Attractions of Ivano-Frankivsk region

The "Art na Mur" Gallery of Contemporary Art opened in 2012 in the Bastion Fortress Gallery complex on the territory of the Stanislaviv Fortress in the historical center of Ivano-Frankivsk.

The gallery hosts exhibitions of works of art by artists from Ivano-Frankivsk and other cities of Ukraine, including classical painting and avant-garde.

The institution offers organization and holding of exhibitions, sale of paintings.

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 "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.

"Kalush Prison" Memorial Museum was established in 2013 in the basement of a 19th-century building, which housed judicial and investigative institutions during the Polish and German occupations, and during the Soviet regime, the repressive bodies of the NKVD and the KGB.

Many OUN and UPA activists were under arrest here. The exposition in the hall "Early-Middle of the 20th Century National Liberation Struggle History" tells about their activities in the Kalush region.

In the hall of archaeological finds, materials from excavations on the territory of the city are presented. In another hall, the interior of a city room of the middle of the 20th century is recreated. A separate exposition is devoted to the history of the Revolution of Dignity and the Russian-Ukrainian war. The basement is used as an exhibition space for thematic exhibitions.

The "Kalush Prison" Memorial Museum is one of the subdivisions of the Communal Institution "Museum and Exhibition Center of the Kalush City Council".

The museum of the Strynadyuk creative family in Kosiv was opened by the famous Ukrainian master carver Mykola Strynadyuk, who works under the creative pseudonym "Koka", at his creative workroom.

Mykola Strynadyuk was born and grew up in a Kosiv family of artisan carvers, studied at the Kosiv Technical School of Folk Art Crafts, and worked as a master of wood carving and interior design all his life. His sons Bohdan and Zakhar continue the family business. Mykola Strynadyuk's works are distinguished by the author's technique, which combines traditional techniques of carving with toning, application and even embroidery.

The exposition presents more than a hundred of the master's own works. Among them are ornamental icons, plates, paintings, copies of Hutsul hand crosses, traditional zgards and modern decorations. A collection of antique and rare porcelain cups is also presented.

Nearby is the Museum of Sacred Art, where the works of Taras Strynadyuk, Mykola's brother, are presented.

The private museum of the film "Oleksa Dovbush" in Verkhovyna was opened in 2018 by local entrepreneurs and public activists Mykola Danylyuk and Volodymyr Sumaruk.

The exposition tells about the legendary Opryshky leader Oleksa Dovbush, whose rebel unit operated in Prykarpattia in the middle of the 18th century, as well as about the shooting of the film of the same name by the Oleksandr Dovzhenko film studio, which was shot by director Viktor Ivanov in 1959 in Verkhovyna and nearby Kryvorivnia.

The exhibition presents photos and various rare items related to the shooting of the film. A special feature of the museum is the presence of a large multimedia screen, which shows fragments of the film "Oleksa Dovbush" and other films that were shot in the Carpathians.

For children in the courtyard of the museum there is a play zone "Oprishky fun", where you can compete in strength, dexterity and dexterity.

The house-museum of the film "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" in the Verkhovyna village of Hlifa was opened in 2000 in the house where the director of the film Serhiy Paradzhanov lived in 1963-1964 during the filming.

Here, visitors can watch the film and get acquainted with the history of the creation of the picture.

The following expositions are active: life and work of outstanding people, ethnography and everyday life, historical and architectural heritage.

Kolomyia Academic Regional Ukrainian Drama Theater named after Ivan Ozarkevych bears the name of the founder of the first Ukrainian drama theater in Galicia.

The fashion for theaters came here with the transition of the region under Austrian rule. In 1848, the chairman of the Kolomyia council Vereshchynskyi, burgomaster Drymalin and local priest Ozarkevych initiated the creation of a Ukrainian amateur theater. It lasted three years.

After a short break, the theater was revived in 1865 as a traveling professional troupe "Ruskyi People's Theater". Since 1939, the theater has acquired state status.

