City Holovna Street

Art Nouveau style in Chernivtsi is well represented in numerous dwelling houses and family villas, as well as hotels built in the late 1890s – early 20th century. You will surely notice the building on 25 Holovna Street. This is a peculiar house with decorative plasterwork, fountain in the shape of a lion head and a bowl-shell in the niche of the ground floor. This “ship-house” (called by Chernivtsi dwellers) has a tower and the observation site on the top. The house really reminds the shape of a ship.
Walking along Holovna Street you will see so called “Passage” house. This is an apartment house of the early 20th century with unusual wooden balconies, plasterwork and insertions of glazed bricks. Nearby there is an ensemble of secession buildings: hotel “Kyiv” (former “Palace”) and buildings 48 and 50. There is a number of interesting dwelling houses of different architectural styles in L. Ukrainka Street and hotels of the early 20th century – “Bristol” (11, Zankovetska Str.) and “Golden Lion” (1904, 1, Khudiakov Str.)