Attractions of Berehove district

The ancient Reformation Church, founded in Chetfalva in the 15th century, is distinguished by a tall Gothic bell tower in the style of Czech defensive towers.

A modest one-nave stone temple with one window is strengthened from the southwest corner by a buttress. The ceiling is decorated with 60 square wooden caissons with a bright floral ornament. The name of the author Shandor Ferents is written in one of the squares.

A wooden belfry was added to the western side of the church during the reconstruction in 1753. The two-story tower, square in plan, stands directly on the ground on 16 wooden supports (without foundations and piles). The belfry is crowned by a sharp octagonal spire, the height of which is half of the total height of the belfry (about 30 meters).

Next to the Reformation Church is the Catholic Church of the Holy Spirit (1998-2001) in the Art Nouveau style.

The Gothic church of the reformers in Velyki Berehy was built in 1405. However, probably part of the church was built before 1237.

In 1657, the temple was destroyed by the Poles, but it was soon restored. The last reconstruction was carried out in 1869.

The Reformation Church in Muzhiievowas built in the 15th century in the late Gothic style.

The temple has a monumental appearance, its corners and walls are reinforced with buttresses. On the western wall, there is an entrance in the form of a perspective portal with an arch. On the southern wall, between the buttresses, there is an entrance framed in the form of a pointed arch. The pointed arches of the windows on the south side are decorated with sophisticated stone carvings.

Near the church stands a wooden frame two-story belfry with a spire, built in the 18th-19th centuries.

The Reformers Church is the largest church in Berehove.

It is located in the center of Layosha Koshuta Square, opposite the building of the former palace of the county (city) court.

It was founded in the XIII-XV centuries. The Gothic church of the reformers was rebuilt many times. In 1918, the temple burned down, it was restored in 1922-1924. Near the four-tiered clock tower, the Gothic first tier has been preserved.

A feature of the design of the Protestant church is roosters instead of crosses on the spiers. An organ plays during services.

You should not enter the church in shorts and with bare arms, and women should have their heads covered.

The summer residence of the Shenborn Counts, who owned the city of Berehove since the 18th century. The romantic-looking palace was built in the 19th century at the foot of the mountain on the northeastern outskirts of the city. A tall tower with a pointed roof makes it look like a medieval castle.

A cozy park was built nearby.

In 1913, a Hungarian state wine farm was opened here, which in 1920 became the property of the Czechoslovak Union of Winemakers. In 1954, the State Farm "Berehove" was established on the basis of the residence, which produced the famous vintage wines "Rose of Zakarpattia", "Promeniste", "Berehivske".

Now it is the "Berehivske" STOV wine factory, which has practically stopped production. Access to the factory territory is closed. The building is in bad condition.

The private wine cellar of the Shosh family is located in the village of Kidosh, 5 kilometers from Berehove.

The cellar was laid in 1923 by the family of winemakers Shosh on their own village circuit. Currently it belongs to Karl Shosh, a member of the Order of Wine Knights named after Saint Vatslav, co-organizer of the Association of Private Grape Growers and Winemakers of Transcarpathia.

The Shosh family maintains 7.5 hectares of vineyards, on which about 60 table and wine grape varieties are grown. White and red dry and dessert wines are made at home according to traditional technologies with aging in oak barrels, using ancient and own recipes.

Wine tasting is held in the tasting room for 25-48 guests next to the wine cellar. Up to 20 varieties of Transcarpathian wines are offered for tasting, as well as home-made snacks.

A small synagogue was built in Berehove in the early 1920s.

The building of the Jewish ritual bath has also been preserved.

Today, the synagogue is active.

Ivan Ursta, a famous Transcarpathian winemaker, maintains a small wine cellar in his own country yard in the village of Velyki Berehy.

The house in which he receives guests has been turned into a private museum of winemaking. The host offers 5 types of wine for tasting - two white (Riesling, Nectar) and three red (Saperavi, Black Doctor, Kahor). Wine is served with a traditional snack: fried walnuts, salted crackers, cheese.

By prior agreement, the hostess can prepare dishes of traditional coastal cuisine: cabbage rolls, bean goulash, bograch.

The open-air thermal pool is located in the center of Berehove in the complex of the "Zakarpattya" educational and sports base, which has a hotel, a cafe-dining room and a sauna.

