Editors' pick
Kyiv-Pechersk LavraA monastery founded in 1051 in caves above the Dnipro: the Dormition Cathedral, the Trinity Gate Church, the Great Bell Tower and underground passages with saints' relics.
St Nicholas Roman Catholic ChurchHorodecki's Gothic Revival church with twin 60-metre spires: a church, a warehouse, an archive, an organ hall — and a church again, awaiting rescue after the 2021 fire.
Vydubychi MonasteryA monastery founded by Prince Vsevolod above the Dnipro in 1070, with the 11th-century St Michael's, the Baroque St George's Cathedral and the Botanical Garden's lilacs next door.
Askold's GraveA park on the Dnipro slopes where, the chronicle says, Prince Askold was buried: Andrii Melenskyi's Empire rotunda, a lost cemetery and the graves of today's fallen soldiers.