Attractions of Lviv region

The People's Exemplary Ethnology Museum in Byshiv, Lviv Region, was founded in 1991 at the Byshiv Secondary School. It was created on the initiative of the former director of the school, a researcher of historical and cultural monuments, Volodymyr Koval.

The exposition in five halls tells about the history of Byshiv and neighboring villages, introduces the culture and crafts of the region. Museum funds contain more than 3,000 exhibits.

In the first hall, ancient icons of the 19th and 20th centuries are exhibited. The historical exposition contains documents and old maps of the villages of Byshiv, Zabava, Ordiv and Torky, a collection of old clocks and a large school bell. The tools of weavers, carpenters, coopers, etc. tell about the ancient crafts of the Galician peasantry. A unique attraction is a wooden beehive-log from the 17th century.

In the "Galician Peasant's House" hall, the interior of a donkey is recreated with a stove, ancient pots and plates, and a large wooden chest. The exhibition "From Grandmother's Chest" presents a collection of embroidered women's shirts and suits, spare parts, skirts, towels, shawls.

In the "Weaving shop" exhibition, visitors are offered master classes on working looms.

The Roman Catholic Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross and Saint Joseph the Betrothed was built according to the project of the engineer Karol Romanus as a temple-tomb of the Rzevuskyi family (according to one version, the author of the project was Prince Vaclav Rzevuskyi himself).

Made in the Baroque style in the form of a rotunda, to which a 300-meter linden alley leads from the Pidhirtsi Castle. Figures of the Mother of God and Saint Joseph on columns are installed in front of the church. The main facade is decorated with a portico of 14 columns of the Corinthian order, on the attic of which 8 sculptures of saints by Fessinger and Leblas were installed (one of them was destroyed during the Second World War).

The interior of the Exaltation of Holy Cross Church has preserved frescoes by Lukash Smuhlevych and several Galician masters.

Since 1861, the temple was a parish church, in 1945 it was closed by the Soviet authorities. Currently, the church is under restoration, but you can get inside during services held by the Greek Catholic parish of the Church of the Blessed Mykola Charnetskyi and the New Martyrs of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

The wooden three-log church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Drohobych is considered one of the best buildings in the style of Galician folk architecture.

The temple was founded in the 16th century, but as a result of the reconstruction in 1661, it lost its original appearance.

Monumental tempera painting of the 17th century and unique examples of icon painting of the 15th-18th centuries have been preserved.

The Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross is located in the suburb of Drohobych Zvarychy, on the territory of the fire department. Nearby is a wooden bell tower of the 17th century.

The Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross is the main Catholic church of the town, which existed already during the time of Vladyslav Yahaylo. In his image, the architectural techniques of various stylistic directions - Gothic, Baroque and modern - were originally combined.

Probably, the first wooden Exaltation Church was laid in 1372 by the Polish governor Vladyslav Opolchyk. In its current form, the traditional Gothic church was rebuilt in 1419. In the 16th century, reconstruction was carried out and a belfry with six bells was built, the largest of which was consecrated in 1753.

During the last reconstruction, carried out in the 1930s of the 20th century by the architect Bronislav Viktor, the western, largest part of the church was completed. The facade was decorated with sculptures of the Mother of God, the apostles Peter and Paul.

The interiors were completely destroyed during the Soviet rule.

Today, the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross is active again.

The Roman Catholic Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross was built in 1780-1790 on the site of the church of the Discalced Carmelites, who came to Novyi Myliatyn in 1745 from Lviv and brought here the miraculous image of Jesus Christ from the village of Novyi Stav, which was kept in the Sobeshansky chapel.

In 1788, the Austrian government liquidated the monastery, and its premises came under the care of parish priests. The new Exaltation Church was built at the expense of Frantsisheka Hlohovsky according to the project of the architect Frantsysk Kulchytsky.

The architecture of the facade combined baroque features with elements of classicism. The facade is decorated with a decorative balcony, under which the inscription "De Tuis Donis..." is partially preserved.

Fragments of wooden sculpture and carvings of the main altar have been preserved in the interior. The walls are decorated with decorative paintings of the 19th century.

There was also an organ in the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, which during Soviet times was dismantled and taken to the Cathedral of Saint George in Lviv, where it remains to this day.

