The Ukrainian Venice
Vilkovo is a charming and unusual town on the Danube river delta very close to the Romanian border. It was settled in the mid 1700′s by ‘Old Believers’, Russian that fled the new empire to escape religious persecution. This area in those days was under Turkish rule, but this was better for the old believers than what they had fled.
Vilkovo is very close to the Danube Biosphere Reserve.
The ‘Old Believers’ created islands by drawing reeds and mud from channels they dug, the channels became their roads and the islands their homes. Because of this the town has come to be known as “the Ukrainian Venice”. Villagers still use the canals to move around the town wondering the ‘streets’ in canoes and by foot on wood plank walkways. Nearby is the newer part of town with regular streets and apartment buildings. This really is a fascinating part of Ukraine, with the town’s unique historic feel and lifestyle and the original flair of Old Believer culture.
Vilkovo
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Vilkovo – is a confluence of the Danube and Black Sea, the Pearl of the Danube lowland,
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“Ukrainian Venice”, which is located directly beside the sea on the border with Romania. What is unusual about this town, is that an old part of town is situated on the water. There is a water instead of streets, people are being displaced mainly in the original Ukrainian “gondola” (manufactured here), and motorboats. And how do you like the mane of street Belgorod channel 24? This is something like a central avenue. Imagine, you are on the boat, you see bleached clean houses around, small gardens, fertilizers, silt, wood laying on the sides of channels 1-2 m wide. Channels are crossed by simple wooden bridges. Top bridges are not fixed. If the boat is transporting oversized cargo, then they remove the top of the bridge, and when the boat passes, they put it back .
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