Attractions of Ivano-Frankivsk region

The wooden church of the Holy Trinity in the Hutsul style was built in Mykulychyn in 1868.

Probably, the temple existed on this place even earlier. In particular, the bell tower dates back to the 18th century.

The Trinity Church is impressive in size, especially inside. The iconostasis and paintings on the walls are a masterpiece of folk art.

The Cathedral of the Holy Women of Myrrh was built in Bolekhiv in 1908 on the site of an old wooden church.

The temple is built with three domes, one of the domes is large, and the other two are slightly smaller and absolutely identical to each other. Church windows are made in an elongated arched form, which gives them elegance. To the right of the central entrance to the church is a fairly large chapel built in the same style as the church. Outside, the church has a gray color, and its central entrance is decorated with three icon paintings. The domes on the church also have an unusual color: the upper part of each dome is painted blue, and the lower part is gold.

The priest Ivan Ozarkevych, who came to Bolekhiv in 1884, was engaged in the construction of the new church. In 1909, the building of the new church was consecrated by Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytskyi.

In Soviet times, the church did not function and was closed to parishioners. In the spring of 2009, in honor of the celebration of the centenary of the church, the church of the Holy Myrrh-bearers received the status of a cathedral. Belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Cathedral of the Holy Women of Myrrh is an architectural monument of local importance.

The Horodenka City Local Lore Museum "Pokuttya" opened in 2009 in the historical building of the savings bank of the beginning of the 20th century, next to the main attraction of the city - the Immaculate Conception of Most Holy Virgin Mary Church.

The exposition presents ancient wooden furniture (tables, chests, bambetli), embroidered clothes, ceramics, a large collection of icons and photographs from centuries ago.

The exhibition "Dwelling of a Pokuttya peasant" reproduces the interior of an old village house. You can also see a collection of bricks with stamps collected at various historical sites in Horodenka.

One of the expositions reproduces the process of making a home-spun canvas, spinning workshops are held here.

The Hoshiv Transfiguration Monastery of the Basilian Fathers is a place of mass pilgrimage of Greek Catholics from various countries.

The first historical mention of the monastery near Hoshiv dates back to 1509. Initially, the Hoshiv Monastery was located in the "Chorny Dilok" tract, but in the 17th century it was burned down by the Tatars, and the monastery was rebuilt on Yasna Hill, where it is still located today.

In 1835-1842, the wooden buildings of the monastery were dismantled and stone ones were built. In 1842, the construction of the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord, which has survived to this day, was completed.

The monastery flourished during the time of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytskyi.

Before the First World War, the Hoshiv monastery was considered one of the largest spiritual centers of Galicia. But since 1939, persecution of Greek Catholic monks and attempts to close the monastery began. It was able to hold out until 1950, when it was completely liquidated. The premises housed an orphanage, then an army warehouse, then a recreation center.

In the early 1990s, the monastery was revived. The monastery premises and the church were renovated thanks to the donations of believers. German restorers restored 5 large canvases of the 18th century, created 15 new paintings. The electronic bells of the Hoshiv monastery are the only ones in Ukraine.

The main shrine is the miracle-working icon of the Mother of God of Hoshiv (18th century; copy of the Chenstokhova icon), which is called the "Queen of the Carpathians". The icon was crowned in 2009 by Pope Benedict XVI.

The Ethnographic Museum of Antiquities of the Hutsul region was opened in the yard of his own house by Yaroslav Zelenchuk, an ethnographer and historian from Kryvorivnia.

In one hall, several thematic expositions are successively placed: ancient times (gathering, hunting, fishing tools), shepherding and Polonynian farming, woodworking and construction, crafts and handicrafts, samples of decorative and applied art (clothes, painted pottery, wood carvings), musical instruments (drums, violins), liberation struggle (world wars, opryshk movement).

In particular, a copy of the smoking pipe of the legendary hutsulka of Chukutykha is presented.

The Hutsul Life Museum of Vasyl Tupylyuk in Krasnyk is located on the territory of the "Krynta" guest house. In 2009, the owner of the estate recreated an exact copy of his great-grandfather's house in his neighborhood and opened a museum of traditional Hutsul culture in it in two years.

The house has an authentic setting: a working stove, a wooden bed, ancient icons on the walls. The exposition presents embroidery, ceramic and wooden products, folk instruments, national clothes. The main exhibit is the bartka (battle ax) of a 1914 Sich Riflemen.

Excursions are conducted personally by the owner of the collection, Vasyl Tupylyuk. It also offers workshops using traditional instruments and equipment: grinding corn into flour on millstones, making woolen thread using a reel, spindle, spindle and cone, making oil from flax flour in an oil press, making cheese, etc.

The Hutsulshchyna Folk Art Museum in Yavoriv was founded in 1961. It is located on the third floor of the Yavoriv Lyceum "Hutsulshchyna".

The exposition presents the works of folk craftsmen of the Yavoriv region: various wooden products, carved caskets, painted ceramics, embroidery, traditional clothes, household items. The most interesting is the collection of home-spun Yavoriv lizhnyks (blankets) made of sheep's wool. A model of the Hutsul Grazhda (house) is also presented.

A separate literary and local history exposition is dedicated to the stay in the Hutsul Region of the outstanding Ukrainian poetess Lesya Ukrayinka.

National Nature Park "Hutsulshchyna" is located in the picturesque forest part of the Pokuttya-Bukovyna Carpathians. Its area is more than 32 thousand hectares.

