Attractions of Khmelnytskyi region

Dunaivtsi city recreation park is based on the site of the former park of the Krasynsky estate. In some parts of the park, you can find green spaces of those times.

In the 1980s, a modern recreation area for citizens was established. The basis of the park was a complex of attractions, including a miniature "roller coaster" and an observation wheel. In 2013, another reconstruction of the park took place, after which a city fountain, modern benches and pedestrian paths appeared here. Mobile attractions provide the children's audience with active recreation.

The Dunaivtsi regional museum is located in a historical building on the central street of Dunaivtsi.

The museum was founded in 1986.

Its funds include 3,000 exhibits. The permanent exhibition of the local history museum highlights the history of the city of Dunaivtsi and the entire Dunaivtsi region.

The house of the manager of the estate of Count Potoski in Antoniny was built at the beginning of the 20th century.

The Art Nouveau mansion on the bank of the pond is still a residential building. Local residents nicknamed it the "Kremlin".

The ethnomuseum "Magic Hut" in the village of Hrushka near Kamyanets-Podilskyi is a small skansen (open-air museum) that introduces visitors to the traditional Ukrainian culture of Southern Podillya.

The hundred-year-old house in Hrushka was purchased in 2022 by the artist Adriana Viter in order to organize an ethnographic museum exposition. The house was built using the traditional Podillya keeled method - from clay and wood. A team of craftsmen restored and whitewashed the house, painted it with Podillya ornaments.

The exhibition is devoted to the cultural heritage of the villages flooded as a result of the construction of the Dniester HPP. The rooms feature some traditional crafts inherent in Dniester culture: pottery, herbalism, painting.

Opposite the "Magic Hut" museum is the 700-year-old well "Living Water" above the source of healing water.

The exhibition hall of the art department of the Kamyanets-Podilskyi Historical Museum-Reserve is located in the modern city center, on the ground floor of a multi-storey building.

The institution acquaints visitors with the works of contemporary artists of Ukraine. The reserve implements exhibition projects here, holds personal and collective art exhibitions, organizes concerts, workshops, fairs of handicrafts and more.

The current building of the "Planeta" cinema, known to residents of Khmelnytskyi as "kalancha", was built as a fire station in 1954, during the period of intensive development of the city, which acquired the status of a regional center.

It was designed by the architect Hnat Chekirda, who built many iconic architectural structures of modern Khmelnytskyi (a memorial plaque has been installed).

Located at the busiest intersection in the center of the city, the building with a high tower, reminiscent of the town hall, is considered an informal symbol of Khmelnytskyi.

Since 1987, this is a children's cinema with 3 halls.

One of the most famous fish markets was established in Letychiv in the early 1990s.

During the collapse of the Soviet economy, many residents of the village, located on the shore of the Shchedrivskyi (Podilskyi) reservoir. at the confluence of the Vovk River into the Pivdenniy Buh, engaged in fishing, processing and trading fish. At first, spontaneous trade was carried out along the route, but in the mid-2000s, a centralized indoor fish market was opened.

Here you can buy both fresh fish and smoked, cured, dried, salted fish. Local fish include crucian carp, carp, bream, and crucian carp, but mainly the people of Letychiv currently process imported fish. Fried cutlets made of carp roe are popular.

A living forest tunnel was formed from leaves and branches of trees along the railway on the outskirts of the village of Stryhany.

The railway branch connecting the Slavuta sand quarry with the railway station "Slavuta 2" passes through the forest. The tunnel looks especially impressive in the period when there are many leaves on the trees.

Unlike the famous "Tunnel of Love" in Klevan, the arch of the tunnel in Stryhany has not yet been formed, and it is only about 100 meters long.

The large complex of buildings of the barracks of the Kamyanets-Podilskyi fortress looks especially impressive from the opposite side of the Smotrych canyon - from the pedestrian bridge or from the Holy Intercession church in the arboretum.

They were designed to house a military garrison by the commandant of the Kamyanets fortress, Yan de Vitte, and were built at the end of the 18th century by the architect Stanislav Zavadskyi.

From the side of the river, the building looks like a fortress thanks to powerful retaining walls and loophole windows. Russian writer and poet Kostyantyn Batyushkov, Decembrist and hero of Borodino Volodymyr Rayevsky, scientist-lexicographer Volodymyr Dal, writer Mykhaylo Bulhakov served here.

