Attractions of Nadvirna district

A large stone arch railway bridge-viaduct of Austrian times was laid in the valley of the Prut River in Vorokhta in 1895 during the construction of the railway Stanislav (Iavno-Frankivsk) – Yaremche – Vorokhta – Rakhiv.

The bridge is located on a railway bend and in a place where the river has a wide channel, so it had to be made very long - 130 meters. The length of the widest span reaches 65 meters.

It is one of two large arched bridges in Vorokhta (the Yaremche-Verkhovyna highway passes under the second), it is considered one of the longest stone railway bridges in Europe.

Currently, the bridge is not operational - a new bridge has been built nearby.

The museum of wax figures of celebrities "Oscar" opened in 2022 on the territory of the resort of Bukovel.

Here are more than 30 realistic sculptures of famous actors, presidents, athletes, researchers, artists, performers. In particular, you can see the figures of Arnold Schwarzenegger in the likeness of the Terminator, Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump, Daniel Craig as James Bond, the characters in the series "Harry Potter", scientist Albert Einstein, painter Vincent Van Gogh, footballer Cristiano Ronaldo, etc.

There are photo areas and a souvenir shop for visitors.

The Park-Museum "Carpathians in Miniature" is located in the open air on the banks of the Zhonka River in Yaremche, on the territory of the Carpathian National Nature Park.

Opened in 2015 by the Center for Social Business Initiatives of Yaremche city. The park presents miniature models of 18 Carpathian monuments, including accurately reproduced models of sacred buildings – churches and monasteries. Among the iconic tourist attractions of the Carpathians, you can see the "White Elephant" observatory on Mount Pip Ivan, the bridge over the Probiy waterfall on the Prut River, famous monuments of the region, as well as the only operating miniature railway in the Carpathians, which includes copies of the legendary stone bridges in Vorokhta, a station in Tatariv, and a tunnel.

Also presented are 25-fold reduced copies of the famous wooden buildings of the Carpathians, for example, the restaurant "Hutsulshchyna".

The Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul at the Monastery of Saint Andrew is the youngest in Yaremche.

The monastery complex among the beech forest was built in the tract of Tovsty Dol on the banks of the mountain river Kamyanka. Saint Andrew's Missionary Congregation was founded by the famous Greek Catholic missionary Yaroslav Svyshchuk.

The wooden Peter and Paul Church, built according to the canons of traditional Hutsul architecture, is also a museum of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky.

The museum is located on the lower tier of the church. It presents a collection collected by Yaroslav Svyshchuk: icons, portraits, subject paintings, sculpture and mosaic of famous artists of the Ukrainian diaspora - Petro Andrusiv, Edvard Kozak, Omelyan Mazuryk, Mykhaylo Dmytrenko, Yuvenaliy Mokrytsky, Mykola Bidnyak etc., as well as sculptural and iconographic works of Svyshchuk himself.

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 ethnographic and entertainment complex "Polonyna Pertsi" in Yablunytsia near Bukovel is a kind of museum of the Carpathian flavor. This Hutsul amusement park is located in the Carpathian polonyna (mountain meadow) at an altitude of 1000 meters above sea level with a view of Mount Hoverla.

The restored Hutsul hut has a collection of antiquities and traditional Hutsul clothing that can be tried on for a photo shoot. Workshops on folk crafts are held at various locations: blacksmithing, pottery, carving, coverlet-making, easter egg painting, cooking of Hutsul dishes, etc.

The complex has its own farm with a flock of sheep and a dairy-house where polonyna cheese is made. The owner of "Molfar's Hut" tells about the traditions of ancient Hutsul magic. There are tastings of authentic Hutsul cuisine cooked on firewood according to old recipes and branded liqueurs.

You can buy Carpathian mushrooms, cheeses, teas, liqueurs in a local shop.

The young wooden church of Saint Basil the Great appeared in Yablunytsia quite recently - in 1992, but it was built according to all the classic canons of Carpathian folk architecture.

The church is decorated with an iconostasis made in 1995 by craftsmen from Deliatyn, Vasyl Savchuk and Vasyl Pryima. The icons were painted by an artist from Lazeshchyna Mykhaylo Kuzyuk. Artistic wall paintings were made in 2000 by folk craftsmen from the village of Chornyi Potik: Mykola Paliychuk, Vasyl Vasylyshyn, Mykhaylo Tkachuk, Mykhaylo Menuyk. The tetrapod was carved and painted by Vasyl Vasylyshyn.

A small wooden church was built in Tatariv in honor of the Great Martyr Dmytro Solunsky in 1870.

The temple was designed by the architect Frantsyshek Menchynsky, and is considered an original work of the Hutsul school of folk architecture.

