TOUCH THE EVIDENCE OF SEVEN THOUSAND-YEAR PAST OF EUROPE, COLLECT CERAMICS OF ANCIENT TRYPILLIA CIVILIZATION IN FARMERS' FIELD.

Ukrainian Center for Tourism offers travelers the chance to immerse themselves in historical wonders of ancient Europe with series of exciting voyages to the ancient Ukrainian land guided by Doctor of history science Mykhailo Videiko.

Travelers will see the most important museum exhibitions and visit the places of digs, settlements, Verteba cave to collect remains of ancient ceramics. One-day workshop is scheduled to study pottery craft at studio.

Tour programs end with folk festivals that include celebration of Green Holidays, Ivan Kupalo Holiday-Eve and Peruns' Day which are known in all European and many world cultures as the oldest holidays of humanity.

According to the old Sumerian myth this world was created when "people began eating bread". Just at that time the most ancient civilization of Europe (now known as Trypillia culture) emerged. It was one of pre-cultures that directed further development of the whole European Civilization.

The towers of Babel and Egyptian pyramids have not existed yet, but people already lived on the banks of Dniestr, Dnipro and Bug rivers and they built large cities, grew wheat and knew secrets of Universe structure. These secrets came to us with beautiful ceramics; its patterns are not only the evidence of mastery of ancient artists but also...

Ancient people handed down their skills and know-how to posterior generations. At the present time symbols that have thousand-year history, adorn traditional embroidered towers and blouses, present in folk crafts, customs and ceremonies and they still keep their original meaning.

And when you walk along Dniestr riverbank or cross farmer's field you can see a lot of red spots on the ground, that are remains of ancient Trypillian ceramics: pieces of walls and floors, fragments of painted or dotted with serpentine ornaments vessels and figurines...

At the turning point of new epoch you have an opportunity to get in touch with the evidence of this very ancient civilization, where people first grew wheat, revealed the secret of clay and experienced endlessness of Universe. You can visit places where ruins of first European cities were discovered, feel the breath of remote ages and hold in your hands remains of the beautiful vessels. Look at their pattern. What secrets and mysteries are still hidden there?

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responsible person: Nataliya Byelikhina