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Uzhgorod - a city that can not be forgotten
In a cozy valley surrounded by mountains and plateaus of the Carpathians, lying on both banks of the river Oh, it is the ancient city of Uzhgorod.
Uzhgorod with its more than thousand-year history - one of the most ancient and beautiful cities of Ukraine. Ancient architecture, small coffee shop, a flower-filled Japanese sakura and magnolias, the atmosphere of romance, legends and ghosts. The city, where people come to think dreams come true.
The ethnic composition of Uzhgorod Ukrainians, Hungarians, Roma, Russian, Slovak Jews. Common languages spoken - Ukrainian, Hungarian, Russian.
On the map Ukraine Uzhgorod is located far to the west of Kiev - about 898 km by rail and 788 km by road.
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The reasons for which should come in Uzhgorod:
1. Legends and Ghosts of Uzhgorod castle
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Castle - a faithful guardian of the city and its spiritual guardian, one of the oldest in Ukraine.
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Legend has it that Count Drugets had a daughter, blonde great beauty. During the long and beautiful hair she was nicknamed the White Virgin. While the Polish troops led by Count Lubomirski, wanted to conquer the Uzhgorod castle. A Polish governor, decided to conduct reconnaissance, arrived at the castle as a guest. Virgo in love with him without memory, without knowing that he is an enemy. During the siege of the young princess learned among the enemies of his beloved, but her love she was so great that it has appointed a meeting with him near the secret passage in the lock, opened the course than enemies. Castle Guard intercepted the letter and notified the graph. Lovers caught. The officer cut off the head, and the Virgin alive immured in the wall. Since then, every night her ghost bypasses castle in search of a loved one, and with the sun returns to the stone prison. There are many legends about the mysterious underground passages. According to one version, Uzhgorod castle was connected to Nevitsky, on the other - with Mukachevo and Serednyanskim locks, and in the third - all three locks at once. One could say, to jump into the 32-meter well in the courtyard of the castle and survive because he was connected to the river Oh.
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2.Peshehodny bridge, fulfilling desires
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One of the oldest and most famous bridges in Uzhgorod, a stone pedestrian links two completely different halves of Uzhgorod - Old Town and New Town. Once the bridge was by vehicle and drove him first city bus, connecting the theater square and the train station. Today Pedestrian bridge - one of the favorite places of Uzhgorod: it offers a wonderful view of both the shore and clearly visible Adder longest lime avenue in Europe. From the bridge you can feed the city's favorites - the seagulls are so used to people that grab the food right out of hand. It is on the pedestrian bridge, tourists come to think of desire as the sign says, when you set foot in the "old" city of the "new", by clicking on the bridge over the river Oh, you need to make a fondest wish and it will surely come. A loving couples hang on the railing of his love castles, hoping to keep his love forever. It is believed that if you throw the key to the love of the water, I do protect the ancient relationship of adversity.
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3. The longest in Europe linden alley
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Within 2 kilometers of 200 meter runs along the two embankments Adder - Independence and student. It blooms all summer alley, lindens because of different varieties. There is also growing three hundred year ash, parasitic vine entwined. Their unique tandem. Liana evergreen and fed juices ash it is necessary throughout the year. And he, like most deciduous winter shed their leaves and goes to sleep. It turns out that the vine parasite must destroy him, but they are now two centuries inseparable. Liana has grown into a full tree and the snake wound around the ash. This mysterious love them.
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4. Flowering cherry
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In late April - early May Uzhgorod completely transformed: hundreds of cherry trees bloom everywhere pinkish-white flowers, because of what distance it seems as if the streets and alleys wrapped in pink clouds. Every year in Uzhgorod attracts thousands of tourists to admire this truly wonderful and exciting spectacle. Almost simultaneously with the sakura blooming magnolia, pink, white and purple, flowers bloom Japanese quince and apple Nedzvetski, Florida and Chinese.
