Showing posts with label Ukraine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ukraine. Show all posts

A Ukrainian Hogwarts (Chernivtsi/ Ukraine)



Chernivtsi National University in western Ukraine reminds the locals of Hogwarts, the well-known school of Harry Potter.
It was originally designed by Czech architect Josef Hlavka in the 1860's to be the residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans. Today it is of the prettiest and most renowned universities in Ukraine featuring Romanesque and Byzantine architecture embellished with motifs of Ukrainian folk art.

The Swallow's Nest (Gaspra/ Ukraine)



The Swallow's Nest on the top of the 40m Aurora cliff overlooks the sea outside of the town of Gaspra, Ukraine. The original structure on the property was a small wooden cottage constructed around 1895. Later, in 1911, the cottage changed hands, got demolished and replaced it with the Neo-Gothic manor that still stands to this day.

Tunnel of Love (Kleven/ Ukraine)



This beautiful train tunnel of trees called the "Tunnel of Love" is located in Kleven, Ukraine.

Floating House (Krasnosilka/ Ukraine)



This floating house is located 1 km from Krasnosilka, Odes'ka Oblast (Ukraine).

Thanks to a reader we now have more info about this place:

"This building is a part of a potato sorting station. That metal bottom
cones used for loading potatoes into trucks. Usually it looks like this.
It's a common construction in agricultural regions of Ukraine,
but this one looks like misplaced or partly dismantled."

Polina Rajko's house (Tsuriupinsk/ Ukraine)



Polina Rajko (15.05.1928-15.01.2004) lived in the little town Tsuriupinsk, Ukraine. Her husband and daughter died early. Her alcoholic son beat her and sold things from her house to get money for alcohol. When he was impisoned in 1997, Polina Rajko started to paint the walls of her house. She was 69. Until her death in 2004 she spent almost all of her pension on enamel paint.
All 9 rooms, external walls of the house and fence are painted.

Photos by: ТОТЕМ, Kherson

Druzhba Holiday Center Hall (Yalta/ Ukraine)


The Druzhba Holiday Center is a resort on a hill overlooking a beach in what was then an exclusive resort town. To enter, visitors cross a bridge encased in a glass tube and then descend into the complex, which is supported on massive legs housing the elevators and stairs.

Cave Monastery (Rozgirche/ Ukraine)



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