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

Sep 26, 2010

Ukraine. L'viv – the Ensemble of the Historic Centre

Solomiya Krushelnytska Opera and Ballet Theatre. Early 20th Cent.

Chapel of the Boim family, 1609-1615
Date of Inscription: 1998
Minor modification inscribed year: 2008
Criteria: (ii)(v)
Property : 120.0000 ha
Buffer zone: 2441.0000 ha
Halychyna, L’viv Oblast'
N49 50 29.868 E24 1 55.128
Ref: 865bis  
 
The city of L''viv, founded in the late Middle Ages, was a flourishing administrative, religious and commercial centre for several centuries. The medieval urban topography has been preserved virtually intact (in particular, there is evidence of the different ethnic communities who lived there), along with many fine Baroque and later buildings.
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/865
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You can also chek this nice panoramic map of the historic centre:
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With many thanks to Volodymyr and Tanja!

Jul 11, 2010

Ukraine. Saint-Sophia Cathedral and Related Monastic Buildings, Kiev-Pechersk Lavra

St. Sophia of Kyiv




Kiev-Pechersk Lavra





St. Sophia of Kyiv


Date of Inscription: 1990
Minor modification inscribed year: 2005
Criteria: (i)(ii)(iii)(iv)
Property : 28.5200 ha
Buffer zone: 220.1500 ha
Kiev
N50 27 9.288 E30 31 0.696
Ref: 527bis

Designed to rival Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, Kiev's Saint-Sophia Cathedral symbolizes the 'new Constantinople', capital of the Christian principality of Kiev, which was created in the 11th century in a region evangelized after the baptism of St Vladimir in 988. The spiritual and intellectual influence of Kiev-Pechersk Lavra contributed to the spread of Orthodox thought and the Orthodox faith in the Russian world from the 17th to the 19th century.

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/527

Thanks to Ksenia!