Attractions of Ternopil region

The castle in Mykulyntsi is known as the only residential medieval castle in Ukraine.

The first wooden fortifications on the hill near the Seret River existed here even in princely times. The stone castle was built in 1550-1555 by the mistress of the Mykulyntsi, Anna Yordan (Yordanova) from the Senyavsky family, the wife of Spytko Yordan, the castellan of Kraków. Later, the Mykulyntsi Castle belonged to the Zborovsky and Konetspolsky magnates.

After being damaged during the Liberation War of 1648-1657, the castle was improved and expanded. In 1672, the fortress was taken by the Turks after a 15-day siege. Then they destroyed the entire male population of Mykulyntsi.

Later, the fortress belonged to the Lyubomyrsky, Mnishek, and Potocki. It was then that it lost its defensive significance, and the palace built next to it began to perform representative functions. In the 19th century, Baron Yan Konopka converted it into a cloth factory.

The building is quadrangular in plan, two of the four corner towers have been preserved. Around the perimeter of the inner yard were built residential and commercial buildings, some of which have also been preserved.

At the beginning of the 20th century, when Mykulyntsi belonged to Countess Yuzefa Rey, her beloved servant Anna settled in the castle. She continued to live there even after the arrival of Soviet power, when the countess died and her son died. Currently, the housekeeper's daughter Stefaniya Baloy remains the owner of the residential premises of the architectural monument.

Mykulyntsi Castle is part of the Ternopil Castles National Reserve, but access to the territory is closed.

The National Liberation OUP-UPA Struggle Museum named after Yakiv Busel in the village of Byshky is a department of the National Liberation Struggle Museum of the Ternopil region.

The museum at the Byshky Gymnasium was opened in 1999 in the building where the headquarters of the OUN-UPA Branch was located in 1943-1945. UPA Corporal Roman Shukhevych, head of the UPA security service Mykola Arsenych, head of combat reference Dmytro Hrytsai and other leaders of the organization worked here.

The museum bears the name of one of the ideologues of the UPA, Yakiv Busel, who died in Byshky during a battle with a unit of the internal troops of the NKVD.

The museum exhibits personal belongings of the rebels, weapons, photographs, documents, models. The rebel hideout has been reconstructed.

The monument "Fighters for the freedom of Ukraine" was installed.

The Museum of the National Liberation Struggle of Ternopil Region was established in 2019 and unites other museums of the region related to the history of liberation struggles in the region.

The exposition reveals the history of Ukraine's struggle for independence, in particular during the Revolution of Dignity and the Russian-Ukrainian war.

The exhibition "People of Freedom", developed by the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, tells about 26 public figures of the last century, thanks to whose struggle it was possible to restore Ukraine's independence.

The department of the Ternopil Region National Liberation Struggle Museum is the National Liberation OUP-UPA Struggle Museum named after Yakiv Busel in the village of Byshky.

The Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin in the village of Stinka was founded in 1797.

In 1921, a stone church was built on the site of the wooden temple.

A cross was erected in the church yard to mark the 1000th anniversary of the baptism of Rus.

The temple belongs to the community of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The picturesque Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Virgin in Staryi Vyshnivets looks especially impressive from the opposite side of the Horyn River, from the terraces of the palace park.

Wooden, built in the middle of the 19th century.

The Church of the Nativity of Holy Virgin in Sydoriv was built in 1812 after the wooden church, founded in 1784, burned down.

According to legend, during the Second World War, local residents removed the bell from the bell tower and hid the bell, which they still cannot find.

The Greek Catholic Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin was built in the village of Krynytsia in 1863-1899 at the expense of Yuzefa Starshyska as a Roman Catholic church. The majestic temple in the neo-baroque style has a rich decoration.

In 1944, the church was closed by the Soviet authorities. Its premises were used as a warehouse.

At the end of 1989, the church was returned to the faithful. Since 1990, it has been a church of the Greek Catholic community.

The protected tract of Monastyrok is located next to the village of Lisnyky, the western suburb of Berezhany.

The first mention of this area dates back to the 14th century. In the 17th century, there was a large Basilian monastery here. The last service in it was held in 1941. In 1980, the church was burned down, and a recreation area was built on the shore of the pond. At the beginning of the 21st century, a restaurant of the same name was opened on the territory of the Monastyrok tract, but under mysterious circumstances the establishment burned down.

On the initiative of local residents, the reconstruction of the shrine began. A chapel was built on the site of the former church, and the Way of the Cross is being built.

