Weekend Summer Route: Amazing Uman

Uman is a small city in Cherkasy region that attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists every year. It is one of the romantic and mysterious cities, which became known thanks to an incredible love story.

Uman is located 277 km from Odesa, 190 km from Cherkasy, 200 km from Kyiv, and 300 km from Khmelnytskyi. Uman impresses with its beauty in any season. However, the tourist season begins only in spring and lasts until the end of November.

Alluring Sofiivka

You should begin getting to know Uman with its pride and calling card — the blooming Sofiivka Park. Every year, thousands of tourists come here to enjoy the park’s beauty, its shady alleys, refreshing waterfalls, picturesque lakes, and blooming glades. In May, Sofiivka is immersed in the flowers of magnolias, lilacs, irises, and tulips. In June and July, their bright bloom gives way to the delicate scent of more than 150 varieties of roses, and in autumn the park blazes with brightly colored leaves.

Sofiivka is not only a beautiful place to relax, but also an interesting historical site that hides many mysteries and extraordinary stories. Do not miss the chance to learn more about them!

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Basilian Monastery

The mysterious underground passage of the Basilian Monastery impresses with its size. High ceilings, wide passages, spacious rooms — they impress with their size and overturn the idea of the narrow corridors found in most underground spaces. But this is not the only interesting thing about this monastery. Its history is full of events and is striking in the way this structure has watched over the most important historical events in Ukraine for a century. Basilian Monastery went through years of prosperity and neglect, yet it can still tell contemporaries a great deal about the most important historical figures of Uman.

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St. Nicholas Cathedral

St. Nicholas Cathedral is a reminder for the people of Uman of the important victory over Napoleon's army. Townspeople were able to build the shrine with their own funds to thank God for saving the people from the great conqueror. The site for construction was chosen for a reason. Once there was a defensive fortress on it, and later a Catholic church stood there.

At first, the church was built as a church. Only later did it receive cathedral status and become Uman's main shrine. A school was opened at the church, where children and adults could learn reading and God's word.

Assumption Church

Assumption Church is a temple with a complex history. Its construction lasted almost 100 years, but the church's period of prosperity was short. Almost 30 years after it opened, persecution of its clergy began. During the Soviet era, the building was turned into a museum, which still occupies its walls today. However, since 1995, part of the building has continued its religious activity. Services are held here several times a week.

The streets of hospitable Uman have many important historic buildings. That is why it is especially pleasant to walk around the city in summer weather, when there is enough time to get acquainted with the city and its history. A vivid final note for a summer weekend route will be a walk through Nova Sofiivka or watching the spectacular music-and-light show performed by the fountains “Pearl of Love”. The dance of bright jets of water will leave only good memories of amazing Uman for a long time.