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Amsterdam (1980)  

The canals of Amsterdam in Kyiv

EUROVISION COUNTRY: Netherlands
KYIV DESTINATION: Manufatkura Shopping Outlet

You can visit Amsterdam in Kyiv. Complete with tulips, a canal, Dutch houses and a weighbridge.
But all is not what it seems. This is Manufaktura http://manufactura.ua/en/ a new shopping outlet on the southern outskirts of town.

The centre comprises around 200 units of which about 30 percent are currently occupied. Labels include Viviene Westwood, Lagerfeld, Tom Ford, Miu Miu, etc. Some of the units are single brands, but most sell a mix of labels.


While the venue is not completely full, it is also a pleasant quiet spot where you can wander and have a lunch in one of the five restaurants at the site.
To get there you should go to Vydybuchi metro station. Take the exit that leads you out onto the platform of a mainline railway station. Walk away from the platform and you will come to a bus station for marshrutka minibuses. There are two options. You can take the 309 bus. The ticket is 18 hrivna. It runs every 15 minutes.
You should alight after 15-20 minutes when you reach the Megamarket superstore (below). 

The 309 stops by the flagpoles on the picture above. The Manufaktura outlet is just behind the Megamarket, and its sign is also very visible.
The other option is to go to the same bus station and take the free Manufaktura minibus. This is less frequent, and the times are available on the Manufaktura website.
Elsewhere in Kyiv's city centre (in the Metrograd underground shopping centre, and to the left of the opera house) there are Dutch cheese stores selling massive slabs, called the Kingdom of Cheese. 
The cheese is genuinely Dutch, but the chain is in fact - Estonian!
Netherlands Embassy:
Address: 7, Kontraktova Sq, Kyiv
Tel: +380 44 490 8200
Website: http://ukraine.nlembassy.org
Are there other places linked to the Neterelands in Kyiv?
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