Attractions of Zolochiv district

The boyar court in Zolochiv, also known as the Zolochiv Arsenal, is a former fortified residence of the town's owners, built in the 15th century by representatives of the Shchechy boyar family.

This is the oldest architectural monument of Zolochiv. After the Zolochiv castle was built, the building began to be used as a city arsenal, then it was handed over to the parish church for the care of the poor.

Until recently, the building of the Boyar Court was in a state of disrepair. In 2012, it was transferred to the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church of the Exaltation of the Life-giving Cross, which carried out reconstruction and opened there the Holy Cross Monastery of Saint Damian Friars Minor (Franciscans) and the Chapel of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross of the Lord.

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.

A large defense-type choral synagogue was built in Brody in 1742 instead of a wooden temple that burned down. The large brick building of the synagogue is crowned with a two-story attic.

During the Second World War, the synagogue was badly damaged and was not restored during the Soviet era. It is currently in a dilapidated state. In March 2021, one of the columns fell and part of the roof collapsed.

The Defense Church of the Holy Trinity was built in Olesko in 1481 in the Renaissance style. In 1625-1627, the then owner of Olesko, Ivan Danylovych, added two side chapels to the church, which were later consecrated in honor of the Most Holy Mother of God and Saint John the Theologian.

The church was heavily damaged during a fire in 1806, was rebuilt in 1809, but burned again in 1841 and was rebuilt in 1847. As a result of these events, the interior lost its original Gothic character and received support pillars that divide it into naves. In 1927, the church was once again modified during another restoration.

The main dominant feature of the building is the round defensive bell tower. The epitaph to Ivan Danylovych (1618) has been preserved.

In 1945, the Soviet authorities closed the temple and used it as a warehouse. In 1993, the church was handed over to the community of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. Today, is the temple of the Holy Trinity of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Church of the Resurrection of the Lord in Zolochiv was built in 1624-1627 by Yakiv Sobesky, the father of King Yan III Sobesky, as a parish Catholic church.

In 1838, as a result of the agreement with the Roman Catholic parish, the church was transferred to the Greek Catholic community of Zolochiv.

Built in the Renaissance style, the Church of the Resurrection is characterized by simplicity of form.

Today it is an active Orthodox church.

The local history museum of the village of Markopil is located in the premises of the Markopil secondary school.

Since 1998 he has been working on a voluntary basis. The museum exposition is divided into the periods "Ancient History", "Markopil Castle", "Markopil during the World Wars", "School Education of Markopil".

The museum has about 1,000 exhibits.

The Annunciation Basilian Monastery in Pidhirtsi, or simply the Pidhirtsi Monastery, was founded in the 17th century on the hill on which the ancient Rus city of Plisnesk (10th-13th centuries) stood during the early Middle Ages.

Back in 1180, Princess Olena, daughter of Prince Vsevolod of Belz, founded the first monastery at this place. The defensive ramparts of the hillfort have been partially preserved around. The baroque Saint Onufriy church with a sundial on the facade was built in 1750. A magnificent three-dimensional iconostasis with sculptures by Pavlo Hizhytskyi has been preserved.

In 1861, the first memorial service for the death of Taras Shevchenko in the western Ukrainian lands was held here.

Now the complex belongs to the Greek Catholic Church. The full name of the monastery is the Monastery of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the rank of Saint Basil the Great.

Excavations are underway on the site of an ancient Rus temple.

The Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin in Markopil was built in 1892-1896 on the site of a burned down wooden church known since 1763.

The new stone Church of the Nativity was built by the architect Stavarsky from Sinyava in an eclectic style using Byzantine, Romanesque and Romanian elements. Before the First World War, the walls of the church were painted by Lviv artist Antin Manastyrskyi.

In 1926, the temple was restored. A characteristic Romanian element is a star-shaped 12-petal scotch.

The wooden church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin in Kuty is a monument of wooden architecture of the Galician school of folk architecture.

Built in 1750. Attached to the central log house is a babinets with a covered chapel and a faceted five-sided altar part. The temple is surrounded by a wooden gallery. It was originally covered with shingles, but as a result of the restoration in the 1930s, the authentic wooden covering was replaced by a metal one.

In the interior of the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin, a monumental oil painting by Yaroslav Levytsky (1936) and a wooden, four-tiered, carved gilded iconostasis (second half of the 18th century) have been preserved.

Nearby is a two-story wooden bell tower.

The temple is located in the village cemetery at the entrance to Kuty from Olesko. You can also see an ancient crypt-chapel in the classicism style at the cemetery.

The Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Virgin (the so-called "Great Church") was the main Orthodox church of Brody for several centuries.

It was probably founded in the 16th century. It is believed that the first wooden temple was built in 1600. The stone church was rebuilt in 1749, and in the 19th century a clock was installed in the bell tower.

