Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans

We remind our readers that the residence of the metropolitans of Bukovyna and Dalmatia turned Chernivtsi into the religious center like Vatican and added it luster of a European capital since it represented the Orthodox church of the whole North-Eastern Europe. Not without reason Dalmatia, a territory between Croatia and Montenegro, joined the metropolitanate. Thus the influence of the Chernivtsi Metropolitanate was felt even in Balkans. The architectural complex of the Orthodox metropolitans’ residence is a unique work of the environmental art that synthesized the achievements of Western and Eastern civilizations and cultural heritage of the Mediterranean peoples of the Christian age; it consolidated cultures of the world that were reflected in the architectural complex. The residence is Bukovyna’s spirit, symbiosis of styles and cultures of all nations that have ever lived in this country. The creator of the residence could not see it completed because of his illness. Shortly before the construction was finished Josef Hlavka fell seriously ill and had to come back to his father’s castle where he spent several years in a wheelchair. He never had a chance to come back to Chernivtsi after he recovered.

All the works including making of a garden took 10 more years to be finished.

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