Castle of Richard Lionheart
Neo-Gothic apartment house of towers, spires and battlements on a steep historic hillside street.
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This guide to the Castle of Richard the Lionheart on Kyiv's Andriivskyi Descent is about a mock-medieval rental house built at the start of the twentieth century, and the sounds its tenants began hearing whenever the wind rose. It follows the contractor Dmitry Orlov, the rumours of evil spirits that swept the city, and a resident historian who lost patience with sleepless nights. Best heard on the street below the towers on a breezy day.
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