Attractions of Chernivtsi region

Hotel "Bristol" in Chernivtsi was built during the times of Austria-Hungary at the expense of burghers Josef Landau and Max Meissner, becoming one of the most luxurious in the city.

According to legend, the most expensive Chernivtsi prostitutes served the gentlemen in their rooms. There was a restaurant in the basement of the hotel. A four-story building in the Art Nouveau style with a stylized tower became the architectural dominant of Theater Square.

Currently, this building houses a dormitory of the Chernivtsi Medical Institute, and a fast food restaurant is located on the first floor.

Reconstruction and return of the hotel building to its original profile is planned.

The Art and Memorial Museum-Estate of Ivan Mykolaychuk is located in the village of Chortoryia, where the childhood years of the famous Ukrainian actor passed.

Presented are personal belongings, family heirlooms and other objects that preserve the memory of the most important events in the life of Ivan Mykolaychuk.

The Roman Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Chernivtsi is an excellent example of Bukovyna Neo-Gothic architecture.

The monastery complex with a slender church was built at the end of the 19th century thanks to the petitions of the missionaries of the Society of Jesus - the heirs of the Jesuit order. The project was developed by Professor Yozef Lyaytsner in the best traditions of Gothic churches in Europe.

In Soviet times, the church housed an archive, and the monastery housed an art school.

In 2010, the Church of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus was returned to the Catholic community of Chernivtsi.

The former Jewish People's House is located on Theater Square. It was built in 1908 by the architect Yulius Bokhner.

At the beginning of the 19th century, Jews constituted the largest ethnic community in Chernivtsi. Like other ethnic groups, in Austrian times they actively developed a network of their cultural, educational and sports societies, political and public organizations. The Jewish People's House became the main place for meetings and various Jewish cultural and social events.

With the arrival of Soviet power in 1944, the premises were transferred to the city's House of Culture. Today it is the Central Palace of Culture of Chernivtsi, where numerous clubs, circles, and studios work.

Jewish public organizations returned to their People's House only in the early 1990s, in independent Ukraine. The Steinbarg Jewish Society, the Jewish Public and Cultural Foundation, the Museum of the History and Culture of the Jews of Bukovina were located on the first floor of the building. The exhibition Museum includes old books, documents, postcards, religious and household items. The remaining floors of the Jewish House are occupied by the Palace of Culture.

Saint John the Theologian Khreshchatyk Men's Monastery is the oldest Orthodox monastery in Bukovyna.

Located in a picturesque place on a high rock above the Dniester, from where you can enjoy breathtaking panoramas of the surrounding area. According to legend, it was founded in the 17th century by Orthodox monks who fled from the Uniates from the Manyavsky Skete to Galicia.

According to the legend, on the night of the feast of John the Theologian, a wonderful glow appeared over two healing springs. A cross was built at this place, which gave its name to the cave hermitage founded here. Later, a chapel with a bell tower was built.

Another legend tells how the merchant Teodor Preda Hadzhi, who was passing by, lost his way at night and ended up over the abyss, but the light that appeared at that moment saved him from death. Deciding to build a new stone temple on this site, directly above the hermitage and the chapel, the merchant turned to the owners of these lands, Talpa nobles, who took part in the construction.

In 1768, the Church of John the Theologian was built and the Khreshchatyk Men's Monastery was founded. In 1786, it was closed by the Austrian authorities, and the church was turned into a parish church. In Soviet times, the monastery buildings were used as a tourist base. The monastery was restored in 1991.

Rock "Kamyana Bahachka" ("Petrified Bahachka"), located in the village of Ust-Putyla, is located to the left of the road.

It is a pyramid-shaped geological formation 30 meters high, 12 meters wide at the base.

"Kamyana Bahachka" is a very rare form of weathering in the Carpathians. The rock actually resembles the figure of a man, or rather a woman. Among local residents, her appearance is shrouded in a legend about an evil and wealthy woman who spared a small amount of money for a beggar who was dying of hunger. She was petrified as a punishment for her greed.

The Austrian colonists called the rock "Bishop" because the jagged top of the rock reminded them of a bishop's crown.

Khotyn Fortress is a remarkable example of medieval defense architecture of Ukraine, one of the most significant architectural monuments of Bukovyna.

It was built in the 13th century by order of Prince Danylo Halytsky on the site of early Slavic fortifications. The castle (citadel) consists of four defensive towers, the commandant's palace, officers' barracks, a church with fragments of a 16th century painting.

For a long time Khotyn Fortress was an outpost of the Galicia-Volyn principality, an important defensive point of Transnistria. In the 16th century it was strengthened by the Moldavian King Stefan III.

In 1621, near Khotyn, united Polish-Ukrainian troops under the command of Hetman Yan Karol Khodkevych defeated a 150,000-strong Turkish army that was considered invincible. The decisive role in the Battle of Khotyn was played by the 40,000-strong Cossack army of Hetman Petro Sahaydachnyi.

However, Khotyn remained under the rule of the Turks, who in the 18th century, with the help of French engineers, built a new fortress near the castle with earthen ditches, bastions and four gates. Inside could accommodate a 20,000-strong garrison.

After the annexation of Bessarabia to the Russian Empire in the 19th century, the fortress was rebuilt, the castle mosque was transformed into the garrison church of Oleksandr Nevsky, and the mosque on the territory of the New Fortress became the Church of Saint Nicholas.

