When you travel to Ukraine, there are some great places to visit during your stay. Here are the top ten places you are going to want to see before you leave the country. Each of them has their own unique qualities and all of them combined make up the beauty of Ukraine.
Crimean Resorts
Crimea is a beautiful region to visit and vacation. Many of the cities in this region were built and settled by Greek, Venetians, and Genoese who inter-married with local residents as they built their life there.
Carpathian Mountains
Considered the ‘Green Pearl’ of the region, the Carpathian Mountains is filled with resorts and tourist centres. It is filled with wildlife, small villages, and meadows. It is also the mysterious inspiration for a variety of vampire novels over the years.
Kiev
Located on the Dnieper River, Kiev is the capital of Ukraine and the home to 3 million people. The centre of trade routes during the 11th and 12th centuries between the Baltic and Mediterranean, Kiev is a beautiful, historic city.
Lviv
Lviv is city that is made up of medieval streets paved with stones, architecture of different centuries, and once the capital of the Slavic state of Galicia-Volyn. It was also once part of the Austro-Hungarian and Polish empires.
Odessa
The third largest city in Ukraine, Odessa is known as the ‘Pearl of the Black Sea’ by the countries residents. The city has a mild climate, warm waters, and sunlit beaches that attract thousands of tourists each year.
Yalta
This is the city that Anton Chekhov chose to live in while writing his many novels. This seaside resort on the Crimean peninsula is filled with resorts, beaches, and museums.
Kamyanets-Podilsky
Considered to be one of the oldest cities in Ukriane, Kanyanet-Podilsky can trace its history back over 1,000 years. It’s on Smotrich River on a rocky island in a picturesque canyon.
Chernihiv
This city has been known as a human settlement for over 2,000 years and was the second most important city in Ukraine during the Kyivan Rus period of the country.
Sophievka Park, Uman
This beautifully landscaped park has architecture masterpieces that date back to the end of the XVIII and beginning of the XIX centuries. The park is spread over 154.7 hectares of land outside the ancient town of Cherkassy.
Poltava
Poltava is located between Kharkiv and Kiev. It is the city in which the Swedes and Cossacks battled in 1709 against Czar Peter I, securing the Russian position over Ukraine.
You can get more information at The Ukraine Travel Advisor.
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