Attractions of Ternopil region

The complex nature monument of local importance "Pustelnia Tract" with the waterfall "Maiden's Tears" and the grotto "Hermit's Cave" is located 1.5 kilometers south of Chervonohorod. This is one of the objects of the National Nature Park "Dniester Canyon".

A small grotto is carved out of the travertine rock above the Dzhuryn River. Before the Second World War (according to other sources, at the end of the 19th century), a hermit monk lived in the cave, who was engaged in stone carving. A statue of Saint Onuphrius, carved by a hermit, has been partially preserved.

Part of the cave was destroyed by a landslide.

Three statues of the Mother of God are installed above the spring at the approach to the hermit's cave. The waters of the spring flow down from the rock in thin streams of the "Maiden's Tears" waterfall, around which a special microclimate with unusual vegetation has formed. In 2024, the waterfall suffered from a travertine rock collapse.

The ascent to the "Pustelnia Tract" from Dzhurynskyi Waterfall takes about half an hour. Car access is possible from the side of Ustechko village.

One of the most powerful castles in Podillya was built in Yahilnytsia in 1630 by Crown Hetman Stanislav Lyantskoronskyi.

In 1655, he withstood the siege of the Cossack troops of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, and only later as a result of betrayal was captured by the Cossacks of Buturlin.

After the signing of the Buchach Peace Treaty, when Yahilnytsia, along with some other Podillya lands, went to Turkey, the castle housed the garrison of the Turkish Pasha for some time.

By the end of the 18th century, the castle lost its strategic importance. The Austrian authorities ordered to fill in the ditches and dismantle part of the fortifications, and the buildings were used as a tobacco and potash factory. The castle kept this purpose until now under the sign of the Jagelnytskyi tobacco and fermentation plant. Currently, it belongs to a private company, the plant does not work, access to the territory is closed.

Yazlovets Castle, nicknamed the "Key of Podillya", in the 16th and 17th centuries was one of the most important defensive structures in the eastern part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, along with Kamyants-Podilskyi.

It was founded by representatives of the Buchatsky-Yazlovetsky magnate family. In the 15th century, Teodor Buchatsky-Yazlovetsky turned it into a powerful bastion, in 1550-1575 Yuriy Yazlovetsky expanded the castle and later completed a huge four-story tower. Below were casemates, on the third floor was the entrance to the city, on the fourth floor there were living quarters. The gate was led by a bridge on wooden posts, in its final part - hinged.

In 1643, the new owner Hetman Oleksandr Konetspolsky built an outer defensive ring - the Lower Castle. During the Liberation War, the fortress withstood the siege of the Cossack troops, but in 1672 it fell under the pressure of the Turks.

In 1746, Stanislav Ponyatovsky (father of the Polish king Stanislav Augustus) built a palace on the site of the Lower Castle, which was remodeled and improved by Baron Khrystof Blazhevsky.

In 1863, the baron donated the palace with the ruins of the castle and the garden to the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception for the establishment of a convent and a school for girls. Blessed Martselina Darovska, the founder of the monastery, is buried in the crypt on the territory.

During Soviet times, the monastery was closed, there was a hospital, then a sanatorium. The latter is still functioning, sharing premises with the monastery, which was revived in 1999.

Today it is the Retreat House named after Martselina Darovska of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. The nuns keep the palace and park in good condition and welcome tourists.

Museum-Manor of Yosyp Slipy - a spiritual and memorial complex in the village of Zazdrist.

Here in 1892, in the family of peasant Ivan Kobernytskyi-Slipy, the patriarch of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Yosyp Slipy, later Yosyp Kobernytskyi-Dychkovsky, was born.

He took over the leadership of the UGCC in 1944, after the death of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytskyi. He was arrested in 1945 and was held in Soviet camps until 1963. He died in Rome in 1984. According to his will, his ashes were reburied in the crypt of Saint George's Cathedral in Lviv in 1992.

The Museum of Yosyp Slipy is supported by the efforts of the Sisters of the Order of Saint Basil the Great.

The 28-kilometer Way of the Cross leads from the museum to the Zarvanytsia Marian spiritual Center.

The Yuliush Slovatsky Literary Memorial Museum was opened in Kremenets in the estate of Yanushevsky (the poet's grandfather), where he spent his childhood in 1814-1828.

Slowacki is one of the most famous Polish poets of the Romantic period. He was born and lived in Kremenets for many years, and then repeatedly praised his hometown in his works. Many objects in the city are connected with the name of Slovatsky: his native house, the lyceum to which his father taught, his mother's grave in the Tunytsky cemetery.

