Day 1: Lvov
Arrival at the airport of Lvov, transfer to the hotel, check-in and dinner in the hotel.

Day 2: Lvov
Breakfast in the hotel.
Departure for a panoramic excursion of the city. The city was built in 1250 by prince Danylo Romanovytch, eminent sovereign of the powerful Slavic State of Halych-Volynia. The historic heart of the city is listed in the world heritage of the humanity by UNESCO. From the hill of the High Castle (Zamkova Hora), where remain the ruins of the castle built by prince Danylo in the XIIIth century, you can admire a magnificent panorama on the old town. The visit will continue by the descent towards the marketplace ( Plochtcha Rynok) in the heart of the old town. Visit of the historic museum of Lvov, its magnificent collections are shared between three houses around the place. At n° 6, the first collection is hosted in a beautiful patio of Italian Renaissance style. At n° 4, a collection of work of art of the XIXth and XXth centuries. At n° 24 the collection recounts the history of Ukraine, with a beautiful part dedicated to the Cossacks.
Lunch in a restaurant.
We shall pursue with the visit of the Boyim chapel (1617). Visit of the chemist's shop museum. The collection includes the medical and pharmaceutical instruments, the prescription books and the rare plants used for the XVIIth century.
Departure for the visit of the cemetery Lytchaskivky. The first graves date from 1786. It is among the biggest historic cemeteries of Europe. About 400.000 persons are buried there (artists, composers, scientists...).
Back in the hotel and dinner.

Day 3: Lvov
Breakfast in the hotel.
Walk in Voulitsia Pidvalia and visit of the Dominicans monastery followed by the Uspenski church, flanked by the famous Korniakt bell-tower and the chapel of the three Saints. Then, we shall see the fortifications of the city and the Bernardins monastery.
Lunch in a restaurant.
Departure for Jovkva (30 km). The beautiful town of Jovkva which sheltered in the XVIIth century an artists' colony, preserves a beautiful palace of Renaissance style within a very pleasant park. Discovery of the St Laurent cathedral, of the monastery of the Dominicans and the wooden churches of the Holy Trinity.
Back to Lvov, spare time and dinner in the hotel.

Day 4: Lvov
Breakfast in the hotel.
Departure for the castle of Olesko (70 km east of Lvov), built in the XVIIIth century on the site of an ancient medieval fortress destroyed by the Tatars in the XVth century. We shall pursue the discovery of the beautiful houses of the region with the castle Pidgoretsky of Renaissance style. In 80 km east of Lvov, in the town of Zolotchiv, towers up the castle of Zolotchiv, built in 1630. It is a defensive citadel surrounded with high ramparts. The inner courtyard hosts the Big Palace of Renaissance style and the Chinese palace which Polish king Jean III made build for his wife Marie Kazimira d' Arcoulion. Lunch in a local restaurant.
Back to Lvov and dinner in the hotel.

Day 5: Lvov - Kiev
Breakfast, check-out and transfer at the station.
Arrival in Kiev early in the afternoon. Lunch in the restaurant.
Beginning of the panoramic tour of Kiev by bus. The visit will begin with The Golden door (Zoloty Vorota): erected in 1037 by Yaroslav the Wise, it was formerly the main entrance of the city, then, the opera of Kiev and the Krechtchatik boulevard, which winds on 1,5 km between both hills Chtchekavitsa and Khorevytsya. Closed to the traffic the weekend, it is the favourite place of the inhabitants for shopping, meeting themselves and having a glass.
Arrival at the hotel and check-in.
Spare time and dinner in the hotel.

Day 6: Kiev
Breakfast in the hotel.
Visit of the famous Petchersk Laura monastery. The construction of this complex vast of more than 26 ha began in the XIth century.You will visit the catacombs where rest the mummified mortal remains of some 165 monks, (among which those of Saint Antoine, founder of the monastery and Nestor the author of the chronicles of Kiev), the museum of the historic treasures hosting a magnificent collection of golden Scythian jewels as well as silver Jewish ritual objects of the XVIII-XXth centuries. The visit will end at the museum of microminiatures.
Lunch in a restaurant. The afternoon will continue with the visit of the museum of Pirogovo, an ethnic museum located at 12 km in the south of Kiev which extends on approximately 145 ha. It presents a beautiful reconstruction of the wooden architecture and the Ukrainian rural life of former days.
Back to Kiev and dinner in the hotel.