The monument to Adam Mitskevych in Ivano-Frankivsk is one of two monuments to the outstanding Polish poet erected in Ukraine for the centenary of his birth (the other is in Lviv).

Initially, the figure was carved from pink marble and was 2.3 meters high. The words in Polish were engraved on the pedestal: "To Adam Mitskevych in the century since his birthday - citizens of the city of Stanislaviv. 1898."

During the First World War, the monument was damaged. In 1930, a new figure was installed, this time cast in bronze. The Polish board was replaced with a new one: "Adam Mitskevych, 1798-1855". In this form, the monument has been preserved to this day.

The wooden church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church is located in the village of Verbovets - a suburb of Kosiv.

In 1850, residents of two villages - Verbovets and Stariy Kosiv - hired master Ivan Lavruk with the money collected by the whole community, who, with the help of the residents and under the guidance of priest Ivan Valevskyi, built the church within a year.

Currently, the Church of the Annunciation is almost completely covered with sheet metal, which does not allow to fully appreciate the skill of the architects.

A large stone arch railway bridge-viaduct from Austrian times connects the two banks of the Prut River in Vorokhta. The Yaremche-Verkhovyna highway passes under it.

The bridge was built in 1895 during the construction of the railway Stanislav (Ivano-Frankivsk) – Yaremche – Vorokhta – Rakhiv. The length of the bridge exceeds 100 meters. It is still used as intended.

Nearby is another old Austrian bridge, which is considered one of the longest stone railway bridges in Europe (130 meters).

The Church of Archangel Michael in Chesnyky recently celebrated its centenary. It was founded in 1906 on the initiative of the villagers, as the small old church could no longer accommodate parishioners.

The project of the new church was ordered from the famous Lviv architect Vasyl Nahirniy. In 1911, the temple was consecrated, but work continued until 1914.

Michael's Church is located on a high hill in the center of Chesnyky. Stone, cruciform, single-domed, with decorative elements of the classicist style. The ornamental and plot painting was done in 1994 by the artist Ivan Krasevych.

The Archcathedral and Metropolitan Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ is the main Greek-Catholic shrine of Ivano-Frankivsk.

The cathedral was founded in 1720 as a Jesuit church, but due to construction errors, the original building had to be completely dismantled and rebuilt in 1752. In the middle of the 19th century, the temple was handed over to the Greek Catholics and it became a cathedral.

In 1899-1890, Bishop Andrey Sheptytsky of Stanislavsky served as the rector of the cathedral before his appointment as Metropolitan of the UGCC.

The Resurrection Cathedral is considered a model of the Austro-Bavarian architectural school with clear features of classicism. At the same time, the tops of the towers are made in the style of Hutsul wooden architecture.

In the interior there is a large five-tiered iconostasis, made by the famous Ukrainian artists Modest Sosenko, Yuliush Makarivskyi and Antin Monastyrskyi.

The building of the former Jesuit monastery with the collegium, which is now occupied by the medical institute, has been preserved nearby.

In 1993, a high-relief of Andrey Sheptytskyi was installed on the facade of the cathedral, and in 1997, sculptures of Princess Olha and Volodymyr the Great as patron saint of Rus, as well as the blessed martyr Hrihoriy Khomnshin, bishop of Stanislaviv (1904-1945), were placed in the niches.

The Armenian Church is the oldest surviving building in Horodenka.

The strict defensive temple was built at the beginning of the 18th century at the expense of the city's Armenian community, which at that time became very influential and controlled almost all trade until the first half of the next century.

The Art Gallery of the National Reserve "Ancient Halych" opened in 2010. Located on the second floor of the administrative building of the reserve.

The gallery exhibits works of art by Ukrainian artist from Australia, a native of the town of Berezhany in Ternopil region Volodymyr Savchak. You can also see paintings by Galician artist Bohdan Kuziv, other local artists.

The art gallery hosts thematic exhibitions and conferences.