The museum exposition is located in eight rooms, each of which reflects a certain stage of the poet's creative path. The museum has 1,500 exhibits. Since 2004, the museum has had an extensive exposition "The Hour of Thought of Yuliush Slovatsky".

The Zalishchyky Museum of Local Lore is located in the premises of the House of Folk Art.

Founded in 1929, still in Poland, by seminary teacher Yosyp Shvarts.

The basis of the collection was made up of things found during archaeological research, as well as donated by local local historians. After the Second World War, it was revived in 1964. For some time it was in the closed Holy Intercession Church, and in 1985 it moved to the current premises.

Over the years of work, 18,000 exhibits have been collected. In recent years, the exhibition has been supplemented with materials about the participation of Zalishchyky residents in the UGS, OUN, UPA and other patriotic organizations.

Zalishchytsky Park on the banks of the Dniester is a monument of garden and park art.

The landscape-style park with an area of ​​5 hectares was founded in the middle of the 19th century on the territory of the former palace of the Brunytsky barons in Zalishchyky (now the Central District Hospital). More than 50 species of trees, shrubs and vines grow in the park, including rare, exotic and relicts: baobab, ginkgo, tulip tree, iron tree, Japanese sophora, Canadian bunduk, aged oaks, ash trees, etc.

Zalishchytsky Park is part of the protected zone of the regional landscape park "Dniester Canyon"

The castle in Zaliztsi was founded in 1516 by the crown hetman Martyn Kamyanetsky, who received these lands from the Polish king Syhizmund I.

It was from here in 1604 that Lzhedmytriy I, the husband of Maryna Mnishek and the son-in-law of Yuri Mnishek, who at that time owned Zaliztsi Castle, started his march to Moscow. After the overthrow of Lzhedmytriy, the castle passed into the hands of the Vyshnevetskys, who turned it into a magnate's residence.

The castle was quadrangular, with four corners and a gate tower. There was a two-story palace in the northern part.

In the 18th century, Zaliztsi Castle was converted into a cloth factory. It has reached our days in ruins. Fragments of the northern and western walls have been preserved, as well as a semi-basement floor with a narrow corridor.

Zaliztsi Museum of Local Lore was founded in 2020 at the initiative of local historians. The museum is located in the assembly hall and library of Zaliztsi polyclinic.

The exposition tells about the nature of the region and the history of the village from the earliest times. In particular, the exhibition presents a sculpture of Saint Francis of the XIX century from the ruins of the monastery of the Order of the Sisters of Mercy in Zaliztsi.

In 2023, the archaeological exposition of the Zaliztsi Museum of Local Lore was opened. Here you can see the fossilized remains of mollusks of the Sarmatian Sea, silicon products of the Mesolithic era, ceramics of the Vysotska culture, body crosses of the XII-XIII centuries, Cossack pipes and silver coins of the XVII century, and other finds from archaeological excavations on the territory of Zaliztsi.

An exposition in memory of the victims of political repressions is being set up in the former NKVD torture chamber.

In the museum, you can buy souvenirs, book an excursion, and get background information about tourist attractions in the area.

The well-preserved Zbarazh Castle has been the residence of Lithuanian princes and Polish nobles for centuries.

The construction of a new fortress instead of the fortress in Stary Zbarazh destroyed by the Tatars was started in 1620 by Princes Hristofor and Yuriy Zbarazkyi, who commissioned a project in Venice from the famous architect and engineer Vinchentso Skamotstsi. His work embodied the advanced achievements of the art of fortification of that time.

The castle consists of a Renaissance-style palace, casemate ramparts surrounding it, an entrance tower and a moat. In the courtyard there is a siege well 70 m deep, connected by underground passages with the Bernardine monastery at the other end of Zbarazh.

In the 17th century, the new owners of Zbarazh Castle, Princes Vyshnevetskyi, fortified it with four bastions. In 1649 the castle withstood a seven-week siege of Bohdan Khmelnytsky's Cossack army, and in 1734 it was captured by the Haydamaks.

Potocki magnates in the XVIII century turned the military fortress into an ordinary palace estate.

During the first half of the XX century the building was severely damaged during the wars, and only in 1985 the restoration was completed. The State Historical and Architectural Reserve was established on the basis of Zbarazh Castle, it is the center of the Ternopil Castles National Reserve.

Archaeological and ethnographic expositions have been set up in the premises, a collection of weapons is on display, unique works of wood carver Viktor Lupiychuk are on display, and the diorama "Siege of 1649" is being created.

In one of the casemates there is a restaurant "Legend", in the manor house (XIX century) on the outskirts of the park opened the hotel "Hetman".