Tempera painting of the 19th century has been preserved on the walls. The five-tiered iconostasis, the work of local masters, was painted by Antoniy Orzhehovskyi.

Saint Dmytro's Church is located in the cemetery right next to the highway.

The Church of Saint Francis in Deliatyn was built in 1857.

The Austrian emperor Franz Joseph came to Deliatyn and took part in the foundation of the temple, pouring gold ducats into every corner. He personally planted four cedars brought from Vienna near the church.

The Church of Saint Francis is built in the Romanesque-Gothic style. The temple was consecrated in 1882.

In 1945, the Soviet authorities closed the church, the premises were used as a military warehouse. In the 1970s, it housed one of the workshops of the local lumber mill, and then it was simply left unattended and falling into disrepair.

Thanks to scientist Volodymyr Klapchuk, who tried to preserve the church by setting up a museum in it, the church was recognized as an architectural monument. In 1992, after the restoration of Ukraine's independence, the church was returned to the Roman Catholic community of Deliatyn.

The Church of Saint John the Merciful is located in the old cemetery on the outskirts of Yaremche - in the village of Yamna, which is on the way out of the city in the direction of Bukovel.

The wooden temple was built in 1663 in the best traditions of folk architecture of the Hutsul region. The church is cruciform in plan, single-headed, with a porch on the crowns of log cabins.

A small iconostasis located in the central log cabin, a large number of embroideries and old icons give the interior of the church the appearance of a museum of folk art.

Nearby is a wooden belfry, the second tier of which is made in the form of an arcade-gallery.

The Church of Saint John the Merciful in Yaremche is a very interesting example of the Hutsul school of folk architecture.

The Salatruchil waterfall is formed by the flow of the Salatruk river, opposite the mouth of the Salatruchil river (local name - "sixth kilometer"), which then flows into the Bystrytsia-Nadvirnyanska river 6.3 kilometers from the village of Bystrytsia (Rafaylovo).

The height of the water drop is about 6 meters. The area is 985 meters above sea level.

The Tatariv Museum of History and Antiquities opened in 2020 at the Tatariv Center of Culture, Leisure, Youth and Sports.

The exposition in two rooms tells about the ancient history of the village and the unique culture of its inhabitants. A lot of rarities are presented, including authentic vyshyvankas (embroidered shirts), traditional clothes and shoes, old tools of rural work, retro photos with views of the village.

A separate exposition is devoted to the participation of Tatariv residents in the Revolution of Dignity and the Russian-Ukrainian war.

Tourist complex "Bukovel" is the largest and most popular ski resort in Ukraine. Every year, he is traditionally one of the first to open the ski season.

The complex is located at an altitude of 860-890 meters above sea level, surrounded by five mountains - Dovha (1372 meters), Chorna Kleva (1246 meters), Bulchinyokha (1455 meters), Babyn Pohar (1180 meters) and Bukovel (1127 meters). which gave its name to the entire resort.

Built on the model of European ski resorts - with modern hotels, SPA-complexes, restaurants. Today, it has at its disposal 55 kilometers of tracks of all difficulty levels (the longest track is 2106 meters), equipped with 16 lifts (15 chairlifts and 1 cable lift). Thanks to effective work on the preparation of tracks (snow guns, snow plows), a good snow cover is maintained here from December to the end of April. Several tracks are equipped with stationary lighting. There are ski and snowboard schools.

For summer recreation, there is an artificial lake with sunbeds along the shore, one of the ski lifts works in the mode of a cable car to the observation deck with the "Panorama bar", there is a pump of "Bukovelska" mineral water (an analogue of "Naftusya"), paved cycling and walking routes.

The Ukrainian Museum of Sacred Art opened in November 2019 on the territory of the Baron SPA Hotel in the center of the Yaremche resort. The museum presents a unique collection of religious works of the 17th-21st centuries.

The basis of the exposition are rare works of church art, as well as modern icon painting samples, reproduced from the originals. Most of the icons in the museum's exposition repeated the tragic fate of the Ukrainian church and culture. The total ban and destruction of monuments left deep wounds on the canvases themselves, most of which were saved by patron Ivan Havron and restoration artist, head of the restoration department of the Ivano-Frankivsk Museum of Local History Valeriy Tverdokhlib, after undergoing conservation and restoration.

The collection of the Ukrainian Museum of Sacred Art includes more than 60 works. The pearls of the collection are the icons of the 18th century "Saint Luke" and "Descent into Hell".

The Zhenetskyi Huk Waterfall is located on the Zhenets River near Mykulychyn at an altitude of 900 meters.

It was formed in the post-war years as a result of a flood. Water falls freely from a height of about 15 meters.

Local residents call the waterfall Huk because of the loud roar it makes.

The plant life around the Zhenetskyi Huk Waterfall is extremely diverse.