Attractions of Lviv region

Neo-Gothic palace on Pekarska Street in Lviv, known as Turkulo-Komello Palace, built in 1840-1843. Count Henryk Didushytskyi.

The authorship of the project of the building in the early neo-Gothic style of the Venetian type is attributed to Fryderyk Bauman, a Polish architect of the Romantic era. Gothic elements here are large pointed arches and crucifixes. The main facade of the building, unfolding towards a small park, emphasizes a portico on two columns that support a balcony with lace railings, thanks to which the building resembles a romantic medieval house.

In the second half of the 19th century, the palace belonged to CountessFelitsiya Komello. In the 1920s and 1930s, the building was owned by lawyer Batytskyi, and his daughter, the artist Sofiya Batytska, was the first to be awarded the title of "Miss Polonia".

The Tustan fortress city is an ancient Rus rock defense complex that served as a border fortress and a customs post (the name is interpreted as an order to the traveler: "Tu stan!" (Stand!). Also known as "Dovbush Rock".

The first fortifications on the Rock of Kamin in the area of the current village of Urych were built by the White Croats in the 9th century. Wooden structures were inserted directly into the rock massif (grooves and cuts in the rock were preserved, which were reconstructed).

The Tustan fortress was an important stronghold of Kyivan Rus, later the Principality of Galicia-Volyn. In 1241, it was destroyed by the hordes of Khan Batiy, and in 1340 it was captured and rebuilt by the Polish king Kazymyr the Great as a royal fortress. Through it, salt mined in Drohobych and its surroundings was exported to Transcarpathia and Hungary. The last owner in the 16th century was the Polish magnate Blitsynsky, after which the fortress lost its importance and disappeared from the annals.

Remains of a stone wall, caves, stairs, a well and two water cisterns have been preserved. In 1994, the State Historical and Cultural Reserve "Tustan" was created, the Tustan History Museum operates.

The Tustan History Museum is located in the center of Urych, near the turn to the Tustan rock fortress, next to the Nicolas Church and the Prosvita People's House.

The museum was created in 1997 to store and exhibit archaeological finds made on the territory of the ancient Rus settlement.

Paintings and diagrams by the artist and archaeologist Mykhaylo Rozhko, a model of the fortress city and the reconstruction of the governor's chambers are also presented. "Tustan - the fifth construction period" model, which reproduces all three rocks of Tustan (Stone, Sharp Stone and Small Rock), multi-story wooden structure of the fortress, walls and towers.

A separate layout shows how the entrance gate mechanism is arranged.

An elegant palace in the English style was built in Brody in 1909 by Countess Tyshkevych.

The Tyshkevych Palace is located in the suburb of Stari Brody, on the shore of a picturesque pond. A small two-story building with a colonnade is richly decorated with stucco. The interiors were not preserved.

Currently, the Brody State Forestry Farm is located here, which keeps the building and territory in order.

The Ukraine Liberation Struggle Museum is located in the historical building of the former Lviv Rifle Association (1869-1871), in the southern part of the Park "Znesinnya". Opened in 2012 on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army as a department of the Lviv Historical Museum.

The exposition in chronological order reveals the main stages of the struggle for an independent cathedral Ukrainian state and covers the period from the 19th to the end of the 20th century.

In particular, here you can learn about the activities of the sports organizations "Sokil" and "Sich", the purpose of which was to educate physically healthy and nationally conscious Ukrainian youth of Galicia and Bukovyna. The history and combat path of the Legion of Ukrainian Sich Riflemen are highlighted by documents, photographs and fragments of weapons found in the area of ​​the USS battles on Makivka Mount. In the exhibition about the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917-1921: samples of contemporary weapons, reconstruction of the military uniform of the Army of the Ukrainian People's Republic, the original coat of a soldier of the Ukrainian Galician Army, documents of the Central Council and banknotes of the Ukrainian People's Republic, etc.

