Attractions of Ivano-Frankivsk region

The Kolomyia City History Museum occupies the premises of the former county council, where the interiors of the XIX-XX centuries have been restored. During the Western Ukraine, the district military commandant Teodor Primak worked here.

The history of the city's development is presented in 18 exposition halls in documents, memorials and household items. Permanent exhibitions: "German colonies of Kolomyia", "Kolomyia and the Habsburgs", "Formation of Kolomyia at the end of the XIX - first half of the XX century", "Economy and trade of the city in the XIX-XX centuries", "From the history of the Jewish community of the city", " From the history of the Ukrainian ethnic lands of modern Poland until 1944. "

The exposition department of the Kolomyia City History Museum is the Museum of National Liberation Struggle, which opened in 2012 in the basement of the museum building. The exposition consists mainly of old photos of resistance members, which came from private collections. You can also see the clothes of rebels and political prisoners, fragments of weapons.

The Bolekhiv City History Museum named after Roman Skvoriy is located in a small old building in the central part of the city, which is an architectural monument of local importance.

The museum is named after Bolekhiv local historian Roman Skvoriy, who founded this institution in 1967 (a memorial plaque has been installed).The basis of the exposition was the collection of objects collected by Skvoriy, related to the life and social activities of the well-known resident of Bolekhiv, activist of the gender movement Nataliya Kobrynska (since 2005, this selection is presented in a separate museum of Nataliya Kobrynska).

Currently, the museum's exposition consists of six sections: "History of the Bolekhiv city", "Boykos Room", "Development of industry, education and culture in the 20-30s of the 20th century", "Second World War, victims of Nazi and Bolshevik occupation", "National and spiritual revival of our region", "The struggle of the Ukrainian people for the establishment of their statehood".

Among the exhibits: fragments of handwritten liturgical books of the 17th century, a series of photographs of sculptor Mykhaylo Chereshnevsky and Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, notes of Taras Bobrynsky with Nataliya Kobrynska's own stamp, etc.

A monument to ukrainian sich riflemen, artist, sculptor and poet Mykhaylo Havrylko was erected near the museum.

"Stanislaviv Sea" - this is what the current city lake of Ivano-Frankivsk was called when it appeared in 1955.

The history of the construction of the city lake is as follows: on the territory of the former Potocki menagerie, where the Polish nobility and local residents used to love to hunt, a number of ponds were dug back in Stalin's times, which were connected by locks to the Bystrytsia-Solotvynska river. One day, the floodgates were opened, water filled the reservoirs, and as a result, a "sea" was formed.

Currently, the city lake is one of the main recreation areas of Ivano-Frankivsk. The most romantic place is the bridge leading to the "Island of Love". There is a boat station.

The wooden Church of the Conception of John the Baptist is a monument of Hutsul architecture of the 19th century.

The church was moved to Cherhanivka in 1811 from the village of Krasnoillia. A two-story stone bell tower is nearby.

In Soviet times, the premises housed the Carpathian Nature Museum. Currently, the church is active and belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The women's monastery of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family is located on the southern outskirts of the village of Hoshiv, not far from the Hoshiv Monastery of the Basilian Fathers.

The monastery was built at the end of the 20th century near Hoshiv Yasna Hill. The main building of the monastery, two-story, with a basement floor, is made of a chapel built along the axis of the main entrance and an inner semi-enclosed courtyard, around which are located a gallery and cells. On the first floor there is a refectory with a separate entrance, a library, cells, auxiliary and technical rooms. The second floor is occupied by cells, a chapel and other premises. The built-in chapel is completed by a high tented octagonal covering, which is harmoniously combined with the dome of the temple on Yasna Hill and the surrounding landscape.

The "Corkscrew Museum" tasting room was opened in 2020 by collector Petro Antypov in his own yard in Verkhovyna. In his collection there are more than 600 corkscrews of various shapes and sizes – in the form of animals, birds, keys, weapons, glasses, etc.

The exhibits are hung in a large gazebo, which also serves as a tasting room. The owner personally conducts tours with stories about the history and varieties of corkscrews.

Visitors are also offered tastings of homemade wines and chacha, which the owner produces from Transcarpathian grapes. Smoked budz cheese is offered with the wine.

The local lore museum in Deliatyn, Ivano-Frankivsk region, is located in the old villa of the lawyer Mykola Lahodynsky, a member of the Austrian parliament. It is an asymmetric one-story building in the Austrian style, on one of the corners of which there is a two-story tower, and on the other – a small attic.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the famous Ukrainian writer Marko Cheremshyna, who worked in Lahodynsky's law office, lived here. It was he who founded the "Prosvita" society in Deliatyn, the "Ruska Kasa" and "Silsky Gospodar" organizations, participated in the development of the "Sich" society. One of the exhibition halls of the Deliatyn Museum of Local Lore is dedicated to the figure of Cheremshyna.

Also, the museum exposition highlights the history of Deliatyn and its surroundings, introduces the peculiarities of culture and lifestyle of its inhabitants. Among the exhibits are ancient icons, sculptures and paintings, ancient tools, traditional clothes. A fragment of a wooden aqueduct is presented.

The art residence "Didova Hatchyna" (Grandfather's Hut) was founded in 2015 by the family of Oleh and Daryna Lukaniuk on the site of an ancient Hutsul manor in Yavoriv, Kosiv district.

The estate is located on a polonyna (mountain meadow) above the village, one kilometer from the central street. The creators of "Didova Hatchyna" set themselves the goal of preserving the authentic way of life and culture of the Hutsul region. National holidays, creative events, workshops, lectures, and creative activities for children are held here.

From 2022, the complex also provides accommodation services in comfortable conditions.

