Kremenets is a town of hospitality, beautiful mountains and architectural monuments with a historical continuity of almost 800 years. Here you can make hiking, cycling, town and neighborhood tours. But if you are tired of society, information, the rapid flow of time – here is beautiful nature with reliefs, relic trees and fragrant herbs.
Or you can just contemplate the town from a height of 400 meters above sea level! – from the famous Mount Bona. Fragments of fortress walls, which are one of the oldest fortifications of Ukraine – for many years attracted the interest of historians, archaeologists. And tourists love the incredible panorama of the ancient Kremenets and a special feeling of freedom, which is invisibly present there, closer to the sky.
«The slopes of the highest mountain, with the ruins of the castle on top, were covered with young conifers. At the foot perched several estates, one of which is ours. And the street was even lower, as if in a deep gutter. This street was not paved in any way, in wet weather it turned into a continuous swamp. Many pairs of galoshes were lost in this viscous mud.
The streets in the town center were paved with pavement on both sides. Less important roads, although paved with stones, had wooden sidewalks. Peripheral streets remained in the «untouched» form. The town had several Orthodox churches, a monastery, two Catholic churches and a synagogue. Baptists sent their service to the house near the market.
A spectacular complex of buildings, the local government, which included schools, a church, offices, a bakery, stables, various craft workshops, sports grounds and a huge park, was located in the center. My father worked as a government official here, and I went to school. On my way to and from school, I passed by the bus station. Opposite stood the Orthodox Cathedral of St. Michael, with green domes and white walls. On either side of the main road, behind a pharmacy and another corner shop, was a street where horse-drawn «taxis» were parked;
Opposite was the Jewish quarter: small huts, one or two stories high, where shopkeepers and artisans lived. They were built of wood, their roofs covered with wooden tiles covered with moss.
Artists from all over Europe would come to paint them, and I would join some of them – that was the beginning of my career». Artist, icon painter, native of Kremenets Rostyslav Gluvko («Memories»).
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The photo shows a cityscape by Svitlana Tkachuk.