Attractions of Ternopil district

A monument to the Ukrainian writer and public figure Ivan Franko was erected in Ternopil in 1995.

It is located in the square behind the Dominican Church, on the site of the former gymnasium No. 1, where in 1902 the writer met with Ternopil gymnasium students.

Franko visited Ternopil several times, in particular. as a correspondent of the newspaper "Lviv Courier" at the regional ethnographic exhibition. He read "Moses" in the premises of the Municipal Brotherhood (now the Philharmonic), often stopped at the "Podilskyi" hotel on the way to the village of Vikno.

The author of the monument to Ivan Franko in Ternopil is the sculptor Ivan Sonsiadlo.

The wooden church of John the Theologian in Skoryky is an example of the Podillya school of folk architecture.

In the church there is an iconostasis in 7 rows.

The official date of construction is 1695, but there is a legend that in this church in 1649, before the campaign to Zbarazh, the Cossack Bohdan Khmelnytskyi together with the hetman made confession and received communion.

According to legend, the iconostasis and the "Last Judgment" icon (now kept in the Lviv Museum of Folk Art) were donated to the church by Bohdan Khmelnytskyi.

The memorial museum-house of Les Kurbas is located in the village of Stariy Skalat, where the memorial house of his grandfather, priest Pylyp Kurbas, has been preserved.

The childhood and youth years of the future outstanding Ukrainian director passed here.

Near the church where Pylyp Kurbas served, relatives of Lesya Kurbas are buried: grandfather and grandmother, father, younger brother Nestor.

The building of the city magistrate in Berezhany was erected in the middle of the XIX century. Its purely administrative functional role as a body of city self-government explains the finishing modesty of the facades.

In the 1920s and 1930s, the city museum was located on the ground floor of the building. The Magistrate's Assembly Hall was often used for various ceremonial events, in particular in 1898 the famous Ukrainian poet Bohdan Lepky delivered a speech here in honor of the 100th anniversary of the publication of "Aeneid" by Ivan Kotlyarevsky.

Nowadays, the premises of the building are occupied by the research department of the State Historical and Architectural Reserve in the city of Berezhany, the DIAZ exhibition hall, art school, district archive.

The Marian spiritual center in Zarvanytsia is the main shrine of the Greek Catholics of Ukraine.

A folk tale tells about a Kyiv monk to whom the Virgin Mary appeared in a dream and ordered him to found a monastery. At this place, a healing spring flowed and an icon of the Mother of God appeared, which was named Zarvanytsia. At the same time, a cave monastery was founded.

It is believed that the first church in Zarvanytsia was built in the 13th century by Prince Vasylko Terebovlyansky after his miraculous healing.

The written mention of the monastery dates back to 1458. In the 17th century, the Tatars destroyed the monastery several times, but the miraculous icon was preserved.

In 1754, Count Myonchynskyi rebuilt the Holy Trinity Church, which has survived to this day (it now houses the icon of the Mother of God of Zarvanytska). In 1867, Pope Pius IX crowned the Zarvanytsia icon, after which the monastery became a major center of pilgrimage.

During the Soviet rule, the monastery was razed to the ground, but local residents managed to save the icon. Until 1988, religious services were conducted secretly. Only in 1991 did the revival of the shrine begin.

On the slope of the mountain near the Strypa River, the majestic Cathedral of the Mother of God of Zarvanytsia with a four-tiered bell tower 75 meters high was built. Nearby - the gate church, the chapel above the spring and the singing field.

A complex of three humorous monuments was opened in the center of Ternopil near the Atrium shopping center in 2010 on the Independence Day of Ukraine.

Two of them are devoted to literary works, and the third to employees of communal services. The monument to the 12th chair is inspired by the satirical book "12 Chairs" by Ilf and Petrov. The monument to the invisible man refers to the novel of the same name by Herbert Wells. The plumber's monument is dedicated to the employees of the Ternopil water supply company.

Conceptually, the monuments are united only by the humor of the author of the idea - a Ternopil philanthropist, owner of a shopping center. The author of the works is Ternopil sculptor Dmytro Mulyarchuk.

The Roman Catholic Church of Mother of God of Perpetual Help in Sorotske was built in 1937. A very interesting example of Neo-Gothic architecture of the early 20th century.

On the wall of the church, a double Polish family coat of arms has been preserved, combining the coats of arms "Prus" and "Swan" (probably the coat of arms of the founders of the church). Stained glass windows have been partially preserved.

Currently, the church is closed and abandoned.

The museum room of the Terebovlia Vocational College of Culture and Arts was opened in 1982.

The exposition consists of three chapters that tell about the history of the city of Terebovlia, the founding of the school in 1940, its famous graduates.

Documents, photos, books, dissertations of students are presented.

The castle in Mykulyntsi is known as the only residential medieval castle in Ukraine.

The first wooden fortifications on the hill near the Seret River existed here even in princely times. The stone castle was built in 1550-1555 by the mistress of the Mykulyntsi, Anna Yordan (Yordanova) from the Senyavsky family, the wife of Spytko Yordan, the castellan of Kraków. Later, the Mykulyntsi Castle belonged to the Zborovsky and Konetspolsky magnates.