In Soviet times, a tobacco factory was located in the barracks. Now the complex is in an abandoned state.

One of the sights of Makiv is the Sugar Factory, built under Alfred Zhurovsky in the 19th century. In addition to the production premises, the owner arranged all the necessary infrastructure, including houses for workers and the director of the factory, a bathhouse, stables, bridges.

During the Soviet period, the object changed its appearance many times, although it continued to perform its original functions. The equipment of that time was disposed of by the new owners of the plant in 2012. Some ancient industrial buildings have survived to our time.

At the moment, special attention is drawn to the entrance to the territory of the Makiv sugar factory, which has preserved the unusual decor of the Victorian era in the form of a gate with caryatids.

Novoselytsia Palace and Park is an architectural monument of national importance.

The palace in the style of romanticism with Gothic elements was built in 1820 by Ludovik Gizhytsky. The two-story house is built of English brick. Above the porch with a massive arched entrance is a balcony-terrace with a stone balustrade. The attic of the facade is decorated with two towers. Arrow windows are decorated with a stucco ornament imitating Gothic stone interweaving. Stucco molding has been preserved in the ceremonial halls.

The landscape park with an area of ​​200 hectares was formed on the basis of the existing forest. On the lawn in front of the palace there are century-old larch trees and pine trees, the diameter of whose trunks exceeds 1 meter.

Now the Novoselytsia Vocational Agrarian Lyceum is located in the Gizhytsky manor.

A synagogue with a crypt, in which in 1760 one of the greatest spiritual leaders of the Jewish people, the Kabbalist, the founder of Hasidism, Israel Ben Eliezer, who was called Baal Shem Tov (Lord of the Good Name) or simply Besht, was buried.

He spent the last 20 years of his life in Medzhybizh. The Beshta had many followers, including the famous tzaddik Rabbi Nachman of Uman.

Beshta's grave is the object of a mass pilgrimage of Hasids (supporters of this orthodox current in Judaism) and other people who are fascinated by Kabbalism. A crypt was built over Beshta's grave.

In the old Jewish cemetery, you should see the unique beauty of the tombstone. A modern synagogue building was built nearby. Many Jewish houses of the 19th century have been preserved around.

The estate of the Groholskys in Hrytsiv is an architectural landmark of local importance.

In the middle of the 18th century, Mikhal Groholsky built a Rococo-style palace with a landscaped park on the site of the old Lyubomyrsky castle. According to the original project, the main body of the palace was to be connected to the side pavilions by two steep galleries in the Palladian style.

The son of the founder of the manor, Martyn, completed the construction in 1782 in a simplified form, abandoning many of his father's architectural ideas. To the right of the palace, Lyudvik Groholskyi built in the 19th century a manor chapel in the Neo-Gothic style according to the project of Froel-Platter.

In the 1960s, the complex of manor buildings was rebuilt as a vocational school, the appearance and interiors of the palace changed significantly. Currently, it is the Hrytsiv Higher Art Vocational School No. 19.

The spring "Hamarnia" is located on the right bank of the Ushytsia River. The mineral waters of the spring are rich in copper, iron and magnesium. Experts compare the quality of these waters with the properties of Naftusya.

For a long time, there is a legend about the spring of "Hamarnia", according to which a very wealthy family - a landowner with his sister - lived in this place many years ago. The girl possessed special knowledge and helped heal many people. Rumors about her gift and beauty spread throughout the surrounding lands. Contrary to the fact that many young people asked to marry her, the brother wanted to marry his sister himself, disregarding all the canons and the will of the girl herself. But this was not destined to happen. During the wedding, the house fell into the ground, and a healing spring appeared in its place.

The palace of lawyer Samuel Hershhorin is located on the central street of Derazhnia.

The one-story residential building in the Art Nouveau style was built in 1910. Later, a gymnasium was located here, which in 1921 was repurposed into a labor school, and later into a house of pioneers. Due to an error in the documents, the building received the status of an architectural monument of local importance as the "Mansion of the private lawyer Perytorin".

In 2022, the building was purchased at an auction by the founder of the "Spadshchyna.Ua" initiative, Hanna Havryliv. She plans to use the Gershhorin Palace to develop the tourism potential of Derazhnia. The restoration of the monument has begun, research work is being carried out.