Attractions of Lviv district

The Museum of the outstanding Ukrainian artist Osyp Kurylas, whose creative legacy occupies an important place in the history of European modern art, opened in 2016 in the artist's homeland at the Shchyrets Lyceum named after the Hero of Ukraine Bohdan Ilkiv.

Kurylas' portraits of the leaders of the Sich riflemen and his depictions of battles have high artistic and documentary historical value, and the icons and illustrations of children's books are a vivid example of education in action.

The Museum of the Artist in Shchyrets was created thanks to the initiative of the family of public figures, local historians and long-time researchers of Osyp Kurylas's work, Stefaniya and Ihor Derevatsky, as well as their daughter Bohdana.

Osyp Kurylas was born in Shchyrets in 1870 into a large family of a local deacon and a public school teacher. Osyp's penchant for drawing was evident from childhood. In 1886, he entered the School of Arts and Crafts, and later continued his studies at the Krakow Academy of Arts, where he began his own career as an artist.

With the outbreak of World War I, Osyp Kurylas joined the Austrian army, and later transferred to the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen. During his military service, the artist created a number of paintings in which he glorified the exploits of the Sich Riflemen. He painted about two hundred portraits of his comrades and paintings.

In addition, Osyp Kurylas drew many illustrations for magazines and books. His illustrations for the collection of short stories "Maple Leaves" by Vasyl Stefanyk, who was a friend of the artist, are considered among the best. A special feature of the artist's creative work is the painting "Taras Shevchenko. I Look at the Dawn..." created by him in 1918. In his sacred works, one can see Ukrainian ethnic ornaments - his icons "The Virgin Mary" and "Jesus Christ" in embroidery are famous.

The Osyp Kurylas Museum in Shchyrets is a place for personal and thematic exhibitions, open-air exhibitions and informative lectures.

The Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Chenstokhova was founded in Velykyi Liubin in 1930 on the initiative of Bishop Boreslav Tvardovski.

The temple was consecrated in 1932, but construction continued for another 5 years.

Since 1949, the church was used by the Soviet authorities as a grain warehouse and a garage for agricultural machinery.

The Church of Our Lady of Chenstokhova was returned to Catholics in 1992.

The Memorial Museum of the Patriarch of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, Cardinal Yosyp Slipy, was opened in 1997 in the main building of the Ukrainian Catholic University.

The museum exposition is presented on the basis of materials from the private collection of the famous popularizer and propagandist of the ideas of the Patriarch, doctor of medicine, Roman Smik from the USA, as well as modern philatelic materials of the head of the Lviv Regional Organization of the Ukrainian Philatelic Society Roman Byshkevych, documents and photo materials of the Institute of Church History. These are special envelopes, postcards and stamps, medals, tokens, festive ribbons, with which the Ukrainian community abroad tried to celebrate every event in the life of the Church and the Patriarch after his arrival in Rome.

The museum illuminates the life of the Patriarch, popularizes the ideas laid down in the Testaments of Yosyp Slipy. It combines three periods of the Patriarch's life: Lviv, in exile in Siberia, and Roman.

Two rarities are included in the museum's collection: a cast of the great seal of Patriarch Yosyp Slipy and the medal "For Loyalty to the Church and the Pope", which was awarded in 1998 to priests of the UGCC who survived the times of persecution. Photographs of the Patriarch occupy a special place in the museum. In the museum there are personal paramans (an amulet that testifies to the special care of the Virgin Mary) worn by the Patriarch, his sweater, kamilavka, omophorus and miter. Also in the exhibition is the miter of the Patriarch, which was worn on the day of the funeral. After restoration, it was transferred to the museum.

A particularly valuable museum exhibit is the omophorus of the Patriarch. This is the first omophorus he wore when he came to Rome (the Patriarch went to a meeting with Pope Ivan XXIII in a borrowed cassock).

