Everything starts in Kyiv

With its hills furnished against exuberant panorama. With the spellbinding Dnipro, its sand-lined green islands, long-stretching bridges.

Lviv - open to the world

The grandeur of enigmatic and magnificent city Lviv, its beautiful buildings, the spirit of coffee houses creates the atmosphere of an earthly paradise.

Chernivtsi - like an aging wine…

Chernivtsi is showered with lush blossom and sunshine. You feel like doing nothing but strolling, enjoying every moment of beauty, absorbing all scents and sounds.

Odessa - the city of plenty

Odessa’s charm is a fusion of different cultures that have influenced the architecture, humor and spirit of people and food traditions of the city.

Uman - the romantic nook

Uman as “beautiful Greece in miniature” makes dive into the world of an amazing natural treasure, marvelous landscapes, fairytale grottoes, mirror-like ponds, and fantastic sculptures.

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Gastronomic tourism: City Festival of Cheese and Wine broke records


III City Festival of Cheese and Wine was held on these days. Tons of cheese, the best wine and thousands of gourmets made unforgettable atmosphere on the Market Square in Lviv. A variety of wine from Italian to the Transcarpathian, large wine press, wine tasting, portraits by wine, wine mail, public sale and restaurant where guests were treated with risotto with parmesan.
Summing up its records, III City of Cheese and Wine turned to be the main gastronomic event of this autumn. This fact is confirmed by the figures:


123 thousands of Lviv residents visited this event;
     

                                       
              15 200 liters of wine were drunk; 



   
7 500 tons of cheese and 8 353 of cheese horses were sold;
                                              



 Lviv wine post sent 2739 letters, 258 of them were sent to Italy;




Festival treated its guests with 200 kg curd fritter;   
                        
                           
        
 Special stamp “Festival of Cheese and Wine” was issued;



Ton of grape was turned down in the juice from which wine would be made;

                                                                             


                                           Nearly 500 portraits were drawn by wine;




10 music bands performed on the stage of the festival;
                                                        


             
             5 wine tastings were held in which 40 participants took part;

1220 festival goblets for mulled wine were bought.


The organizer of the festival was company “Dick-Art"



Tuesday, October 2, 2012

New Tourist Information Center was opened in Kyiv


Kyiv Tourist Information Center (TIC) was opened on September 27. Its main peculiarity is that it takes place in the tram, to be more precise TIC is stylized as a tram.  New service gives information about the places of interest in the capital, where to stay and eat, possibility to reserve airline and/or railway tickets.

The information is available in foreign languages.  There is Wi-Fi and laptops which be used by anyone. “We will be working for everybody. Everyone can receive all information in which he is interested in.  Database is very large” - said one of the activists. According to the idea, “tram” should have been the part of the unique information complex, directed to the tourists.

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