The Museum of Father Markiyan Shashkevych opened in the village of Derevnia in November 2012 in the premises of the village People's House to mark the 201st anniversary of the writer's birth. It became the fifth museum in the Lviv region dedicated to this outstanding Ukrainian cultural figure.

The author of the museum exposition was the famous Ukrainian artist Orest Skop.

The village of Derevnia was for a long time the family parish of the Krushynsky fathers, from whose family Yuliya Krushynska is the wife of Markiyan Shashkevych. It was in Derevnia that the newlyweds got married in 1839 and lived for some time.

The museum presents household items of the Shashkevychs, books, manuscripts, letters, photographs, icons, paintings. The exposition tells about the Krushynsky family, the marriage of Markiyan Shashkevych, the life of the young family.

One of the museum's halls is dedicated to the ethnography of the region - it exhibits ancient folk items that existed in the village at different times, photographs, towels, carpets, etc.

In the future, the museum of Father Markiyan Shashkevych is planned to be moved to an authentic rectory, which has been preserved in the village of Derevnia and is over two hundred years old.

The Manor Museum of Father Markiyan Shashkevych in the village of Nestanychi was opened in 2011 for the 200th anniversary of the birth of this famous Ukrainian writer, poet, priest, social and cultural figure, head of the "Ruthenian Triad" (Ruska Triytsia) society.

From 1938 to 1941, Markiyan Shashkevych was the parish priest of the village Greek Catholic Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin in the village of Nestanychi. The museum is located in the adjacent presbytery, built in 1913. The project of reconstruction of the building was developed by the famous artist Orest Skop.

The main exposition of the museum is formed from the funds of the Lviv State Historical Archive, the libraries named after Stefanyk and Drahomanov, the Lviv Museum-Reserve "Rusalka Dnistrova". In one of the rooms, things related to Shashkevych's stay in Nestanychi, collected by the villagers, are exhibited.

The greatest pride of the museum is the unique examples of Galician sacral painting - icons of folk masters dating from the end of the 17th - beginning of the 18th centuries.

The memorial estate-museum of the Galician family Fedun opened in the village of Klekotiv in 2011 during a congress of the large Fedun family, which gathered in the family village from all over the world.

The museum-estate is located in a hut built in 1938 by Mikhaylo Fedun, who, together with his younger brother Hrihoriy, was tortured during the first Bolshevik occupation of 1939-1941, and their families were repressed and sent to Siberia. The estate was completely reconstructed by Mikhaylo's sons Vasyl and Ihor - the original interior, furniture and other household items of the peasant Fedun family were restored.

The museum's exposition is decorated with a genealogical tree of the Fedun family. A separate room is dedicated to the founder of the family – Vasyl Fedun (father of Mykhaylo and Hrihoriy), an active public figure of the Brody region, an associate of the educational and cooperative movement. In the same room there are stands telling about the life of the family of Mykhaylo Fedun, who was shot by the Bolsheviks.

The kitchen recreates the interior of a peasant kitchen with household items from the first half of the 20th century. In the room of Mykhaylo and Teodoziya Fedun, the original interior is recreated and stands are placed that reveal the thorny path of the children and grandchildren of Vasyl and Anna Fedun (the founders) after World War II.

The Fedun family estate-museum is a branch of the Brody Historical and Local Lore Museum.

The monument to the fighters for the freedom of Ukraine was erected in Horodok in 2003 on the initiative of the "Memorial" society. Dedicated to the UVO-OUN fighters Vasyl Bilas, Dmytro Danylyshyn, Volodymyr Staryk and Yuriy Berezynsky, who died in 1932 during an armed attack on the city postal and judicial institution of the Polish authorities.

Now the former post office building houses the Horodok District State Administration.

The author of the original project of the monument is Professor Ivan Samotos.

The Historical and Local lore Museum, mainly dedicated to the events of the First World War, has been operating in the premises of the secondary school of the village of Hiiche since 1990. The museum exposition is based on exhibits collected by students, teachers and local residents.

The exposition presents archaeological finds, ancient clothing, craft tools and household items of peasants. In particular, you can see a fragment of a Scythian horse and a metal arrowhead from the times of Mongol-Tatar rule.

