Attractions of Lviv region

The old park of the city of Horodok was built in the 18th century near the Ancient Rus Hillfort of the 11th and 13th centuries.

A child of the ancient city was located in this place. The memorial sign indicates that in 1213 the city of Horodok was founded on this place. The external fortifications consisted of a system of ramparts and ditches (partially preserved), ponds and the natural channel of the Vereshchytsa River, which turned Horodok into an artificial island that could only be reached by two bridges.

At the end of the 14th century, Prince Vladyslav Opolchyk built a castle on the hillfort, which became a royal castle under Vladyslav II Yahaylo. It was probably made of wood, since after the capture of the castle by the Tatars in 1611 and the subsequent events of the Liberation War, no traces of it remained.

In 1682, a wooden Starostynsky palace was built on its place, and in the 18th century, already under Austrian rule, the Park of Generals was demolished. In Soviet times, it was renamed Komsomolskyi Park, which the sculpture of a mother with a child reminds of.

Horodok City Park has the status of a monument of garden and park art.

The Oleksa Novakivsky Art Memorial Museum is located in the house where the famous Ukrainian painter has lived since 1913.

The exquisite red-brick villa, built in the late 19th century in the neo-Romanesque style by the famous Lviv architect Yulian Zakharevych, was once known as the palace of the Polish artist Yan Styka.

In 1907 it was bought by Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky for the needs of the church museum. With the assistance of the Metropolitan in 1923-1935, the Oleksa Novakivsky Art School operated here - the first art school for young people in Western Ukraine, which became the leading center of artistic life in Lviv.

The artist's creative studio was located on the second floor of the house, and his family lived next door in five rooms. Since 1972, an art-memorial museum has been set up in these premises, covering the main stages of the artist's creative path.

The Oleksa Novakivsky Museum is a branch of the National Museum named after Andrey Sheptytsky in Lviv.

The museum of the opera singer Oleksandr Myshuha was opened in the village of Novyi Vytkiv, where he was born in 1853.

The outstanding Ukrainian tenor won world recognition at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries, performing on the best stages of many European capitals: Paris, Rome, Vienna and others.

According to the will, in 1922 he was buried in his native village.

The Myshuha Museum was opened in the People's House of Novyi Vytkiv. The exposition tells about his life and work, about his relations with outstanding contemporaries - Ivan Franko, Mykola Lysenko, Solomiya Krushelnytska, Modest Mentsynskyi. Visitors can listen to a tape recording of Myshuha.

The Olena Kulchytska Art Memorial Museum was opened in 1971 in the artist's former apartment in Lviv, on the third floor of a residential building of the late 19th century.

According to the artist's will, all her creative heritage, apartments and personal belongings were donated to the Ukrainian people.

The exposition in four rooms reveals the artist's work in various genres and types of fine and applied arts. And also presents her as an innovator and creator of modern expression in Ukrainian art culture.

The best-preserved interior of the apartment reproduces the artist’s aesthetic preferences for the decoration of urban housing in the context of Ukrainian folk tradition and its creative interpretation.

The Olena Kulchytska Museum is a branch of the Lviv National Museum named after Andrey Sheptytsky.

The memorial museum of public figure Olha Bachynska was opened in 2001 as a department of the of Stryi Museum of Local Lore "Verkhovyna". It is located in the elegant house of the Bachynskys in Stryi, which was purchased in 1912 by Olha's husband, Ilarion Bachynskyi.

The exhibition highlights the life path of Olha Bachynska, who was the first Ukrainian woman of Galicia to head an important economic institution - the directorate of "Maslosoyuz". In addition, she collected a large collection of folk clothes and embroidery, which she exhibited in Vienna in 1915.

Part of Bachynska's collection is presented in the museum. Worthy of attention are samples of Ukrainian embroidery, embroidered shirts, woven socks, photos of Bachynska in national dress, some of her personal belongings.

In the second room, the situation that existed here during Bachynska's life is reproduced. Family furniture, household items of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, documents about Bachynska's many years of work as part of the "Maslosoyuz" directorate and her social activities are presented.

Ranch "Bilaky" is located at the exit from Sambor in the direction of Stariy Sambir.

It consists of an ostrich farm and a mini-zoo with exotic animals: lions, buffaloes, bears, wolves, deer, wild boars, donkeys and others. Ostriches are kept in large enclosures.

