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Temple , Architecture
The majestic and luxurious collegiate Holy Trinity Church was built in Olyka according to the project of architects Benedetto Molli and Dzhovanni Maliverny in the style of the Jesuit church Il Gesu in Rome.
The construction was financed by Prince Albrekht Stanislav Radzyvill, the great chancellor of Lithuania. The Trinity Church was the ancestral burial place of the Radzyvills. In the 17th century, a collegium operated here - a branch of the theological academy in Zamost.
The Trinity Church in Olyka was considered one of the most beautiful in Poland. It was surrounded by a fortress wall, from which the corner towers-chapels remained. The facade is generously decorated with sculptures and stucco (the sculptor Melchior Erlenberg worked on the exterior decoration).
Despite the destruction that the church suffered during the Soviet era (a warehouse was located here), the church still makes an unforgettable impression.
Restoration has begun. The church is being brought back to life by the efforts of the local parish and the Polish Cultural Heritage Foundation. The facade of the attraction has already been updated. Next is the interior.
Tarasa Shevchenko Street, 2 Olyka
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Castle / fortress , Architecture
The ancestral castle of the Radzyvill princes was built by Mykola Radzyvill "Black" (Cornyi) in 1558. It was one of the first square bastion castles in Ukraine. Its area was 2.7 hectares, the palace had 365 rooms, as well as days in a year.
During the years 1591-1648, the Olyka castle withstood many sieges, but was captured only once - by the Swedes in 1702. By the end of the 18th century, it lost its defensive significance, but until the middle of the 20th century, it remained the residence of the Radzyvills.
In 1737-1755, Mykhaylo Kazymyr "Rybka" Radzyvill carried out reconstruction. A three-story palace appeared on the territory, the northwestern gate was decorated with a two-story tower with a clock.
The last owner of the castle was Yanush Radzyvill, who was arrested in 1939 by the Bolsheviks and sent to Stalinist camps for several years.
During Soviet times, the regional psychiatric hospital No. 2 was located on the territory of the castle.
Today, the Olyka Radzyvill Castle is a department of the Volyn Museum of Local Lore.
Zamkova Street, 24 Olyka
The Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Olyka is one of the oldest Catholic churches in Volyn.
It was built in 1450 by the Lithuanian hetman Petro Bilyi. In 1560, Prince Mykola Radzyvill Chorny, who converted from Lutheranism to Calvinism, handed over the Olyka church to the evangelists. However, Calvinist teachings, which helped the Polish nobility in their struggle with the clergy for political reform, were soon suppressed, and the Peter and Paul Church was returned to the Catholics.
Reconstructed in 1612, it was used as a chapel. The facade of the small temple is made in early baroque forms.
Located in the old cemetery.
Tarasa Shevchenko Street, 6 Olyka
Architecture
The Lutsk "House with chimeras" is the most colorful residential building in the city. Belongs to the family of the modern sculptor Mykola Holovan.
Built on the banks of the Styr River according to the project of the architect Rostislav Metelnytskyi, the workshop building is decorated with many stone sculptures in different styles, which creates an impression of complete eclecticism. Here you can find figures of fairy-tale heroes and mythical creatures along with sculptures of saints.
During his lifetime, the owner of the building personally conducted tours with an inspection of the interiors decorated with sculptures with antique motifs. Mykola Holovan died in early 2022, after which his wife Tamara announced plans to open a museum in the house. Since July 2022, the sculptor's widow has opened not only the courtyard, but also the inner rooms of the house to tourists.
Luteranska Street, 9 Lutsk
In the 17th century, the Church of the Ascension of the Cross was part of the complex of buildings of the Lutsk Brotherhood of the Ascension of the Cross, which included a monastery, a hospital and a school.
The Lutsk brotherhood was founded by a group of Volyn noblemen, among whom was the celebrated Ukrainian patroness Halshka Hulevychivna, the founder of the Kyiv brotherhood. The Church of the Ascension of the Cross, built on a donation by a patron, has a pronounced defensive character. In its current form, the temple was rebuilt after the fire of 1888.
Crypts were preserved under the altar of the church, in which brothers, famous noblemen, public, cultural and state figures were buried. Danylo Bratkovskyi, Halshka Hulevychivna, and Lavrentiy Drevinskyi are buried here.
The dungeons are open for visitors. A museum of the history of the Lutsk brotherhood has been opened in the premises of the monastery.
Danyla Halytskoho Street, 2 Lutsk
Museum / gallery
The Berestechko People's Historical Museum was founded in 1963 by the local historian Hryhoriy Fylypovych, and since 2019 it has been located in the premises of the Culture and National Memory Center of the Berestechko City Council.
The museum's holdings include about 1,500 objects, the most interesting of which are presented in three exhibition halls. The exposition of the first hall tells about life in this area from the Neolithic to Cossack times, in particular about the Battle of Berestechko in 1651.
In the second hall, crafts, trade and bourgeois life of the late 19th and early 20th centuries are presented.
The third hall is dedicated to the events of the First and Second World Wars, the liberation struggle of the UPA soldiers, and the current events of the Russian-Ukrainian war.
Tarasa Shevchenko Street, 1A Berestechko
Monument
The "Brick Pillar" on the western edge of the city of Berestechko is an obelisk chapel on the grave of Oleksandr Pronsky, the son of the city's founder.
