Attractions of Ternopil district

The Museum of Sacred Art and Church History opened in 2007 in the Berezhany Town Hall on Rynok Square.

The exhibition presents more than 2,300 exhibits, including works of icon painting and sculpture, gold sewing and minting. The museum tells about the thorny path of religion in the Galician lands with periods of prosperity, decades of oblivion and revival in the late twentieth century. In particular, 12 old prints are presented: "Gospel" of the XVII century, "Minea", "Irmologion" and others.

The museum functions as a subdivision of the State Historical and Architectural Reserve in the city of Berezhany. In addition, the Berezhany Museum of Local Lore, the Berezhany Books Museum, and the Bohdan Lepky Museum are located in the premises of the Berezhany City Hall.

The Church of Saint Anna in Skalat was restored in 2002 on the site of the old Catholic church of the 19th century, which was blown up in the middle of the 20th century.

The church is made in the Neo-Gothic style.

It is located next to Skalat Castle.

The Church of Saint Anthony in Zaliztsi was built in the 15th century.

It was rebuilt and replanned many times. The shape of the building combines Gothic and Renaissance. The church was thoroughly rebuilt in the Baroque style in 1730 by Yuzef Potocki, when the castle in Zaliztsi came into his possession after the Vyshnevetsky.

Remains of window decorations and wall decorations remind of the former beauty of the temple.

In the crypt lie the remains of the princes of the great Ukrainian Vyshnevetsky family.

The Catholic Church of Saint Anthony' and Our Lady of the Holy Rosary in Strusiv was built in 1894 at the expense of Yuzef Holukhovsky, the owner of Strusiv at that time.

In 1902, this temple was consecrated under the title of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary. Construction was conducted under the leadership of Jan Lesyk and was completed in 1903. In 1945-1990, the shrine was used as a granary.

A beautiful neo-Gothic building stretches to the sky with a high tower, which is crowned with a cross. There are two smaller towers on its sides. On both sides of the main entrance to the church there is a beautiful window in the shape of a rose. Gothic windows, tall and beautiful, decorate the building. In the highest tower of the temple there are a large and a small bell.

The ornate facade of the church is decorated with pointed conical tops rising with thin crosses, as well as a three-tiered tower in which the central entrance to the church is located in the form of an arch. Today, the church is in good condition and is an active temple.

The Church of Saint Dimitry Myrotochyvy is located in the central part of Ostrivets village. The walls of the temple are made of local red sandstone.

The temple was built at the end of the 19th century and is a former Roman Catholic church (Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary), which was partially destroyed during the Soviet regime. In the summer of 2009, on the initiative of the famous poet Roman Lubkivskyi, a native of the village of Ostrivets, Metropolitan Vasiliy blessed the restoration of the church for the needs of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church community. The temple was successfully restored.

Mary's and Altar Wives, the brotherhood of the Mother of God of Perpetual Help operate at the parish.

A memorial plaque was installed in honor of the pastor of the local Debninsky parish (1887-1836).

The defense church of Saint Nicholas is one of the oldest buildings in Terebovlia.

Built on the border of the 16th and 17th centuries. It was reconstructed in 1734, at the same time a bell tower was built.

The fact that the Saint Nicholas Church performed the functions of a defensive structure is reminiscent of a closed battle line with loopholes.

The Church of Saint Nicholas of the Basilian Monastery in Strusiv was built in the 17th century over an earlier cave temple.

In the 16th century, the castle of the Strusiv nobles stood on this well-protected place on the mountain slope in the Chortova Debrya tract. In the 19th century, the remains of the castle were dismantled, but the ramparts can still be traced. Next to the castle, the Basilian fathers founded a cave monastery in the 16th century, carving a cave temple with an altar in the rock. There were cave cells for monks.

Built in 1770, the Basilian Church of Saint Nicholas was transformed into the Latin Church of Saint Stanislaus in 1788, then it was abandoned for a long time. Currently restored, it belongs to the Greek-Catholic community of Strusiv

From here you can enjoy a wonderful panorama of the village with its architectural landmarks: the neo-Gothic church of Saint Anthony (1903) and the modern Greek Catholic church.

The Greek Catholic Church of Saint Nicholas in Strusiv was built in 1930 on the site of an old wooden church.

A bell tower in the form of a rotunda was built nearby.

An architectural monument of local importance.

"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.

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 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.

Sorotsky Source on the western outskirts of the village of Sorotske is a hydrological monument of nature.

According to legend, the Mother of God appeared here in 1949. Back then, a small chapel was built near the spring. And in 2011, the consecration of the new chapel of the Mother of God took place.

The remains of the oldest defensive structure of Zbarazh are located on the southwestern outskirts of the city, on the banks of the Hnizna River.

On the opposite bank, on Babina Hill, there was an ancient Rus settlement of the 9th-12th centuries. The stone fortification was built on the site of the wooden fortress by the Siversky prince Dmytro Korybut. The new owners became the princes of Nesvytsky, who were called Zbarazky after that. In 1477, the castle was destroyed by the Mongols, but was soon restored, and in the 16th century it withstood 4 Tatar sieges. Only the fifth siege in 1598 was fatal for the castle - the fortress was completely destroyed and was never rebuilt, and the princely residence was moved to a place in Zbarazh.

Fragments of foundations have been preserved, a memorial sign has been installed.

A monument to the head of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), the leader of Ukrainian nationalists, Stepan Bandera, was erected in Ternopil in 2008 to mark the 100th anniversary of his birth.

It is located in Tarasa Shevchenko Park, opposite the building of the Ternopil Regional State Administration.

The author of the monument to Stepan Bandera in Ternopil is the Ternopil sculptor Roman Vilhushynsky.