Attractions of Nadvirna district

The Yaremche mini-zoo is an aviary of the Carpathian National Nature Park, where local wild animals are kept in semi-free conditions.

The farm was established in 1992 with the aim of preserving and breeding wild animals on the territory of the Carpathian Natural Reserve. There are 6 sections on the territory of 5.3 hectares. Here you can see deer, roe deer, wild boar and others. Feeding animals is allowed.

The mini-zoo is located on the outskirts of Yaremcha, not far from the confluence of the Bahrivets River with the Zhonka River. The territory is beautifully decorated with wooden houses, gazebos, bridges.

The powerful defensive Pniv Castle was built in the foothills of the Carpathians at the end of the 16th century on the ancient Transcarpathian trade route from Galicia to Hungary.

It served as a residence for magnates of the Polish (according to other sources - Hungarian or Moldavian) Kuropatv family, and also served as a customs point. The pentagonal structure with four corner towers and one gate tower was at one time the most powerful fortress in the Carpathian region. The residential palace of Kuropatv was located in the center.

The castle repeatedly withstood tests of strength during the Polish-Turkish wars of the 17th century, as well as during popular uprisings led by Hrynia Kardash, Oleksa Dovbush and others. In 1648, the Pniv Castle, whose defense was managed by Mykola Kuropatv, withstood the siege of the 5,000-strong Cossack army under the command of Colonel Semen Vysochan. After the end of the Liberation War under the leadership of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, the owners had to rebuild the castle from the ruins, but soon it lost its importance and fell into disrepair.

Restoration attempts were made both in the 19th and 20th centuries, but so far without success.

Access is free.

The large entertainment center "Buka" is part of the "Bukovel" tourist complex and offers a variety of entertainment: a disco, bowling, billiards, slot machines, and more.

Night club "Buka" - the largest dance hall in the Carpathians (3000 square meters), professional DJs, themed parties. The bowling alley has 5 lanes. The billiard hall has 6 high-quality tables for playing Russian and American billiards (pool). The gaming hall has 16 slot machines and 3 air hockey machines.

The "Buka" complex includes the Kuhel pub and a hookah hall. Free Wi-Fi.

The Zaretsky family's private museum "Carpathian Spirit Extravaganza" opened in Vorokhta in 2023.

The museum's exposition presents ancient objects of Hutsul life: scarves and embroidered towels, which are over 100 years old, berbenitsy, shirts, keptari and much more. There is also an ancient loom, which is about 80 years old.

One of the most interesting exhibits of the "Carpathian Spirit Extravaganza" museum are two trembits, which were made by craftsmen from Verkhovyna region.

The "Girl's Tears" waterfall is located near Yaremche, on a tributary of the Prut - the Zhonka mountain river.

You can get there on foot or by SUV (if the barrier is open), horse excursions are also available to the waterfall.

The height of the waterfall "Girl's Tears" is about 1.5-2 meters. In the place where the water falls, a bath with a depth of about 1.5 meters was formed. As in all mountain rivers, the water is very cold.

The museum "Ukrainian Antiquities" was opened in 2007 by Mariya Medyk, a collector from Yaremche.

The exposition of the museum reproduces the life of the 19th and 20th centuries in several regions of Ukraine: Bukovyna, Hutsul region, Pokuttia and Boyko region. Objects of culture and everyday life of the Carpathian regions are exhibited in several halls. In particular, spinning and weaving products, ceramics, chests are presented.

Rare books (in Church Slavonic, Latin and ancient Hebrew languages), old photographs of local residents, paintings and icons on glass are exhibited.

One of the unique exhibits are shackles from the Austro-Hungarian prison.

The wooden church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Yablunytsia was built in 1895.

In 1900, the nave of the church was painted by the famous Ukrainian monumental artist Modest Sosenko.

The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is an architectural monument of local importance. It belongs to the parish of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

The wooden church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin Mary in Yaremche was built in 1884.

It is located in the city center, next to the railway crossing.

Bukhtivets waterfall is located on the mountain river Bukhtivets in the village of Bukove.

Its height is 8 meters. The stream flows from the mountain and falls into the valley, cutting the rock with a narrow canyon.

In 1972, the Bukhtivets waterfall was taken under protection as a hydrological monument of nature of local importance.

Nearby is the 10-meter-high Krapelny waterfall, which got its name due to the fact that the water in it does not pour in a stream, but sprays in drops.

