Attractions of Ternopil region

Terebovlia Museum-Workshop is a former Terebovlia District Museum of History and Local Lore, founded in 1999.

Located in the former house of the Deputy Chief of the Terebovlia railway station.

The exposition presents archeological materials about the ancient history of the region, objects of the princely era and the Middle Ages, the antiquity of the Terebovlya region as part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

The exposition also tells about the events of the Second World War, the development of the national liberation movement and some modern events.

Among the unique exhibits is the zither of the Ukrainian composer Yevhen Kupchynskyi.

A separate exposition is dedicated to the first patriarch of the UGCC, a native of the village of Zazdrist Yosyp Slipy.

The museum-workshop offers master classes on casting plaster figures, knitting dolls, making candles, soap making, painting porcelain, glass and eco-bags.

The Terebovlia Tourist Information Center and a souvenir shop operate at the museum. A variety of tours of the city and its surroundings are offered, including a night torchlight tour with a guide in the image of Prince Sanhushko.

Ternopil Academic Regional Ukrainian Drama Theater named after Taras Shevchenko was founded in 1915 on the initiative of the famous Ukrainian actor and theater director Les Kurbas as the first professional theater in Ternopil "Ternopil Theater Evenings".

The current building of the Ternopil Drama Theater was built in 1957 by architects Ivan Mykhaylenko, Volodymyr Novykov, and Dmytro Chornovol. It has a hall for spectators with 600 seats.

A monument to Taras Shevchenko has been erected in the park next to the theater.

The Great Pond in the center of the city of Ternopil was created at the initiative of Crown Hetman Yan Tarnovsky during the construction of the Ternopil Castle.

For this purpose, the channel of the Seret River was dammed. The area of the pond is about 300 hectares. In addition to protective, it also performed an economic function - it was used for breeding fish.

Currently, Ternopil Pond has become surrounded by parks, which are a favorite place for walks among the citizens.

The Ternopil Regional Art Museum presents a modest gallery of works by little-known masters of the XVIII-XX centuries.

A collection of works of sacred art is presented separately: icons, crucifixes, sculptures and church bells. In particular, a unique icon of the beginning of the XX century by Antin Monastyrsky with the image of Jesus Christ in an embroidered shirt.

The museum also presents one of the works of the world-famous Ukrainian sculptor Ivan Heorhiy Pinzel - the Royal Gate from the Church of the Intercession in Buchach.

Ternopil Regional Museum of Local Lore was founded in 1913 as the Podillya Museum with four departments: ethnographic, historical and numismatic, natural history and archeology.

Today, the museum of local lore is housed in an unusual building from Soviet times. The exposition has more than 150 thousand exhibits and reflects the history of Ternopil since the X century. In particular, a collection of ceramics found during archeological excavations in the region is presented.

The most valuable exhibits are 4 allegorical sculptures from the side altar of the Buchach Holy Intercession Church by the world-famous sculptor Ivan Heorhiy Pinzel.

The mini-palace in Trybukhivtsi was built at the beginning of the 20th century by the Polish landowner Timelman (or Kimelman). The manor was built in the style of romanticism with baroque elements.

In Soviet times, the manor house housed a hospital. Currently, the building is privately owned. The new owner is restoring the mini-palace. The roof is already covered with real red tiles, which were collected nearby and carefully washed.

The palace is surrounded by a large garden.

The ruins of the Toky (Ozhyhovetskyi) castle are located on a peninsula surrounded by the waters of a large pond.

The castle in Toky was built at the end of the 16th century by the Bratslav voivode, Yanush Zbarazky. Subsequently, the castle belonged to the Vyshnevetskyi, Charnetskyi, and Matkovskyi.

In 1648 it was captured by the Cossacks, and in 1675 it was destroyed by the Turks. In the 19th century, most of the towers and walls were dismantled for building materials.

The ruins of one pentagonal tower and a section of the wall have survived to this day. The upper part of the walls is destroyed, and the courtyard of the fortress is located level with the edge of the wall.

The People's Local Lore Museum of the History of the Tovste Village is located in the building of the People's House, built at the beginning of the 20th century by the "Prosvita" society.

The founder of the Ukrainian theater, Sadovskyi, as well as the founder of the Hutsul theater, Khotkevych, performed on the stage of its assembly hall.

In 1990, a local lore museum was opened here.

The picturesque ruins of the Tvorovsky Castle adorn the high bank of the Strypa River in Pidzamochok near Buchach.

