Podil
Historic riverside merchant quarter of baroque churches, cobbled streets and an old fountain square.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Podil in Kyiv follows Ivan Hryhorovych-Barskyi, an eighteenth-century architect born into a Podil family, and the unusual text he composed for his own grave. It takes in the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, the town magistrate, and the problem of getting spring water down to a riverside district. Best heard standing on Contracts Square, beside the domed fountain pavilion.
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