Attractions of Lviv region

The People's History and Local History Museum of the Dobrotvir urban-type village and surrounding villages bears the name of its founder, local historian, artist and collector Yosyf Brykaylo. It was he who assembled the museum exhibit, which opened to visitors in 1995.

The museum's collection includes about three thousand monuments of Nadbuzhanshchyna. It presents the reconstruction of dwellings and tools of primitive people, fragments of ceramics from different periods, weapons of princely times, household items and samples of handicrafts of local residents of the XIX-XX centuries, historical documents and photographs, portraits of prominent personalities.

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.

The monument in honor of the military pilot, the founder of the highest aerobatics, the author of the "dead loop" Petro Nesterov, is located on the outskirts of the village of Volia-Vysotska, at the place of the pilot's death.

In 1914, during an aerial battle with the Austrian ace, Baron Fridrikh fon Rozental, who piloted the heavy biplane "Albatross", Nesterov on his light "Moran" made the first air ram in the world. Both planes crashed, the pilots were killed. A memorial sign was installed at the place where Nesterov's plane crashed.

In Soviet times, a memorial with a museum and a 45-meter monument in the form of a jet plane emerging from the "dead loop" was built, and the neighboring town of Zhovkva bore the name of Nesterov for some time.

During the years of independence of Ukraine, the memorial in honor of the Russian pilot was neglected, but the monument was preserved.

The oldest pharmacy in Lviv has been operating on Rynok Square for almost 300 years.

The pharmacy in the townhouse "Under the Black Eagle" was opened in 1735 by a military pharmacist Frants Vilhelm Natorp, as evidenced by a wrought-iron sign with the emblem of medicine above the entrance. On both sides of the neat portal there are relief portraits of the god of healing Aesculapius and his daughter - the goddess of health Hygiene.

The old interior of the trade hall, paintings by Viennese masters on the ceiling, antique scales and cash registers have been preserved.

In 1966, the Museum of the History of Pharmacy opened here, with an exposition of more than 3,000 exhibits. In the exhibition halls you can see a variety of pharmaceutical devices, reconstruction of the pharmacist's home, an underground alchemical laboratory.

The courtyard recreates the view of the house of a rich burgher of the XVI-XVII centuries.

Pharmacy "Under the Black Eagle" continues to serve people today, becoming a state pharmacy № 15. In addition to drugs, you can buy the world-famous "Iron Wine" (aqueous solution of iron sugar used in iron deficiency anemia) and the popular Lviv tincture "Vihor", which is considered a means of increasing potency. Memorable souvenirs are also sold here.

Pidhirtsi Castle is the most beautiful castle of the "Golden Horseshoe of Lviv Region", a vivid example of the transition from defensive to palatial architecture of noble residences of the Renaissance era.

It was built according to the project of the Italian architect Andrea del Aqua and the military engineer Guillaume de Beauplan (author of the famous "Description of Ukraine" and compiler of the "General Map of Ukraine") for the Crown Hetman Stanisław Koniecpolski on the northern outskirts of the ancient Rus Plisnensk hillfort.

It was one of the most beautiful palaces on the territory of Eastern Europe, embodying the fashionable type of aristocratic residence at the time, which combined luxurious housing with bastion fortifications (the so-called palazzo in fortezza).

After the War of Liberation, the Sobieskis, who owned the castle since 1648, restored the palace and decorated the interiors. Grand balls were held here with the participation of European monarchs. The Russian Tsar Peter I, who visited here in 1711, took several sculptures by Italian masters to St. Petersburg and soon began the construction of the Petropalace. In 1728-1779, the new owner of Pidhirtsi, Wacław Rzewuski, carried out a large-scale reconstruction of the castle, began collecting a collection of sculptures and paintings, and also organized a private theater. At that time, Pidhirtsi became famous as the "Galician Versailles".

The last owners - princes Sanguszko - turned their residence into a museum, but at the beginning of the First World War they had to save the collection. In 1939, Roman Sanguszko took a rich collection of works of art to Brazil and created the Sanguszko Foundation, which is managed by his descendants.