Pronsky was a Calvinist Protestant. Returning from Rome in 1595, he gave the Catholic church in Berestechka to the Calvinists. His heir Andriy Leshchynsky was also a follower of Calvinism, under him Berestechko became one of the main centers of Socinianism (Arianism) - a radical trend in Protestantism.
The "Brick Pillar" on Pronsky's grave is a unique Socinian landmark that has not been preserved anywhere else in the world. The 16-meter obelisk is built of solid brick on cement masonry. The inscription on the north side is preserved: "Oleksandr Fridrikhovych Pronsky, from Kastelian, died in 1601, the last days of March."
Travneva Street Berestechko
The monastery of the Brigids in Lutsk was located in the palace that occupied the southern part of the territory of the Okolny castle and was one of the links of the defense system of the city in the XV-XVI centuries.
In the 1940s, the building was used as a prison.
Today, the Castle Holy Archangels Monastery of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine is located here. The opening of the museum of totalitarianism "Lutsk Calvary" is planned.
Kafedralna Street, 16 Lutsk
Gastrotourism , Museum / gallery
The center of traditional culture "Honey House" (Medova Khata) was opened in Lutsk on the initiative of the Volyn brotherhood of beekeepers "Swarm condition" (Royovyy stan).
The center tells about the ancient culture of beekeeping, production and use of honey and honey cosmetics. Two halls for 50 seats.
There are tours with tastings.
Beekeeping products are offered: honey of different grades, honey drinks (mead, drinking honey), cosmetics, apitherapy products.
Bohdana Khmelnytskoho Street, 1 Lutsk
The homestead-museum of decorative arts was opened in her own house in Zviriv by Halyna Minder, a Volyn artist and collector of antiques, a master of artistic wood carving.
Her village house, located at the entrance to the village from the Lutsk side, immediately attracts attention with bright paintings with traditional Ukrainian ornaments. The basis of the exposition is her own works of decorative and applied art – root plastic, decorative items, wooden souvenirs. Carved furniture, wooden sculptures, decorative figurines and original jewelry are presented. Also on display is an ethnographic collection of artist: embroidered towels and shirts, lace paintings, motanka dolls, household items.
Some exhibits can be purchased.
Kyivska Street, 16 Zviriv
The defensive Great Synagogue, nicknamed the "Small Castle", was part of the system of fortifications of the Okolny Castle of ancient Lutsk.
The synagogue was built in 1622-1629. From the southwest, a five-tiered square tower with loopholes adjoins it.
Currently, the building is occupied by the children's sports school "Young Dinamovets".
Danyla Halytskoho Street, 33 Lutsk
Torchyn People's History Museum bears the name of its founder - historian and local historian Hryhoriy Hurtovy.
This is the oldest museum in Volyn, which began to operate on a public basis - since 1957. The museum's holdings include more than 10,000 showpieces related to the history of Torchyn and the Volyn lands.
The local historian personally collected most of them in the surrounding villages. Among them are flint tools, a coin treasure of the beginning of the 16th century, Cossack weapons (in particular, an original mortar gun), fragments of ammunition of the soldiers of the two world wars, and a large ethnographic collection. A wardrobe and a mirror from the residence of the famous Polish writer Józef Ignacy Krashewski in nearby Horodok deserve special attention.
In 2009, the Torchyn Historical Museum named after Hryhoriy Hurtovyi took first place at the All-Ukrainian Museum Competition in the "History of the Native Territory" category.
Nezalezhnosti Street, 84 Torchyn
Museum / gallery , Ethnographic complex
The open-air museum of the History of Agriculture of Volyn (skansen) is located in the village of Rokyni on the territory of the local dendrological park.
The life of the Volyn peasants of the 19th century is reproduced here. There are 12 old wooden architectural buildings on a small area: a church, a mill, a forge, white and dusty houses, farm buildings, etc.
All exhibits are active, visitors are offered to use tools and household items.
By pre-order, the museum staff in ethnic costumes will heat the ovens, prepare a peasant dinner, organize folk holidays and ancient ceremonies. A regular tour is available without prior reservation.
Shkilna Street, 1 Rokyni
The Cathedral of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Lutsk is one of the most valuable architectural monuments of the city, which is one of the most important Catholic shrines in Volyn.
It was built in the 17th century at the same time as the Jesuit monastery, designed by architects Dzhakomo Briano and Benedetto Molli. The nearby bell tower has been preserved since the 16th century, when the Catholic bishopric was founded in Lutsk and the first Latin cathedral appeared, which has not survived to this day.
The interior is lavishly decorated with moldings, sculptures, pilasters, as well as paintings by many artists: Mykola Klymkovych, Pavlo Vyshynskyi, Tadeush Konych (Kuntse), Yan Prekhtl, Vilyani, Frantsysk Smuhlevych, Voytsekh Herson and others.
In the XVII-XVIII centuries, the largest religious school in Volyn operated at the monastery. Currently, the building of the Jesuit monastery houses a technical school of food technology.
Peter and Paul Church is the cathedral of the Lutsk Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine.
There are three-level dungeons under the building (entrance to the right of the cathedral, tours are available).
Kafedralna Street, 6 Lutsk
The Orthodox Holy Ascension Church in Horokhiv was built in 1844, when the city was part of the Russian Empire.
During the times of Soviet atheism, the temple remained in operation.
Currently, the Ascension Church belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.
Hetmanska Street, 9А Horokhiv