One of the most mysterious sights of the tract is the picturesque Devil's Stone rock, on which a crucifix is carved. Nearby is a sacred spring where you can wash your face with healing water.

The "Medobory" nature reserve is located on the territory of the Podillya Tovtry (Toltry) low-mountain ridge, which is a remnant of a barrier reef that formed 15-20 million years ago along the coast of the warm Galician (Sarmatian) Sea.

The chain of hills rises 50-60 meters, up to 100 meters above the valley of the Zbruch River. The highest point of the reserve is Mount Bohit (414 meters). The wooded part of the hills is rich in honey-bearing plants, hence the name Medobory. The flora of the reserve includes about 1,000 species, 44 of which are listed in the Red Book of Ukraine. The most common are oak, hornbeam and ash. Deer, roe deer, wild boar, fox, marten, badger, elk are found in the forests. Rare karst formations. Among the karst caves of the reserve, the most famous is "Pearl", which got its name due to the calcite balls on the walls, similar to pearls.

The nature museum of the "Medobory" reserve occupies one of the rooms of the administration building of the nature reserve in the village of Hrymailiv.

Planned tourist routes.

The building of the new City Hall in Chortkiv was erected in 1926-1930, when the old town hall on Rynok Square ceased to accommodate the growing administrative apparatus of the magistrate.

The constructivist building with a low clock tower was built under the direction of the Polish architect Yuzef Kuntsevsky. In addition to the magistrate, the police and fire department were located here.

A monument to Taras Shevchenko was erected on the square in front of the town hall.

The new synagogue in Chortkiv was built in 1909 by the Viennese architect Hans Geldkremer.

At this place was the residence of Rabbi David Moshe Friedman, the founder of the Chortkiv Hasidic dynasty.

The building in oriental style is decorated with two side towers. In 1910-1914, the chief rabbi from Vienna or Paris held annual services here, which attracted Jews from many cities of Ukraine, Russia and Eastern Europe to Chortkiv.

Currently, the synagogue building houses a center for scientific and technical creativity and leisure for student youth.

The old Polish cemetery is located on a hill at the entrance to the village of Strusiv from the side of the city of Buchach.

Grave monuments borrowed from the city memorial sculpture typical of the 20s and 30s of the 20th century have been preserved in the village cemetery. The figures of saints, angels, maidens and other symbolic characters with simple, rough faces are made of sandstone and concrete, all things considered, by local self-taught craftsmen.

The mountain offers a beautiful view of Strusiv and its surroundings.

The bright half-timbered building of the Old Town Hall with a clock tower and a weathervane in the shape of a rooster is a business card of Chortkiv.

It is surrounded by wooden shopping rows, which are still used for their purpose - shops and other establishments are located in them.

Cafe "Lemkivska svitlytsia" offers national dishes of Lemki cuisine (after deportation from Poland, one of the large communities of Lemki settled in Chortkiv).

The Olena Kysilevska Literary Memorial Museum was founded in 1999 in the writer's hometown of Monastyryska in the Ternopil region.

Prominent Ukrainian writer, journalist, publisher, socio-political and cultural-educational figure Olena Kysilevska was an activist of the women's movement in Galicia. While in exile, she headed the World Federation of Ukrainian Women's Organizations.

The Olena Kysilevska Room-Museum is located in the Monastyryska Central District Library. The museum exposition presents manuscripts of the writer's works, photographs, original documents, lifetime editions of her books "Impressions from the Road" (1910), "Shvaitsaria" (1933), "Ukrainian Peasant at Work: How to Work in Women's Sections WOT" (1942). .

The exposition is complemented by embroidered towels, tablecloths, shirts, spare parts, household items.

The "Optymistychna" cave is the largest gypsum cave in the world (the length of the investigated part is more than 240 kilometers) and the third largest karst cave (after "Mamontova" in the USA and Sac-Actun in Mexico).

It is located southwest of the village of Korolivka. It was opened in 1965 by Lviv speleologists from the "Cyclops" club.

"Optymistychna" was called as a joke, because at first the colleagues evaluated the pioneers' chances of success very low and called them "optimists".

The cave is horizontal, the labyrinth of passages runs at a depth of 60-80 meters, the passageways are sometimes narrow and covered with clay. 10 relatively isolated cave areas were studied, which differ in the morphology of the passages, the color and structure of gypsum, the number and shape of crystals. There are stalactites and helictites.

Tourists can visit the "Optimistichna" cave only with special equipment accompanied by an experienced speleologist instructor.

In 2012, an art museum and a museum of secondary formations were opened in the cave.