Attractions of Transcarpathian region

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 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 summer residence of the Shenborn Counts, who owned the city of Berehove since the 18th century. The romantic-looking palace was built in the 19th century at the foot of the mountain on the northeastern outskirts of the city. A tall tower with a pointed roof makes it look like a medieval castle.

A cozy park was built nearby.

In 1913, a Hungarian state wine farm was opened here, which in 1920 became the property of the Czechoslovak Union of Winemakers. In 1954, the State Farm "Berehove" was established on the basis of the residence, which produced the famous vintage wines "Rose of Zakarpattia", "Promeniste", "Berehivske".

Now it is the "Berehivske" STOV wine factory, which has practically stopped production. Access to the factory territory is closed. The building is in bad condition.

The private wine cellar of the Shosh family is located in the village of Kidosh, 5 kilometers from Berehove.

The cellar was laid in 1923 by the family of winemakers Shosh on their own village circuit. Currently it belongs to Karl Shosh, a member of the Order of Wine Knights named after Saint Vatslav, co-organizer of the Association of Private Grape Growers and Winemakers of Transcarpathia.

The Shosh family maintains 7.5 hectares of vineyards, on which about 60 table and wine grape varieties are grown. White and red dry and dessert wines are made at home according to traditional technologies with aging in oak barrels, using ancient and own recipes.

Wine tasting is held in the tasting room for 25-48 guests next to the wine cellar. Up to 20 varieties of Transcarpathian wines are offered for tasting, as well as home-made snacks.

A small synagogue was built in Berehove in the early 1920s.

The building of the Jewish ritual bath has also been preserved.

Today, the synagogue is active.

The source of mineral water "Soimy" is located right next to the road at the entrance to the sanatorium "Verkhovyna".

"Esentuki 4, 17" type chloride-hydrocarbonate water, useful for various diseases of the digestive organs.

The healing properties of Soimy mineral water have been known since the 18th century. At the end of the 19th century, private entrepreneurs opened the first water hospital with a carbon dioxide bath, and at the beginning of the 20th century, they built a hotel.

In 1900, Soimy was officially recognized as a health resort, based on a mineral well drilled on the left bank of the Rika River, and in 1950, the sanatorium "Verkhovyna" was opened.

The mineral spring "Drachynsky kvas" is located 3 kilometers southwest of the center of Svaliava, not far from the village of Drachyno, with which its name is associated.

Mineral water with natural gas is called kvas in the Carpathians. The water of the Drachyno spring is cold, slightly carbonated and moderately salty. It is easy to drink, but does not quench thirst well.

Access for tourists is free.

The Svaliava Historical Museum is located on the first floor of the administrative building in the center of the Svaliava city.

About 1,300 exhibits of the museum tell about the history of the Svaliava region and the traditional culture of the inhabitants of this land. The historical part presents archival materials and old photos of the city.

The ethnographic exposition is designed in the form of the interior of a traditional Transcarpathian house. Household items of residents of Svaliava and surrounding villages are exhibited here: work tools, folk clothes and shoes. The traditional technology of manufacturing fabrics and woven products is presented in detail: a spinning wheel, a loom and other tools.

High-altitude glacial Lake Synevyr (989 meters above sea level) is located on the territory of the Synevyr National Nature Park. This is the largest and most beautiful lake in the Carpathians.

Syn and Vyr - this, according to an ancient legend, was the name of the blue-eyed princess and the shepherd who fell in love with her. Preventing their unequal marriage, the prince killed Vyr, and the tears from Syn eyes formed a whole lake. From the top of the nearby Ozerna mountain, it looks like a huge eye with an island pupil, which is why it is called the "Eye of the Sea".

Lake Synevyr was formed 10,000 years ago as a result of landslides covering the river valley. It is replenished by the waters of mountain streams. The size of the lake varies depending on the amount of precipitation. The average area is 4-5 hectares, the depth is 8-10 meters. The deepest point is 22 meters. The water is very clean, it seems bright blue. Lake, rainbow and brook trout are caught, but fishing is prohibited.

A Rehabilitation center for brown bears operates on the territory of the Synevyr Nature Reserve.

