Attractions of Transcarpathian region

The medieval castle "Saint Miklosh" (Saint Nicholas) in Chynadiiovo was built in the 15th century as a typical Romanesque feudal residence.

The castle is a two-story building of a simple rectangular shape with two three-tiered corner towers. The thickness of the walls of the castle is more than 1 meter.

Chynadiiovo castle belonged to the rich family of Pereni barons, guarded the Carpathian pass "Ruska Brama". In 1657, the castle was damaged during the assault by the Polish troops of Prince Lubomyrsky.

Ilona Zrini, the wife of Prince Ferents I Rakotsi, secretly met here with the leader of the Hungarian rebels, Imre Tekeli, and after her husband's death, she married him. At the end of the anti-Habsburg war, the rebel army of her son Ferents II Rakotsi was stationed here.

Later, the building served as a prison and a warehouse. Until recently, the castle was in an extremely neglected state.

Currently, the Saint Miklosh Castle in Chynadiiovo is rented by the artist Yosyp Bartosh. Enthusiasts are conducting restoration work, a museum exhibition and a picture gallery have been developed. Art exhibitions are held in several restored rooms, artists periodically gather for open-air concerts, live music concerts, and theatrical tours are held.

There is a tourist information center.

The Church of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker in Sokyrnytsia is one of the oldest wooden churches in Transcarpathia, a bright example of Maramorosh wooden Gothic.

There is a version that the church was originally built in the village of Shashvar, and in 1770, after being moved to Sokyrnytsia, it was reconstructed. In the process of reconstruction, a tall pyramidal tower was built above the babinets, and a bell tower was built nearby.

The iconostasis created in 1748 has been partially preserved. On the walls - a collection of wooden crosses.

The Orthodox Saint Nicholas Church is located on an elevation in the center of the city.

The first wooden Orthodox church of Saint Nicholas in Perechyn is mentioned in 1751. It was located on the territory of the cemetery a little higher than the current stone temple, which was built in 1763-1769. Its high bell tower, added in 1810, is clearly visible on the hill of Hurka, a little outside the city center.

Saint Nicholas Church in Chynadiiovo is located on the river bank in the midst of rural buildings, 250 meters from Pereni Castle.

It was built in the 18th century.

The church and the castle are connected by an underground passage. Nowadays, the passage from the side of the castle is walled up.

The temple belongs to the UOC community of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The wooden church of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker in Podobovets was built in 1785.

It belongs to the baroque type of wooden churches. It looks very slender and elegant. Unfortunately, the impression is somewhat spoiled by the tin coating.

Near the Saint Nicholas Church, there is an ancient cross with paintings on evangelical subjects.

The Church of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker in Pryslip resembles the wooden church in Torun in shape, but it is much larger and more slender, with a delicate pattern of the silhouette of the tower and graceful lines.

The temple is surrounded on three sides by an arcade on high carved figured pillars. They are repeated in a reduced size in the bypass arcade.

The two-tiered belfry with a wide canopy of apprehension and an arcade on the second tier, where the bells are placed, is covered with an octagonal tented roof. The forms of the bell tower are much older than the forms of the temple itself and contrast sharply with it.

Decorative carvings of the 18th century in the baroque style of a local master, as well as individual works of easel tempera painting of the 16th and 17th centuries, have been preserved in the interior.

Saint Nicholas Church is active, restored in 1968. It is considered a masterpiece of Baroque Verkhovyna wooden architecture.

Saint Nicholas Mukachevsky Monastery is the main Orthodox shrine of the city of Mukachevo.

According to legend, the ancient monastery was founded in the 10th century by Kyiv monks who accompanied Yaroslav the Wise's daughter Anastasiya, who was given in marriage to the Hungarian king (caves and a healing spring have been preserved). Another legend tells about the victory of Prince Fedir Koriatovych (Koryatovych) in a fight with a snake. In 1360, the prince built a wooden church and cells at the place indicated to him by an angel who appeared above the river.

The Saint Nicholas Monastery was the residence of bishops in 1491-1772. Stone buildings in the Baroque style were erected in the 18th-19th centuries under the direction of architect Dmytro Rats, who is buried in the Assumption Cathedral.

