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Art is like a nature. If you do not let it comes in the door, it will enter through the window.
Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler
Kiev is not only a city of churches and cathedrals, but also is a city of modern art objects. Just in last five years, Kiev has become the center of the European street-art: a large number of murals and unusual sculptures appeared. Look just on "Landscape Alley," Hedgehog in the Fog, White Cat "forked breed".
Excursion "Kiev Street-Art on the Land Cruiser Prado» is for you if you want to:
• know where Alice lives in Kiev?
• see the most beautiful murals of our city.
• meet with a Hedgehog, White Cat "forked breed" and Ballerina.
• find out who is Constantine Skretutsky?
• hear the story about the contemporary artists who have worked in Kiev.
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1-3 pax |
4-5 pax |
car/bus |
3 hours |
4500 UAH |
5100 UAH |
History is a witness of the past, a light of truth, a living memory, a life teacher, a messenger of antiquity.
Cicero
Do you want to see the architecture of all regions of Ukraine, its evolution throughout the centuries with your own eyes? If the answer is yes than a visit to this museum is strongly recommended. Everything is unusual there: an old under a thatched roof hut, barn and even a wattle fence.
Excursion to the "museum of folk architecture and life Pirogovo " is for you if you want to know:
• how old is the oldest hut in the museum?
• who was the richest man in the village?
• how peasants lived in Ukraine in XVII-XX centuries?
• how can you find out that there is a girl of marriageable age in a house?
• what was the most revered saint of the peasants?
• where was a "donkey" desk at school?
• who was the richest man in the village?
• how peasants lived in Ukraine in XVII-XX centuries?
• how can you find out that there is a girl of marriageable age in a house?
• what was the most revered saint of the peasants?
• where was a "donkey" desk at school?
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1-3 pax |
4-5 pax |
6 and more |
car/bus |
3 hours |
4400 UAH |
6300 UAH |
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Kiev is Jerusalem of Slavic lands.
Alexander II
Alexander II
Since its foundation as the cave monastery in 1051, the Lavra has been a preeminent center of the Eastern Orthodox Christianity in Eastern Europe. Together with the Saint Sophia Cathedral, it is inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. There are many Ukrainian lands loved by religious people. One such sanctuary is the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery, whose domes have been overlooking the slopes of the Dnipro for a thousand years.
Tour to "Kiev-Pechersk Lavra monastery" is for you if you want to know:
• what is the oldest monastery in Rus?
• where is located Leaning Tower of Pisa in Kiev?
• how many holy relics are in catacombs?
• where is buried Stalin teacher?
• who were the first monks in Kievan Rus?
Tour to "Kiev-Pechersk Lavra monastery" is for you if you want to know:
• what is the oldest monastery in Rus?
• where is located Leaning Tower of Pisa in Kiev?
• how many holy relics are in catacombs?
• where is buried Stalin teacher?
• who were the first monks in Kievan Rus?
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Duration |
1-3 pax |
4-5 pax |
6 and more |
car/bus |
2.5 hours |
4200 UAH |
6000 UAH |
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Pessimism - is a luxury that Jews can not afford.
Golda Meir
Golda Meir
Century-long history of Kyiv is inseparable from the history of Jewish community, which origin dates back to the pre-Christian Rus times. Prominent Jewish manufacturers and merchants, engineers and lawyers, penmen and artists worked here. Future political leaders of Israel – Golda Meir and Yefraim Katsir –were born in Kyiv. The famous writer Sholem Aleikhem lived and worked in Kyiv. During our tour you will have a chance to visit synagogue and Babiy Yar – the place of mass execution of the Jews in the World War II.
The excursion "Jewish Kiev" is for you if you want to know:
• when the Central Kiev Synagogue was built?
• why the shooting of Jews was started at Babi Yar?
• who was the chief Maecenas of Kiev?
• where Golda Meir was born?
• Why Podil is called "small Odessa"?
• why it was forbidden for Jews to trade in the Jewish market?
• how many Jewish pogroms were in Kiev?
• why the shooting of Jews was started at Babi Yar?
• who was the chief Maecenas of Kiev?
• where Golda Meir was born?
• Why Podil is called "small Odessa"?
• why it was forbidden for Jews to trade in the Jewish market?
• how many Jewish pogroms were in Kiev?
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Duration |
1-3 pax |
4-5 pax |
6 and more |
car/bus |
4 hours |
5600 UAH |
7800 UAH |
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All peoples have the secret sympathy for their evil spirits.
Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler
Have you ever been on Old Kiev Hill a Sunday morning? At that time it reigns sheer madness in the air. The chime of church bells are interrupted by pagan chants! How could in the "Orthodox Jerusalem" get along so different faith? We have answer for this question.
The tour "Mystical Kiev" is for you if you want to know:
The tour "Mystical Kiev" is for you if you want to know:
• how many Bald hills are in Kiev?
• where stands a pagan god Perun?
• where is a Devil hill in the city?
• where is a "haunted house"?
• why monument to Vladimir the Baptist was not consecrated?
• why the emblem of Kiev has archangel Michael image?
• where is Kiev Golgotha?
• how Central Post Office in Kiev is associated with poltergeist?
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1-3 pax |
4-5 pax |
6 and more |
car/bus |
3 hours |
4200 UAH |
6000 UAH |
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walking |
2 hours |
2700 UAH |
3000 UAH |
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Walking through the courtyard - it is a city that is seen "from within".