During Soviet times, the palace was looted, the interiors were destroyed by fire, and a tuberculosis sanatorium was placed in the premises. In the Soviet TV series "D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers", Pidhirtsi Castle played the role of the city hall, where a ball was held for the city elders, where a brave Gascon delivered the queen's diamond pendants (many believe that it was the Louvre or Versailles).

Now the Pidhirtsi Castle Museum-Reserve is a branch of the Lviv National Art Gallery. Since 1997, restoration and creation of a museum has been underway. A courtyard with a well, a terrace on the bastions, an exhibition of old photographs in the casemates, as well as the dungeon of the castle with the "White Lady" exhibition, which is dedicated to the legend of the ghost of the Pidhirtsi castle, are open to visitors.

The Plisnesko Hillfort is the ramparts and defensive ditches of the historic city of Plisnesk, which existed from the 7th to the 13th centuries on the border of Halychyna and Volyn.

This trade and craft city had the right to self-government for a long time. Its territory, together with the post and suburbs, occupied almost 160 hectares.

The builders used the natural features of the high plateau, constructing a very complex and difficult-to-reach defense system of seven defensive lines. However, in 1241, the city was completely destroyed by the troops of Khan Batiy and has not been rebuilt since then.

Later, the Pidhirtsi Monastery was founded on its territory.

In 2015, the historical and cultural reserve "Ancient Plisnesk" was created.

The Pomoriany Castle was built on a hill at the confluence of the Makhnivka River with the Zolota Lypa in the 16th century on the site of a wooden fortress founded in the 15th century by the noble Mykola Svynka.

The castle was a two-story, rectangular building with corner towers and a closed courtyard, surrounded on three sides by the channel and marshy floodplain of the river. Along the axis of the northern building on the side of the city was an entrance gate with a tower and a drawbridge.

In 1675 and 1684, the Pomoriany Castle was captured by the Turks, but by 1690 it was restored by the Polish king Yan III Sobesky, becoming one of his favorite residences.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, the castle was rebuilt several times, passing through the hands of different owners. The last major reconstruction was carried out at the beginning of the 20th century by Yuriy Potoski, turning the medieval fortress into a luxurious manor with a palace. Two two-story buildings have survived from the old castle. The oldest of them is the eastern one, with a round corner tower. The later, southern one, has an open gallery on the side of the yard, completed in the 18th-19th centuries. In the round tower with a tented roof there are stairs leading to the second floor. In the walls of the tower, loopholes on four levels have been preserved.

During the Second World War, the Gestapo was housed in the building, and after the arrival of Soviet power, the district committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, then PTU. Restoration was carried out in 1978, but now the Pomoriany Castle is in a deplorable state.

The most luxurious palace in Lviv was created for the influential Polish magnates Potocki according to the project of the union of Lviv architects Ludwik Baldwin-Ramult, Juliusz Cybulski, Piotr Harasimowicz and Leonard Marconi.

The customer was Count Alfred II YJózef Potocki, his son Roman Potocki was completing the construction. The historicist-style palace is modeled on the entre cour et jardin residences of King Louis XIV of the Baroque Classicist era, when clear planning combined with rich exterior design.

Interiors in the style of King Louis XVI have been preserved. In particular, on the ground floor there are ceremonial halls for the reception of guests, in the design of which stucco, gilding, colored marble, painting are widely used. In Soviet times, the Palace of Marriages was located here.

In 2007, the Potocki Palace opened the Museum of European Art of the XIV-XVIII centuries - a department of the Lviv National Gallery of Arts. Borys Voznytskyi. On the second floor there is one of the richest collections of European art in Ukraine, including "Catching Corals and Pearls" by Jacopo Zucchi, "Payment" by Georges de La Tour, "Portrait of a Young Patrician" by Sofonisba Anguissola, "Allegory of Divine Mercy" by an unknown German artist, "The Visit of Mary Elizabeth" by Jan van Scorel, sketches of monumental paintings by Paul Troger, Joseph Winterhalter, Franz Anton Maulbertsch and others.

The Park of Castles and Defense Structures of Ancient Ukraine has been opened in the courtyard of the Potocki Palace. Architect Ihor Kachor created 1:50 scale models of 18 fortifications that exist now or existed earlier on the historical territory of Ukraine-Russia. Entrance to the territory is free.

