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Destination guides in Ukraine

19 guides in Ukraine — cities, landmarks and regions — with honest verdicts, where to eat and the practical details.

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Taste of Ukraine

Ukraine's kitchen brings together fertile black-earth grain traditions, Carpathian pastoral cheeses, Podolian orchards and Galician café pastry craft. 19 specialties, 7 categories.

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Bowl of crimson Ukrainian borshch served with sour cream and herbs

Across Ukraine

Borshch

Beetroot and cabbage soup soured with fermented beet kvass or tomatoes and finished with smetana and dill; Ukraine's culture of borshch cooking is inscribed on UNESCO's intangible heritage list.

Related guides: Kyiv, Poltava & Opishnia, Chernihiv

Kettle of smoky Transcarpathian bograch goulash

Zakarpattia (Uzhhorod, Mukachevo, Berehove)

Bograch

Paprika-rich Transcarpathian kettle goulash simmered over an open fire with beef, smoked pork, root vegetables and pinched csipetke pasta, shared with neighbouring Hungarian traditions.

Related guides: Uzhhorod, Mukachevo & Berehove

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Experiences in Ukraine

Small rituals, meals and moments to collect across Ukraine.

Green and gold domes of Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv
UNESCO Cathedral

Kyiv · Old Kyiv Hill

Stand beneath the eleventh-century mosaics of Saint Sophia

Look up into the apse where the praying Oranta Virgin has watched over the cathedral in gold tesserae since Kyivan Rus.

Saint Sophia and historic domes of Kyiv
Historic Walk

Kyiv · Upper Town to Podil

Walk down Andriivskyi Descent into historic Podil

Follow the cobbled curve past St Andrew's Baroque church down to the merchant squares and river grid of Podil.

Cup of coffee served in a historic Lviv café
Coffeehouse

Lviv · Rynok Square & Armenian Street

Linger in a Lviv courtyard coffeehouse

Slip through a vaulted stone passage off Rynok Square for coffee brewed in hot sand and a slice of chocolate-glazed Lviv syrnyk.

Facade and fountain of the Lviv National Opera
Opera

Lviv · Svobody Prospekt

Spend an evening at Lviv National Opera

Step inside Zygmunt Gorgolewski's 1900 theatre to see its gilded auditorium and painted curtain in working performance.

Exterior of the Odesa Opera and Ballet Theatre
Port City

Odesa · Prymorskyi Boulevard & Old Centre

Explore Odesa's inner courtyards and seaside boulevards

Trace the plane-tree promenade above the harbour before stepping through wrought-iron gates into limestone dvoriki.

Towers of Kamianets-Podilskyi Fortress above the canyon
Canyon Fortress

Kamianets-Podilskyi · Old Town & Fortress

Cross the castle bridge over the Smotrych Canyon

Walk the narrow limestone isthmus between the medieval island town and the round towers of the Podolian fortress.

Probiy Waterfall on the Prut River in Yaremche
Carpathians

Yaremche & Chornohora · Carpathian National Nature Park

Hike a Carpathian ridge trail in Hutsul country

Follow spruce paths above the Prut valley to high polonyna pastures where shepherds make summer bryndza.

Former Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans in Chernivtsi
World Heritage

Chernivtsi · Former Bukovinian Metropolitan Residence

Walk the brick courtyards of Chernivtsi University

Read Josef Hlávka's polychrome tile roofs, carved stone arcades and Seminary Church as a single 19th-century ensemble.

Frieze and bastion of Palanok Castle in Mukachevo
Wine Cellars

Berehove & Mukachevo · Transcarpathia

Taste volcanic-slope wines in a Zakarpattia tuff cellar

Descend into hand-carved rhyolite cellars beneath the Carpathian foothills to taste dry whites and local reds.

Kamianka River and landscaped grounds of Sofiyivka Park in Uman
Landscape Park

Uman · Kamianka River Valley

Wander the classical cascades of Sofiyivka Park

Follow the shaded valley paths past granite grottoes, waterfalls and pools engineered at the turn of the nineteenth century.

Ornamental facade of the Poltava Regional Museum
Ceramics

Opishnia & Poltava · Poltava Oblast

See painted earthenware shaped in Opishnia

Visit Ukraine's pottery capital to see wheel-thrown bowls and zoomorphic vessels decorated in slip-trailed plant motifs.

White walls and golden domes of Saint Catherine's Church in Chernihiv
Kyivan Rus

Chernihiv · Desna River bluff

Walk the ancient ramparts of Chernihiv's Dytynets

Move between the eleventh-century Transfiguration Cathedral and the white Cossack Baroque domes of Saint Catherine's Church.

Wide bend of the Dnipro River near Kaniv and Trakhtemyriv
River Bluffs

Kaniv · Chernecha Hora

Look out over the Dnipro from Taras Hill at Kaniv

Climb the wooded bluff above the wide Dnipro bend that Taras Shevchenko asked to look out upon in his poetry.

Ukrainian borshch and traditional dishes
Intangible Heritage

Ukraine · Across the country

Eat red borshch with garlic-glazed pampushky

Share the deep crimson beet and cabbage soup with smetana, fresh dill and warm yeast rolls brushed with crushed garlic.

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Ukraine checklist

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Major cities

  • City · Kyiv
  • City · Lviv
  • City · Odesa, Black Sea
  • City · Chernivtsi
  • City · Zakarpattia
  • City · Zakarpattia
  • City · Ivano-Frankivsk
  • City · Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukrainian Carpathians
  • City · Khmelnytskyi, Podillia
  • City · Ternopil
  • City · Volyn
  • City · Vinnytsia, Podillia
  • City · Cherkasy
  • City · Chernihiv
  • City · Cherkasy, Dnipro Hills
  • City · Poltava
  • City · Zhytomyr
  • City · Kharkiv
  • City · Dnipropetrovsk

Towns & villages

  • Town · Chernivtsi, Dniester Valley
  • Village · Poltava
  • Town · Chernihiv, Seym Valley

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