The Pechersk Lavra Cave Monastery in Kiev

The Pechersk Lavra Cave Monastery in Kiev The Pechersk Lavra (Cave Monastery) in Kiev, is one of the oldest monasteries in Easte Europe, is the spiritual center and the holy city in Ukraine, not surprisingly, on the UNESCO list of World Heritage. The Lavra was more than a thousand years, through a labyrinth of caves under the hill, which today in Kiev. A candle and every walk through the narrow catacombs, you can see, 123 Saints, by the unique composition of air and moisture, and many of the saints resting in glass coffins. The relics in the catacombs are adored by thousands of pilgrims from all over the world, through each year. Looking away from the bare glass are only preserved frescoes on the walls of the maze, painted by the monks, some of them almost 900 years. During the occupation of Kiev by Germany during the Second World War, it was ordered that the bodies of the saints to be exhumed and the Dnipro River. Loading the bare glass, the first truck could not be started so that the coffins were a second truck, which in tu can not be started. It 'was reported that at this point the German guards were bare, to retu to the safety of the catacombs was thought the violence in work.For more information or to other places of interest go to the site of the trip to Ukraine, or watch the travel and tourism links to the parent company of Addington-Barker Group Inteational.