Attractions of Ivano-Frankivsk region

Ostrich farm "Savanna" in the village of Lovahy in the Ivano-Frankivsk region breeds and sells African ostriches. It is one of the largest ostrich farms in Ukraine.

Among the fields of activity of the farm: green tourism, production of products from ostrich skin, production of souvenir products, mini golf, shooting range.

On the farm "Savanna" there are tours conducted by the owner of the farm. During the excursion, you can see the entire process of ostrich development from an egg in an incubator to an adult ostrich.

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 Museum-Estate of the Patriarch of Kyiv and all Ruthenia-Ukraine Volodymyr (Vasyl Romanyuk) was founded in 2002 in the village of Khimchyn in Prykarpattia, where one of the founders of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate was born and grew up.

A typical village house of the beginning of the 20th century has been recreated on the site of the Romanyuk manor, with a chapel and a memorial cross on the occasion of the first anniversary of the patriarch's death.

In the first room, the interior of the residence of the Romanyuk family is reproduced, family items are presented: a table, a bed, sofas, a cradle, a chest, a bowl with ceramic dishes, wooden products, traditional clothes, icons.

The exposition of the second room highlights different periods of the life of Patriarch Volodymyr in documents and photographs.

The Bortnyky Village Exemplary People's History and Local Lore Museum is located in the premises of the Bortnyky Gymnasium, and has been operating since 1992. There are about 5,000 exhibits in six rooms on two floors.

First of all, visitors enter the Svitlytsia hall, which recreates the interior of an old country house under a thatched roof. Ancient furniture, icons, dishes and other household items reflecting the ancient life of the peasants are exhibited here. Archaeological finds from different eras, materials about the political and social life of Prykarpattia during the liberation struggle are presented.

On the second floor, you can see an exhibition of objects of sacred art, an exposition about prominent people from the village, a selection of folk art products.

Excursions are conducted by schoolchildren. Visitors are also offered master classes on beekeeping and making souvenir angels.

"People's House" in Kolomyia was built in 1892.

Initially, it housed a savings bank. Ukrainian artists often performed in its conference hall: Solomiya Krushelnytska, Mariya Zankovetska, Mykola Lysenko, Vasyl Stefanyk, Nataliya Kobrynska, concerts and cultural evenings of the local intelligentsia were often held.

Nowadays, the "People's House" is the city's cultural and artistic center. It celebrates state and professional holidays, holds thematic evenings, lectures, conferences, concerts, performances of folk groups, exhibitions, and festivals.

The Ukrainian People's House was built in Kalush in 1880. The building in the Art Nouveau style with elements of classicism is L-shaped, with a dome at the corner.

The People's House was the center of Kalush Ukrainian culture. In 1884, the writer Ivan Franko spoke here at the meeting of the literary circle, as evidenced by the commemorative plaque.

During Soviet times, the building housed a district cultural center. It is located next to the church of Saint Valentine.

The People's Museum of Ethnography and Life of the Sadzhava Village was created in 1989 on the initiative of local educators. Now the exhibition is housed in nine halls of a separate building across from the Sadzhava Lyceum.

More than 4,000 exhibits tell about the history of the origin and development of the village of Sadzhava, introduce the ancient traditions and rituals of the villagers, present village crafts and the creativity of folk craftsmen.

The interior of an old village house with a stove, a bed, a chest and household items is recreated. A selection of agricultural implements, remains for harnessing horses and cattle are presented.

In the collection of musical instruments: flute, violin, cymbals, tambourine, sitko, mandolin, bandura, guitar, harmonica, accordion, first radio, gramophone.

A separate exhibition is devoted to children's toys of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The People's Museum of the Hnat Khotkevych Hutsul Theater in Krasnoillia, Ivano-Frankivsk region, was founded in 1987 in a small wooden building in which the first Hutsul theater operated in 1908-1912.

The main exposition in the hall with a stage is devoted to the activities of the theater and its founder Hnat Hotkevych, other theater figures, including Oleksa Remez and Les Kurbas. You can see historical photos, manuscripts, play posters, theater costumes and props.

Materials on the history of the village of Krasnoillia, schooling in the Hutsul region, and participants in the Hutsul Uprising of 1920 are also presented.

The Petro Shekeryk-Donykiv Memorial Museum was opened in Verkhovyna in 2018 on the initiative of his descendants.

The exhibition is dedicated to the Hutsul public and political figure, ethnographer, writer, participant in the liberation struggle, Petro Shekeryk-Donykiv, who in the 1920s and 1930s was a voivode of Verkhovyna and an ambassador to the Polish Diet. He collaborated with Ivan Franko, Mykhaylo Kotsyubynsky, Hnat Khotkevych and Stanislav Vincenz. After the annexation of Prykarpattia by the Soviet Union, Shekeryk-Donykiv was repressed.

The museum is located in the house built in 1933, in which he lived for some time in Verkhovyna. The exposition presents old photographs, archival documents, letters of Petro Shekeryk-Donykiv and his personal belongings. In particular, you can see the school desk at which he studied as a child.

In 2021, the UPA Museum-Hideout opened in the basement of the Petro Shekeryk-Donykiv Memorial Museum in Verkhovyna.

The Pohonia Monastery of the Assumption of the Mother of God in the village of Pohonia near Tysmenytsia is one of the great centers of Greek Catholic pilgrimage.

