Attractions of Lviv region

The Museum of National Culture on the territory of the ski resort "Play" in the village of Plavya is a stylized Carpathian country house with a closed courtyard.

The gates and doors are decorated with wood carvings in Boykiv and Lemkiv style.

The museum includes an ethnographic exposition with items of folk life, a working forge, a weaving workshop, a cheese factory, a carpentry shop, windmills and water mills.

The National Memorial Museum of Victims of Occupation Regimes "Prison at Lontskoho" was opened in Lviv in a building that for 85 years was occupied by the punitive bodies of various authorities.

The complex at the intersection of modern Bandery and Kopernika streets was built at the end of the 19th century for the Austrian gendarmerie. Then the prisons of the Polish, German and Soviet authorities were located in the building. In 1941, the largest number of political prisoners in Western Ukraine was destroyed here - 1,645. During the German occupation, the Gestapo prison was housed in the building. After the Second World War, it was used by the Soviet punitive and repressive authorities to hold captured rebels. After the declaration of Ukraine's independence, the detention center of the SBU was located here.

The museum complex "Prison at Lontskoho" was opened by the Liberation Movement Research Center and the Security Service of Ukraine. An authentic prison setting has been recreated. The complex includes a solitary confinement cell, a death row cell, and an investigator's office. Declassified "shooting lists" are presented, as well as the archive file of one of the most famous prisoners - Father Mykola Khmilevskyi, head of the underground Greek Catholic Church and member of the Ukrainian Main Liberation Council.

Excursions are conducted by appointment.

The "Native Village Museum" was created in the village of Synkiv on July 18, 1999, on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the first written mention of the village. The museum is located on the first floor of the Synkiv Lyceum.

The exposition of the museum includes more than 1000 exhibits and presents a collection of ancient icons, books, money, Ukrainian towels, clothes and relics. Of great interest are copies and originals of documents, church metric publications, as well as the layout of the village on the map of 1844, which is a great value of the museum.

The exposition of the museum consists of sections: "From the depths of the ages", "Under the rule of Austria-Hungary and Poland", "Map of the lands of the village of Sinkiv (1844)", "Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin", "From the history of the development of the school", "The village in 20th century".

The museum is constantly replenished with new exhibits and materials, among which the most interesting are the "Chronicle of the School" and an album of excursions.

The Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin in Markopil was built in 1892-1896 on the site of a burned down wooden church known since 1763.

The new stone Church of the Nativity was built by the architect Stavarsky from Sinyava in an eclectic style using Byzantine, Romanesque and Romanian elements. Before the First World War, the walls of the church were painted by Lviv artist Antin Manastyrskyi.

In 1926, the temple was restored. A characteristic Romanian element is a star-shaped 12-petal scotch.

The elegant Gothic church-sanctuary of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin is considered a symbol of the city of Stryi.

The Roman Catholic parish was founded in the city by King Kazymyr the Great in the 14th century. The parish church of the Nativity of the Virgin was built in 1425. Several times the Gothic temple was destroyed by fire. In 1891, the last major restoration was carried out, an organ was installed.

In 1939, the temple was closed, but the building was preserved during Soviet times.

In 1995, the church was declared the Sanctuary of the Mother of God, the Patroness of Human Hopes, and in 2001, Pope John Paul II consecrated the icon of the Mother of God of Stryi.

The wooden church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin was built in Rozluch in 1876 by master Havryla Roman in a typical Boyki style.

Previously, an older temple, known since 1534, stood on this place. The three-timbered church is distinguished by multi-tiered domes. Nearby is a low two-story wooden belfry.

Belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The wooden church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin in Kuty is a monument of wooden architecture of the Galician school of folk architecture.

Built in 1750. Attached to the central log house is a babinets with a covered chapel and a faceted five-sided altar part. The temple is surrounded by a wooden gallery. It was originally covered with shingles, but as a result of the restoration in the 1930s, the authentic wooden covering was replaced by a metal one.

In the interior of the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin, a monumental oil painting by Yaroslav Levytsky (1936) and a wooden, four-tiered, carved gilded iconostasis (second half of the 18th century) have been preserved.

Nearby is a two-story wooden bell tower.

The temple is located in the village cemetery at the entrance to Kuty from Olesko. You can also see an ancient crypt-chapel in the classicism style at the cemetery.

The Defense Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin in Komarno was founded in 1656 at the expense of the magnate Mykolay Ostroroh, who owned the city. Consecrated in 1658.

Architects Voytsekh Kapinos and Yan Pokorovych are named as possible authors of the project, although both died long before construction began.