Paintings were made in the first half of the 20th century (Anatol Yablonskyi, Mykhaylo Osinchuk, Mykola Fedyuk).

During both world wars, the Nativity of Most Holy Virgin Church was not damaged, and in Soviet times it was the only functioning church in the city. It currently belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

Pidhirtsi Castle is the most beautiful castle of the "Golden Horseshoe of Lviv Region", a vivid example of the transition from defensive to palatial architecture of noble residences.

It was built according to the project of the Italian architect Andrea del Akva and the military engineer Hiyom de Boplan (author of the famous "Description of Ukraine" and compiler of the "General Map of Ukraine") for the Crown Hetman Stanislav Konetspolskyi on the northern outskirts of the ancient Rus Plisnensk hillfort.

It was one of the most beautiful palaces on the territory of Eastern Europe, embodying the fashionable type of aristocratic residence at the time, which combined luxurious housing with bastion fortifications (the so-called palazzo in fortezza).

After the War of Liberation, the Sobeskis, who owned the castle since 1648, restored the palace and decorated the interiors. Grand balls were held here with the participation of European monarchs. The Russian Tsar Peter I, who visited here in 1711, took several sculptures by Italian masters to St. Petersburg and soon began the construction of the Petropalace. In 1728-1779, the new owner of Pidhirtsi, Vatslav Rzhevuskyi, carried out a large-scale reconstruction of the castle, began collecting a collection of sculptures and paintings, and also organized a private theater. At that time, Pidhirtsi became famous as the "Galician Versailles".

The last owners - princes Sangushko - turned their residence into a museum, but at the beginning of the First World War they had to save the collection. In 1939, Roman Sangushko took a rich collection of works of art to Brazil and created the Sangushko Foundation, which is managed by his descendants.

During Soviet times, the palace was looted, the interiors were destroyed by fire, and a tuberculosis sanatorium was placed in the premises. In the Soviet TV series "D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers", Pidhirtsi Castle played the role of the city hall, where a ball was held for the city elders, where a brave Gascon delivered the queen's diamond pendants (many believe that it was the Louvre or Versailles).

Since 1997, restoration and creation of a museum has been underway. A courtyard with a well, a terrace on the bastions, an exhibition of old photographs in the casemates, as well as the dungeon of the castle with the "White Lady" exhibition, which is dedicated to the legend of the ghost of the Pidhirtsi castle, are open to visitors.

The Plisnesko Hillfort is the ramparts and defensive ditches of the historic city of Plisnesk, which existed from the 7th to the 13th centuries on the border of Halychyna and Volyn.

This trade and craft city had the right to self-government for a long time. Its territory, together with the post and suburbs, occupied almost 160 hectares.

The builders used the natural features of the high plateau, constructing a very complex and difficult-to-reach defense system of seven defensive lines. However, in 1241, the city was completely destroyed by the troops of Khan Batiy and has not been rebuilt since then.

Later, the Pidhirtsi Monastery was founded on its territory.

In 2015, the historical and cultural reserve "Ancient Plisnesk" was created.

The Pomoriany Castle was built on a hill at the confluence of the Makhnivka River with the Zolota Lypa in the 16th century on the site of a wooden fortress founded in the 15th century by the noble Mykola Svynka.

The castle was a two-story, rectangular building with corner towers and a closed courtyard, surrounded on three sides by the channel and marshy floodplain of the river. Along the axis of the northern building on the side of the city was an entrance gate with a tower and a drawbridge.

In 1675 and 1684, the Pomoriany Castle was captured by the Turks, but by 1690 it was restored by the Polish king Yan III Sobesky, becoming one of his favorite residences.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, the castle was rebuilt several times, passing through the hands of different owners. The last major reconstruction was carried out at the beginning of the 20th century by Yuriy Potoski, turning the medieval fortress into a luxurious manor with a palace. Two two-story buildings have survived from the old castle. The oldest of them is the eastern one, with a round corner tower. The later, southern one, has an open gallery on the side of the yard, completed in the 18th-19th centuries. In the round tower with a tented roof there are stairs leading to the second floor. In the walls of the tower, loopholes on four levels have been preserved.

During the Second World War, the Gestapo was housed in the building, and after the arrival of Soviet power, the district committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, then PTU. Restoration was carried out in 1978, but now the Pomoriany Castle is in a deplorable state.

The Church of Saint George in Brody is the so-called "Little Church", an outstanding building in the style of Galician folk architecture.

A temple of defensive type. Built at the beginning of the 17th century, restored in 1867.

Inside is a highly artistic Rococo iconostasis.

The wooden church of Saint Illya the Prophet in Krasne is an architectural monument of national significance.

The temple is located in the southern part of the village, on the bank of the Holohirka River.

The church is large, three-log, covered with helmet-shaped domes, the central one of which is completed by a lantern with a crown.

Nearby is a stone bell tower, built in 1886-1900.