Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans
UNESCO-listed nineteenth-century residence by Josef Hlavka, now Chernivtsi National University.
The residence was built between 1864 and 1882 for the Orthodox metropolitans of Bukovina and Dalmatia, then a crown land of the Habsburg empire, to designs by the Czech architect Josef Hlavka. Three ranges of red brick with polychrome patterned roofs enclose a court of honour: the metropolitan's palace, the seminary with the domed Church of the Three Saints, and the former monastery wing. Hlavka drew on Byzantine and Romanesque sources and on Bukovinian folk ornament, and had the bricks and tiles made locally.
After 1940 the complex passed to Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, which still occupies it, so lecture rooms and libraries sit behind the historic interiors. The Marble, Blue and Red Halls retain painted and gilded decoration, and an arboretum laid out with the residence climbs the slope behind. UNESCO inscribed the ensemble on the World Heritage List in 2011 as an outstanding example of nineteenth-century historicist architecture reflecting the religious tolerance of Habsburg Bukovina.
Highlights
- Polychrome patterned roofs and brickwork by Josef Hlavka
- Domed seminary Church of the Three Saints
- Marble, Blue and Red Halls with painted and gilded decoration
- Arboretum laid out with the residence in the 1870s
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