On the basis of "Didova Hatchyna" there is a workshop of Hutsul coverlet "Gushka" and the production of bryndza (polonyna cheese) from own sheep's milk.

The Catholic church was founded in Bohorodchany in 1691 at the expense of Countess Konstantsiya Potoska.

The first temple was wooden. In 1742-1762, a new stone church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary was built in the Baroque style, as well as a Dominican monastery complex with clergy chambers, a fence and a gate.

The complex was heavily damaged during the First World War. The miraculous icon of the Mother of God, which was taken to Poland in 1944, was kept in the Bohorodchany church.

In the 1990s, the local authorities handed over the UOC temple to the Moscow Pariarchate, thus causing a conflict with the city's Roman Catholic community. The Orthodox Church of Peter and Paul operated in the church building, and a music school was housed in the wards.

In 2020, the church was finally returned to the Roman Catholic Church.

The rocks of Dovbush in the Bubnyshche tract, which have long amazed people with their fantastic forms, are called the Carpathian Sphinxes.

A group of rock remains up to 80 meters high is scattered in the middle of a beech-spruce forest near the village of Bubnyshche on an area of 100 hectares. The massif of sandstone rocks about 200 meters wide and 1 kilometer long was formed more than 70 million years ago at the bottom of a warm sea.

In pre-Christian times, there was a pagan sanctuary here. Probably, in the 13th century, during the reign of King Danylo Halytskyi, a rock fortress was created here, which withstood the Mongol-Tatar invasion and lasted until the 16th century.

In the middle of the 18th century, opryshka rebels were active in this area, and in 1743, the camp of the detachment of the legendary people's avenger Oleksa Dovbush was located in the rock caves, which is where the current name comes from.

The rocks of Dovbush are a complex natural monument of national importance and are part of the Polyanytsky Regional Landscape Park. Many climbing routes of different difficulty categories are laid out on the rocks, and climbing competitions are held regularly.

The world's only museum of Easter egg painting "Pysanka" presents in Kolomyia a unique collection of traditional Ukrainian miniature painting on Easter eggs.

Is a branch of the National Museum of Hutsulshchyna & Pokuttya Folk Art in Kolomyia.

The museum building is made in the form of a huge Easter egg 13 m high (2000). The collection includes 10,000 works representing the traditions of Easter painting in all regions of the country. Works by masters from Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia, Western Europe and America are also presented. Traditionally, the first persons of the state who visit the museum leave their autographs on Easter eggs.

There are master classes on Easter painting.

A wide selection of original handmade Easter eggs, including an ostrich egg, is presented in the souvenir shop of the Easter egg painting museum "Pysanka".

The "Hutsul Cheese Dairy" eco-farm in Yavoriv specializes in the production of goat cheese from the milk of Zaanen, Nubian, Alpine and Lamancha goats. This is one of the new objects of gastronomic tourism in Prykarpattia, which adheres to the principle of Slow Food.

A goat farm with a cheese factory was founded in Yavoriv by a local entrepreneur, Nazariy Vepruk. Now his herd includes more than 60 goats of four breeds. The farm produces 15 types of cheese - nine hard and six soft (parmesan, gouda, сaciotta, berghese, cheddar, suluguni, halloumi, feta, mozzarella, bryndza, vurda, ricotta and others). In 2019, a kolyba with a shop and a tasting room was opened on the farm.

For visitors, excursions of the territory and demonstration halls are conducted, where you can get acquainted with the process of transforming goat's milk into whey and various types of cheese. At the end of the tour, a tasting is held, during which you can taste the finished products of the "Hutsul Cheese Dairy" eco-farm. Honey, sour cream, blueberry jam, seeds and banoche are also served with cheese.

The museum of ethnography and life of the Carpathian village of Bohrivka was founded in 2021 by the teacher of the Bohrivka gymnasium, Halyna Hotsanyuk.

The ethnographic exposition presents ancient household items, samples of folk embroidery, relics, antiquities of the village, products of folk craftsmen.

In particular, a working loom is exhibited, on which visitors can try to work.

"Hutsul Land" ethnopark in Polianytsia in the Carpathian region reproduces the traditional life of the highlanders of the Ukrainian Carpathians: Hutsuls, Boyks and Lemks. This ethnographic complex, located on the territory of TC "Bukovel" near the Lake of Youth, combines various areas for recreation and entertainment.

At the heart of the "Hutsul Land" complex is an interactive open-air museum (skansen), where authentic wooden huts and farm buildings of the highlanders are presented. All of them are monuments of folk architecture of the 19th – early 20th centuries, which were transported to the territory of the complex from different regions of the Carpathians. Among them are a hut from the village of Rozhanka, Lviv Region, 1860-1880, a Hutsul hut of wealthy shepherds from Vorokhta at the end of the 19th century, and a traditional grazhda hut of a closed type.

In all buildings, the interior is reproduced in detail, household items and works of folk art are presented. All of them are open to visitors – here you can sit on a bench, look at the fire in the oven, grind wheat flour in millstones, make a path on a real loom, see the process of cheese making in a cheese factory, and even take part in a theatrical performance of a Hutsul wedding.

A contact zoo is located on the territory of "Hutsul Land", where domestic, exotic and wild animals and birds live in natural conditions. In the area for creative workshops and cognitive workshops, you can learn folk crafts. In the art gallery "Skrynia" there are areas for recreation, entertainment, a club of Ukrainian cinema.

The wooden church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Mykytyntsi was built in 1859. The Exaltation Church, which existed since 1764, was converted into a bell tower.

The complex is an architectural monument of national significance. The Church of the Exaltation of the Cross belongs to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. Temple Day - September 27.