Gorodetsky House
Art Nouveau mansion swarming with cement rhinos, elephants and frogs, built by a big-game hunter.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Gorodetsky House, the House with Chimaeras on Bankova Street in Kyiv, follows the architect Władysław Horodecki, who built it as his own home in the early nineteen hundreds, and the hunting passion that shaped every inch of it. It opens with him far from Kyiv on an expensive trip in nineteen eleven, then turns to the cement beasts on the facade and the Italian sculptor who made them. Stand on Bankova Street facing the front, where the animals are easiest to see.
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