Ukraine

Ukraine's highest mountain at 2,061 metres and the oldest nature reserve in the Ukrainian Carpathians, protecting one of Europe's last intact beech-spruce forest ecosystems across the Chornohora ridge.

A UNESCO-listed former Orthodox metropolitan residence in Chernivtsi, built 1864-1882 to Austrian imperial designs, blending Byzantine, Venetian Gothic and Baroque elements into one of the most flamboyant 19th-century buildings in Ukraine.

A UNESCO-inscribed 19th-century port city built on a grid by French and Italian architects, famous for the Potemkin Stairs, Deribasivska Street, and the catacombs that honeycomb the limestone beneath the city.

A medieval fortress on a rocky island in the Smotrych River gorge, built mainly between the 14th and 16th centuries under Lithuanian, Polish and Ottoman rule, famous for its 28-metre deep well and Ottoman Turkish Tower.

A UNESCO World Heritage city that spent centuries under Polish, Austro-Hungarian and Soviet rule, leaving an architectural layering from Gothic through Art Nouveau that makes it one of Ukraine's most culturally rich urban destinations.

Two UNESCO sites in Kyiv: the 11th-century Saint Sophia Cathedral with original Kievan Rus frescoes, and the cave monastery of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra with its baroque belfry and underground saintly relics.