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Berdychiv Tours


Berdychiv, panorama

The route from Kyiv to Berdychiv by car, 180 km:

Berdychiv private tour route: Kyiv - Zhytomyr - Berdychiv

Berdychiv (Ukrainian: Бердичів, Polish: Berdyczów, Yiddish: ‫באַרדיטשעװ‬‎, translit. Bardichev, Russian: Берди́чев)

The city has 25 architectural monuments officially.

Discalced Carmelites Order Monastery (1634-1642)
In 1627 Kievan warlord Yanush Tyshkevych founded the monastery and presented his own land and a castle to Carmelites Order in 1630, as well as his own village Skraglivka with servants for the future maintenance of the monastery.  
and
Roman Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1739-1754)
A spacious baroque style shrine united the the basilica and cruciate temples forms and ended with a dome on a high cylinder. It was built on the basement and walls of elder and smaller cathedral, which is the lower church now, inside of new construction.
Also known The miraculous icon of Berdichev Divine Mother, the copy of which is now in the cathedral. 

Discalced Carmelites Order Monastery. Berdychiv

St Barbara's Catholic Church (1759-1781)
The great French writer Honore de Balzak got married to countess Evelina Hanska in this church on March 14, 1850. They travelled by carriage from Evelina's family estate Verkhivnya Park in Volhynia to Berdychiv, where they were married by Abbot Ozarovsky.

St. Barbara Catholic Church, Berdychiv

Joseph Conrad Museum
Future Polish-British writer (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, 1857-1924) was born in Berdychiv.
"This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still." Joseph Conrad
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Conrad
http://www.museum-konrad.info

Joseph Conrad. Berdychiv tour

St. Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral (1908)
http://berdychiv.in.ua/про-свято-миколаївський-собор/

Local lore museum
More about history of Berdychiv http://berdychiv.in.ua/category/istoriya/istoriya_berdycheva

Holy Trinity Orthodox Church (1834-1836)
http://berdychiv.in.ua/вул-олега-реготуна-3-свято-троїцька-це/

Holy Trinity Orthodox Church, Berdychiv

Berdychiv Beer Factory
Was founded by Czech colonist Stanislav Emanuel Czep in 1861. 
Official website: http://berdpivo.com.ua
 
Jewish sites of Berdychiv see here...

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