Twin houses, Chernivtsi

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The Twin Houses are an architectural landmark of the city. Two absolutely identical buildings look like a mirror image of each other. Made in the classicist style with elements of Byzantine Baroque and Renaissance, the building undoubtedly attracts attention.

According to legend, the twin houses - the attraction of the city of Chernivtsi - were built by a citizen who had twin sons. He allegedly built identical houses for them and lived in the central part of the city to be close to them. In fact, these are not two identical buildings, but one that is U-shaped. The distance between the balconies of the "twins" is so small that it seems as if the neighbors can come to visit right through the loggias. Nowadays, the twin houses are residential. The first floors are occupied by various organizations.

Chernivtsi is the capital of Bukovyna. It is one of the most beautiful and pleasant Ukrainian cities. There is one of the most beautifulrailway stations in the country, theChurch of St. Paraskeva of Serbia, the Church of the Exaltation of the Cross, the ship house, the City Hall (every day at 12:00 a trumpeter plays the melody of "Marichka" from the tower), the Art Museum, then Kobylyanska Street, the German Folk House, the Armenian Church and the Assumption Church (the oldest stone Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Chernivtsi), the Theater Square and the Kobylyanska Theater. Kobylianska Theater Square, Jewish People's House, Chernivtsi University (included in the UNESCO World Heritage List), Turkish Square (Chernivtsi has been a part of Turkey, Modova, Romania, Austria-Hungary, the USSR, Rus, and Ukraine), and a large rover,cozy streets and cobblestone streets, the so-called Drunken Church, Nazariy Yaremchuk's house, then another house-ship, two houses with the same number (Olha Kobylianska lived here), the house where Volodymyr Ivasyuk lived, and the pink church, the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit.

Chernivtsi sights

St. Nicholas wooden church (from 1607, restored in 1954);

stone Church of St. George on the Bitterroot (1767 in the Baroque style);

the wooden Trinity Church in Muggles (one thousand seven hundred and seventy-four), moved in 1874 to Kłokuchka;

wooden Assumption Church on Kaleczanka (1783);

City Hall with a two-story, 45-meter-high Empire-style tower (1843-1847, architect A. Mykulych), now the City Council;

Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (1825-1830 in the Baroque style);

Byzantine-style cathedral (1844-1864, architect Roll);

Church of St. Paraskeva in the pseudo-Romanesque style, completed in 1662 (architect A. Pavlovsky);

residence of Bukovyna metropolitans - since 1956 one of the buildings of Chernivtsi University);

Armenian Gregorian Church (1869-1875, architect J. Hlavka);

Chernivtsi University building (1874-1875);

Jesuit church in the Neo-Gothic style (1893-1894);

Railway station (1898-1903) in the Art Nouveau style;

the City Theater (1904-1905, architects F. Fellner and G. Helmer) in the Viennese Baroque style with Art Nouveau elements (now the O. Kobylianska Music and Drama Theater), etc.