A significant part of the exposition is dedicated to the activities of combat units of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. In the interiors stylized as forest thickets, materials are presented about the main stages of formation and organizational structure of the UPA, the activities of the "Buh" Military District, senior and sub-senior schools, the medical service of the UPA, publishing and propaganda work. Of great interest is the section dedicated to the history of the Ukrainian Galicia Division: personal belongings of divisional members, commemorative combatant awards, camp publications.

The following expositions tell about the Bolshevik repressions in Western Ukraine, the Sixties movement, the activities of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, the democratic processes of the late 1980s and the declaration of Ukraine's Independence.

The sectors of the Ukraine Liberation Struggle Museum are the Museum of UPA General Roman Shukhevych Museum (Lviv) and the Colonel Yevhen Konovalets Historical and Memorial Museum (Zashkiv).

The museum of the UPA underground headquarters of General Roman Shukhevych was opened in 2007 in the village of Hrimne, where in 1947 the headquarters of the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army was located.

For several days, there was a conspiratorial apartment in the house of a local priest, where Shukhevych stayed with his closest entourage. Of them, only the liaison Dariya Husak, who initiated the creation of the museum, remained alive.

In the basement of the priest's house, a hideout of the rebels was discovered, covered with earth. Enthusiasts cleaned it and restored the interior.

Weapons of those times and personal belongings of the underground are presented. You can view the collection of documents, photographs and rebel posters printed here.

The UPA General Roman Shukhevych Museum in Lviv was created in 2001 with the assistance and financial support of the Association of UPA Soldiers in the USA named after General Taras Chuprynka. It is a department of the Lviv Historical Museum, sector of the Ukraine Liberation Struggle Museum.

It is located in an old building on the territory of the former village of Bilohorshcha (now district of Lviv), where in 1950 the last headquarters of the UPA commander-in-chief was located.

The exposition on the first floor tells about the Shukhevych family, Roman Shukhevych's youth, his military and political activities and the armed struggle of the Ukrainian liberation movement. In particular, an autobiography written by Shukhevych's hand is presented, as well as objects related to his field activities.

The second floor of the museum reproduces the daily life of the UPA commander-in-chief in this underground apartment: stairs, living room, hiding place. It was here that on March 5, 1950, Roman Shukhevych's last battle with the MGB unit took place. In the room where Roman Shukhevych lived and worked, original furniture (a table, four chairs, an armchair) made in the mid-1930s in Western Europe, which was presented to the museum by the daughter of General Mariya Trylovska, is presented.

On January 1, 2024, the Roman Shukhevych Museum in Lviv was completely destroyed by a fire caused by a Russian air terrorist attack. The lost memorial items of Roman Shukhevych: a table, armchairs, an armchair, a piano, as well as a bust of Roman Shukhevych by Mykhaylo Chereshniovskyi and a sculpture of Stepan Bandera by Yaroslav Trotsko. The remaining approximately 600 pieces of exhibits from the beginning of the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war were moved to another place.

The Stryi Museum of Local Lore "Verkhovyna" is located in the former house of the Stryi lawyer and public-politician Yevhen Olesnytsky (built in 1899), which at the beginning of the 20th century was a center of Ukrainian culture and public life.

The museum's funds include 26,000 storage units. The exhibition consists of three sections: nature, ethnography, and history of the region.

The most valuable exhibits: ancient books, icons, Boykiv and Hutsul Easter eggs, as well as Cossack and Opryshky weapons.

A separate exposition is devoted to the activities of the UPA.

Castles (Knyazha) Hill in the central part of Lviv (413 meters), on top of which the fortified residence of Prince Danylo Halytskyi was built in the 13th century. It is called the High Castle (Vysoky Zamok ) as opposed to the Lower Castle (Citadel).

Initially, the fortress was wooden, with earthen ramparts. In 1362, it was rebuilt in stone by the Polish king Kasymyr, who captured Galicia. The castle, rectangular in plan, had four towers at the corners, the highest of which was a watchtower. Inside was the princely palace, barracks, ammunition depots and a deep well. In 1648, the castle was taken by the troops of Maksym Kryvonos.

