Attractions of Transcarpathian region

The manor-museum of the Transcarpathian village of Velyki Berehy was opened in 2013 in a modest village house built in 1898 on the initiative of the Ferentsa II Rakotsi Transcarpathian Hungarian Institute.

The estate is located in the center of the village, near the Reformed Church. Restored during 2009-2012. The residential building consists of three rooms, has a pantry and an authentic stove. The exposition presents looms, other work tools and household items.

The courtyard is separated from the garden, where more than 500 species of plants grow.

Workshops on traditional crafts are held.

In 2021, the Velyki Berehy Ethnographic Museum-Manor was awarded the "House-Museum of the Year" award from the Association of Local History Museums of Hungary.

The house-museum of the artist Fedir Manaylo is dedicated to the life and work of one of the founders of the Transcarpathian school of painting.

The museum was opened in 1981 in the house where Manaylo lived in the middle of the XX century in Uzhhorod. Here he taught decorative arts at the Uzhhorod School of Crafts and the Uzhhorod School of Applied Arts, worked as the chief artist of the Transcarpathian Regional House of Folk Art.

The museum exposition includes more than 2,000 exhibits, including personal belongings of the artist, documents from his personal archive, as well as works of art that acquaint with the work of Fedir Manaylo: paintings, graphics, scenery, etc.

The interior of the artist's workshop and living room has been preserved.

Fedir Manaylo Memorial House-Museum is a branch of the Transcarpathian Regional Art Museum named after Yosyp Bokshay.

The Fine Arts Museum was founded in 1997 at the Mukachevo Boarding School of Art, now the Mukachevo Lyceum No. 8. The Lyceum is located in the premises of the former Hungarian State Royal Gymnasium, which was built in 1892.

The exhibits of the museum became the examination works of the graduates of the school in fine and decorative and applied arts – the best works of art of painting, graphics, embroidery, ceramics, carvings, moldings, straw appliqués, collages, etc. Here you can see embroidered towels, Easter eggs, paintings with Transcarpathian landscapes, various clay products.

Excursions to the Fine Arts Museum are conducted by members of the "Young Tour Guides" group.

The first Franciscan monks appeared in Vynohradiv in the 15th century, which gives grounds for dating the monastery.

In the same century, the Franciscans received their order from Baron Pereni, the castle of Kankiv. In the middle of the 16th century, when the reformation movement began to spread in Transcarpathia, the order was disbanded.

Half a century later, the Franciscans returned and rebuilt the monastery and the church of Saint. Francis. Initially, it was made in Gothic forms, but after it was destroyed by the Tatars in 1717, it was restored in the Baroque style.

In the 19th century, the temple was abandoned and partially rebuilt. In Soviet times, a historical museum was located here.

The geographic center of continental Europe was calculated and marked in the village of Dilove, in the Rahiv district, by Hungarian surveyors in 1887.

A two-meter concrete geodesic sign in the form of a truncated four-sided pyramid was installed here. On the rectangular pedestal is carved in Latin: "Permanent, exact, eternal place. Very precisely, with the help of a special device made in Austria-Hungary, according to the scale of meridians and parallels, the Center of Europe is determined here. 1887."

Subsequently, the calculations of Hungarian surveyors were repeatedly denied by scientists from other countries, but they remain generally recognized.

In Soviet times, a new 7.2-meter-high stele was installed nearby. In 2005, the Alley of European Flags appeared next to the stele, emphasizing the symbolism of this place. The hut-museum presents a collection of authentic Hutsul household items.

In 2010, an ecological and educational center with a museum of nature and culture of the Carpathians was opened, for which a two-story wooden house in the Hutsul style was built. The ecological and cultural recreation complex "Center of Europe" is a branch of the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve.

The mineral water geyser in Vuchkove is located on the bank of a mountain stream in the Petrovets tract at the entrance to Mizhhirya from the Khust side.

The water in the spring is salty, with a high content of iron, which is visible from the red-yellow-hot color of the surrounding stones.

Previously, the geyser beat upwards with a free 7-meter fountain with a constant frequency 4 times a day. In Soviet times, when the sanatorium was founded, it was enclosed in a pipe, the main flow was diverted to the river.

Currently, the geyser is again erupting vertically upward with a fountain 5-7 meters high. The periodicity of eruptions can vary from 20 minutes to several hours (on average every two hours). The duration of the eruption is about 10 minutes.

On the other side of the river there is a spring with delicious iron mineral water - "kvas".

At the entrance to the tract is a bee farm, on the territory of which the only bee monument in Europe is installed. It was here in the 1960s that the frost-resistant species of the Carpathian bee was bred.

The giant oak in the center of the village of Stuzhytsia, nicknamed "Grandfather-Oak", is considered by ecologists to be one of the oldest in Ukraine - its age is estimated at 1200 years (according to old data - 500 years).

The girth of the tree trunk is 9 meters, the height is more than 30 meters.

According to legend, the acorn from which the oak tree grew was brought from Hungary by a huge fairy boar. There are many other legends associated with "Grandfather-Oak".

Bequeathed in 1968. It was considered the oldest until recently, until a tree of an even older age was discovered nearby - the Champion-oak.

The Gothic Church of the Heart of Jesus in the village of Bene is an architectural monument of national importance.