Here, in a small wooden church, there is a miraculous icon of the Mother of God Pohonska.

According to legend, in the 13th century, voivode Roman (perhaps the son of Danylo Halytskyi) with a small detachment defeated the army of Khan Baty here. According to legend, on the eve of the battle, Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker appeared to the voivode in a dream and ordered him not to defend himself, but to boldly attack the Tatars. On the site of Roman's victory over the Mongol-Tatars in 1634, the Church of the Assumption of the Holy Theotokos was built, and on the spot where the voivode had a dream, the Church of Saint Nicholas was built.

At the beginning of the 20th century, a new church and monastery of the Assumption of the Mother of God was built, but already in 1946 it was liquidated by the Soviet authorities. A boarding school for children with mental disorders was placed within the walls, and the church was destroyed in 1950.

The miraculous icon was preserved. In 1991, the monastery was revived. Hundreds and sometimes thousands of pilgrims flock here on holidays.

The Prutsky (Hoverlyansky) Waterfall is located near the source of the Prut River between the spurs of the Hoverla and Breskul mountains (the Chornohora massif of the Ukrainian Carpathians).

The cascading waterfall with a total height of 80 meters consists of six cascades, the highest of which reaches 12 meters.

It is most convenient to approach the waterfall along a gentle path from the "Zaroslyak" sports base (2.5 kilometers). There are also approaches from the path that leads to Hovrela.

The Prykarpattya Literary Museum was opened in 1986 for the 130th anniversary of the birth of the writer Ivan Franko.

The museum is located in a one-story town house of the end of the 19th century.

After the renovation in 2006, the museum exposition tells about all the main stages of the development of the literary process in the region starting from the 12th century. In particular, a copy of a page of the Galician Gospel of 1144, a reprint of the Galician-Volyn Chronicle, materials about the first Carpathian printing presses in Stratyn and Krylos are presented.

In total, the museum's funds include more than 40,000 exhibits. The most valuable among them are Lviv old prints of the 17th century: "Triodion" from 1664 and "Apostol" from 1684.

A prominent place in the exposition is occupied by a section devoted to the stay of Ivan Franko in Prykarpattya, illustrated with an electrified literary map.

The exposition presents manuscripts and lifetime editions of the works of Ivan Franko, Bohdan Lepky, Vasyl Stefanyk, Les Martovych, Mark Cheremshyna, Nataliya Kobrynska, Mykhaylo Yatskiv, Olha Duchyminska and other writers.

The museum also highlights the development of the literary process of Prykarpattya in the 20s and 30s of the 20th century, the work of writers of the OUN-UPA, the activities of the Stanislaviv Literary Association and the regional organization of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine.

The Prykarpattya Literary Museum is a branch of the Ivano-Frankivsk Museum of Local Lore.

The metropolitan residence "Cedar Chambers" (Kedrovi Palaty), also known as "Dacha Andrey Sheptytskyi", is a recreational complex in the Pidlyute tract on the Limnytsya River, which is considered the cleanest in Europe.

In 1892, the Lviv Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Sylvester Sembratovych, bought 6 hectares of land on the slopes of Mount Lyuta, next to healing hydrogen sulfide springs, and built a summer metropolitan residence there.

The house got the name "Cedar Chambers" because it was built from cedars that still grow in this area.

Three pools were equipped under the symbolic names of Sylvester, Andriy and Titus. Aristocrats from all over Austria-Hungary, and later Poland, came to the Pidlyute tract for rest and treatment.

During the First World War, the residence burned down, but it was soon restored by Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytskyi. 5 houses were built, in which up to 400 people could live at the same time. Opposite the residence was a stone grotto on which a cross rose.

In Soviet times, the dacha was used by the party elite as a hunting lodge.

In 1999, the "Cedar Chambers" were returned to the Ivano-Frankivsk Diocese of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. Currently, it is the diocesan retreat center "Urochyshche Pidlyute".

The Rohatyn Historical and Local Lore Museum "Opillya" was founded in 1941 as the Arts Museum of the Rohatyn region on the initiative of the local intelligentsia, but then it did not exist for long.

The museum was revived in 2018 in a historical building, which is an architectural monument of the 18th century. The exhibition in five halls tells about the history of Rohatyn Opillya from the earliest times to the 20th century. In particular, fragments of ceramics from ancient archaeological cultures, Ancient Rus jewelry, collections of spheres and coins from the times of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, traditional Opillya clothing and embroidery, household items, etc. are presented.

The history of the city is revealed by a graphic visualization of the defense fortifications of ancient Rohatyn, a copy of the privilege of moving the city to a new location in 1415, portraits of Nastya Lisovska (Roksolana) and typical Turkish clothing of the 17th century, a map of Europe by the British cartographer William Faden in 1791, and items of traditional Jewish culture.

A separate exhibition is dedicated to the history and outstanding figures of the Rohatyn region in the first half of the 20th century.

It is possible to order a pottery master class.

Rushirskyi Waterfall (Rushirskyi Huk), on the southern edge of the village of Liucha, is located on the Rushir River, which flows into Liuchka.

The waterfall with a height of 4 meters was formed at the place where the Rushir River breaks through the fold of Mehura and Tarnitsa.