In the 19th century, it was almost completely dismantled, the "High Castle" (Vysoky Zamok) park was built in its place, and an observation deck was built, which offers the best views of the city. A fragment of the southern stone wall with loopholes that protected the entrance to the castle territory has been preserved. A long staircase leads to the top.

Currently, there is a regional television center and a relay tower on the mountain.

The Museum of Weaving and Carpet Making was opened in 2016 in Hlyniany, which at the end of the 19th century became one of the centers of the development of weaving and carpet making in Halychyna, when the weaving factory "Tovarystvo tkatske" was founded here.

In interwar times, it became famous as Mykhailo Hamul's factory, which produced carpets based on the sketches of prominent Ukrainian modernist artists. After the Second World War, it became the factory of art products "Victory". Until it closed in the mid-1990s, the factory produced carpets, tablecloths and bedspreads. In order to preserve the carpet-making traditions of Hlyniany, a multi-purpose educational and production complex "Mosaic" was created in Hlyniany, a part of which became the Museum of Weaving and Carpet-Making. The exposition presents carpets based on the drawings of artists Vasyl Tsyon, Pavlo Kovzhun, Sofiya Stryenska. Also on display is a carpet, which in 1947 refugees from Bukovyna exchanged for a bag of wheat to save themselves from starvation.

Workshops on weaving and carpet making are held on the basis of the museum.

The Museum of Weaving and Carpet Making in Hlyniany is a subdivision of the Historical and Local History Museum of Vynnyky. The exhibition will soon move to a new premises at Svyatoho Mykolaya Street, 10.

The cave cult complex of the White Croats tribe in the village of Dubrova is part of the Historical and Cultural Reserve "Stilsko Settlement". In the 8th-10th centuries, it was one of the centers of pagan cults in the capital of White Croatia in Stilsko.

The complex is a rock of limestone-sandstone origin with 21 man-made caves carved into it. All interior rooms have the correct shape, narrow entrances simultaneously serve as windows. In the walls of individual caves there are sunken square or rectangular niches. Presumably, at first, pagan worshipers lived in the caves-cells, and with the advent of Christianity, wandering monks. Nowadays, local residents have turned the cells into cellars, installed doors, hung locks and store food in them.

To the left of the cave complex is the "Dyravets Stone" or "Table Stone", which received these names because it has a large through hole, and its upper surface is flat, like a table. This megalithic stone is also called the Sun Temple. Presumably, an idol once stood on it, and the remains of altars can still be seen at its foot, so the stone clearly had a cult purpose.

The remains of another pre-Christian sanctuary can be traced on the rock to the right.

The little-known Yablonovsky-Brunytsky estate in Pidhirtsi near Stryi is a well-preserved palace and park complex of the 18th-19th centuries, an architectural monument of local importance. It is now in private ownership and is being revived by volunteers as a tourist attraction.

The country palace in the ancestral estate in Pidhirtsi was founded in 1734 by Yuzef Aleksander Yablonovsky on the site of an old hunting castle that had existed here since the 17th century. The building was built by the architect Bernard (perhaps Bernard Meretyn) according to the principles of the French country house maison de plaisance. The palace was luxuriously furnished, had a library of 1,000 volumes and a gallery of portraits of Polish hetmans.

In 1815, Pidhirtsi became the property of the Brunytsky family, which owned the estate until 1939. At the end of the 19th century, Yulian Brunytsky reconstructed the palace in the Romanesque-Gothic style according to the project of the Chernivtsi architect Karl Romstorfer. The building was electrified and provided with water supply, dishes and products from the kitchen in the basement were lifted to the dining room by a special elevator. There were many farm buildings around, as Brunytsky was seriously engaged in agriculture, in particular, he created a nursery for fruit and ornamental trees.

The palace is surrounded by a park with an area of 8.2 hectares, which is a monument of horticultural art of national importance - it is considered one of the first arboretums in Galicia.

