Attractions of Busk

The palace in Busk in the park above the Buh, the last owner of which was Count Kazymyr Badeni, was built in 1810 by the Busk landowner Voytsekh Miyer as a residential building and office.

The governor of Galicia, Kazymyr Badeni, bought it in 1876 and rebuilt it for his own summer residence. At the same time as the palace, a park (now named after Ivan Franko) was laid out, the avenues of which smoothly descend to the Buh. The complex consists of a main two-story building and two side wings. The decoration of the palace is a two-story portico with columns and a balcony with a balustrade. In the interiors, the old parquet, laid out in seven colors, as well as the stucco coat of arms of the count family of Badeni have been preserved.

In the period after the Second World War, a military unit was stationed here. Currently, the abandoned building is owned by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. In May 2016, the ministry handed over the palace of Count Badeni to the community of the city of Busk. As a result of a fire in November 2016, the roof and ceiling were damaged on an area of 150 square meters.

The issue of restoration and creation of a museum is under consideration.

Busk City Hall is an architectural landmark of the city center. It was built only in 1999, although the traditions of self-government in the city are very old - it received Magdeburg law in 1411, one of the first in Galicia.

The current building of the city hall was built on the site of the county court, which housed the Gestapo during the Second World War.

Today, the city council and the tax inspectorate are located here. In 2011, a clock made by the famous Lviv craftsman Oleksiy Burnayev was installed on the tower of the city hall. The clock's repertoire includes 12 melodies that play every hour. At noon, the national anthem of Ukraine plays.

Nearby is the new Peter and Paul Church (1998).

The majestic city synagogue in Busk was built in the 18th century thanks to the donation of Yakob Hlanzer.

It is located near Rynok Square, where the Jewish community of the city used to live, which owned most of the shops.

During the Soviet times, the synagogue operated as a gym, later it was turned into a building materials warehouse, and later part of the synagogue was turned into a residential building. The building was rapidly collapsing. In the early 2000s, in order to preserve the monument, the uninhabited part of the synagogue was transferred to the Evangelical Christian community, which partially restored the building.

The Church of Saint Nicholas in Busk was founded in 1914 on the site of an old wooden church.

The project was developed by the famous architect Yevhen Nahirnyi. Construction was carried out at the expense of the Busk Orthodox community until 1938.

In Soviet times, the Saint Nicholas Church was the only active church in the city, but during the reconstruction the church lost its original appearance. In particular, the domes were replaced by simple tent roofs, and all decorative details were removed from the walls. Currently, it is planned to recreate the temple in its original form.

Belongs to the religious community of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

The wooden church of Saint Onuphrius is located in the western suburb of Busk, in Volyany.

The church is hidden behind the ancient ramparts of the Busk hillfort, the southern rampart of which descends rapidly to the tributary of the Buh - the Rokytna River.

The Saint Onuphrius Church was built in 1642 (according to another version, it was built in 1670 on the site of the Basilian monastery burned by the Cossacks in 1654).

The church is three-log, one-story. The entrances to the temple are protected by gable roofs resting on wooden pillars. On the pediment of the main entrance, decorated with an embroidered towel, hangs the image of Saint Onuphrius with a long beard. The two-story bell tower is located to the west of the church, at the place where the ramparts break.

In 1864, an original chapel appeared at the church in the hollow of a thousand-year-old oak, which was 6 meters in girth. The trunk cut from above is covered with a roof. The chapel stands near the entrance to the church cemetery, its walls are fastened with an iron hoop.

The wooden church of Saint Paraskeva in Busk is an architectural monument of national significance.

The church is located on the eastern outskirts of the city, in the suburb of Dovha storona.

The rotunda church has an original barrel-shaped shape. The octagonal volume of the nave clearly dominates the faceted altar. The inscription above the door indicates that the temple was built in 1708. At the church of Saint Paraskeva, there was a brotherhood with a school and a hospital.

Near the church was a presbytery in which lived the family of the president of the West Ukrainian People's Republic Yevhen Petrushevych, whose father was the dean of this church. It was under his leadership that a school was built next to the temple.

The Catholic Church of Saint Stanislav in Busk was built in 1768-1780 on the site of the old wooden parish church, which was burned by the Cossacks during the Liberation War.

The land plot and part of the funds for the construction were allocated by the Polish king Stanislav Augustus. The building in the Baroque style was designed according to one of the typical projects developed earlier by the famous European architect Bernard Meretin (similar churches have been preserved in Berezovtsi and Lopatyna). The church had four side altars: Saint Stanislav, Saint John Nepomuk, the Blessed Virgin Mary Immaculate and Saint Anthony of Padua. In the main altar there was a sculpture representing the Holy Trinity and a miraculous image of the Mother of God of the Holy Rosary. In 1608, Yuriy Vyshnevetsky presented this image to the Dominican church in Busk, after its closure, the icon was moved to the parish church.

In 1944-1946, the Church of Saint Stanislaus was closed, and a film library was placed in the building. Divine services resumed in 1991.