The pool with thermal mineral water has been operating since 1967. It is filled with silicon-nitrogen-carbon dioxide-chloride-sodium waters of high mineralization from a geyser 1080 meters deep. The Berehove source of hot chloride-sodium mineral water (+35) is equipped for taking therapeutic baths all year round.

It is used for the treatment of organs of the musculoskeletal system, nervous system, skin diseases and others.

The "Kosino Thermal Waters" health and recreation complex was built on the site of the "Shoshto-Termal" recreation area with hot springs of thermal springs.

The bathhouse is located 1.5 kilometers from the Transcarpathian village of Koson near the Hungarian border, in the middle of a 200-year-old oak grove.

Thermal water rises from a well 1190 meters deep and enters the pool at a temperature of 41 degrees. Cloudy, salty-tasting water has a yellowish tint due to an excess of iron. Bathing in it contributes to the treatment of diseases of the musculoskeletal system, cardiovascular system, peripheral nervous system, peripheral vessels and miliary systems.

There are five swimming pools on the territory of the "Kosino" complex, three of which are thermal. The large thermal pool partially enters the "Royal Hall", where you can relax and go to the tea room, shower room, changing room, massage room or shop of the complex. A freshwater pool with an aqua bar and musical accompaniment is made in the Mexican style. There is also a children's pool. All pools are surrounded by sunbeds, equipped with fountains and underwater geysers. "Kneipp's Bath" works for the feet.

Visitors to the "Kosino" complex have a free Finnish sauna, as well as a barbecue area with barbecues and gazebos, free Wi-Fi.

Two similar buildings, built at the beginning of the 20th century opposite each other at the intersection of Secheni Street and Tinodi Street, were once the decoration of Berehove.

The best-preserved palace of Geysi Kubovych (the building of the Hungarian bank "Alfeld") in the Art Nouveau style. The second building, in which the chief architect of the city, Shamuel Meyhesh, lived, is now completely devoid of decoration.

In Soviet times, there were communal apartments here. Restoration is planned.

The Velyka Kopania Historical and Local Lore Museum has been operating since 2002 at the comprehensive school of the village of Velyka Kopania.

The exposition presents more than 1,500 objects that demonstrate the history, culture and daily life of the inhabitants of the village from the earliest times.

The exhibition has 12 sections: "In a village house", "Weaving and embroidery", "Agricultural relics", "Old houses", "Vine weaving", "Pottery products", "Flour equipment", "Numism", etc.

A separate exhibition tells about the phenomenon Velyka Kopania - an abnormally high number of twins born in the village.

Excursions are conducted by high school students.

Vynohradiv Historical Museum is located in the historic center of the city, is located in a temporary room (until recently housed in the Franciscan Monastery, which is now returned to the Catholic Church).

The funds have about 10,000 exhibits.

An interesting bronze collection of the second millennium BC.

Extensive material is presented about the uprising of Uhochan peasants under the leadership of Dyerd Dozh (early sixteenth century) and about the liberation war of the Hungarian people against the Habsburgs.

In one of the halls there is an ethnographic collection with samples of folk weaving and embroidery.

Vynohradiv Winery was opened in 1972.

The shaft of the wine cellar is cut in the Chorna (Black) Mountain in the shape of a horseshoe and is 350 meters long. The temperature there varies between 11-14 degrees. Up to 720,000 liters of wine material and wine can be stored in oak barrels at the same time. The classic technology of making wines aged in oak containers is used.

Wines of "Leanka King", "Sauvignon", "Stepnyak", "Müller Thurgau", "Isabella" and others were produced here. Currently, the Vynohradiv Winery has suspended production, tastings are temporarily not held.

The Museum of Weaving and Ethnography was opened in 1992 in the premises of the secondary school of the Transcarpathian village of Velyki Berehy, which is the center of traditional Berehove weaving.

The museum was founded by the honored master of folk art Marianna Profus with the help of her teacher Katalin Poloni (Kateryna Antonyk), who in 1958 created a weaving and embroidery circle in Velyki Berehy with the aim of reviving local weaving traditions. On her initiative, compulsory teaching of weaving and cross-stitching was introduced at the Velyki Berehy school.

The museum has a collection of samples of ancient embroidery on homespun cloth with ornaments that are typical for Velyki Berehy and the entire Berehove region. Also in the exposition are old looms and other equipment for the production of fabrics in working condition, household items, old photographs.

Weaving and embroidery workshops are held.