ratusha (Town Hall). The renovated peach-hued building now houses three modest museums. Most…
Central Ukraine
There are some interesting old buildings on vul Pyatnytska, which branches off Armenian Market Sq. The large structure with a distinctive metal dragon…
Central Ukraine
The pieces on display are only a small fraction of the permanent collection, which includes some 60,000 works of art and thousands of other artefacts…
Central Ukraine
At the northern edge of the Old Town is the still-functioning 16th-century Vitryani (Windy) Gate, where Peter the Great's hat blew off in 1711. Connected…
Central Ukraine
You'll find the Dominican Monastery complex on vul Dominikanska; some parts of it date from the 14th century. The buildings suffered serious damage during…
Central Ukraine
Heading towards the fortress along the main drag through the Old Town, you'll pass this baroque 18th-century Greek Catholic church (formerly St Trinity's)…
Central Ukraine
Huge, decorative wrought-iron gates enclose these ruins of a 15th-century church, its perimeter still weeping masonry onto the cobbles below. The…
Central Ukraine
If you don't have time to go castle-hopping around central and western Ukraine, here is your chance to see miniature models of 14 Ukrainian castles,…
Central Ukraine
Rabbi Nachman (1772–1810) was the 18th-century sage who founded the Breslov branch of Hasidism. Tens of thousands of Jewish pilgrims flock to Uman every…
Central Ukraine
This large and diverse museum is well worth an hour or two for its interesting archaeological artefacts, bug-eyed taxidermy and large WWII exhibition with…
Central Ukraine
About 1.5km before you get to the chapel containing Pirogov's body, you can see his house, now a museum. It's actually more interesting than you'd expect,…
Central Ukraine
One of the old gates to the city, the 17th-century Ruska Gate is on the south side of the isthmus in the old Ruthenian (Ukrainian) quarter. Along with the…
Central Ukraine
Flanking the Teteriv River about 1.5km south of the city centre, this park is a hive of activity in the summer months and serves up great views of the…
Central Ukraine
Vinnytsya's epicentre is maydan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Sq), where major demonstrations and meetings take place. A rather inconspicuous monument on…
Central Ukraine
Looking south from the New Bridge you can spot the 1583 Potters' Tower, so named because it was looked after by the town's potters. Twelve of these towers…
Central Ukraine
The red-brick clock tower on pedestrian vul Ovodova houses an interesting museum where you'll find tributes to the 167 young local men who made the…
Central Ukraine
This rose-tinted neoclassical church is where Honoré de Balzac was married to Polish noblewoman Ewelina Hańska in 1850. Look for the brass plaque on the…
Central Ukraine
With its distinctive ochre-and-white exterior, double clock towers and lavish interior, this small church dating from 1746 is a must-see for fans of…
Central Ukraine
The Polish Gate was the main entry into the old Polish section of Kamyanets-Podilsky. It's not in use today.
Central Ukraine
This light-yellow, gold-domed church dating from 1758 is worth checking out for its dim and atmospheric painted interior, punctuated by the fragrant scent…
Central Ukraine
Behind the Kamyanets-Podilsky Fortress to the west are the remains of the largely earthen, 17th-century New Fortress.
