- Category: Kharkiv region
Kharkiv as one of the cities hosting Euro 2012.
In 2012 in Ukraine and Poland will be football championship Euro 2012 and Kharkiv is one of the cities that will host soccer matches.
Kharkiv is located on the north-east of Ukraine and is a big industrial, scientific, business and cultural center.
The city has a developed infrastructure. Transport problems eliminates the presence of the subway. In addition there are several railway stations, is being reconstructed International Airport and carried out the construction of new modern roads.
To accommodate the guests of the city there are modern hotels with high level of service.
But the main thing for football fans there is a large, modern and spacious stadium. For those fans who can not get to the stadium in the city center, on Europe's largest square, will be arranged fan zone. Here on the big screens will broadcast all matches will be organized by the sale of souvenirs and provided space for recreation.
Although Kharkiv is not a tourist city, there's a lot to see for tourists.
First - this is the biggest square in Europe - Freedom Square. At Freedom Square held folk festivals, concerts, fairs, demonstrations, rallies and other events. September 12, 2008, during a performance of the legendary band "Queen" concert "Life must go on!", Organized to fight AIDS, Freedom Square gathered a record number of people - more than 300 thousand. At Freedom Square is the hotel "Kharkiv".
Kharkiv has many old Orthodox churches, which reflects the high level of spirituality residents.
Most recently, the city celebrated 350 years since its inception and this honor was inaugurated monument to the founder of the city - the Cossack Kharko.
The city was founded in 17 century as a fortress protecting the south-eastern borders of the country from invasion by pirates, who in those days often pillaged and plundered the Slav settlement.
In Kharkiv, there are many museums, the most interesting in my opinion - the Historical Museum, with its unique collection of our ancestral heritage and the Museum of Nature with scarecrows and skeletons of animals brought in from around the world.
Tourists should be sure to visit Kharkov zoo, a cable car and a children's railway.
For lovers of cultural pastime there are many theaters, circus and the planetarium.