The Sheptytskyi branch of the Lviv Museum of the History of Religion is located in the Potocki Palace, which is an architectural monument of local significance.

Krystynopil Castle was built in the 18th century by French architect Pyer Riko de Tirredhelli for members of the powerful Polish landowner Potocki family. In its architecture, the building combines two styles: Baroque and Early Classicism.

The Potocki Palace had about 40 rooms, several salons, a large ballroom, a Chinese study and a library. The architectural complex also included kitchen buildings, breweries, distilleries, barracks, stables and other utility rooms. The current appearance of the palace has changed significantly due to numerous fires and alterations.

The Museum of Religion has been located there since 1990. The main exposition tells about the history of Krystynopil (Sheptytskyi) in the XVII-XIX centuries and its founders.

There is also a collection of embroideries and other clothes of the former Sokal County, antique household items, a model of the palace complex.

In the basement there are samples of bricks used during the construction of the palace.

A memorial sign in the form of a cross on a high ceiling was installed in 2012 at the probable burial place of Prince Svyatoslav Volodymyrovych of Drevlyans, son of Prince of Kyiv Volodymyr the Great, brother of Saints Borys and Hlib.

Having learned about the murder of the brothers by Svyatopolk the Terrible, who seized the throne of Kyiv after the death of Volodymyr in 1015, Svyatoslav and his wife fled to Hungary, but were caught by the killers in the Carpathians. According to legend, seven sons of Svyatoslav and most of his wife died in a brutal battle, the entire valley of the Opir River was covered with the bodies of the dead.

These events were reflected in local toponymy: the city of Skole (from Svyatopolk's order: "Slaughter them all!"), the village of Semihynyv (the place of death of seven princes), Mount Parashka (the place of death of Princess Paraska), the village of Slavsko (the settlement of the surviving remains of Svyatoslav's wife ).

Prince Svyatoslav's grave is a mound with a symbolic sarcophagus on top, above which rises an 18-meter cross.

The Pryima Grotto is located in the middle of the forest, 2 kilometers southeast of Mykolayiv, not far from the small village of Pryima.

A 46,000-year-old settlement of Neanderthals was discovered in the cave. Also recorded are materials from the Early Iron Age, XVIII-XIX centuries (Upper canopy), XVIII-XIX centuries (Lower Cave) and Mousterian era (Upper floor-grotto).

The Pyatnychany Tower is considered a rare monument of defensive architecture of the Galician school and, perhaps, one of the oldest fortifications in Galicia.

According to one version, the fortification in Pyatnychany dates back to princely times. The tower was part of the defensive yard of the noble family of Vnuchek, the first written mention of which dates back to 1454. The defensive yard was located on a hillside in the western part of the village. Pyatnychany.

It was a characteristic stone-wooden fortification of the cape type. The only stone tower, which was adjoined by wooden walls, in plan has the shape of an almost regular square with sides of 7.83x7.4 m. The height of the walls reaches 9.5 m.

For a long time the tower remained dilapidated, it was restored only in 1990-1991 In particular, the drawbridge was restored, which rises on the principle of counterweight.

Since 1995, the Pyatnychany Tower Museum of Defense Architecture has been a branch of the Lviv National Art Gallery. The exposition of the museum is located on the second and third tiers of the stone gate tower.

Archaeological finds from the territory of the former defense yard, a map of defense construction and well-known examples of military architecture of the Galicia-Volyn principality are exhibited.

The Museum of History and Local Lore of the Radekhiv region began its work in 2004 in the premises of an ancient villa in the center of the city of Radekhiv.

More than 1,500 exhibits are housed in six halls. The exposition is divided into several sections: "On the history of the creation of the Ukrainian state", "Archaeological monuments and ethnography of the region", "Education and the history of school Radekhiv region", "Flora and fauna of the region", "Prominent people of Radekhiv region", "National liberation struggle in Radekhiv region".

Each room in the museum reproduces the family and social life of the region. Interesting is the interior of a peasant house with clothes, samples of pottery, ancient coins, tools, a model of a hiding place and Ihor Bilozir's corner.