The first written mention of the church, located on the main road on the right bank of the Borzhava River, is found in 1333, but most likely it was an older structure, on the site of which the monumental stone Catholic Church of the Heart of Jesus was built at the end of the 14th century.

The temple probably had defensive significance, as the small windows of the massive tower look like loopholes, the northern wall of the temple has no windows at all, and the rest of the walls have small pointed windows. The single-nave basilica is reinforced with buttresses.

In 1593, the villagers joined the reformed faith, the church was rebuilt.

In the 70s of the 17th century, the temple was reconstructed after the destruction during the Poles' suppression of Prince Ferents Rakotsi rebellion. As a result of the last reconstruction of the 19th century, the tower, which was originally in the form of a Gothic spire, was rebuilt in the Baroque style with a central decorative lantern.

In 1999, restoration was carried out by Hungarian masters, which returned almost the original Gothic style to the temple. The roof of the building, as well as the buttresses, are covered with shingles (wooden tiles).

The Church of the Heart of Jesus is active

The Stepan Vayda People's History and Local Lore Museum is located in the village of Dulovo in Transcarpathia. It bears the name of tank driver Stepan Vayda, who was born in the village of Dulovo in 1922, during the Second World War he fought on the side of the Soviet Union as part of the 1st Czechoslovaska Army Corps and died in the battles for the Polish city of Tworków in 1945.

The exhibition in 4 halls reflects the history and culture of the Tyachiv region. Many items of ancient clothing, household items, and work tools are presented. Also collected are collections of local folk craftsmen - weaving, embroidery, etc. A tank and a bust of Stepan Vayda have been installed on the territory of the museum.

The Museum of the Salt Mines History in the urban-type village of Solotvyno tells about the origin and development of salt industries in Transcarpathia, methods of salt extraction in the territory of the region in different historical eras.

Since 1974, the museum has been located near the Solotvyno Salt Mine, which is one of the largest in Europe (salt reserves here amount to 300 million tons, the thickness of the layer of industrial development is 300 meters). However, due to the emergency condition of the building in connection with the karst processes on the territory of the salt mine, the Historical Museum of Salt Mines has temporarily stopped working.

In 2021, the Solotvyno Village Council allocated a new exhibition space to the museum. Here are presented tools of salt miners, various lanterns and lamps, clothes and personal belongings of miners, various engineering structures, documents, maps and photographs.

The private museum of the history and ethnography of Transcarpathian Romanians opened in 2014 in the village of Nyzhnia Apsha, which is called the richest village in Ukraine. A significant part of the population here is made up of ethnic Romanians.

The museum was created in his own yard by the Apsha dentist and writer, ethnic Romanian Ion Botosh, who has been collecting Romanian antiquities since 1984. The real adornment of the complex is a 200-year-old wooden house in the Maramorosh style.

The exposition presents Romanian embroidery, authentic clothes, towels, household items, icons, books, manuscripts, documents. You can also familiarize yourself with the tools of peasant labor and the working tools of craftsmen.

The wooden church of the Holy Spirit was built in Kolochava by master Ferents Tekka in 1795 on the site of an old church founded in the 17th century.

The church is high, two-log, covered with shingles. The slender tower is finished with a Baroque pinnacle.

In Soviet times, the temple was turned into a museum of atheism, thanks to which it was well preserved (restored in 1969).

Currently, the Church of the Holy Spirit does not function, but it is available for tourists to visit. A unique icon of the 18th century "Jesus Christ the vinedresser" is kept here.

There are several Czech graves and the burial of a Hungarian postman on the territory of the Holy Spirit Church-Museum. At the entrance, a sculptural composition has been installed in honor of a local monument of sacred literature - the manuscript of the Kolochava deacon Ivan Luhosh "The Pearl of Great Price".

The excursion must be arranged in advance by phone.

The wooden church of the Holy Spirit in Huklyvyi is the oldest wooden church in the Volovets region (XVIII century).

Belongs to the Lemki type of wooden architecture. Three log cabins of different widths are made of spruce beams, the roof is covered with shingles. A square tower with a two-story baroque finish rises above the nave, and a slender baroque head is planted above the eastern part.

In 1784, the German master Frants Peyer painted the interior. This is one of the few paintings preserved to this day in the wooden churches of Transcarpathia.

The "Honey House" in Mukachevo is one of the attractions of the "Honey Route of Transcarpathia", which is part of the "Sweet Transcarpathia" tourist route.

The Mukachevo honey museum was opened in 2010 by a family of beekeepers from Perest. The exhibition features a living beehive with transparent walls, beekeepers' tools, a collection of toy bees, a unique map of Ukraine in honeycombs, wax candles, samples of honey from 60 countries of the world.

Visitors to the "Honey House" are offered a tasting of 4 types of Transcarpathian honey, as well as some honey drinks: mead and herbal honey balm.

The picturesque Horodyliv waterfall roars down the slope of the mountain of the same name at an altitude of 460 meters.

Located at the foot of the Ilina and Rorond-Tete mountains, 3 kilometers northwest of the village of Iza.

Cold water flows in beautiful streams from a height of 3-4 ethers over stones overgrown with green moss, into a red stone base. The Horodyliv waterfall looks most spectacular from below, but there is also an observation deck at the top.

There are several smaller waterfalls on the way to the waterfall, as well as a recreation area with a spring and streamside gazebos.

The Carpathian spotted salamander, listed in the Red Book, can be found in the protected tract of Horodyliv.