Attractions of Lviv region

The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary was built in the village of Vyshnivchyk in 1930. The neo-Gothic temple was designed by the architect Vavzhynets Daychak.

During the Soviet rule, the building was used for economic purposes. Nowadays, the Church of the Assumption is abandoned and crumbling.

The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (the former Church of the Ascension) was founded in Zolochiv in 1730 together with the monastery and the collegium of piary.

After the liquidation of the Order of piary by the Austrian authorities in 1788, the church was closed, and warehouses were placed in the building. In 1838, the Roman Catholic parish moved here from the Resurrection Church, which was transferred to the Greek Catholics.

In Soviet times, it was the only functioning church between Lviv and Zbruch.

The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is made in the magnificent late baroque style. During the restoration in 1878, a quadrangular tower with a clock made of hewn stone was erected on the main facade, a veneered pediment, a roof covered with galvanized sheet metal, and five stone sculptures were installed in the niches. The vaults of the nave and apse are richly decorated with carvings and paintings.

The Castle Church of the Assumption of the Virgin was built in Svirzh in 1546 by the magnate Andriy Svirzhsky on the site of a wooden church of the 15th century.

After several reconstructions, the church acquired a Renaissance appearance, although it was originally Gothic. Above the entrance you can see the remains of the noble coat of arms of the former owners.

An underground passage led to the church from the castle, which can still be traced in the moat near the drawbridge.

In Soviet times, the temple was used as a warehouse.

In 1994, the church building was handed over to the faithful of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. The temple was consecrated as the Church of the Holy Trinity and the Assumption of the Virgin. The restoration has been carried out.

The old Austeria is located in the village of Novyi Myliatyn near the Exaltation Church.

Built in the Baroque style, the inn consisted of an inn, stables and rooms for merchants who come to the fair.

In 1934-1935, restoration work was carried out on the building, and since 1961 it housed a grocery store.

The Novyi Myliatyn Austeria is an architectural monument of national importance, but is now in a neglected state.

The Austrian Pillbox (DOT) from the First World War is located on a 30-meter cliff on the northern outskirts of Mykolaiv.

An entrance and two separate rooms 20 by 7 meters have been cut into the sandstone rock. Stairs lead to the second floor to the stone-concrete tower of Pillbox.

Pillbox was used as an observation post and fire control center - the northern part of the city of Mykolaiv and the road leading to it are clearly visible from a height.

The museum of authentic clothing and adornment from all regions of Ukraine was opened in Lviv by collector and ethnographer Roksolyana Shymchuk in 2024. The exposition is located in the basement of the Lviv Art Palace.

The founder of the museum began collecting her collection in the early 1990s. For over 30 years, she has sought out and restored vintage clothing, adornment and headwear. Now her collection includes several thousand examples of Ukrainian folk applied art.

Only a part of the collection is presented in the museum exposition. Here you can see the folk costumes of Hutsulshchyna, Boykivshchyna, Pokuttya, Bukovyna, Podillya, Lviv region, Volyn, Dnipro region, and Left Bank Ukraine.

By prior agreement, the founder of the museum conducts author's tours. On the first floor, there is an ethno-gallery, where you can buy modern designer items and adornment, the author of which is Roksolyana Shymchuk.

The palace in Busk in the park above the Buh, the last owner of which was Count Kazymyr Badeni, was built in 1810 by the Busk landowner Voytsekh Miyer as a residential building and office.

The governor of Galicia, Kazymyr Badeni, bought it in 1876 and rebuilt it for his own summer residence. At the same time as the palace, a park (now named after Ivan Franko) was laid out, the avenues of which smoothly descend to the Buh. The complex consists of a main two-story building and two side wings. The decoration of the palace is a two-story portico with columns and a balcony with a balustrade. In the interiors, the old parquet, laid out in seven colors, as well as the stucco coat of arms of the count family of Badeni have been preserved.

In the period after the Second World War, a military unit was stationed here. Currently, the abandoned building is owned by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. In May 2016, the ministry handed over the palace of Count Badeni to the community of the city of Busk. As a result of a fire in November 2016, the roof and ceiling were damaged on an area of 150 square meters.

The issue of restoration and creation of a museum is under consideration.

The palace in Tulyholove was built in 1899 by the Galician nobleman Stanislav Bal (Ball).

The project of the palace in the French Neo-Renaissance style was developed by the Lviv architect Vladyslav Halytskyi (according to another version, Ferdinand Fellner and Herman Helmer, the authors of the Odesa Opera). The rich sculptural design of the building was executed by master Petro Herasimovych.

The park and two outbuildings have also been preserved.

Since 1954, a tuberculosis dispensary was located in the Bal`s manor. In 2022, the palace was handed over to the Historical and Local Lore Museum in Vynnyky.