During Soviet times, the Yablonovsky-Brunytsky palace was turned into a boarding school, and later into a trout farm. For many years, the building stood empty and fell into disrepair, although it was privatized back in the 2000s.

Since 2014, the palace has belonged to three local families, who have been successively reviving the architectural landmark. A number of emergency works were carried out, the interiors of ten rooms were partially restored. The owners conduct tours and provide space for photo shoots.

The Yavoriv National Nature Park was created in 1998 on the basis of the landscape park of the same name and the adjacent territories of the Starychiv and Maheriv Military Forest Farms.

The area of the park is 7 thousand hectares. The territory stretches like a crescent from the village of Vereshchytsia (Yavoriv district) to the village of Krekhiv (Lviv district). In the south, the national nature park borders the "Roztochchya" nature reserve, and in the north - with the Yavoriv training ground. There are 13 settlements near the park, but none of them are within the park boundaries.

The flora of the Yavoriv National Nature Park includes 707 plant species, of which 20 species are listed in the Red Book of Ukraine. The vertebrate fauna of the park includes 289 species, including 24 species of fish, 11 species of amphibians, 6 species of reptiles, 200 species of birds and 48 species of mammals. The most numerous species of mammals are the European roe deer, wild boar, rusak hare, fox, squirrel, marten, wood ferret, raccoon dog, and from those listed in the Red Book - European mink, ermine, badger. Red deer and elk occasionally enter the territory of the park from neighboring massifs.

The region in which the Yavoriv National Natural Park is located is rich in archaeological and historical and cultural monuments. A number of primitive man's sites and hillforts of the princely period have been discovered here.

Picturesque clearings and abandoned orchards are often found among the forest massifs - a memory of the former villages and hamlets that were evicted during the creation of the Yavoriv landfill.

The park has a number of pedestrian and car routes, ecological and educational trails, equipped with stationary areas for recreation.

The Museum of Arts and Crafts of the Yavoriv Region and Yavoriv Painting was created on the basis of the Yosyp Stanko Art Vocational School in Ivano-Frankove.

The exposition began to take shape in 1958, when the school was still working in Yavoriv. The museum exhibits many decorative plates decorated with Yavoriv Painting, flat-relief carvings, relief carvings, openwork-relief carvings; candlesticks; Yavoriv boxes; pendants from various plates; furniture with Yavoriv carvings, including two chess tables with chess pieces.

Numerous easel carvings on fairy-tale themes, sculptural portraits of Ivan Franko and Bohdan Khmelnytsky are presented.

Zhovkva Castle is an outstanding architectural monument of the Renaissance era, the main element of the fortification system of the "ideal city" of Zhovkva. The building is partially museumized, restoration is in progress.

The construction of the castle in Zhovkva began in 1594 by the city's founder Stanisław Żółkiewski, the author of the first project was Pavlo Shchaslyvy. The castle is quadrangular, with towers located at the corners, connected by covered galleries with two-story buildings. The entrance with the Serlian portal is fortified by a four-story tower. In the courtyard there is a palace and office premises. In 1606, the "Zvirynets" garden was built, in which bison, deer and fallow deer were bred for hunting.

At the end of the 17th century, Zhovkva Castle was the summer residence of the Polish king Jan III Sobieski, and became one of the richest royal palaces in Europe (in 1676, celebrations were held here in honor of Sobieski's victory over the Turks near Vienna). Hetman Ivan Mazepa and Tsar Peter I stayed in the palace. Later, the castle became the property of the city.

Until recently, various municipal institutions, a school and even residential apartments were located here.

Now the Zhovkva Castle Museum-Reserve is a branch of the Lviv National Art Gallery. A museum exposition has been opened in the eastern building, which acquaints visitors with the history of the city, the development of Zhovkiv fortifications, as well as outstanding personalities who lived or visited Zhovkiv. The new exposition is dedicated to the events of the Revolution of Dignity and the Russian-Ukrainian war.