Attractions of Ternopil region

The parish church of Saint Stanislav's was founded in Zalishchyky in 1763 by the Krakow castellan Stanislav Ponyatovsky.

It was closed by the Soviet authorities in the 1940s, looted and converted into a salt warehouse.

The Church of Saint Stanislav in Zalishchyky was returned to believers in 1991, and is undergoing restoration.

The ruins of the Church of Saint Stanislav's are located on the opposite bank of the Horyn River from the Vyshnevetskyi Palace and are clearly visible from the palace and park terraces.

The church was built in the 18th century on the territory of Staryi Vyshnivets, near the old castle of the 14th-15th centuries. Destroyed in the 19th century.

The Church of Saint Stanislav in Kremenets was built in the 19th century at the expense of the parishioners after the Russian authorities took the Franciscan monastery from the Catholics and converted it into the Orthodox Cathedral of Saint Nicholas.

Saint Catherine's Church in St. Petersburg was taken as a model for the new Catholic church. In 1908, the church was decorated with Czech stained glass windows.

At the entrance to the church of Saint Stanislav, a highly artistic marble bowl with a bas-relief of the Mother of God, made in 1872 by the famous Volyn sculptor Viktor Brodzky, attracts attention. To the left of the entrance is a monument to Yuliush Slovatsky by the Polish sculptor Vatslav Shymanovsky.

An organ with 8 registers has been preserved.

The Roman Catholic Church of Saint Yan Nepomuk in Turylche was built in 1871 at the expense of Count Yan Starzhensky, although the village at that time belonged to the landowners Ivanovsky.

The slender building of the church is made in the Neo-Gothic style. Statues of the apostles Peter and Paul are installed in niches on the facade on the sides of the main entrance, which is why the church is sometimes called Peter and Paul Church.

During the times of Soviet power, an agricultural warehouse was located in the premises of the church.

A carved altar with a crucifix and apostles on the sides has been preserved inside. Currently, the church does not function.

The Greek-Catholic Church of Saints Cosmas and Damian, the great martyrs and penitents in Staryi Skalat, was built in 1643 on the hill above the center of the village.

Pylyp Kurbas, the grandfather of the outstanding Ukrainian director and theater theorist Les Kurbas, served in this church.

An ancient cemetery is located near the church of Saints Cosmas and Damian. Relatives of Lesya Kurbas are buried here: grandfather and grandmother, father, younger brother Nestor.

The Roman Catholic church in Bilche-Zolote was founded in 1839. In its current form, it was rebuilt in 1898 as a burial chapel of the Sapieha family, who owned these lands.

The small building was built in the Neo-Gothic style. The facade depicts the Lithuanian coat of arms of Gediminas' descendants "Pohonya" (rider with a sword) and the family coat of arms of Sapieha "Fox" (arrow with a double crossbar).

Today it is the church of Saint Paraskeva of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

The church is located on the territory of Bilche-Zolote Park, a monument of garden architecture (1800, 11 hectares, 46 types of trees) on the site of the former manor house that belonged to the Sapiehas.

During the Soviet times, a cultural center was built on the foundations of the Sapieha Palace.

The Transfiguration Church in Shumsk was founded as a church of the Franciscan monastery in 1715.

The monastery in Shumsk itself was founded by the Volyn voivode Malynsky back in 1637, and was originally a Basilian (Uniate) monastery. In 1676, one of the voivode's descendants, who converted to Catholicism, handed over the monastery to the Franciscans.

The church was made in the Gothic-Renaissance style, the building had a defensive character. At the end of the 18th century, a three-tier bell tower was added. In 1837, the church was rebuilt in the Ukrainian Baroque style and became an Orthodox church.

Above the entrance, the coat of arms of the family of the founders of the Malynsky temple is still preserved.

"Science Center Ternopil" was established in 2017 as a public space of science, education and youth initiatives.

Its main goal is to interest schoolchildren and students in self-education and non-formal education through interactive classes and excursions. The center serves as a museum of science with interactive exhibits, a youth space with quality projects and an improvised laboratory.

30 exhibits clearly demonstrate various phenomena of physics, geography and biology. They allow students to observe natural phenomena, see in practice the physical properties of substances, experiment and explore the world.

There is a room for meetings, round tables, workshops, meetings, thematic projects.

The Semensky-Levytsky estate in Khorostkiv consists of two palaces and service buildings located around the perimeter of a circular square.

The old one-story palace was built at the end of the 18th century by Count Yuzef Kalasantiy Levytsky. It is a rather modest building in the style of classicism with six-column porticoes on the front and park facades.

Nearby in the 19th century, Vilhelm Stanislav Semensky-Levytsky built a new two-story neo-baroque palace designed by an Italian architect. Botochchyni. There are service buildings and a horse arena opposite.

After 1939, the estate was nationalized, now the buildings house the Podillya Research Station of the Ternopil Institute of Agricultural Production of the Ukrainian Academy of Agrarian Sciences. For some time, the Old Palace housed the exposition of the Museum of Nature, but now it is privately owned.

In 1972, a large park on the territory of the manor became the basis of the Khorostkiv Arboretum (14 hectares), where plants from many continents are represented: philodendron (tulip tree), paulownia (Adam tree), peony, ginkgo two-bladed (dinosaur tree), dinosaur tree), various species of sycamores and magnolias, cedars, cypresses and other exotic plants.