After being damaged during the Liberation War of 1648-1657, the castle was improved and expanded. In 1672, the fortress was taken by the Turks after a 15-day siege. Then they destroyed the entire male population of Mykulyntsi.

Later, the fortress belonged to the Lyubomyrsky, Mnishek, and Potocki. It was then that it lost its defensive significance, and the palace built next to it began to perform representative functions. In the 19th century, Baron Yan Konopka converted it into a cloth factory.

The building is quadrangular in plan, two of the four corner towers have been preserved. Around the perimeter of the inner yard were built residential and commercial buildings, some of which have also been preserved.

At the beginning of the 20th century, when Mykulyntsi belonged to Countess Yuzefa Rey, her beloved servant Anna settled in the castle. She continued to live there even after the arrival of Soviet power, when the countess died and her son died. Currently, the housekeeper's daughter Stefaniya Baloy remains the owner of the residential premises of the architectural monument.

Mykulyntsi Castle is part of the Ternopil Castles National Reserve, but access to the territory is closed.

The National Liberation OUP-UPA Struggle Museum named after Yakiv Busel in the village of Byshky is a department of the National Liberation Struggle Museum of the Ternopil region.

The museum at the Byshky Gymnasium was opened in 1999 in the building where the headquarters of the OUN-UPA Branch was located in 1943-1945. UPA Corporal Roman Shukhevych, head of the UPA security service Mykola Arsenych, head of combat reference Dmytro Hrytsai and other leaders of the organization worked here.

The museum bears the name of one of the ideologues of the UPA, Yakiv Busel, who died in Byshky during a battle with a unit of the internal troops of the NKVD.

The museum exhibits personal belongings of the rebels, weapons, photographs, documents, models. The rebel hideout has been reconstructed.

The monument "Fighters for the freedom of Ukraine" was installed.

The Museum of the National Liberation Struggle of Ternopil Region was established in 2019 and unites other museums of the region related to the history of liberation struggles in the region.

The exposition reveals the history of Ukraine's struggle for independence, in particular during the Revolution of Dignity and the Russian-Ukrainian war.

The exhibition "People of Freedom", developed by the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, tells about 26 public figures of the last century, thanks to whose struggle it was possible to restore Ukraine's independence.

The department of the Ternopil Region National Liberation Struggle Museum is the National Liberation OUP-UPA Struggle Museum named after Yakiv Busel in the village of Byshky.

The protected tract of Monastyrok is located next to the village of Lisnyky, the western suburb of Berezhany.

The first mention of this area dates back to the 14th century. In the 17th century, there was a large Basilian monastery here. The last service in it was held in 1941. In 1980, the church was burned down, and a recreation area was built on the shore of the pond. At the beginning of the 21st century, a restaurant of the same name was opened on the territory of the Monastyrok tract, but under mysterious circumstances the establishment burned down.

On the initiative of local residents, the reconstruction of the shrine began. A chapel was built on the site of the former church, and the Way of the Cross is being built.

One of the most mysterious sights of the tract is the picturesque Devil's Stone rock, on which a crucifix is carved. Nearby is a sacred spring where you can wash your face with healing water.

The old Polish cemetery is located on a hill at the entrance to the village of Strusiv from the side of the city of Buchach.

Grave monuments borrowed from the city memorial sculpture typical of the 20s and 30s of the 20th century have been preserved in the village cemetery. The figures of saints, angels, maidens and other symbolic characters with simple, rough faces are made of sandstone and concrete, all things considered, by local self-taught craftsmen.

The mountain offers a beautiful view of Strusiv and its surroundings.

The small country palace of the Potocki magnates, who in the 19th century owned the neighboring Berezhany, was built on the site of the Senyavskys' old hunting lodge.

At different times, guests of the estate were Prince Ferents Rakotsi, Hetman Ivan Mazepa, Tsar Peter I.

The current building, rebuilt at the beginning of the 19th century, is located on the territory of an abandoned landscape park.

For a long time, the premises were occupied by a children's sanatorium.

In 2022, the Potocki Palace became a shelter for people affected by the Russian-Ukrainian war.

The palace and park complex in Mykulyntsi is one of the few examples of Empire style palace architecture preserved in Ukraine.

The palace was founded next to the Mykulyntsi Castle by Lyudvika Potoska in the 1760s. From the original building in the Palladian style (early classicism), the original wings have been preserved, connected to the palace by semicircular galleries.

In the middle of the 19th century, Baron Yan Konopka decided to create a balneological resort at the springs of hydrogen sulphide waters in Mykulyntsi. He thoroughly rebuilt the palace, giving it stricter features of late classicism (empire). The park facade of the building is decorated with an eight-pillar portico of the Corinthian order. From here, the landscape park descends steeply to the river, and the ruins of the castle adjoin it to the left. The front part of the palace is highlighted by a risalite with four wooden sculptures of Atlanteans and opens onto a regular parterre.

The last owner of the Mykulyntsi Palace was Countess Yuzefa Rey.

Currently, the Mykulyntsi Regional Physiotherapy Hospital is located here.