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Ivano-Frankivsk Photo Gallery

Ivano-Frankivsk is a historic Ukrainian city next to the Carpathian foothills in western Ukraine. It has a well-preserved old town and merits at least a day trip. It can be reached by overnight train or by plane from Kiev and other Ukrainian cities. The city is over 95% Ukrainian speaking.

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Monument to Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko.	Soldiers of World War II memorial cemetary.	Nezalezhnosti street ("Independence Str.") is lined with 19th century buildings.	The first storey of this beautiful building is a bookstore.
Ivano-Frankivsk is a city of bookstores and libraries.	Lady selling artwork on the street, a common sight in Ukrainian cities on the weekends.	Every European city must have a fountain.	Looking down Independence Str. at the weekend crowds
Ukrainian Greek Catholic cathedral	Quaint square in the historic center	This art museum used to be a church.	18th and 19th century homes line the square.
Quite remarkable for Ukraine is Ivano-Frankivsk's tourist information center.	Just a few steps away is this tourist information kiosk with free broschures and maps.	Historic town council in the center of Market Square	Teenagers playing basketball on Market Square.
View of the square	Ukrainian autocephalous (autonomous) Orthodox cathedral	Not all old buildings have been restored. This one's balcony is about to drop off.	Ivano-Frankivsk is full of shops with little-known names from Greek history and mythology. This drug store, for example, is called "Aspasia."
Fancy old home turned into a restaurant	This Oblast administration building had such an obvious phallic sculpture in front of it that I had to take a picture.	Kiev Patriarchate Ukrainian Orthodox church	Orthodox cross molded into fence
Ivano-Frankivsk train station

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