Hogwarts. Made in Ukraine (43 photos)

If you thought that the castle "Hogwarts" does not exist, then you are deeply mistaken. It is certainly not a large-scale and Gothic as in the famous film about the adventures of Harry Potter and the magic was not taught. But something magical in it is. Here is one of the main universities of Ukraine - Chernivtsi University.




This unique architectural ensemble came into being thanks to the efforts of Bishop Yevhen Hakman. In 1863 he obtained from the Austrian Cisar permission for construction of a new spacious residence worthy of the capital of Bukovina. The composition of the ensemble is quite complicated, but it is marked precision planning. It consists of three monumental buildings-buildings: the main, the seminary with the Church of Three Saints and the presbytery.
Now the university is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.



On the left is the Church of Three Saints, next to which is a horseshoe-shaped body seminary. In case there were two seminary spiritual educational institution: Seminary and the Greek Orthodox theological faculty.



Serving in the Church were discontinued during the period of Soviet atheism, only in 1993 has been restored and revived the theological faculty of worship.



Church painted painter Professor Karp Jobst. Thanks to the wonderful acoustics of the temple willing to come to listen to church singing.







Go to the main building. Today in the main building there are three faculties: the Faculty of Geography, Faculty of Foreign Languages, philological, philosophical and theological.





The architecture is really very impressive!





The main building has three historic halls - Marble (formerly International Version) Hall, Red Room and the Blue Room.



Synod Hall.







In 1944, the Synod hall was damaged by fire. The fire affected not only the interior, but also lost the Synodal Library, which contained unique incunabula and archives. The current view of the Marble Hall - a copy created p





The blue room is not so nice and presented geneous creativity.



The red room, its interior is preserved in its original form.



The walls of the hall are decorated with red Chinese silk, wooden ceiling decorated with ornaments and parquet floors vystelen red beech, oak and linden green.















A sign on the geographical faculty.



After transitions to the body, going into an open audience, striking in its unusual history, suggestive different thoughts.







Behind the main building is a beautiful arboretum, which is a monument to the architect Josef Hlávka majestic ensemble of buildings.





Then in October, it felt light and delicate hint of autumn, with wide and bright colors of the leaves. However, the ever-green plants give to forget for a moment that will become the winter, enjoy walks in the silence.



In the garden, marked on the map as a botanical, non-smoking, and littering. This is understandable, and students and faculty, and guests who came from all over the world.







And of course, not without the traditional reel roof



Leaving Chernivtsi, there is some modest desire to return here again in order to visit several places identified on the map. That's all.













Source: armahema.livejournal.com