The Shumsk Museum of Local Lore was founded in 1985 on the initiative of a local history teacher, Ivan Babiy. It was originally housed in the former house of the baker Stefaniak, built in 1930, when the city was part of Poland. In 2022, the museum moved to the premises of the former lyceum.

On the first floor, guests are greeted by a stone cross, which is the hallmark of Shumsk. It stands on the background of a panoramic photo of the city center. Also on the first floor there is an ethnographic exhibition designed in the form of an old Ukrainian house with a light room and a pantry.

The nature department introduces visitors to the geographical and natural conditions of the region, its flora and fauna. The ancient history department presents materials about the founding of the city in princely times, the participation of residents in the Liberation War, and the creation of the Church of the Transfiguration. A significant part of the exposition of the new history department is devoted to the period of the Second World War and the national liberation struggle of the UPA against the Nazis and Soviet invaders: weapons, photographs, documents, models.

The exhibition "Fight for Independence" tells about the modern Russian-Ukrainian war. Artifacts from the front are presented here: flags of combat brigades, photos of defenders, military formations, casings from spent shells, military trophies. A memorial corner "Heavenly Guardians of our Land" has been decorated.

The ruins of the medieval castle in Skala-Podilska are located on a high rock on the right bank of the Zbruch River.

The construction of the castle began in 1331 by princes Koriatovych (Koryatovych), who owned Podillya at that time, on the site of an old wooden fortification. In 1516, the Kamyanets chief Stanislav Lyantskoronsky restored the castle destroyed by the Tatars, supplementing it with powerful walls and bastions. In 1648, it was captured by Cossack troops, then it repeatedly changed hands during the Polish-Turkish wars.

In the first half of the 18th century, the headman of Skala, Adam Tarlo, rebuilt a palace in the baroque style with magnificent decor on the ruins, but only a few years later the building burned down due to a lightning strike. Since then, the castle has not been rebuilt. In Soviet times, the ruins were preserved.

Access is free.

Skalat Castle is a rare example of a defense complex of the Late Middle Ages and early modern times in Ukraine, which has the correct geometric shapes.

The first mention of the fortification of Skalat dates back to 1503. Probably then it was a wooden fortress with earthen ramparts. The current stone castle in Skalat was founded in 1630 by the Galician swordsman Kshyshtof Vikhrovsky. He built a regular castle, almost square in plan, surrounded by a moat. At its corners are pentagonal four-tiered towers with loopholes in the form of keyholes. The basements of the towers can be reached through tunnels.

Skalat Castle was damaged during the Liberation War led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky and during the Polish-Turkish War of 1672-1675, as a result of which it lost its defensive significance. It was not until the end of the 18th century that it was rebuilt by the new mistress Mariya Shynionova of the Vodzitsky family. She ordered a two-storey palace building to be added to the eastern wall and the entrance gate to be magnificently decorated (not preserved).

At the end of the 19th century, at the expense of Count Morits Rozenshtok (Rostotsky), the architect Teodor Marian Talovsky from Lviv reconstructed the tower and the castle church in the neo-Gothic style. The buildings were badly damaged during the two world wars. In 1960, the ruins were preserved. Only after Skalat Castle became part of the Ternopillya Castles National Reserve, its restoration began.

Now the territory and the preserved buildings of the castle have been cleared, tents have been erected over the towers, a wooden bridge has been thrown over the defensive moat, the central part of the courtyard is paved with cobblestones. In two towers there is an art gallery and a historical exposition, where you can see the firearms of the fortress of the XV-XVII centuries. In the basement there is an exposition of the castle prison. On the defensive walls there are pedestrian detours to see the panorama of the castle and the town. Thematic festivals with knightly battles are held.

The old synagogue was built in Skalat in the 18th century. A special feature of the architecture is the T-shaped layout.

In Soviet times, the building was used as an electrical substation. The building is currently in a state of disrepair.

The memorial museum-estate of Solomiya Krushelnytska was opened in 1963 in one of the houses of the Krushelnytsky estate in the village of Bila near Ternopil (now the territory of Biletska Secondary School).

The outstanding Ukrainian opera singer and teacher Solomiya Krushelnytska spent her childhood and adolescence here, and she visited her parents and sisters many times.

The museum exposition tells in chronological order about the life and work of the actress. The personal documents of the singer, posters, programs, invitations, letters, manuscripts of memoirs of contemporaries, stage decorations, clothes, household items and furniture are presented. In particular, you can see the original record of Columbia (USA) with a recording of Ukrainian folk songs performed by Solomiya Krushelnytska, as well as hear the voice of the singer on the first recording, made electrically using a microphone.

The world's first monument to the outstanding opera singer Solomiya Krushelnytska was erected in Ternopil in 2010.

A full-length bronze cast figure of the prim. The monument is 3.8 meters high and weighs 3.5 tons.

The authors of the composition are sculptor Volodymyr Stasyuk (Rivne) and architect Isabella Tkachuk, who worked together with Ternopil artists Danylo Chepil and Anatoliy Vodopyan.

Until now, the memory of the Ukrainian singer, who was born in Ternopil, was immortalized only by busts in Lviv and Milan, where she performed at the La Scala theater.