The wonderful architecture of the Church of the Nativity is a vivid example of the transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque. Typical Renaissance elements are the framing of the main entrance and niches with sculptures, as well as pilasters with cherub heads. At the same time, the pediment of the facade and the framing of the central window are characteristic of the Baroque style.

The facade is decorated with numerous sculptures of saints and complex white stone carvings (it is assumed that the master who designed the facade of the Jesuit church in Lviv participated in the construction).

The defensive character of the building is revealed by the key loopholes located along the perimeter along the eaves.

In the middle of the 18th century, a bell tower in the form of a triumphal arch was built next to the church.

In 1946, the church was closed, part of the church property was taken to Poland. In 1992, the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin was handed over to the Greek Catholic community of Komarno.

The defensive complex of the Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin Mary was built in the 19th century on the basis of the fortifications of Shchyrets Castle on Golden (Church) Hill.

From the 16th century, a stone and wooden belfry tower over the gate, a stone fence with loopholes and a corner defense tower have been preserved. This is one of the few preserved structures typical of Ukrainian stone architecture of the 15th and 16th centuries.

During the military operations of 1915, the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin was badly damaged - the dome was completely destroyed. It was restored in 1934 according to the project of the architect Lev Levinsky.

A monumental painting has been preserved in the interior of the temple. All buildings on Castle Hill form a single defensive-type architectural ensemble.

The Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin Mary in Zhovkva was founded in 1705 at the expense of priest Yosyf Kyrnytskyi.

The wooden one-story church. Characteristic of the Ukrainian village of the 18th century. The iconostasis of the church was created in 1708 by a local carpenter, Kunash, and a local artist.

In 1994, the church was restored thanks to the efforts of the fathers of the Dasiliyan monastery. The church iconostasis was restored in 1996 by Lviv artists-restorers.

The Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin Mary was founded in Uhniv in 1780 (according to other sources, in 1797) on the site of an old wooden church known since 1500.

The temple remained unfinished for a long time. In 1855-1857, the merchant Stepan Zhukovsky reconstructed the church at his own expense. Building materials were the remains of dismantled city fortifications.

The Uhniv Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin was considered one of the most beautiful in Galicia. In 1936, the interior was painted by artist Demyan Hornyatkevych. Along with the saints, historical figures were depicted: King Danylo Romanovych, Hetman Ivan Mazepa, Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytskyi, poet Taras Shevchenko and others, but during Soviet times these frescoes were whitewashed.

The Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Virgin belongs to the parish of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

The Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Virgin (the so-called "Great Church") was the main Orthodox church of Brody for several centuries.

It was probably founded in the 16th century. It is believed that the first wooden temple was built in 1600. The stone church was rebuilt in 1749, and in the 19th century a clock was installed in the bell tower.

Paintings were made in the first half of the 20th century (Anatol Yablonskyi, Mykhaylo Osinchuk, Mykola Fedyuk).

During both world wars, the Nativity of Most Holy Virgin Church was not damaged, and in Soviet times it was the only functioning church in the city. It currently belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Church of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist in Mostysk was built in 1604 on the site of an old wooden Catholic church founded in 1404 by the Polish king Vladyslav II Yahaylo.

The Gothic-style church had 5 altars and 2 chapels, to which 2 more altars were added in 1722.

During the Soviet rule, the temple remained in use, now it has been restored.

The Defense Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in Rosokhy was built in the 15th-16th centuries.

The bell tower and stone walls were completed in the 19th century.

Three-part temple, three-storied. It used to have a shingled pitched roof, but is now covered with tin. The thickness of the walls reaches 1.5 meters.

An ancient altar partition with an opening for the Royal Gate has been preserved inside.

National Nature Park "Northern Podillya" was created in 2012 on the territory of 15.5 thousand hectares within Zolochiv district of Lviv region with the aim of preserving valuable natural and historical and cultural complexes and objects of Northern Podillya.

White (Bila) Mountain is interesting, on which steppe vegetation has been preserved in combination with a beech-hornbeam forest. It offers views of the plains of Small (Male) Polissya, the Hologora hills and the medieval Olesko Castle. Also on the territory of the national park are the Zolochiv and Pidhirtsi castles, the Basilian monastery on the ancient Rus hillfort and other historical monuments.

On Mount Menych there are outcrops of Torton sandstones - a geological monument of nature of local importance. On the territory of the "Trinoha" geological and botanical natural monument, among the greenery of the forest on the top of the mountain, you can see rocks of the most demanding forms of weathering.

At the source of the Zakhidny Buh, one of the largest rivers in Ukraine, the international ecological ethno-festival "Clean Springs of the Buh" takes place every year.