Attractions of Lviv region

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 Lyudvih Baldvin-Ramult, Yuliush Tsybulsky, Petro Harasymovych and Leonard Markoni.

The customer was Count Alfred II Yuzef 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 Art Gallery named after 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 (the former name of the city is Sheptytskyi) 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.

In the basement of the Potocki Palace, samples of bricks used during the construction of the complex are exhibited.

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.

The central resort park "Adamivka" in Truskavets was founded back in 1895. Named in honor of Adam Sapeha - one of the most active initiators of the reconstruction of the park.

The park is located in the valley of the Vorotyshche stream on an area of ​​about 60 hectares, in the very center of the Truskavets resort. The center of the resort area of the city is the Central mineral water Buvet. Park avenues start from it, leading through the park on the hills, where there are 3 more healing springs, as well as the first summer pavilion for receiving water. Torosevych Boulevard acts as its main "street".

In addition to plants typical of this area, in the Truskavets resort park you can find exotic species: Weymouth pine, catalpa, boxwood, silver maple, vinegar tree and others. It is believed that the English style of the park was given by the gardener Yuzef Yablonskyi, who planted a large number of both typical and exotic trees here.

The first retro motorcycle museum was opened in Horodok by collector Ostap Boyko and his friends from the ZAZ-Kozak club.

The exposition presents 50 rare motorcycles, scooters, mopeds, and motorcycles of the post-war period. Among them are not only Java, Minsk, Voskhod, Izh, Dnipro and other Soviet-made cars, but also Italian, Polish, German, and French brands. All models have been restored, half of them are still running.

The oldest exhibit is a military trailer manufactured in Switzerland in 1944.

On the basis of the "Dnipro" K650 motorcycle, Lviv restorers created a sanitary motorcycle. You can also see a classic "carriage" motorcycle of the Soviet-era patrol service.

P.S. For technical reasons, "Retro Moto Museum" is ceasing its activity at 2 Romana Dashkevycha Street. Currently, the "Retro Moto Museum" team is considering other options for the location of the museum and promises to please with new interesting projects and exhibitions.

The mysterious monument, located by the road leading from the city of Komarno to the village of Kletsko, causes controversy about what it was erected in honor of. On the pedestal of the three-meter obelisk there is a Latin inscription: "My death is your life" and the dates "1641" and "1663".

According to the official version, the monument was built in honor of the victory over the Turks and Tatars. Some associate it with the events of 1672, when the Polish troops of Crown Hetman Yan Sobeskyi defeated the Tatar army of Nureddin-Sultan, which was five times larger, near Komarno, but this does not explain the dates indicated on the monument. Other researchers consider the obelisk to be a tombstone on the grave of a young nobleman who lived in the specified period. It is also possible that the monument was erected in honor of the construction of the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin, and the dates indicate the year of the destruction of the old wooden church and the final completion of the construction of the new one.

The Royal Arsenal of Lviv was built in the Baroque style by the architect Pavlo Grodzytskyi by order of the Polish King Vladyslav IV.

As a strategically important city, Lviv had two arsenals. The city arsenal was formed by the citizens of the city, and the royal was maintained at the expense of the monarch. Since 1939, the Royal Arsenal has housed the Lviv Regional State Archive.

In 1977, a monument to the first printer Ivan Fedoriv was erected in front of the Royal Arsenal building, opened for the 400th anniversary of printing in Ukrainian lands. Near the monument is a second-hand market, popular with foreign tourists. Traders of old books and antiques gather here.

The Rudky Town Hall was built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The building is rectangular, two-story, with a small clock tower at the corner. The decor is a bit reminiscent of a synagogue.

The town hall building is still used for its purpose - it houses the Rudky Town Council.

A bust of the outstanding Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko has been installed in the square on the Vidrodzhennya Square near the town hall.

The architectural ensemble of Rynok (Vicheva) Square in the Renaissance style creates a surprisingly harmonious medieval atmosphere of the "ideal city" in Zhovkva.

The general planning and projects of the main buildings were developed by the architect of Italian origin Pavlo Shchaslyvy. Among them, the Zhovkva Castle and the Church of Saint Lawrence dominate. The Zvirinetsky Gate (XVII century) leads to the castle park. The City Hall (XVII-XX centuries) rises between the castle and Hlynska Brama. The square is surrounded by Renaissance buildings with arcaded galleries, in which cafes and shops are located. On the northwestern side is the Basilian Monastery of the Nativity of Christ (XVII century).

Since 1994, the central part of the city has the status of a historical and architectural reserve, restoration work continues.

The Monastery of the Sacraments (Benedictine nuns of continuous worship of the Holy Mysteries) with the Church of the Engagement of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph was built in Lviv in 1744-1780 on the site of a half-timbered church founded in 1718.

The neo-baroque tower was built during reconstruction in 1884-1887 according to the project of Adolf Minasevych.

In 1995, the church was consecrated as the Church of the Holy Trinity of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.