Uman

The State Historical and Architectural Reserve "Old Uman" unites 68 objects of historical and cultural heritage in the central part of the city of Uman.

The administration and exhibition hall are located in the premises of the Basilian Monastery - the oldest building in the city. The monastery was built by the governor of Kyiv Frantsishek Saleziy Potocki in 1764-1784 for a Greek Catholic monastery with a Basilian school, which became the cradle of the poets of the "Ukrainian school" in Polish literature.

After the liquidation of the Polish state in 1832 and the confiscation of the estates of the owner of Uman, Count Potocki, the Basilian school was closed, and the monastery buildings were used for administrative purposes. In Soviet times, there was a military unit.

Since 2006, the former monastery complex has housed the administration of the State Historical and Architectural Reserve "Old Uman" with exhibition halls, which host temporary exhibitions.

The tourist route "Mysterious dungeons of the Basilian monastery" is organized in the underground premises.

Also in the reserve you can book city tours "Streets of old Uman", "Uman during the Second World War", "Uman and Hasids".

The famous park "Sofiyivka" in Uman is a masterpiece of world-class garden and park art, an example of a landscape composition of water, land, architectural structures and sculptures. Founded in 1796 by Count Stanislav-Feliks Potocki and presented to his wife, the beautiful Greek Sofiya, on her birthday in 1802.

The park was built by the Belgian military engineer Lyudvih Mettsel in a romantic style using plots from Roman and Greek mythology. At that time, "Sofiyivka" included the Great waterfall with an iron bridge, the Amsterdam lock cut into the rock, the Grotto of the Lion (or Thunder), the Grotto of Venus with a waterfall, the Rybka basin, the Upper and Lower ponds, an underground river. Styx and others. Then appeared: the entrance gate (1850-1852 years); flora pavilion (1842-1844 years); the pink pavilion on Love Island (1850-1852) in the Renaissance style; Chinese gazebo (1841).

The originals of the park sculpture from the Sofiyivka Park are exhibited in the hotel-museum near the central (old) entrance. Opposite the bus station is a new entrance and a shop selling seedlings.

There is a large influx of people on weekends.

The grave of the tzaddik Rabbi Nachman (Bratslavskyi) in Uman is one of the most revered Hasidic shrines, a place of annual mass pilgrimages.

Rabbi Nachman, the founder of the Breslov current of Hasidism (the orthodox branch of Judaism), tzaddik (righteous man), according to his will, was buried in the territory of the Jewish cemetery in Uman in 1810.

During the Second World War, the grave of Tzadik Nachman was destroyed, during Soviet times a residential neighborhood was built on the site of the cemetery. After 1991, Hasidim from all over the world started coming to this place regularly, the surrounding houses were partially or completely bought, and a temporary synagogue was built on the site of Nachman's grave in Uman. Later, the largest synagogue in Ukraine was built here for 7,000 people.

Every September, during the celebration of Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year), this area, filled with pilgrims, acquires a bright Middle Eastern flavor.

The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Uman was built on the initiative of Count Andriy Potocki on the site of the old wooden church of Saint Anthony.

During Soviet times, two towers with baths and crosses were removed. The premises were used for various purposes, and in 1977 an art gallery was opened in it.

There are two departments in the permanent exhibition: "Western European and Ukrainian art of the 19th - early 20th centuries (works of Western European artists Dzhuzeppe Betstsuoli, Zhan-Batist Hrez, Symon, Polish masters Stanislav Reykhan, Kazimir Mardzevych, Kryzhanovsky, the German artist Busch), as well as "Modern Ukrainian art".

Divine services are held every Sunday in the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The complex of Light and music fountain "Pearl of Love" was opened in 2017 in Taras Shevchenko Square in Uman.

Located both on land and on water, the Uman fountains are among the three largest in Ukraine. The complex includes the main bowl of the fountain on land with a light-music show and a show on the water screen, a light-dynamic floating fountain on the Ostashivsky Pond and three static fountains with light-dynamic illumination, the color of which does not repeat during the day.

The bowl of the main fountain has an area of 450 square meters, the water screen is almost 200 square meters. The height of the water jet of the floating fountain on the Ostashivsky pond is 19 meters, and the static one is 1.9 meters.

In light and music mode, the fountains work on weekdays from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. and on weekends from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. From Friday to Sunday at 19:30 there is a light and music show on the water screen.