Kremenets. The Castle of Queen Bona

May 8, 2008 – 8:16 am

It is early morning. The town of Kremenets slumbers at the base of Bona Hill. The great building of the Kremenets Lyceum, impressive belfry of the Mykolaivska church and the other old houses of the city also sleep. In their dreams they see the many famous people who used to visit Kremenets: the great composer Franz List, genius author Honoré de Balzac, and Ukraine’s legendary Taras Shevchenko… Towering 400 meters above, their rest is guarded by the castle of Queen Bona

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The Ternopil Region: Tourist Gold Mine

April 7, 2008 – 12:08 pm

I had heard about the unique beauty of the Ternopil region, its rich traditions and its hospitable citizens long ago. But that the Ternopil region is a real oasis for tourists was a real surprise for me! Extreme, green, regional, historic and spiritual tourism: Ukraine’s purest ecologic environment, 25 waterfalls and more than 100 caves, the Dnister river canyon (one of Europe’s longest!), 34 castles - and that is not all that this wonderful region has to offer the active traveller

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