The farm has a restaurant "Hostiny dvir", where you can taste exotic dishes made of ostrich meat and eggs.

The Museum of the outstanding Ukrainian artist Osyp Kurylas, whose creative legacy occupies an important place in the history of European modern art, opened in 2016 in the artist's homeland at the Shchyrets Lyceum named after the Hero of Ukraine Bohdan Ilkiv.

Kurylas' portraits of the leaders of the Sich riflemen and his depictions of battles have high artistic and documentary historical value, and the icons and illustrations of children's books are a vivid example of education in action.

The Museum of the Artist in Shchyrets was created thanks to the initiative of the family of public figures, local historians and long-time researchers of Osyp Kurylas's work, Stefaniya and Ihor Derevatsky, as well as their daughter Bohdana.

Osyp Kurylas was born in Shchyrets in 1870 into a large family of a local deacon and a public school teacher. Osyp's penchant for drawing was evident from childhood. In 1886, he entered the School of Arts and Crafts, and later continued his studies at the Krakow Academy of Arts, where he began his own career as an artist.

With the outbreak of World War I, Osyp Kurylas joined the Austrian army, and later transferred to the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen. During his military service, the artist created a number of paintings in which he glorified the exploits of the Sich Riflemen. He painted about two hundred portraits of his comrades and paintings.

In addition, Osyp Kurylas drew many illustrations for magazines and books. His illustrations for the collection of short stories "Maple Leaves" by Vasyl Stefanyk, who was a friend of the artist, are considered among the best. A special feature of the artist's creative work is the painting "Taras Shevchenko. I Look at the Dawn..." created by him in 1918. In his sacred works, one can see Ukrainian ethnic ornaments - his icons "The Virgin Mary" and "Jesus Christ" in embroidery are famous.

The Osyp Kurylas Museum in Shchyrets is a place for personal and thematic exhibitions, open-air exhibitions and informative lectures.

The museum-house of Osyp Makovey was created in Yavoriv in the house where this outstanding Ukrainian poet, prose writer, satirist, publicist, teacher and public figure was born.

The exhibition is housed in three halls: two rooms and halls. In one room, the belongings of the Makovey family are collected: furniture (chairs, table), dishes, embroidery, toys. In the other - photos of Osyp with his family and friends; his letters, books; portraits Household items are presented in the halls.

Makovey studied at the Ukrainian gymnasium in Lviv and at the philological faculty of Lviv University. He was the editor of "Zorya" magazine, "Bukovyna" newspaper, one of the editors of "Literary and Scientific Herald". In 1901, he received the scientific degree of Doctor of Philosophy for researching the works of Panteleymon Kulish.

During the First World War in 1914-1918, he served as a military translator of the Austrian army, the head of postal censorship, later - in a radio group. In the post-war period, he worked as the director of a teachers' seminary in Zalishchyky.

Makovey maintained friendly relations with Ivan Franko,Lesya Ukrayinka and other writers. He began his literary activity at the end of the 80s of the 19th century under the pseudonyms: Spectator, Osyp Stepanovych.

The Museum of the Liberation Struggle of the OUN-UPA in the village of Kavsko in the Lviv region was created in 1993 on the initiative of local historian Zinovyi Kochmarskyi, who was born in exile because his parents were repressed by the Soviet authorities.

The museum is located on the second floor of the People's House of the village of Kavsko. In four halls, materials are presented that tell about the history of the resistance movement during the Soviet occupation of Galicia and about the various stages of the struggle of Ukrainian patriots for the liberation of the enslaved people.

The uniforms of Sich riflemen and UPA soldiers, original documents from the declassified archives of the NKVD administration of the former Drohobych region, a typewriter and rebel belongings found in 1997 in a hiding place in the Beletsky forest, embroideries sewn in Stalin`s camps, OUN documents and unique photographs are presented.

A special exhibit is Stepan Bandera's handwritten letter dated March 28, 1956, which he wrote to his friends in the USA.

The Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Chenstokhova was founded in Velykyi Liubin in 1930 on the initiative of Bishop Boreslav Tvardovski.

The temple was consecrated in 1932, but construction continued for another 5 years.

Since 1949, the church was used by the Soviet authorities as a grain warehouse and a garage for agricultural machinery.