The memorial museum-manor of the family of the outstanding Ukrainian politician, leader of the OUN, Stepan Bandera, was opened in Stryi for the 101st anniversary of his birth. It is part of the Stryi Local Lore Museum "Verkhovyna".

The exhibition, which is mostly devoted to the school years of young Stepan, is located in the house of his grandfather Mykhaylo Bandera, where he lived while studying from 1919 to 1927 at the Stryi Gymnasium.

Also, the exposition of the house-museum tells about all the members of the large Bandera family, each of whom in one way or another participated in the struggle for Ukrainian independence. Documents, photographs, personal belongings are presented.

A square named after Stepan Bandera has been opened in front of the house.

The Zolochiv Monastery of the Basilian Order was founded in 1567, and was then located 10 kilometers east of Zolochiv (now the village of Monastyrok).

Soon it was destroyed by the Tatars, but in 1665 it was restored by Yan Sobesky, the future king of Poland.

In 1704, Teodor Yavorskyi founded a new monastery with the Church of the Ascension - on the current site, on the western outskirts of Zolochiv. In 1740, the two monasteries were united into one Greek-Catholic Basilian monastery. In the 1840s and 1860s, the complex was rebuilt in stone at the expense of Countess Lukiya Komarnytska.

In Soviet times, a tuberculosis dispensary was located on the territory of the monastery.

Currently, it is an active monastery of the Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ of the Basilian Order of Saint Josaphat.

The Basilian Monastery of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Drohobych is one of the best examples of sacred architecture in the city of the 19th century.

The monastery was founded in 1775. The current complex was built in 1828 on the initiative of hegumenYosafat Kachanovsky, after the old wooden Peter and Paul monastery of the Basilian fathers burned down.

During the Soviet rule, the monastery was closed, many monks were tortured in the torture chambers of the NKVD.

Since 1992, the Basilian Monastery of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Drohobych has been operating again.

The wooden Church of the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist in Horodok is a sample of Galician folk architecture, one of the oldest Orthodox churches in Galicia.

Saint John's Church was founded in 1403 in the Cherlyanskyi suburb near the town of Horodok. It burned twice in the 17th and 18th centuries. It was rebuilt in its current form in 1755.

The wall painting was made by the artist Fedir Shcherbokoskyi in 1861. A small stone chapel of the Beheading of the Head of John the Baptist is attached to the church. In 1863, a three-tiered stone bell tower was built, which became a symbol of the city.

In Soviet times, the church was inactive, but in 1980 a complete restoration was carried out, which saved it from destruction.

The Church of John the Baptist in Horodok has the status of an architectural monument of national significance. Today it is an active church of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The active Lviv synagogue "Beis Aharon ve-Israel" (translated from Hebrew - "House of Aaron and Israel") is located near the railway station.

The building, built in 1897, originally belonged to Moses Grifeld, a member of the Tsori Gilod Jewish Society.

In 1923-1925, according to the project of the architect Albert Kornbluth, the building was rebuilt as a synagogue. The two halls of the prayer house were designed for 384 seats. The central lamp of the main hall is decorated with a stained glass window in the form of a Star of David. The walls were painted by the artist Maximilian Kugel.

During the Second World War, the building was not damaged - it housed a warehouse.

Since 1989, the service has been resumed. The restoration was carried out in 2007. In the interior of the "Beis Aharon ve-Israel" synagogue, a polychrome painting has been preserved. The synagogue has a kosher kitchen and a mikvah.

The ensemble of the Benedictine monastery in Lviv - the church and the monastery building - was built with the participation of the architect Pavlo Rymlyanin. It has a pronounced defensive character.

The Church of All Saints is a small stone building, rectangular in plan. Adjacent to the south-eastern part is a two-story building of cells, which has preserved techniques and elements of Renaissance architecture. The complex is surrounded by walls with baroque gates of the 17th century.

Today it is an active Holy Intercession Monastery of the Sisters of the Studio Statute.

The monastery of the Bernardine order in Lviv with the church of Saint Andrew the First-Called in the 17th century was a separate fortification unit outside the city.

It was surrounded by a moat, a rampart and a defensive wall, which is partially preserved, with a tower of the Hlynyansky Gate overlooking the Customs Square. Powerful monastery fortifications were connected with a ring of city walls.

The Church of Saint Andrew was built in the years 1600-1630 according to the project of architects Bernard Avelides and Pavlo Rymlyanin in the Renaissance style. The lush interior is made in the Baroque style, there are many wooden altars of the 18th century. The decorative column in front of the facade was installed in 1736 in honor of Saint John of Dukla, the patron saint of the Bernardines.

The premises of the monastery now belong to the Central State Archives of Lviv, and the church of Andrew the First-Called was handed over to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.