Attractions of Yavoriv district

The Roman Catholic Church of Saint Jakob the Apostle was built in Krakovets in 1785-1787 in the neoclassical style at the expense of Ihnatiy Tsetner. The former church, founded in 1425, when Krakovets received Magdeburg rights, was wooden.

The new brick Catholic church designed by Domeniko Merlini had 7 altars. Its facade was previously decorated with a portico with columns. The relief "Allegory of Faith" is preserved on the frieze.

In Soviet times, the temple was used as a production facility.

Currently, the Church of Saint Jakob in Krakovets has been re-consecrated.

Stradch cave near the village of Stradch is one of the main shrines of Ukrainian Greek Catholics.

According to legend, the cave monastery on Stradch Hill was founded in the 11th century by monks coming from Kyiv. According to one of the versions, the monastery is mentioned in the Ipatiev Chronicle as the Cave of Domazhiriv (the village of Domazhiriv is located nearby). The monastery consisted of an entrance gallery with a length of 40 meters, corridors with a total length of 270 meters and several cells located at a depth of 20 meters. At the top of the mountain there was a fortified settlement.

During the Mongol-Tatar invasion, the inhabitants of the surrounding settlements hid in the caves. Once the Tatars discovered the monastery and ordered the monks to betray the people who were hiding. When they refused, the monks were killed, big fires were lit at the cave entrances, and all the people suffocated from the smoke. They say that after hearing the pleas of the dying, the Mother of God descended from heaven, stood before the Tatars and said: "Don't touch! The wall!". Because the dark will has power only over bodies, but not over Christian souls.

In the 15th century, the Stradch Pechersk Lavra was founded, the main shrine of which was the miraculous icon of the Stradch Mother of God of the Immovable Wall (a copy has been preserved). Since the 16th century, the Stradch monastery has been known as the Basilian monastery.

In 1936, the Way of the Cross was founded on Stradch Hill, which was granted the status of Jerusalem by Pope Pius XI.

Visiting the cave temple is free, but it is advisable to have a flashlight with you.

The Museum of the History of Sudova Vyshnia is located in the historical building of the People's House (XIX century).

In 1897, the writer Ivan Franko spoke here, as evidenced by the memorial plaque.

The museum exhibition includes 350 original exhibits that highlight the history of the city from ancient times to the present day.

In the archaeological collection: fragments of a mammoth tusk, flint axes, sickles, fragments of pottery, clay female figurines, etc.

A separate exposition is dedicated to the writer-polemicist Ivan Vyshenskyi, a native of Sudova Vyshnia.

The Yavoriv National Nature Park was created in 1998 on the basis of the landscape park of the same name and the adjacent territories of the Starychiv and Maheriv Military Forest Farms.

The area of the park is 7 thousand hectares. The territory stretches like a crescent from the village of Vereshchytsia (Yavoriv district) to the village of Krekhiv (Lviv district). In the south, the national nature park borders the "Roztochchya" nature reserve, and in the north - with the Yavoriv training ground. There are 13 settlements near the park, but none of them are within the park boundaries.

The flora of the Yavoriv National Nature Park includes 707 plant species, of which 20 species are listed in the Red Book of Ukraine. The vertebrate fauna of the park includes 289 species, including 24 species of fish, 11 species of amphibians, 6 species of reptiles, 200 species of birds and 48 species of mammals. The most numerous species of mammals are the European roe deer, wild boar, rusak hare, fox, squirrel, marten, wood ferret, raccoon dog, and from those listed in the Red Book - European mink, ermine, badger. Red deer and elk occasionally enter the territory of the park from neighboring massifs.

The region in which the Yavoriv National Natural Park is located is rich in archaeological and historical and cultural monuments. A number of primitive man's sites and hillforts of the princely period have been discovered here.

Picturesque clearings and abandoned orchards are often found among the forest massifs - a memory of the former villages and hamlets that were evicted during the creation of the Yavoriv landfill.

The park has a number of pedestrian and car routes, ecological and educational trails, equipped with stationary areas for recreation.

The Museum of Arts and Crafts of the Yavoriv Region and Yavoriv Painting was created on the basis of the Yosyp Stanko Art Vocational School in Ivano-Frankove.

The exposition began to take shape in 1958, when the school was still working in Yavoriv. The museum exhibits many decorative plates decorated with Yavoriv Painting, flat-relief carvings, relief carvings, openwork-relief carvings; candlesticks; Yavoriv boxes; pendants from various plates; furniture with Yavoriv carvings, including two chess tables with chess pieces.

Numerous easel carvings on fairy-tale themes, sculptural portraits of Ivan Franko and Bohdan Khmelnytsky are presented.