Peremyshliany Museum of History and Local Lore is a branch of the Lviv Historical Museum.

The museum is housed in an old Art Nouveau building located in the center of Peremyshliany.

An exposition about the nature of Peremyshliany region, the history of Peremyshliany and the whole region is presented.

The monument in honor of the military pilot, the founder of the highest aerobatics, the author of the "dead loop" Petro Nesterov, is located on the outskirts of the village of Volia-Vysotska, at the place of the pilot's death.

In 1914, during an aerial battle with the Austrian ace, Baron Fridrikh fon Rozental, who piloted the heavy biplane "Albatross", Nesterov on his light "Moran" made the first air ram in the world. Both planes crashed, the pilots were killed. A memorial sign was installed at the place where Nesterov's plane crashed.

In Soviet times, a memorial with a museum and a 45-meter monument in the form of a jet plane emerging from the "dead loop" was built, and the neighboring town of Zhovkva bore the name of Nesterov for some time.

During the years of independence of Ukraine, the memorial in honor of the Russian pilot was neglected, but the monument was preserved.

Pohulianka Forest Park in Lviv is a botanical natural monument of local importance. It is located in the eastern part of the city and covers about 100 hectares of green territory with ravines through which the Pasika stream (the source of the Poltva River) flows.

The park in the area, which was previously called Attelmayerivski Pasiky, was founded in the early 19th century by the famous Lviv lawyer Franciszek Wenglinski, who built his estate here. Pohulianka became a popular recreation area in the mid-19th century, when entrepreneur Jan Klein built a brewery and opened a restaurant here. During the Soviet era, the brewery was rebuilt into the Ukrvyno plant, but now its buildings have been in ruins for many years.

The park plantings are dominated by beech, hornbeam, pine, and oak anemone. An illuminated pedestrian path is laid along the central axis of the park. The park area is decorated with three ponds with artificial waterfalls. In the depths of the park lies the former church of Armenian Benedictine nuns from 1897, which now belongs to the parish of Our Lady of Perpetual Help of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

Pohulianka Forest Park is maintained by the municipal enterprise "Green Lviv". Part of the territory is allocated for the botanical garden of the Ivan Franko University.

The terminus of trams No. 1 and No. 7 is located near the central entrance to the park.

The Pyatnychany Tower is considered a rare monument of defensive architecture of the Galician school and, perhaps, one of the oldest fortifications in Galicia.

According to one version, the fortification in Pyatnychany dates back to princely times. The tower was part of the defensive yard of the noble family of Vnuchek, the first written mention of which dates back to 1454. The defensive yard was located on a hillside in the western part of the village. Pyatnychany.

It was a characteristic stone-wooden fortification of the cape type. The only stone tower, which was adjoined by wooden walls, in plan has the shape of an almost regular square with sides of 7.83x7.4 m. The height of the walls reaches 9.5 m.

For a long time the Pyatnychany tower remained dilapidated, it was restored only in 1990-1991 In particular, the drawbridge was restored, which rises on the principle of counterweight.

Since 1995, the Pyatnychany Tower Museum of Defense Architecture has been a branch of the Lviv National Art Gallery. The exposition of the museum is located on the second and third tiers of the stone gate tower.

Archaeological finds from the territory of the former defense yard, a map of defense construction and well-known examples of military architecture of the Galicia-Volyn principality are exhibited.

The first retro motorcycle museum was opened in Horodok by collector Ostap Boyko and his friends from the ZAZ-Kozak club.

The exposition presents 50 rare motorcycles, scooters, mopeds, and motorcycles of the post-war period. Among them are not only Java, Minsk, Voskhod, Izh, Dnipro and other Soviet-made cars, but also Italian, Polish, German, and French brands. All models have been restored, half of them are still running.

The oldest exhibit is a military trailer manufactured in Switzerland in 1944.

On the basis of the "Dnipro" K650 motorcycle, Lviv restorers created a sanitary motorcycle. You can also see a classic "carriage" motorcycle of the Soviet-era patrol service.