The Greek-Catholic Church of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker rises above the center of Perechyn with two slender towers.

The temple was founded in the 18th century. During Soviet times, the Saint Nicholas Church was closed, the building was neglected and falling into disrepair. Reconstruction was completed in 2002. The relics of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker are kept here.

The wooden church of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker in Izky dates back to 1798, although it existed earlier.

Saint Nicholas Church is considered a classic example of "Verkhovyna Baroque".

A carved iconostasis of the 18th century and wooden chandeliers have been preserved.

The church houses an icon of the Mother of God, called "Transcarpathian Madonna" by art critic Hryhoriy Lohvin.

The wooden church of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker is a vivid example of Maramorosh Gothic.

Located on a hill in the center of the village of Danylovo, its tall and thin spire is visible from afar.

Built, according to the inscriptions on the door, in 1779, the Saint Nicholas Church is the youngest of the Gothic churches of Khust region. Made of oak on a stone foundation. Inside is a poorly preserved iconostasis with nine icons of the 18th century. The walls are covered with a painting made in 1828 by the artist Kornmayer.

The Church of Saint Paraskeva in Oleksandrivka is probably the oldest Gothic church in Khust region.

The exact date of its foundation is unknown. It is likely that the lower beams belong to the 15th century. The year 1753, when the reconstruction was carried out, is considered to be the official date of foundation.

The 25-meter Gothic spire is decorated with decorative towers. The walls and vaults are covered with rich paintings made in 1779 by the artist Stefan Terebelsky. A two-story bell tower rises in front of the main facade.

The church of Saint Stefan's (Ishtvan) in Tiachiv was built in 1883-1885 after the Catholic community was revived in the city, which was never able to regain the church of the reformers.

The temple was consecrated in 1888 and was named after the Hungarian king Saint Ishtvan (Stefan).

In the 1940s, the shrine was closed, services resumed only in 1988. The organ of 1890 has been preserved. It is interesting that the clock on the bell tower is not real, but painted.

The Roman Catholic Church of Saint Yuriу (George) was built in the 17th century by the ruler of Uzhhorod Yuriy Druhet, who converted to Catholicism, on the site of the Lutheran church that he destroyed.

The construction was continued by his heir Miklosh Bercheni. In the 18th century, the temple was rebuilt in the neo-baroque style, the famous master Yanosh Lukach worked on the design. A clock has been installed on the bell tower, which has been running for more than 150 years.

In the interior, the unusual neo-baroque altar of 1895 by master Lukash Yozhef Krakker deserves special attention.

The private cheese factory "Selyska Cheese Factory" in the village of Nyzhnie Selyshche is a social project of the Transcarpathian Association of Local Development and the European cooperative "Longo May".

At Selyska cheese factory, using modern equipment, four types of cheese are made according to Swiss technology, processing ecologically clean milk supplied by private farms of local peasants.

Excursions are held at the cheese factory with tastings of all four varieties: "Selysky", "Khust", "Menchul" and "Narcis Carpathians". It is advisable to make an appointment in advance and come on the day while the cheese-making process is in progress.

The ruins of a powerful quadrangular tower-donjon are the only structure of the Serednyansky castle that has survived.

It was the main defensive node of the fortress, built by the Knights Templar like the ancient Roman border watchtowers on the Rhine and Danube. The thickness of the walls of the tower reached 3 meters. With the help of a chain of similar castles, the Templars controlled the salt route from Transcarpathia to Europe in the 12th-15th centuries.

After the liquidation of the Knights Templar, the castle briefly became the property of the monastic order of Saint Paul, and then was gifted by King Charles Robert to the Drugets magnates. In the 16th century, the new owners from the Dobo family, whose representative Ishtvan Dobo distinguished himself during the defense of the Eger fortress from the 120,000-strong Turkish army, took up the expansion and strengthening of the castle.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, Serednyansky Castle changed owners several times. It played an important role during the anti-Habsburg movement of the Hungarian nobles under the leadership of Ferents II Rakotsi in 1703-1711, as a result of which it was badly damaged and never recovered.

There is a legend about a complex system of underground passages, some of which were later converted into wine cellars.