Attractions of Skole

The palace and park in Skole were founded by Baron Yevheniush Kaminski in the middle of the 19th century, after he bought the Skole lands from his friend, Count Potocki.

At the end of the 19th century, the palace was rebuilt in the neo-baroque style by the Austrian baron Hermann Gredel and his brothers Bernard and Albert, who controlled the local industry.

The palace is located in the upper part of the city (Demnya district), next to the highway "Kyiv - Chop". The building is well preserved, but without interior decoration. A park with a fountain in front of the main facade is surrounded by an authentic fence.

Until 1956, the district branch of the NKVD was located here. Today it is a boarding school.

The National Nature Park "Skolivski Beskydy" protects the unique nature of the northeastern part of the Ukrainian Carpathians.

The park with an area of ​​more than 35,000 hectares was created in 1999 on the basis of the Skole Forest Reserve, declared here in 1983 for the purpose of protecting beech forests, as well as part of the territory of the Zelemin and Maidan landscape reserves, the protected tracts of Dubynske, Sopot , "Zhuravlyne".

The Skolivski Beskydy mountain massif is located between the Stryi, Opir and Myzunka rivers. The absolute heights in the territory of the park are from 600 to 1200 meters. Pure beech forests of natural origin have been preserved here, as well as reference spruce and fir forests (the trees are over 100 years old). Deer, roe deer, wild boar, wolves, bears, and if from rare species - badger, ermine, forest cat, lynx and others are found in them. In 1965, 10 bison were brought here from Bilovezshska Pushcha.

On the territory of the National Park "Skolivski Beskydy" there are such well-known natural attractions as the waterfalls "Kamyanka" (the village of Kamianka) and "Hurkalo" (the village of Korchyn), as well as the historical and cultural reserve "Tustan" (the village of Urych ).

Directly adjacent to the city of Skole is the protected tract "Pavliv Potik", in which there are two small waterfalls, sources of mineral water, Blackberry meadow.

Tents and bonfires are allowed in designated areas.

The wooden church of the Holy Great Martyr Panteleymon in Skole is said to have been founded in 1597 as the church of Saint Paraskeva. It is part of the "original Carpathian trinity" (churches in Skole, Verkhnia Rozhanka and Isai).

Built by masters of the Boykyv school, three square log cabins are covered with four-sided tents. A special feature of the church's architecture is the two-tier solution of the babinets, which has a frame structure at the top of the walls, which brings it closer to some landmarks of the Boykyv type in Transcarpathia.

The square two-story bell tower was added in 1760.

During the Soviet rule, a museum of folk architecture was opened in the premises of the temple.

Today it is an active church of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

The monument to the Boyko Trembitars was erected in 1985 at the entrance to the town of Skole in the "Kolodka" tract on the "Tukholski Vorota" pass in the Skolivsky Beskids.

A sculptural composition in the form of a stele, at the foot of which are two trumpeter boys, is installed above the M-06 highway "Kyiv - Chop".

At the time of its opening, the monument was dedicated to the liberation of Skole from the German-fascist occupation. A figure of a Soviet soldier was installed on the ceiling. In 2016, the monument was restored, the fallen figure was replaced by a sculpture of Archstrategist Mykhaylo.

A recreation area "Kolodka" has been arranged near the monument.

Since 2018, the Historical and Local Lore Museum "Skolivshchyna" has been housed in 12 halls of an elegant two-story villa, built at the beginning of the 20th century, when industry and recreation were actively developing in Skole.

In the first room, objects of the Boykos forestry industry, agricultural remnants, household items of the highlanders, and folk crafts are collected. In the next hall, the interior of a Boykos hut is recreated with traditional household items and figures of the landlord and the landlord in national dress. The development of the school industry in the 19th and 20th centuries is told by photos and things of local entrepreneurs of the Baron Groedl.

Next, military paraphernalia and rarities from the times of the two world wars and the modern Russian-Ukrainian war are presented. In the sacred art hall, an iconostasis from the Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin in Skole and a shroud from 1895 are exhibited.

You can also visit the stylized light house of Zakhar Berkut, the reconstruction of the UPA hideout, the NKVD interrogation room and the prison.

A memorial sign in the form of a cross on a high ceiling was installed in 2012 at the probable burial place of Prince Svyatoslav Volodymyrovych of Drevlyans, son of Prince of Kyiv Volodymyr the Great, brother of Saints Borys and Hlib.

Having learned about the murder of the brothers by Svyatopolk the Terrible, who seized the throne of Kyiv after the death of Volodymyr in 1015, Svyatoslav and his wife fled to Hungary, but were caught by the killers in the Carpathians. According to legend, seven sons of Svyatoslav and most of his wife died in a brutal battle, the entire valley of the Opir River was covered with the bodies of the dead.

These events were reflected in local toponymy: the city of Skole (from Svyatopolk's order: "Slaughter them all!"), the village of Semihynyv (the place of death of seven princes), Mount Parashka (the place of death of Princess Paraska), the village of Slavsko (the settlement of the surviving remains of Svyatoslav's wife ).

Prince Svyatoslav's grave is a mound with a symbolic sarcophagus on top, above which rises an 18-meter cross.

The Roman Catholic Church of the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin Mary was built in 1892.

Before that, there was a wooden church in Skole from the 17th century. The new stone Catholic church was built according to the project of the architect Alfred Kaminobrodsky and was donated by the parishioners.

After the Second World War, the church was closed, the premises were used as a warehouse.

In 1994, the church of Seven Sorrows in Skole was re-consecrated and restored.