The museum also features information about the events of World War I, when a major battle took place on the outskirts of the village in the Pribytka tract between the troops of the Austro-Hungarian and Russian Empires. Among the exhibits is an embroidered towel with the inscription "Glory to the Heroes". Documents, photographs, and weapons reflecting the tragic events of September 1914 are also presented.

One of the buildings on Pekarska street, which has a small architectural feature - one of its corners is extremely sharp, was nicknamed the "flat house" in Lviv. Thanks to this, when viewed from a certain angle, when the faces are hidden from the observer, the illusion is created that the house is flat, that is, it has only one wall - the facade.

Other famous "flat houses" are in Odesa and Zhytomyr.

The Museum of Folk Architecture and Life named after Klymentiy Sheptytskyi in Lviv is also known as "Shevchenko Grove", Lviv Skansen or open-air museum. It is located on the wooded hills of the "Znesinnia" Regional Landscape Park in the eastern part of Lviv, behind the Vysoky Zamok.

The open-air museum in Lviv was founded in 1971, although the exhibition began to take shape in the interwar period at the initiative of Lviv art critic Mykhaylo Drahan and Archimandrite Klymentiy Sheptytskyi. The first exhibit was the wooden church of Saint Nicholas of 1761, which was transported from the village of Kryvka.

Currently, the exposition of the open-air museum includes more than 110 architectural monuments from all western regions of Ukraine: 6 churches, residential buildings, a forge, a school, a sawmill, a cloth mill, a water mill and a windmill. The museum has the largest collection of sacred buildings in Europe.

The exposition is divided into six ethnographic zones, representing the daily life of residents of various Western Ukrainian regions: Boikivshchyna, Lemkivshchyna, Hutsulshchyna, Bukovyna, Pokuttya, Podillya, Zakarpattia, Lviv region. Each zone is a mini village with religious, residential and economic buildings. The interiors of most houses are available for viewing, and household items are exhibited in them.

In particular, the central exhibit of the "Hutsulshchyna" zone is a traditional Hutsul grazhda from the village of Kryvorivnia. And the oldest exhibit is a peasant hut from 1749.

Traditional Christmas and Easter celebrations take place in the Museum every year, attracting the attention of a large number of Lviv residents and guests of the city. At individual facilities, you can get acquainted with ancient crafts, including straw weaving, pysankarstvo, and playing folk instruments. Workshops for children and adults are constantly held in the open-air museum.

6 forts of the Austro-Hungarian fortress "Peremyshl" have been preserved on the territory of Ukraine near the Polish border on the outskirts of Popovychi.

The construction of the Peremyshl fortress began in the middle of the 19th century to protect the strategic direction to Krakow and Vienna during the period of deterioration of Austrian-Russian relations.

At that time it was one of the three largest fortresses in Europe. The outer defensive ring consisted of 15 main artillery forts, 27 smaller infantry forts and 25 separate positions for heavy artillery.

In 1914-1915, the Peremyshl fortress withstood 3 sieges by the Russian army. During the first siege of the fort, the Russians managed to capture the 1/1 (Bykiv) fort, but thanks to the fierce resistance of the 1/5 (Popovychi) fort, the Austrians then managed to avoid disaster. The third siege lasted 173 days and ended with the surrender of the fortress.

The concrete structures of the fortress have been preserved to this day and are available for inspection.

The Franciscan church was built in Lviv in 1708-1178. as the Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Capuchin Monastery, founded in 1707 by Elzhbeta Sofiya Senyavska. The temple is made in baroque style.

After the liquidation of the Capuchin order in 1785, the monastery complex was occupied by the Franciscans.

In Soviet times, a boarding school was located here.

Today, the church belongs to the Church of Seventh-day Adventist Christians.

The boyar court in Zolochiv, also known as the Zolochiv Arsenal, is a former fortified residence of the town's owners, built in the 15th century by representatives of the Shchechy boyar family.

This is the oldest architectural monument of Zolochiv. After the Zolochiv castle was built, the building began to be used as a city arsenal, then it was handed over to the parish church for the care of the poor.

Until recently, the building of the Boyar Court was in a state of disrepair. In 2012, it was transferred to the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church of the Exaltation of the Life-giving Cross, which carried out reconstruction and opened there the Holy Cross Monastery of Saint Damian Friars Minor (Franciscans) and the Chapel of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross of the Lord.