Attractions of Chortkiv district

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.