Attractions of Chortkiv district

The beautiful neo-Gothic church of Saint Anna in Ozeriany was built in 1875 by Prince Leon Sapieha.

The project was developed by the Viennese architect Adolf Kuhn, the author of the Sapiehas Palace in Lviv. The exquisite portal is decorated with rich decor. The coats of arms of the Sapiehas have been preserved on the facade.

After the Second World War, the premises of the temple were used as a warehouse.

Currently, the church of Saint Anna has been returned to the Catholic community of Ozeriany. Its high silhouette is clearly visible above the surrounding buildings, from which side you would approach the village.

The Church of Saint Anthony was built in the village of Losiachin the late 19th and early 20th centuries (according to other sources - in 1889) at the expense of the Holukhovsky family.

The Neo-Gothic style temple has a high pointed bell tower that dominates the surrounding landscape.

During Soviet times, the building of the Church of Saint Anthony was used as a warehouse. In 1990, the church was returned to the Losiach Catholic community.

The Church of Saint Michael the Archangel - the main architectural landmark of the village - catches the eye of everyone who passes through Tovste on the Ternopil-Chernivtsi highway.

It was built in the years 1912-1939 according to the project of the Polish architect Yan Karol Sas-Zubzhytskyi instead of the wooden temple dismantled before the First World War.

The influence of Neo-Gothic style can be felt in the architecture of Saint Michael's Church. Ternopil artist Teodor Vatsyk decorated the interior a lot.

Today it is an active Greek-Catholic church.

The Catholic Church of Saint Henry in Melnytsia-Podilska was built in the 19th century.

In Soviet times, it was closed by the authorities, the belfry was demolished.

The church building is located in the old park in the center of Melnytsia-Podilska.

The defensive church in honor of Saint Nicholas was built at the expense of Mariya Mohylyanka, the wife of Count Stefan Pototsky, a cousin of Metropolitan of Kyiv Petro Mohyla.

The fortification nature of the harsh building located on the hill can be guessed from the loopholes on the second tier. Inside there is a richly decorated iconostasis.

The Saint Nicholas Church is the oldest preserved brick church in Buchach. It is currently an active church of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Church of Saint Nicholas in Skala-Podilska was built in 1882 on the site of the old wooden Greek Catholic church founded in 1720.

The new stone church was built by the efforts of Father Kelestyn Kostecki. It was the first stone Greek-Catholic church on the outskirts.

In 1896, in the Nicholas Church, the historian Mykhaylo Hrushevskyi married Maria Voyakivska, who worked as a teacher in Skala.

In 1946, the church was handed over to the Orthodox Church. The altar wall has been decorated with a mosaic panel of Saint Nicholas since 2011. Nearby is the "Korolyvka" spring, from which, according to legend, Prince Danylo Halytsky drank water.

The wooden Saint Nicholas Church in Vysichka is a characteristic work of the Podillya school of folk architecture.

It is located on the western outskirts of the village, next to the ruins of the castle.

It was built in 1763. Later, a stone nave was added to the nave instead of the original wooden one.

Nearby are the ruins of a Roman Catholic church.

The brick church of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker in Kolyndiany was built in 1888. Belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Church of Saint Onuphrius in Husiatyn was built in the 16th century, when the defense system of the medieval city was being formed, which also included a castle and a synagogue.

Together with the church, they formed a fortified triangle with the town hall square inside. The thickness of the walls of the temple reaches 2.2 meters. The upper battle tier has not been preserved. It was probably a wooden gallery around the perimeter of the tower. The walls around the temple have been preserved.

During the Turkish rule of 1672-1683, the church was rebuilt into a mosque.

Today it is an active Greek Catholic church.

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

Closed by the Soviet authorities in the 1940s. The temple was looted and turned into a salt warehouse.

Returned to believers in 1991, restoration is underway.

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 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 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 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.

The ruins of the synagogue in Hrymailiv are located in the center of the village, a little off the main road.

The defense temple with walls up to 1 meter thick, built in the 17th century, was part of the system of city fortifications of Hrymailiv.

An aron a-kodesh (an ark for scrolls) has been preserved inside, and in some of the windows there are bars with stars of David.