Day 7: Kiev
Breakfast in the hotel and check-out.
Panoramic excursion of the city, passing by the St Volodymyr cathedral (XIXth), the St Sophie and St Michel cathedrals. The visit will continue towards the St Andrew church overhanging the Podil, the oldest trading district of Kiev. You will go to it by taking the picturesque descent of Andrew lined with artist's workshops and art galleries.
Lunch in a restaurant and transfer at the Kiev-Borispol airport.
Arrival early evening at the airport of Simferopol. Transfer in the hotel in Yalta, check-in and dinner in the hotel.

Day 8: Yalta - Aloupka
Breakfast in the hotel.
The day will begin with a small excursion on the cape Aï-Todor (10 km west of Yalta). On a overhanging cliff, towers up the nest of swallow ( Lastotchkyno Gnizdo) built on order of a German oil tycoon in 1912. The visit will continue to Aloupka (15 km west of Yalta), this sea resort was the place of residence of the count Vorontsov, which made it build his palace of neo-Moorish style in volcanic rock.
Lunch in a local restaurant.
Nearby, a funicular, will transport you on the mountain Aï-Petri (1233 m), offering you a magnificent panorama as well on the inside of the lands as on the coasts and the Black Sea.
Back to Yalta, spare time and dinner in the hotel.

Day 9: Yalta - Sevastopol
Breakfast in the hotel.
Departure for Sevastopol and discovery of the city. Many monuments recount the events of the war of Crimea and the siege of 350 days which the Frenchs, the Englishs and the Turks layed to the city between 1854 and 1855.
Visit of the Panorama museum and the defensive works located behind the museum, dedicated to the siege of Sevastopol.
Lunch in a restaurant.
Visit of the ancient Chersonese. The ruins of the former Greek city are after the suburbs of Sevastopol, on the cape of the quarantine bay. It was built in the VIth century by Greek colonists of Heraclea. The site includes elements of ramparts of the IXe-XIVe centuries dating from Mongolian raids and some marble columns of a small Byzantine basilica. The cathedral of prince St-Volodymyr destroyed during the second world war, was reconstructed in 2004.
Back to Yalta, spare time and dinner in the hotel.

Day 10: Yalta
Breakfast in the hotel.
Departure for the visit of the Palace of Livadia. Located 3 km west of Yalta, Livadia is above all, the health resort which hosts the "Grand Palais", theater of the famous 1945 conference of Yalta. Nicolas II made build this beautiful palace of neo-Renaissance style in limestones of Balaklava in 1911.
Lunch in a restaurant.
Transfer to the station in Simferopol. Spare time and dinner in a restaurant. Depature of the overnight train Simferopol-Odessa early evening.

Day 11: Odessa
Arrival at the station of Odessa early in the morning.
Transfer to the hotel and breakfast in the hotel.
Discovery of the city, with a morning visit at the Privoz market, the biggest of the city.
The panoramic excursion of the city of Odessa will continue by passing by the Primorski boulevard, the statue of the duke of Richelieu and the famous Potemkine staircases.
Back in the hotel, check-in and lunch in a restaurant.
Free afternoon (possibility of going to one of the beaches close to the city center).
Dinner in the hotel. The evening will be spent in the leisure district of Arkadia.

Day 12: Odessa
Breakfast in the hotel.
Departure for Belgorod-Dnetrovski (50 km). Located on the right bank of the estuary of the Dniester, the city was built in the Vth century by the Greeks, and was baptized Tyra. It is among the oldest towns of the world classified by UNESCO in the world heritage of the humanity. To ensure the defence of this strategic city, king Etienne II of Moldavia made it build a fortress in the XIIIth century. Its construction extended over about 200 years. It is one of the biggest defensive work which counts the country. Other tourist places are the Armenian church as well as the underground church of Saint John.
Lunch in a local restaurant, back to Odessa.
Spare time till the dinner.

Day 13: Odessa
Breakfast in the hotel.
Departure for the Catacombs: these galleries dug to extract the necessary rock for the construction of Odessa, extend over several hundreds of kilometres under the city. They were alternately the dens of smugglers and of the partisans during the second world war. They also host any sorts of warehouses. Certain rooms are now museums.
Lunch in a restaurant in the old town.
Visit of the museum of fine art and the Pushkin museum. Spare time (possibility of going to one of the beaches close to the city centre).
Dinner in the hotel.

Day 14: Odessa
Breakfast in the hotel.
Check-out, transfer to the airport. End of the stay.

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