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5. Museum in Skansen Witch Pit
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One of the first in Ukraine open-air museums, Museum of Folk Architecture and Life, Uzhhorod, located on the site where once was the famous Witch pit. Once in the Middle Ages here Transcarpathian burned witches, convicted of communication with the devil. Some legends still call this place unclean, and said that the full moon witches come out to the world, to take possession of new souls.
Zakarpattia Museum today - a distinctive ensemble of Ukrainian national heritage. Then the samples are located, and housing estates Transcarpathians - dolinyan, and on the hill - Highlanders: Boiko and Hutsul, and the estate of the Hungarian and Romanian population.
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6. Korzo
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Korzo is almost all of the shops, cafes and banks. It - commercial heart of Uzhgorod. The name is translated from Italian as "walking street". So it was called the former owners of the city - Neapolitan Drugetti graphs. That is the best street in the entire city preserved traces of the old building of Uzhgorod. The street was called Czechoslovak times Velikomostoy. The street is narrow, built up on both sides of two and three story old houses, most of which are decorated with stucco ornaments. Crossroads vul.Voloshina Korzo and the so-called Cross, is a favorite meeting place of Uzhgorod. Corzo, the Cross and the street Voloshin - pedestrian area. There are scattered everywhere coffee terraces and benches in the middle of the passer. This is the most beautiful part of Uzhgorod.
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8. Parks
a) public garden, rock garden
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b) Bushtynsky Park
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c) The Botanical Garden
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9. Wonderful Uzhgorod coffee and cozy coffee shops
This coffee brewing able only in Transcarpathia - everybody knows. Coffee for Transcarpathia - it's a lifestyle, an occasion for dialogue, a form of recreation, a source of news and many other important details. The poor and the poor are the people who think that coffee is only two types: black and cappuccino. In my favorite bar, where zakarpatets knows all visitors and baristas call him by name, zakarpatets can choose from a huge number of different coffee recipes. One used coffee in the morning. Another - in the summer. And everyone has a favorite brand of coffee, and really hard to figure out which of all is still the best.
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Uzhgorod with its more than thousand-year history - one of the most ancient and beautiful cities of Ukraine. Ancient architecture, small coffee shop, a flower-filled Japanese sakura and magnolias, the atmosphere of romance, legends and ghosts. The city, where people come to think dreams come true.
The ethnic composition of Uzhgorod Ukrainians, Hungarians, Roma, Russian, Slovak Jews. Common languages spoken - Ukrainian, Hungarian, Russian.
On the map Ukraine Uzhgorod is located far to the west of Kiev - about 898 km by rail and 788 km by road.
30 photos
The reasons for which should come in Uzhgorod:
1. Legends and Ghosts of Uzhgorod castle
02.
Posted in [mergetime] 1303369703 [/ mergetime]
Castle - a faithful guardian of the city and its spiritual guardian, one of the oldest in Ukraine.
03.
Legend has it that Count Drugets had a daughter, blonde great beauty. During the long and beautiful hair she was nicknamed the White Virgin. While the Polish troops led by Count Lubomirski, wanted to conquer the Uzhgorod castle. A Polish governor, decided to conduct reconnaissance, arrived at the castle as a guest. Virgo in love with him without memory, without knowing that he is an enemy. During the siege of the young princess learned among the enemies of his beloved, but her love she was so great that it has appointed a meeting with him near the secret passage in the lock, opened the course than enemies. Castle Guard intercepted the letter and notified the graph. Lovers caught. The officer cut off the head, and the Virgin alive immured in the wall. Since then, every night her ghost bypasses castle in search of a loved one, and with the sun returns to the stone prison. There are many legends about the mysterious underground passages. According to one version, Uzhgorod castle was connected to Nevitsky, on the other - with Mukachevo and Serednyanskim locks, and in the third - all three locks at once. One could say, to jump into the 32-meter well in the courtyard of the castle and survive because he was connected to the river Oh.
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2.Peshehodny bridge, fulfilling desires
10.