P.S. For technical reasons, "Retro Moto Museum" is ceasing its activity at 2 Romana Dashkevycha Street. Currently, the "Retro Moto Museum" team is considering other options for the location of the museum and promises to please with new interesting projects and exhibitions.

The mysterious monument, located by the road leading from the city of Komarno to the village of Kletsko, causes controversy about what it was erected in honor of. On the pedestal of the three-meter obelisk there is a Latin inscription: "My death is your life" and the dates "1641" and "1663".

According to the official version, the monument was built in honor of the victory over the Turks and Tatars. Some associate it with the events of 1672, when the Polish troops of Crown Hetman Yan Sobeskyi defeated the Tatar army of Nureddin-Sultan, which was five times larger, near Komarno, but this does not explain the dates indicated on the monument. Other researchers consider the obelisk to be a tombstone on the grave of a young nobleman who lived in the specified period. It is also possible that the monument was erected in honor of the construction of the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin, and the dates indicate the year of the destruction of the old wooden church and the final completion of the construction of the new one.

The Royal Arsenal of Lviv was built in the Baroque style by the architect Pavlo Grodzytskyi by order of the Polish King Vladyslav IV.

As a strategically important city, Lviv had two arsenals. The city arsenal was formed by the citizens of the city, and the royal was maintained at the expense of the monarch. Since 1939, the Royal Arsenal has housed the Lviv Regional State Archive.

In 1977, a monument to the first printer Ivan Fedoriv was erected in front of the Royal Arsenal building, opened for the 400th anniversary of printing in Ukrainian lands. Near the monument is a second-hand market, popular with foreign tourists. Traders of old books and antiques gather here.

The architectural ensemble of Rynok (Vicheva) Square in the Renaissance style creates a surprisingly harmonious medieval atmosphere of the "ideal city" in Zhovkva.

The general planning and projects of the main buildings were developed by the architect of Italian origin Pavlo Shchaslyvy. Among them, the Zhovkva Castle and the Church of Saint Lawrence dominate. The Zvirinetsky Gate (XVII century) leads to the castle park. The City Hall (XVII-XX centuries) rises between the castle and Hlynska Brama. The square is surrounded by Renaissance buildings with arcaded galleries, in which cafes and shops are located. On the northwestern side is the Basilian Monastery of the Nativity of Christ (XVII century).

Since 1994, the central part of the city has the status of a historical and architectural reserve, restoration work continues.

The Monastery of the Sacraments (Benedictine nuns of continuous worship of the Holy Mysteries) with the Church of the Engagement of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph was built in Lviv in 1744-1780 on the site of a half-timbered church founded in 1718.

The neo-baroque tower was built during reconstruction in 1884-1887 according to the project of Adolf Minasevych.

In 1995, the church was consecrated as the Church of the Holy Trinity of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

The Museum of Sacred Art of the Lviv Archdiocese named after Father Anton Petrushevych Curia of the Lviv Archdiocese of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church was opened in 2008 in the restored church of Saint Klymentiy Sheptytsky.

An exposition of monuments of iconographic art collected by Studite monks after the legalization of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church is presented.

Saint Anna's School was founded in Lviv at the Church of Saint Anna in 1791.

The current building in the English neo-Gothic style was built in 1884 according to the project of the architect Yuliush Hokhberger.

Since 2009, the Lviv Law School has been located here.

The Church of Saint Anna was founded in Lviv as a Catholic church in 1507 on the spot where apprentice tailors who fled the city were killed and buried by the city guard.

The first wooden temple burned down several times. In its current form, the church of Saint Anna was rebuilt in 1730 by the Augustinian order. The transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque is noticeable in the architecture. The bell tower was added in 1927 by the architect Bronislav Viktor, the dome is made in the Art Deco style.

Today it is the church of Saint Anna of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.