The Church of Our Lady of Chenstokhova was returned to Catholics in 1992.

The Palace of Arts "Villa Bianca" in Drohobych is a vivid example of the Secession architectural style (Viennese Art Nouveau) of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The richly decorated dark green two-story building belonged to Dr. Yozef Rott, a radiologist. The house is described in Bruno Schulz's novel "Spring" as "Villa Bianca".

Now it is the building of the Palace of Arts, which belongs to the "Drohobychchyna" museum, and is used as an exhibition center.

Wall paintings by Bruno Schultz, discovered in 2001 at "Villa Landau" in Drohobych, are presented here.

The thematic exhibition "Treasures of Count Lyantskoronsky" presents more than 150 items of highly artistic works of fine and decorative and applied art.

Ukrainian painting of the 20th century is also presented.

The Memorial Museum of the Patriarch of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, Cardinal Yosyp Slipy, was opened in 1997 in the main building of the Ukrainian Catholic University.

The museum exposition is presented on the basis of materials from the private collection of the famous popularizer and propagandist of the ideas of the Patriarch, doctor of medicine, Roman Smik from the USA, as well as modern philatelic materials of the head of the Lviv Regional Organization of the Ukrainian Philatelic Society Roman Byshkevych, documents and photo materials of the Institute of Church History. These are special envelopes, postcards and stamps, medals, tokens, festive ribbons, with which the Ukrainian community abroad tried to celebrate every event in the life of the Church and the Patriarch after his arrival in Rome.

The museum illuminates the life of the Patriarch, popularizes the ideas laid down in the Testaments of Yosyp Slipy. It combines three periods of the Patriarch's life: Lviv, in exile in Siberia, and Roman.

Two rarities are included in the museum's collection: a cast of the great seal of Patriarch Yosyp Slipy and the medal "For Loyalty to the Church and the Pope", which was awarded in 1998 to priests of the UGCC who survived the times of persecution. Photographs of the Patriarch occupy a special place in the museum. In the museum there are personal paramans (an amulet that testifies to the special care of the Virgin Mary) worn by the Patriarch, his sweater, kamilavka, omophorus and miter. Also in the exhibition is the miter of the Patriarch, which was worn on the day of the funeral. After restoration, it was transferred to the museum.

A particularly valuable museum exhibit is the omophorus of the Patriarch. This is the first omophorus he wore when he came to Rome (the Patriarch went to a meeting with Pope Ivan XXIII in a borrowed cassock).

The People's Museum of Father Markiyan Shashkevych in the village of Novosilky was opened in 2011 for the 200th anniversary of his birth. It is located in the premises of the former village school built in 1928.

The outstanding Ukrainian writer, public figure, "awakener" of national consciousness in Galicia, Markiyan Shashkevych, was the parish priest of the village of Novosilky in 1842-1843. It was here that he died and here is the place of his first burial.

The museum presents a gallery of portraits of Markiyan Shashkevych and photos of memorable places connected with him. Here you can learn about the activities of the "Ruthenian Triad" (Ruska Triytsia) society founded by Shashkevych, about his literary heritage and about the history of the reburial of the "alarmist".

The ethnographic exposition presents everyday objects of residents of Novosilky of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, embroideries, icons, and old prints. A monument to Father Markiyan Shashkevych (sculptor Teodozia Bryzh) has been installed in front of the museum.

Peremyshliany Museum of History and Local Lore is a branch of the Lviv Historical Museum.

The museum is housed in an old Art Nouveau building located in the center of Peremyshliany.

An exposition about the nature of Peremyshliany region, the history of Peremyshliany and the whole region is presented.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Roman Catholic community of the village of Poliany was small and belonged to the parish in Pomoriany. However, the owners of the village Frantsishek Hursky and Valerian Valsky decided to build a chapel here.

Thus, in 1904, the Peter and Paul Church was built according to the project of the famous architect Yulian Zakharevych in a transitional style from historicism to modernism. In 1924, a separate Roman Catholic parish was formed in the village of Poliany, which remained there until 1944, when the priest left the village.

After the Second World War, the Soviet government used the church as a warehouse, dividing the premises into two floors. Today, the church remains inactive and is in a deplorable state. Nearby is an old Polish cemetery.