Attractions of Bila Tserkva

Bila Tserkva City Park of Culture and Recreation named after Taras Shevchenko is located in the center of the city.

It was founded in 1931 as a park named after Petrovsky on the site of a drained swamp between Torhova and Soborna squares. Since 2003, it has been named after the poet Taras Shevchenko, who repeatedly visited the Bila Tserkva, in particular in 1845.

Today, the dendrological structure of the park includes more than a hundred species and forms of trees and shrubs. In 1983, a monument to Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky (artist Hubriy) was erected in Shevchenko Park. Also in the park you can see the monument to the Heroes of Space and the sculpture of the fairy-tale heroes Carlson and Freken Bock. There is an amusement park for children.

Shevchenko Park in Bila Tserkva is a favorite recreation spot of the townspeople. Various city events are regularly held here.

The Wall Garden (Mur Garden) was created on the territory of the "Oleksandriia" arboretum at the beginning of the 19th century by the park gardener August Ens using the old Western European technology of creating gardens on a territory enclosed by a high fence.

The total area of ​​the garden is 3.5 hectares. The brick walls are 3 meters high and 70 centimeters wide. All the dimensions of the walls and the aspect ratio are reduced to the sacred values ​​of digital mythology. A place with high energy was chosen for the construction of the garden, and the walls of the structure are absolutely precisely oriented in space. Each of the walls of the garden exactly corresponds to the cardinal points.

After the Bolshevik coup of 1917, the fruit trees were gradually removed and agricultural crops were grown on the vacated area for many decades.

In 2008, the "Wall" orchard received a second life when a program was implemented to restore the orchard. Gardener Mykola Illienko created a collection of over 100 ancient varieties of fruit crops selected from the 17th-19th centuries, laid out a section of a formal garden and planted a wide collection of popular fruit and berry crops selected from the 20th-21st centuries, including the latest collection of table grape varieties. The restoration project for the landscape section of the Wall garden was carried out according to archival materials from 1858.

Currently, the Wall Garden has completely restored the layout of the ancient garden: 8 blocks, four of which are central and four are wall-mounted. The central blocks are planted with apple trees of different ripening periods, pears, plums, apricots, cherry plums, sweet cherries, and peaches. The wall blocks are planted with actinidia, collection grape varieties (30 varieties), dogwood, garden strawberries, jujube, and persimmon. Currently, 2,200 fruit trees of Ukrainian and foreign selection are grown here, which combine more than 300 varieties.

In the fall, you can buy delicious juicy fruits of apples, grapes, dogwood and other fruits and berries in the Wall Garden.