There is a picnic area near the waterfalls.

The Carpathian Region Ethnography and Ecology Museum in Yaremche was founded in 1963 on the initiative of local historian Mykhaylo Muzych, who collected a collection of ethnographic works, historical and natural materials.

Since 2007, the museum in Yaremche has become a branch of the National Museum of Hutsulshchyna & Pokuttia Folk Art in Kolomyia.

Until 1993, it was called the Museum of Partisan Glory, as the main exposition covered the activities of Sydor Kovpak's partisan unit in the Carpathians during the Second World War. Then there was an exposition dedicated to the liberation struggle of the Ukrainian people, which told about the creation of the USS Legion, UGA, youth organization "Plast", the activities of the OUN, the struggle of the UPA and the division "SS Galicia".

An exposition dedicated to Hutsul ethnoculture has opened.

Chernytskyi Waterfall waterfall is located in the village of Chernyk, village of Zelena, on the mountain river Chernyk.

The height of the Chernytskyi Waterfall is 7-8 meters. The waterfall is two-stage. At first, a wide stream of water falls from a height of 2.5-3.0 meters and is directed into a narrow, narrowing wedge-shaped channel, from which it then flies out with a roar and falls from a height of 4-5 meters.

The local lore museum in Deliatyn, Ivano-Frankivsk region, is located in the old villa of the lawyer Mykola Lahodynsky, a member of the Austrian parliament. It is an asymmetric one-story building in the Austrian style, on one of the corners of which there is a two-story tower, and on the other – a small attic.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the famous Ukrainian writer Marko Cheremshyna, who worked in Lahodynsky's law office, lived here. It was he who founded the "Prosvita" society in Deliatyn, the "Ruska Kasa" and "Silsky Gospodar" organizations, participated in the development of the "Sich" society. One of the exhibition halls of the Deliatyn Museum of Local Lore is dedicated to the figure of Cheremshyna.

Also, the museum exposition highlights the history of Deliatyn and its surroundings, introduces the peculiarities of culture and lifestyle of its inhabitants. Among the exhibits are ancient icons, sculptures and paintings, ancient tools, traditional clothes. A fragment of a wooden aqueduct is presented.

Gothic or Yaremche folds are outcrops of flysch (layered) sedimentary rocks on the western slope of Mount Makovytsya on the right bank of the Prut River near the center of Yaremche.

Due to its characteristic shape, this rocky outcrop is also called the "Elephant" rock.

The folds arose in the Miocene period (according to other data - from 60 to 75 million years ago) as a result of deformation during the movement of rocks in the eastern direction after their transformation from sediment to rock. The structure of folds is associated with Gothic architecture.

"Hutsul Land" ethnopark in Polianytsia in the Carpathian region reproduces the traditional life of the highlanders of the Ukrainian Carpathians: Hutsuls, Boyks and Lemks. This ethnographic complex, located on the territory of TC "Bukovel" near the Lake of Youth, combines various areas for recreation and entertainment.

At the heart of the "Hutsul Land" complex is an interactive open-air museum (skansen), where authentic wooden huts and farm buildings of the highlanders are presented. All of them are monuments of folk architecture of the 19th – early 20th centuries, which were transported to the territory of the complex from different regions of the Carpathians. Among them are a hut from the village of Rozhanka, Lviv Region, 1860-1880, a Hutsul hut of wealthy shepherds from Vorokhta at the end of the 19th century, and a traditional grazhda hut of a closed type.

In all buildings, the interior is reproduced in detail, household items and works of folk art are presented. All of them are open to visitors – here you can sit on a bench, look at the fire in the oven, grind wheat flour in millstones, make a path on a real loom, see the process of cheese making in a cheese factory, and even take part in a theatrical performance of a Hutsul wedding.

A contact zoo is located on the territory of "Hutsul Land", where domestic, exotic and wild animals and birds live in natural conditions. In the area for creative workshops and cognitive workshops, you can learn folk crafts. In the art gallery "Skrynia" there are areas for recreation, entertainment, a club of Ukrainian cinema.

The wooden Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross was moved to Nadvirna from the Maniava Monastery, which was closed in 1793.

From that time, it bore the name of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos.

Rebuilt in 1840 by master Molot. It burned down during the First World War in 1914, but was restored in its original form.

The Exaltation of Holy Cross Church belongs to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. It is a typical example of the Hutsul school of folk architecture.