Attractions of Lviv region

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 UPA Kryivka-Museum in Zolochiv region was created in 2021 in the Zhelyasko tract southwest of the village of Voroniaky, on the territory of the Northern Podillya National Nature Park. It is located at the place of death and burial of UPA centurion Bohdan Zakharkiv.

The museum is a reconstruction of a typical rebel hideout used by UPA fighters in the middle of the 20th century to hide from the NKVD. The hideout recreates the environment in which the rebels lived: furniture, household items, elements of weapons and military equipment.

A memorial cross has been installed on the grave of Bohdan Zakharkiv. Several sculptural compositions of a sacred and patriotic nature have been installed nearby, and a recreation area has been arranged. Celebrations are held here on the occasion of celebrating Christian and national holidays, in which residents of the village of Voroniaky and guests from neighboring settlements take part.

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 history section informs about the oldest settlements on the territory of the region, the history of medieval Stryi, the Opryshky movement. Covers the history of Stryshchyna during the period of Austrian occupation, the events of the First World War, the struggle of the locals for the Ukrainian state.

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.

The Verkhovyna Museum of Local Lore includes:
- Memorial complex "Fighters for the Freedom of Ukraine";
- Bandera family Memorial Museum-Manor;
- Olha Bachynska Memorial Museum;
- Artist Petro Obal Museum.

The Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary Queen of Angels and Saint Stanislav in Peremozhne near Komarno is one of the few churches in the Lviv region in the constructivist style.

The imposing church is built of red brick in the form of a triangular structure with round windows at the top and tall, narrow windows at the bottom, which are divided by ribs resembling buttresses.

Today it is the Greek-Catholic Church of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God.

Volodkevych's Villa in Stryi is called a romantic house in the Art Nouveau style, built at the beginning of the 20th century by the family of a local lawyer. This miniature castle is one of the most interesting architectural monuments of Stryi.

After 1939, the Teacher's House was located here. During the Nazi occupation, the building was used by penal authorities. Currently, the Volodkevych Villa houses the Center for Professional Development of Pedagogical Workers.

In five rooms on the second floor, the Museum of the Literary and Art Association "Waves of Stryi" is located. It was founded in 1976 by the Ukrainian writer and public figure Vitaliy Romaniuk, who headed the literary and artistic association "Waves of Stryi".

The exposition presents more than 500 different works of art: embroidery, art glass, painting, graphics, sculpture. The literary part of the exhibition consists of a selection of works by Stryi writers who were members of the "Waves of Stryi" association.

The museum of the Ukrainian modernist artist Volodymyr Patyk opened in Lviv in 2024. It is located in the premises of the Potulitsky villa, built in 1891-1894 according to the design of Ivan Levinsky's bureau in the late neo-baroque style.

The Volodymyr Patyk Museum is a branch of the Lviv Regional History and Local History Museum.

The museum has a hall, a terrace, two interactive rooms, an exhibition hall and a corridor with changing exhibitions. In one of the rooms, the workshop-studio of Volodymyr Patyk is recreated.

The wife of the artist Roman Vasylyna donated to the museum about 100 of his paintings and graphic works, sketches, archives, as well as the artist's personal belongings. This collection became the basis of the museum exhibition.

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 Way of the Cross in Lviv is an architectural complex that reproduces the main moments of the sufferings of Jesus Christ.

It is located on the northern slope of the High Castle (Vysoky Zamok) Hill. It consists of 15 stations (parking lots) with sculptures made by architect Bohdan Hretchak in 2010-2013.

The Way of the Cross complex also includes a cave temple, above which the figure of the Mother of God is installed, as well as the spring of the Virgin Mary.

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 valley of wild tulips is located on the southwestern outskirts of the village of Nadytichi in the floodplain of the Dniester and Rybnytsya rivers.

In this unique place, wild tulips of the Red Listed grouse grow. Due to barbaric extermination, their population is rapidly decreasing.

The Valley of Wild Tulips blooms for a short time (about a week) at the end of April - beginning of May.

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.

A monument to the famous Galician Yuriy Kulchytskyi was opened in Lviv in 2013.

Yuriy Kulchytskyi, a native of the village of Kulchytsi, Sambir district, became famous during the Turkish siege of Vienna in 1683. Disguised as a Turk, he managed to sneak out of the besieged city through the Turkish camp and convey the news to the Allies, thanks to which the city received military aid, and the Turks were soon defeated at the Battle of Vienna.

According to legend, as a reward, Kulchytskyi asked to give him 300 bags of trophy Turkish coffee, which at that time was practically unknown in Europe. Having such a significant supply of product, the enterprising Galician opened the first coffee shop in Austria, "Under the Blue Flask". He is considered the inventor of the classic Viennese coffee recipe (with cream and sugar).

The people of Lviv are sure that Kulchytskyi also delivered coffee beans to Lviv, and since then coffee has become a cult drink in the city.