Attractions of Ternopil region

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.

The New Town Hall building is now used for its intended purpose - it houses the Chortkiv City Council. The restored tower houses the Museum of Magdeburia and the Tourist Information Center.

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 weather vane in the shape of a rooster is the hallmark of Chortkiv. It is surrounded by wooden shopping arcades, which are still used for their intended purpose - they house shops and other commercial establishments.

The Old Town Hall in Chortkiv was built in 1905-1908 on the initiative of the then mayor Ludwik Noss. After the First World War, the newly built shopping arcades continued to be developed as a trade and administrative complex. Together with small shops, the magistrate was located here until the New Town Hall was built in the city.

The building is made in the half-timbered (frame) style, which is characteristic of the medieval architecture of the northern regions of Western Europe. The tower houses a Swiss clock with four dials, made in 1887 by the Munich firm "Johann Mannhardt". The clock mechanism is still in working order. It can be viewed during tours of the tower, organized by the Chortkiv Tourist Information Center.

The "Lemkivska Svitlytsia" cafe, located in the Old Town Hall, offers national Lemko dishes (after deportation from Poland, one of the large Lemko communities settled in Chortkiv).

The Literary and Memorial Museum of the poet, public figure, zoologist-entomologist, scientist, professor of the University of Minnesota Oleksandr Neprytsky-Hranovsky was opened in his homeland, in the village of Velyki Berezhtsi, in 1996. The initiator of the creation of the museum was Borys Neprytsky - a cousin of Oleksandr Neprytsky-Hranovsky, who lives in the USA.

The museum is located in the premises of the Velyki Berezhtsi comprehensive school in seven rooms with a total area of ​​207 square meters. The museum collection includes about 2,500 exhibits. The museum exposition consists of 9 sections and introduces the life and creative path of Oleksandr Neprytsky-Hranovsky in Ukraine and abroad. Among the unique exhibits are a birth certificate, a photocopy of the certificate of graduation from the Bilokrynytsia Agricultural School, photos of members of the Ukrainian club "Rodyna" (Mykola Lysenko, Olena Pchilka, Pavlo Bohatsky, Oleksandr Neprytsky-Hranovsky), a diploma of a doctor of philosophy, a congratulatory telegram from US President Dwight Eisenhower to Oleksandr Neprytsky-Hranovsky on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Organization of the State Renaissance of Ukraine, the first collections of poems by the poet ("Petals of Hope", "Necklace of Tears" and "Chords", a portrait of Taras Shevchenko made by Oleksandr Neprytsky-Hranovsky in pencil in 1907 with his own signature, Easter eggs made according to Oleksandr Neprytsky-Hranovsky's drawings.

In 2009, the museum's funds were replenished with a collection of 202 dolls from almost 60 countries of the world, which the scientist collected over many years years of being in different countries of the world.

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.

The family crypt of the Payhert barons, the last owners of Sydoriv, is located in the old village cemetery.

The Payherts owned the village until 1939. Among them is the Polish poet Yuzef Payhert , who in 1840 built a palace in Sydoriv (not preserved).

The monumental crypt-mausoleum in the style of classicism impresses with its enormous size.

The building of the People's House was built in Chortkiv on the eve of the First World War at the expense of the Polish community of the city.

The People's House served as a center for the development of culture and sports - the building had a theater stage and a sports hall. An amateur theater group and a military-sports society "Sokil" operated at the People's House.

Ukrainian actress and singer Kateryna Rubchakova (Kosakivna) took her first steps on the theater stage here. in her name, the Chortkiv district cultural center, which is now housed in the building of the People's House.

A monument to Kateryna Rubchakova is installed in front of the house.

In the village of Postolivka, there is an old dilapidated church along the highway in the village cemetery.

The Neo-Gothic church of the 18th century was most likely built in honor of the holy Apostles Peter and Paul, as statues of the apostles have been preserved on both sides above the entrance.

The two-story building of the "Bank Avansovyi" society opposite the Dominican Church of Saint Stanislav in Chortkiv was built in 1905 under the burgomaster Lyudvik Noss. It was in this building that Ludwik Noss, who was also a famous pharmacist, opened his second family pharmacy, the largest in Chortkiv.

Now it is a communal pharmacy No. 143, which now operates as a pharmacy-museum. The spirit of old pharmacy still reigns here, which is reflected in the furniture made by craftsmen from the Austrian city of Graz, the exquisite interiors and the progressive technological devices of that time. In particular, the know-how of that time was used to decorate the interiors - photos on porcelain, artistic forging, carved wood, concrete patterns.

In addition to factory medicines, visitors are offered some products created according to the century-old recipes of Lyudvik Noss.

The museum in Pidhaitsi was created in 1993 as a museum of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army on the initiative of the "Union of Ukrainian Women" in the basement, where NKVD officers once tortured political prisoners. In 2002, the Pidhaitsi Region History and Local Lore Museum was created on the basis of the UPA museum. Currently, the museum is located in the former building of the Ukrainian People's House in the style of Ukrainian Art Nouveau.

The museum's exposition is presented in three thematic sections. The first hall is dedicated to the archaeology of the region and the history of the liberation struggle in Pidhaitsi. It exhibits a collection of memoirs of former soldiers of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army "In the ranks of the UPA", the chronicle "Unforgettable summer and autumn of the 1991 independence uprising", materials "Celebrating the 60th anniversary". Of great value is also the translation from the Russian journalistic work of Ivan Bilas "The Repressive and Punitive System in Ukraine in 1917-1953", written on the basis of research into archival materials, which reveal the insidious technology of combating the national liberation movement of the OUN-UPA, which was practiced by the NKVD.

The second hall is an art and journalistic hall. It houses paintings and literary and journalistic materials by local historians and former residents of the Pidhaitsi region who now live abroad.

The third hall is an ethnographic hall. It presents exhibits reflecting the culture and life of the peasants who lived in the region during the 19th century.

The monastery is located on the southern outskirts of Terebovlia, on a high hill in the suburb of Pidhora. Known since the 17th century.

The defensive monastery of the Basilian order was surrounded by a stone wall with four corner towers, three of which have been preserved. There was also a three-tiered tower over the gate. Adjacent to the entrance gate is a one-story monastery building with a church attached to it.

The Pidhora monastery ceased to exist in 1789. The monastery church was used as a parish church for some time. During the First World War, the church was destroyed, and the monastery complex has been deteriorating ever since.

However, in 1993, the parishioners of the villages of Zelenche and Pidhora under the guidance of priest Yaroslav Strilka started the first Greek Catholic services in the former church of the Basilian Fathers, and in 1999 they restored the Church of the Nativity of John the Baptist (16th century).

The Plebanivka Railway  bridge-viaduct, also known as the Terebovlian bridge, attracts attention with its high arches at the entrance to Terebovlia from the Chernivtsi side.

The nine-arch stone railway bridge was built in 1896 during the construction of the Ternopil - Kopychyntsi railway.

The bridge, constructed by Austrian engineers, has been well preserved to this day and continues to be used for its intended purpose.

The Museum of Political Prisoners "Memorial" named after Vasyl Stus was opened in Buchach in 1990 in the basement of the former KGB building, where the pre-trial detention center was located in Soviet times.

The exhibition presents documents, photographs and personal belongings related to the events of the OUN-UPA liberation struggle and Stalinist repressions. It was established that more than 1,500 residents of the district died at the hands of Stalin's executioners in those years. Some of the dead were buried in the basements of the Intercession Church.