Western Ukraine

Ukrainian Carpathians: you thought this was somewhere in Eastern Europe?

05/16/2003

After crossing the Slovakian-Ukrainian border and on the way from town of Uzhghorod to Rahiv in Western Ukraine you will probably notice a sign which says the following: " A permanent, precise, eternal place. The Center of Europe, defined with great precision by means of a special device made in Austria and Hungary with a scale of meridians and parallels. Year 1887".  

Lviv - Western Gates to Ukraine

06/11/2003

Less than an hour by air from Warsaw or Kiev, with connecting flights from all over the world, Lviv is easy to open the western gates to Ukraine and to get to treasure yet to be discovered by many people  

Medieval Lviv

02/23/2003

Lviv is a very poetic city steeped in legends both ancient and relatively new  

Bukovina. The beech tree land

02/23/2005

Bukovina, as Chernivtsi region is called historically, is located in Western part of Ukraine, in the foothills of the Carpathian mountain range between the rivers Dniester and Prut