The terrain combines foothills and mountain ranges. Deciduous forests predominate in the lowlands, low mountains are covered with beech-hornbeam forests, and Carpathian spruce (spruce) grows mainly at altitude. 19 species of animals living here are listed in the Red Book.

These places are interesting because ancient crafts, folk crafts, traditions and customs of the Hutsuls have been preserved here.

Many tourist routes pass through the territory of the national park. Ecological educational trails have been laid here, equestrian tourism, rural green tourism, and ethnotourism are developing. Lovers of water recreation are attracted by the rapids and waterfalls of the Lyuchka, Pistynka, and Cheremosh rivers.

The most popular object of the Hutsulshchyna National Nature Park is the Saint Nicholas Estate in the village of Pistyn.

In addition, the Nature Museum operates in the central manor of the national park in Kosovo. Exhibits on geology, zoology, dendrology, medicinal plants, phytotherapy, herbal room, etc. are presented.

The Icons Museum in the village of Pomoniata has been created since 2024 in the premises of the People's House, which was built in 1932 at the expense of the local Ukrainian community.

The village of Pomoniata has long been known as a center of icon painting, which especially developed during the Soviet persecution of the church in the second half of the 20th century. Icons from Pomoniata were well known throughout Galicia. Icon-painting creativity of Pomoniata residents was especially popular among the residents of Hutsulshchyna and Boykivshchyna. This tradition has survived on a smaller scale to this day.

The exhibition will present a collection of Pomoniata icons from different years, collected by local residents.

The Illintsi Village History People's Museum was opened in 1987 on the initiative of the local teacher and local historian Roman Ryzyuk.

The museum is located on the second floor of the Illintsi Lyceum. Museum funds include about 2,000 exhibits.

The exhibition tells about the history of the village of Illintsi and its surroundings from the Neolithic era to the present day. In particular, you can learn about the development of the village in the 18th-19th centuries, the wave of emigration at the end of the 19th century, the formation of units of the USS in the region at the beginning of the 20th century, public organizations of the village in the first half of the 20th century, the liberation struggle of 1943-1953, the creation of a collective farm in the village, local schooling, etc.

The exhibition also introduces the folk culture and daily life of the village residents. Separate stands are dedicated to outstanding people of the region.

The wooden Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin was built in Maniava in 1819.

It is located in the center of the village. The value of the church is that it remained practically in the same form as it was 200 years ago.

The Church of the Intercession in Maniava is an architectural monument of local importance, belonging to the community of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The first wooden church in Polianytsia was built in 1912 and consecrated on the feast of the Introduction of the Holy Virgin.

In 1946, the Introduction temple burned down.

The Introduction to the Temple of Holy Virgin Church was rebuilt only in 1990.

Next to the church is the burial place of Austrian soldiers who died during the First World War.

The Ivan Franko Family House Museum in Kalush is located at the exit from the city in the direction of Ivano-Frankivsk. This area of the city was once a separate village of Pidhirky, where the family of Onufriy Franko, the brother of the writer Ivan Franko, lived since 1904. The writer himself also often visited his brother's estate.

A two-story house, built in 1935 by the son of Onufriy Franko, Omelyan, has been preserved. In 1992, Omelyan's daughter Oksana Franko initiated the transformation of the house into a museum.

Letters and other family documents, household items, clothes, paintings are stored in seven exhibition halls. In "Franko Room" original things of Onufry Franko's family are presented, in particular, a unique collection of embroideries and household items. On the second floor, you can see a rare grand piano and antique household items that have been preserved since Onufriy Franko's family moved. 

The Ivan Franko Family House Museum is one of the subdivisions of the Communal Institution "Museum and Exhibition Center of the Kalush City Council".

The Literary and Memorial Museum of Ivan Franko was opened in Vasyl Yakibyuk's house, where the writer rested several times in 1906-1914.

He liked Kryvorivnia so much that he chose this village for his permanent summer vacation and came here almost every summer with his family for 12 years. Here he was visited by Lesya Ukrayinka, Hnat Khotkevych, Mykhaylo Kotsyubynsky, Mykhaylo Hrushevsky, Volodymyr Hnatyuk, Volodymyr Shukhevych and others. Already sick, Franko continued to work here, dictating the texts of his works to a local teacher.

The Literary and Memorial Museum of Ivan Franko was founded in 1960 on the initiative of the wife of the writer Hnat Khotkevych - Platonida. In the exhibition, located in 5 rooms, Franko's personal belongings are stored: a bed, a desk and a chair, a bench for guests, a clock, etc. An interesting Hutsul stove decorated with tiles made by Oleksa Bakhmatyuk (1874).

The Literary and Memorial Museum of Ivan Franko in Kryvorivnia is a branch of the Ivano-Frankivsk Museum of Local Lore.

The monument to Ivan Franko was opened in Kolomyia for the 156th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Ukrainian writer, poet, philosopher and public figure.

Franko repeatedly visited Kolomyia, where he founded the radical society "People's Will", participated in people's meetings, read his works in the People's House.

Nine years have passed since the idea of ​​building a monument to Kamenyarev in Kolomyia came to fruition. Funds for the monument were collected all over the world. Regional and local authorities, patrons joined. The Kolomyia sculptor Vasyl Andrushko, professor of the Lviv National Academy of Arts Vasyl Hurmak, and architect Oleh Pril worked on the monument.