One of the oldest and most famous bridges in Uzhgorod, a stone pedestrian links two completely different halves of Uzhgorod - Old Town and New Town. Once the bridge was by vehicle and drove him first city bus, connecting the theater square and the train station. Today Pedestrian bridge - one of the favorite places of Uzhgorod: it offers a wonderful view of both the shore and clearly visible Adder longest lime avenue in Europe. From the bridge you can feed the city's favorites - the seagulls are so used to people that grab the food right out of hand. It is on the pedestrian bridge, tourists come to think of desire as the sign says, when you set foot in the "old" city of the "new", by clicking on the bridge over the river Oh, you need to make a fondest wish and it will surely come. A loving couples hang on the railing of his love castles, hoping to keep his love forever. It is believed that if you throw the key to the love of the water, I do protect the ancient relationship of adversity.
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3. The longest in Europe linden alley
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Within 2 kilometers of 200 meter runs along the two embankments Adder - Independence and student. It blooms all summer alley, lindens because of different varieties. There is also growing three hundred year ash, parasitic vine entwined. Their unique tandem. Liana evergreen and fed juices ash it is necessary throughout the year. And he, like most deciduous winter shed their leaves and goes to sleep. It turns out that the vine parasite must destroy him, but they are now two centuries inseparable. Liana has grown into a full tree and the snake wound around the ash. This mysterious love them.
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4. Flowering cherry
17.
In late April - early May Uzhgorod completely transformed: hundreds of cherry trees bloom everywhere pinkish-white flowers, because of what distance it seems as if the streets and alleys wrapped in pink clouds. Every year in Uzhgorod attracts thousands of tourists to admire this truly wonderful and exciting spectacle. Almost simultaneously with the sakura blooming magnolia, pink, white and purple, flowers bloom Japanese quince and apple Nedzvetski, Florida and Chinese.
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5. Museum in Skansen Witch Pit
Posted in [mergetime] 1303373306 [/ mergetime]
One of the first in Ukraine open-air museums, Museum of Folk Architecture and Life, Uzhhorod, located on the site where once was the famous Witch pit. Once in the Middle Ages here Transcarpathian burned witches, convicted of communication with the devil. Some legends still call this place unclean, and said that the full moon witches come out to the world, to take possession of new souls.
Zakarpattia Museum today - a distinctive ensemble of Ukrainian national heritage. Then the samples are located, and housing estates Transcarpathians - dolinyan, and on the hill - Highlanders: Boiko and Hutsul, and the estate of the Hungarian and Romanian population.
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6. Korzo
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Korzo is almost all of the shops, cafes and banks. It - commercial heart of Uzhgorod. The name is translated from Italian as "walking street". So it was called the former owners of the city - Neapolitan Drugetti graphs. That is the best street in the entire city preserved traces of the old building of Uzhgorod. The street was called Czechoslovak times Velikomostoy. The street is narrow, built up on both sides of two and three story old houses, most of which are decorated with stucco ornaments. Crossroads vul.Voloshina Korzo and the so-called Cross, is a favorite meeting place of Uzhgorod. Corzo, the Cross and the street Voloshin - pedestrian area. There are scattered everywhere coffee terraces and benches in the middle of the passer. This is the most beautiful part of Uzhgorod.
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8. Parks
a) public garden, rock garden
26.
27.
b) Bushtynsky Park
28.
c) The Botanical Garden
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9. Wonderful Uzhgorod coffee and cozy coffee shops
This coffee brewing able only in Transcarpathia - everybody knows. Coffee for Transcarpathia - it's a lifestyle, an occasion for dialogue, a form of recreation, a source of news and many other important details. The poor and the poor are the people who think that coffee is only two types: black and cappuccino. In my favorite bar, where zakarpatets knows all visitors and baristas call him by name, zakarpatets can choose from a huge number of different coffee recipes. One used coffee in the morning. Another - in the summer. And everyone has a favorite brand of coffee, and really hard to figure out which of all is still the best.
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