The inscription above the main entrance tower indicates that the castle was built in 1600 by Voivode Yan Buchachsky-Tvorovskyi. The Renaissance portal of the building is decorated with a coat of arms with crossed arrows, the origin of which is unknown, since it does not correspond to the coat of arms "Abdank" of the Buchachsky family, nor to the coat of arms of the "Pylyava" family of the Potocki family, who owned the castle later (perhaps this is the ancient coat of arms of the Buchachskys or the coat of arms of the illegitimate son of the owner of Buchach ).

The castle protected the approaches to Buchach from the northeast, and also served as a country residence for local feudal lords. It was repeatedly destroyed, in the 18th century it was abolished by the Austrian authorities. Currently in a neglected state.

A fascinating panorama of the Strypa valley opens from the ruins.

Twin Houses in Kremenets are unusual in terms of architecture, a residential building in the Baroque style.

It consists of two symmetrical parts, which are covered with separate gable roofs and differ slightly from each other in design details.

According to legend, twin brothers once lived here.

Restoration is planned.

The courtyard of a large building on the corner of Taras Shevchenko and Stefan Kachala streets is called the "Venetian (Italian) courtyard" in Ternopil.

In 1893, the Polish stock exchange and library "People's School Society" (Towarzystwa szkoly ludowej) opened here. In 1913, the Podillya Museum was opened with four departments: ethnographic, historical-numismatic, natural history and archeology (its exposition formed the basis of the current local history museum). Later, the building housed a women's gymnasium, and now it houses the Ternopil City Council Education Department.

The inner courtyard of the building was nicknamed "Venetian" ("Italian") for its characteristic design with an arcade and a portal with columns.

Until recently, the Municipal Police Department was located there, the object was in a very bad condition. Currently, the partially restored "Italian Courtyard" is the summer patio-terrace of the conceptual restaurant-gallery "Bunkermuz".

The castle in the village of Novosilka (old name Novosilka-Kostyukova) was built in the 16th century by representatives of the noble family of Kostyuk-Volodiyevsky (it is believed that someone from this family inspired Henryk Senkevych to create the image of Mr. Volodiyevsky).

The castle was quadrangular in plan, with four towers. It was located on top of a hill and was washed by the waters of the Khromava River on three sides. In 1672, the castle was destroyed during the Turkish invasion and has not been restored since then. It remained in ruins until the middle of the 19th century, after which it was dismantled for building materials for the construction of a church and a road.

Currently, only the ruins of one of the towers remain from the castle, which in some literary sources is called the Volodiyevsky Tower.

The Museum of Volodyslav Fedorovych was founded in 2007 as the Vikno Village History Museum. Located in the administrative building in the center of the village.

The updated exhibition opened in 2021. It is dedicated to the Ukrainian public and political figure and philanthropist Volodyslav Fedorovych, whose father Ivan Fedorovych was an heir from the village of Vikno in the 19th century. Having inherited the estate in Vikno, Volodyslav Fedorovych collected works of folk art in it, founded a school and carpet production.

In 1873-1874, the Ukrainian painter Kornylo Ustiyanovych lived and worked in the Vikon manor. Ivan Franko came to the estate at Fedorovych's invitation. You can learn more about this in the museum exposition, which is spread over five halls.

The central exhibits of the museum are a part of a carpet and a statuette of a parrot, which the villagers managed to save from a fire in the Fedorovych estate in 1917. Also presented are samples of the pottery school of the village of Tovste and copies of carpets woven in the village of Vikno. Ancient objects of peasant life are exhibited in the ethnographic hall.

The museum offers visitors both traditional tours and audio guides.

The palace in the English Neo-Gothic style was built in Bilokrynytsia by the landowner Chosnovsky in the middle of the 19th century on the site of a defensive castle founded in the 16th by the Zbarazsky princes.

The first wooden castle was burned by the Tatars, after which Yuriy Zbarazky rebuilt it in stone (ancient cellars, earthen ramparts and one bastion have been preserved). At the beginning of the 19th century, the castle completely burned down. Landlord Chosnovsky, having bought Bilokrynytsia from the Radzyvill, reconstructed one of the parts of the castle into a ceremonial residence.

The last owner of the palace was an official of the Kyiv Governor-General, a secret adviser, Count Oleksandr Voronin. After Voronin's death, according to his will, the Bilokrynytsia Palace was transferred to the agricultural school. Now it is the Kremenets Forestry College.

A small museum of the history of Bilokrynytsia, the college and the palace itself has been opened in the premises of the college dormitory.

An ancient stone mill on the Hnizna River, a monument of industrial architecture of local importance. In this place, a dam has been built on the river below the castle.

The building is in a dilapidated state.