After the Crimean War, the Khotyn Fortress lost its significance as a military facility, but it survived well. Its powerful walls served as scenery in such famous films as "Zahar Berkut", "The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe", "D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers", "Robin Hood's Arrows", "Taras Bulba".

Restoration was carried out to the 1000th anniversary of Khotyn Fortress. Museum expositions have been opened in the barracks: the history of artillery, siege weapons, numismatics, art gallery.

There is a souvenir shop on site. Parking is paid.

Khotyn Historical Museum is a department of the Chernivtsi Regional Museum of Local Lore.

It is located in the former house of the priest of the Church of the Intercession.

In five halls there are expositions that cover the history of the region: "Khotyn region - Slavic land", "Khotyn region in the period X-XVII centuries.", "Russian-Turkish war", ethnography of Khotyn region of the late XIX - early XX centuries. and other.

Of particular interest is the model of Khotyn fortress and Cossack jewels.

The city hall building in Kitsman was built in 1890, as evidenced by the date on the weather vane.

The Kitsman town hall is distinguished by its small size and a balcony on a small tower. The city coat of arms is placed on the facade.

The building of the town hall is still used for its intended purpose - it houses the Kitsman City Council.

The Kobolchyn Pottery Museum was opened in 2008. Its founder was the honored worker of culture Ivan Honchar.

The museum is designed in the form of a pottery estate.

The museum presents about a thousand ceramic products, as well as exhibits that tell about the history of the village of Kobolchyn. A large arsenal of Ukrainian household items of the last century is presented: a large pottery oven, old carpets, pillows, old windows and doors, shutters and benches, as well as the invariable attributes of those times - towels and embroidered cloths.

In the pottery museum, you can get acquainted with the secrets of the pottery craft in practice.

The massive three-story building of the Main Synagogue is one of the architectural landmarks of the central square of Vyzhnytsia.

It was one of the 11 Jewish sanctuaries that existed in the city during the Austrian rule.

During the First World War, the temple burned down. In the 1960s, the building was reconstructed as a district cultural center. It was here that the artistic career of the famous singer Nazariy Yaremchuk, whose childhood and youth were spent in Vyzhnytsia, began.

Today, the turquoise building of the former synagogue is a city house of folk creativity and leisure.

The Malanka Museum was opened in the city of Vashkivtsi on December 19, 2016 at the city library. In two rooms with a total area of 50 square meters, a wide variety of costumes, in which Bukovyna residents were dressed 50 years ago, are presented.

The museum's exposition includes about 30 costumes of the traditional Vashkivtsi Malanka. Both traditional masks (grandfather, grandmother, gypsy, bear) and modern ones are presented. In particular, the masks of the characters who manage Malanka - "Cossack", "Vulan", "Buk-shandar", as well as masks of the main characters - Malanka and Ukrainian women, are exhibited. In addition, the museum exhibits an exclusive costume-mask with a height of 3 meters - the so-called "Vashkivtsi Bahachka".

In addition, about 200 photographs from the end of the 19th century to the present time, 100 original traditional masks, which are made only in Vashkivtsi, are on display for visitors to view. They were presented by mask masters Vasyl Stolyar, Oleh Voloshchuk and Mykola Marchuk.

All the exhibits of the Malanka museum were provided by the residents of Vashkivtsi, who for many years support the tradition of malanka and are active participants of Pereberiya.

The Malanka museum is most proud of the cymbals and postols that Ivan Mykolaychuk held in his hands and walked in during the filming of the film "White Bird with Black Mark".

Memorial Museum of the outstanding Ukrainian composer Volodymyr Ivasyuk, the founder of Ukrainian pop music, the author of the popular songs "Chervona Ruta" and "Vodohray".

The museum was opened in Chernivtsi in 1995 to mark the 25th anniversary of the song "Chervona Ruta" in the house of the composer's parents, where he lived in 1971-1972. The interiors of the office of Volodymyr Ivasyuk and his father, the writer Mykhaylo Ivasyuk, and the parents' room have been preserved.

The exposition presents the composer's piano, many of his personal belongings, photographs, documents.

The state enterprise "Putyla Forestry" includes 9 forestry enterprises, including the Seliatyn Forestry, where an Environmental Education Center with a mini-zoo has been created.

The mini-zoo is home to wild animals of the Bukovyna Carpathians - seven deer, three bears, three roe deer, three wild boars, 6 hares, two badgers, a she-wolf, a fox, four peacocks, and a marten.

Next to the enclosures are two ponds with carp, catfish, and walleye.

A monument to the Austro-Hungarian Emperor Frants Yosyf I in Chernivtsi was erected in the square between Myrona Korduby, Bakhrushyna and Dmytra Zahuly streets in 2009 at the initiative of a native of the city, the famous politician Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

During the reign of Frants Yosyf (1848-1916), when Bukovyna was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Chernivtsi flourished. The city experienced rapid economic growth and a construction boom - the most outstanding architectural monuments were created. In addition, Chernivtsi became the Ukrainian national cultural center - a university was opened, Ukrainian schools appeared, Ukrainian newspapers began to be published, Ukrainian public organizations were active.

The initiators call the installation of a monument to Emperor Frants Yosyf in Chernivtsi a restoration of historical justice.

The sculpture was created by Honored Artist of Ukraine Serhiy Ivanov and sculptor Volodymyr Tsisaryk based on a model of the monument that existed before, delivered from Vienna.