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

Wednesday, December 9, 2015


Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine


Situated in the eastern fringe of Central Europe, the transnational property numbers a selection of sixteen tserkvas (churches). They were built of horizontal wooden logs between the 16th and 19th centuries by communities of Orthodox and Greek Catholic faiths. The tserkvas bear testimony to a distinct building tradition rooted in Orthodox ecclesiastic design interwoven with elements of local tradition, and symbolic references to their communities’ cosmogony. The tserkvas are built on a tri-partite plan surmounted by open quadrilateral or octagonal domes and cupolas. Integral to tserkvasare iconostasis screens, interior polychrome decorations, and other historic furnishings. Important elements of some tserkvas include wooden bell towers, churchyards, gatehouses and graveyards.

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1424



The Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine comprises 16 wooden churches built by horizontal log construction. They are located in isolated parts of the Carpathian Mountains. They were built by communities of the Eastern Orthodox and Greek Catholic faiths in the 16th-19th centuries.

The 16 churches can be divided into four groups of different ethnographic architectural traditions. 

http://www.worldheritagesite.org/sites/woodentserkvas.html

Ancient City of Tauric Chersonese and its Chora


The site features the remains of a city founded by Dorian Greeks in the 5th century BC on the northern shores of the Black Sea. It encompasses six component sites with urban remains and agricultural lands divided into several hundreds of chora, rectangular plots of equal size. The plots supported vineyards whose production was exported by the city which thrived until the 15th century. The site features several public building complexes and residential neighbourhoods, as well as early Christian monuments alongside remains from Stone and Bronze Age settlements; Roman and medieval tower fortifications and water supply systems; and exceptionally well-preserved examples of vineyard planting and dividing walls. In the 3rd century AD, the site was known as the most productive wine centre of the Black Sea and remained a hub of exchange between the Greek, Roman and Byzantine Empires and populations north of the Black Sea. It is an outstanding example of democratic land organization linked to an ancient polis, reflecting the city’s social organization.

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1411



The Ancient City of Tauric Chersonese and its Chora covers an archaeological site and agricultural landscape of Greek origin. It is located on a peninsula in Crimea, at the shores of the northern Black Sea. It was colonized by the Greeks in the 5th century BC and used as a trading port. Wine, produced locally, was one of the main export products.

After the Greeks were defeated, the city fell into the realm of Rome and later Byzantium. It was abandoned in the 15th century.

The designated zone consists of 7 locations: the ancient city with its original grid layout and 6 surrounding areas with plots of agricultural land. 

http://www.worldheritagesite.org/sites/chersonese.html

L'viv – the Ensemble of the Historic Centre


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



L'viv - the Ensemble of the Historic Centre represents a crossing point of cultures and architectural traditions. The trade routes in the Middle Ages attracted a number of etnic groups with different traditions:
Ukrainian, Armenian, German, Jewish, Polish, Italian and Austrian.
These groups lived in separate communities, and left their own religious and artistic marks on the city.

In comparison to other central and eastern European towns of medieval origin, L'viv survived very well (comparable to Cracow, but with a different road in history). 

http://www.worldheritagesite.org/sites/lviv.html