Ivan Ursta, a famous Transcarpathian winemaker, maintains a small wine cellar in his own country yard in the village of Velyki Berehy.

The house in which he receives guests has been turned into a private museum of winemaking. The host offers 5 types of wine for tasting - two white (Riesling, Nectar) and three red (Saperavi, Black Doctor, Kahor). Wine is served with a traditional snack: fried walnuts, salted crackers, cheese.

By prior agreement, the hostess can prepare dishes of traditional coastal cuisine: cabbage rolls, bean goulash, bograch.

The Tereble-Ritska hydroelectric power station is the only hydroelectric power plant in the world that stands on two rivers at the same time.

The power station was built in 1949-1955 by Finnish prisoners of war according to the project of engineer Kryzhka. The essence of the unique project is that the HPP united two rivers - Tereblya and Rika, which flow approximately parallel at a distance of 4 kilometers from each other, separated by a natural watershed - the Bovtsar ridge. At the same time, Tereblya is 210 meters above the level of the Rika.

A spillway dam with a length of 153 meters and a maximum height of 45.8 meters was built on Terebly, which formed the Vilshanske Reservoir with an area of 1.6 square kilometers. A derivation tunnel 3.7 kilometers long and 2 meters in diameter was cut in the mountain, through which water from the Tereblya basin is discharged into the Rika. At the bottom is a 350-meter-long metal water pipe and a hydroelectric power station building with a turbine hall. Turbines manufactured by the Finnish company "Francis" and generators "Uralelectroaparat", which were installed during the commissioning of the HPP, are still operating at the station.

Currently, the Tereble-Ritska HPP is part of the Burshin Islands energy complex.

There is a museum on the territory of the HPP.

The Ternovo Museum of Local Lore bears the name of its founder, the former chairman of the Ternovo village council, Ivan Zayats.

On his initiative, in the early 1980s, the Ternovo Museum of Local Lore began to function as a structural unit of the Transcarpathian Museum of Local Lore, and in 2003 the museum became an independent institution.

The exposition, in particular, presents a layout of the village at the beginning of the 20th century.

In the ethnographic part, ancient clothes, household items and work tools are exhibited.

Documents from the period of Austria-Hungary and Czechoslovakia, historical photographs, old prints are presented.

In the section dedicated to the founder of the museum, you can see rare cameras and film cameras of Ivan Zayats, who was fond of filmmaking.

The open-air thermal pool is located in the center of Berehove in the complex of the "Zakarpattya" educational and sports base, which has a hotel, a cafe-dining room and a sauna.

The pool with thermal mineral water has been operating since 1967. It is filled with silicon-nitrogen-carbon dioxide-chloride-sodium waters of high mineralization from a geyser 1080 meters deep. The Berehove source of hot chloride-sodium mineral water (+35) is equipped for taking therapeutic baths all year round.

It is used for the treatment of organs of the musculoskeletal system, nervous system, skin diseases and others.

The "Kosino Thermal Waters" health and recreation complex was built on the site of the "Shoshto-Termal" recreation area with hot springs of thermal springs.

The bathhouse is located 1.5 kilometers from the Transcarpathian village of Koson near the Hungarian border, in the middle of a 200-year-old oak grove.

Thermal water rises from a well 1190 meters deep and enters the pool at a temperature of 41 degrees. Cloudy, salty-tasting water has a yellowish tint due to an excess of iron. Bathing in it contributes to the treatment of diseases of the musculoskeletal system, cardiovascular system, peripheral nervous system, peripheral vessels and miliary systems.

There are five swimming pools on the territory of the "Kosino" complex, three of which are thermal. The large thermal pool partially enters the "Royal Hall", where you can relax and go to the tea room, shower room, changing room, massage room or shop of the complex. A freshwater pool with an aqua bar and musical accompaniment is made in the Mexican style. There is also a children's pool. All pools are surrounded by sunbeds, equipped with fountains and underwater geysers. "Kneipp's Bath" works for the feet.

Visitors to the "Kosino" complex have a free Finnish sauna, as well as a barbecue area with barbecues and gazebos, free Wi-Fi.