Viktor Nekrasov
These traditional tourist places like Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, St. Sophia Cathedral, and Independence Square everyone knows, but today we invite you to stroll through the cozy courtyards of Kiev. You will see three old ravens in a huge cage, four giraffes and eleven pandas without a cage, cat centipede, and all these animals are not closed in a zoo. In addition, you will see Ukrainian Madonna made of mosaic.
The tour "Secrets of Kiev courtyards" is for you if you want to know:
• where is courtyard with the ravens?
• what Kiev park is compared to the park of Gaudi in Spain?
• where lives cat-centipede in Kiev?
• where is the "Kiev Madonna”?"
• do pandas live in our city?
• on what balconies year-round bloom flowers?
• what Kiev park is compared to the park of Gaudi in Spain?
• where lives cat-centipede in Kiev?
• where is the "Kiev Madonna”?"
• do pandas live in our city?
• on what balconies year-round bloom flowers?
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Duration |
1-3 pax |
4-5 pax |
6 and more |
car/bus |
3 hours |
4200 UAH |
6000 UAH |
req. |
car/bus |
4 hours |
5600 UAH |
7800 UAH |
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But without Podil Kiev is not possible, as Saint Vladimir without the cross.
Words from a song
Words from a song
If you’ve never visited Podol – you’ve never been to Kiev. Podol is the historic district located beneath the Kiev hills on the bank of the Dnepr River. Everything merged here: a wonderful atmosphere of Kiev, beauty of cathedrals and churches, majestic monuments, old buildings and marvelous narrow streets. During the times of the Kievskaya Rus, Podol was the trading-craft area of Kiev. The handicraft quarters, the main city port, harbour and custom house were situated in Podol, or as it was named The Lowest City.
Excursion "Podil district" is for you if you want to know:
Excursion "Podil district" is for you if you want to know:
• why is Podil so called?
• where and when were the biggest Kiev trade fairs?
• where Mikhail Bulgakov was born?
• why Napoleon set fire to Podol?
• where is the Florovsky female monastery?
• did Peter the Great live on Podil?
• where was built first shopping center in Kiev?
• where and when were the biggest Kiev trade fairs?
• where Mikhail Bulgakov was born?
• why Napoleon set fire to Podol?
• where is the Florovsky female monastery?
• did Peter the Great live on Podil?
• where was built first shopping center in Kiev?
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Duration |
1-3 pax |
4-5 pax |
6 and more |
car/bus |
3 hours |
4200 UAH |
6000 UAH |
req. |
walking |
2 hours |
2700 UAH |
3000 UAH |
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The Andriyivsky Descent is one of the real "Kiev" streets.
Viktor Nekrasov
Viktor Nekrasov
Every city has its landmark street. In Paris is Montmartre, in Moscow is Arbat and in Kiev this is Andriyivsky Descent. Street-soul, street-character, street legend. Here Mikhail Bulgakov used to live, architect Rastrelli used to work. Although there is located Landscape Alley the first art-park in Ukraine, which is very similar to the famous Gaudi Park in Barcelona.
Tour "Andriyivsky Descent + Landscape Alley" is for you if you want to know:
• the history and legends of the legendary street.
• where Mikhail Bulgakov used to live?
• why "Richard the Lionheart" castle has such nickname?
• was Andriyivsky Descent the "Red Light District"?
• where is the most "whiny" mountain in Kiev?
• what fairy-tale characters live on the Landscape alley?
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Duration |
1-3 pax |
4-5 pax |
6 and more |
car/bus |
3 hours |
4200 UAH |
6000 UAH |
req. |
walking |
2 hours |
2700 UAH |
3000 UAH |
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History – is a witness of the past, the light of truth, the living memory, the life teacher, the messenger of antiquity.
Cicero
Cicero
The oldest cathedral in Kiev, the largest collection of mosaics and frescoes of the eleventh century, the main church of Kievan Rus - it′s all about the St. Sophia Cathedral, the living memory of our city. The fact that the temple has gone through hordes of Mongol-Tatars, the destruction of Kiev by Crimean khan Mengli I Giray, the revolution of 1917, World War II - makes it unique.
Excursion to "Saint Sophia Cathedral" is for you if you want to know:
• when and how the St. Sophia Cathedral was built?
• where were buried Yaroslav the Wise and his wife Irina?
• what is "inviolable wall"?
• what did Mikhail Vrubel paint in the cathedral?
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1-3 pax |
4-5 pax |
6 and more |
car/bus |
3 hours |
4500 UAH |
5100 UAH |
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This is Babi Yar of human destinies. This is the blood of my brothers.
Alexander Rosenbaum
Alexander Rosenbaum
Babi Yar is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kiev and a site of a series of massacres carried out by the Nazis during their campaign against the Soviet Union. The most notorious and the best documented of these massacres took place on September 29–30, 1941, wherein 33,771 Jews were killed in a single operation. It is estimated that between 100,000 and 150,000 more lives were taken at Babi Yar.
Tour to the Babi Yar is for you if you want to know:
• what was the official reason for the shootings at Babi Yar?
• from where Babi Yar takes its place?
• how many people were killed by the Nazis here?
• what famous people were killed at Babi Yar?
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Duration |
1-3 pax |
4-5 pax |
6 and more |
car/bus |
3 hours |
4200 UAH |
6000 UAH |
req. |