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Tourist Attractions in Chernihiv
Chernihiv is a green Ukrainian city with a history of
about 1300 years. This city is famous for its ancient architecture. Beautiful cathedrals
and churches built in 11-13
centuries attract a lot of tourists to Chernihiv.
If you visit Chernigov
for the first time it is better to start with Chernihiv rampart (the Val, the Dytynets) It is located in the oldest part of the city in
the spiritual center of Chernihiv. It
is the historic and cultural heart of Chernihiv. Tourists can find here the
greatest concentration of churches,
cathedrals, historical buildings and museums.
Spaso-Preobrazhensky
Sobor or Cathedral with its golden towers that resemble up-ended ice-cream cones was
founded in 1024 and it is the oldest Orthodox
church in Ukraine and in Russia.
Only Constantinople Sofia, which is now located in Turkey is older than this
cathedral.
Here you can also see Sts. Borys and Hlib Cathedral which is
famous for its “white stone” decorations (The
burial place of the Chernigov princes), Chernihiv Collegium(the first educational institutions in the
Left-Bank Ukraine), the History Museum,
the monument to Taras Shevchenko (a
famous Ukrainian poet) and of course twelve guns of various historical periods
located on the Val.
St. Catherine's
Church is one of the most beautiful churches in Ukraine. It is
located opposite the Chernigov
rampart.
Trinity Cathedral of Chernigov is
also a very popular sightseeing with the tourists. This cathedral is famous for
its beauty and is visible from all sides
of the city.
Eletsky monastery
has an unusual history. According to
the legend it was founded on the place where St Antony Pechersky saw an icon of the Virgin that miraculously
appeared in front of him
on the top of a
fir tree. It is believed that the monastery was called in honour of this fir (in Russian
language fir pronounced as Iel’ so the monastery was called Eletsky).
Archeologists
have found a lot of underground passages
in Chernigiv. St. Anthony’s caves
form an underground monastery, founded in 1069. There is a legend that Chernigov caves were connected
with Kiev caves
with an underground passage.
Chernihiv is worth visiting
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