Attractions of Lviv region

Drohobych Salt Plant is a museum enterprise that has been operating continuously since the 13th century to the present day. It is considered one of the oldest continuously operating industrial enterprises in the world and the oldest in Ukraine.

The saltworks in Drohobych were first mentioned in 1250. Since then, it has been working continuously in the same place - near the lakes of salt oil, from which salt is extracted by evaporation. It was around this enterprise that the city of Drohobych developed, becoming an important industrial and trade center of Galicia.

The Drohobych Salt Plant reached their peak during the Austrian era. The technical base was updated in Soviet times, salt production reached 10-11 thousand tons per year, but now the technology has returned to the artisanal level. Today, this is the only enterprise in Europe where salt is made using the same method as it was used thousands of years ago - by boiling it from natural oil. Drohobych Salt Plant produces approximately 700 kilograms of salt every day.

Until recently, the plant was leased by CJSC "Drohobych-Halka", but in 2013 the enterprise was returned to state ownership. It is planned to build a new shop and create a museum on the basis of old industrial premises.

Excursions are conducted.

The Drohobych Tower is the oldest building of the early medieval period preserved in Drohobych.

Powerful stone and wooden defensive structures were built in the 13th century, during the times of the Galicia-Volyn principality.

In the 16th century, the monumental church of Saint Bartholomew was built on the territory of the castle, and the tower was used as its bell tower. In the 19th century, the rest of the city fortifications were dismantled, defensive ditches were filled in, and a third tier with arched windows was built above the bell tower.

In front of the tower is a monument to the medieval scientist Yuriy Drohobych, who was the rector of the University of Bologna and the teacher of Nicolaus Copernicus.

The historical department, the nature department and the administration of the "Drohobychchyna" museum are located in the former building of the Drohobych County Council (1894).

The exposition of the museum, opened in 1940, was based on the collections of Count Lyantskoronsky, the Khyriv Jesuit School, as well as part of the collection of the Sambir Museum. In particular, the oldest earthenware on the territory of Prykarpattya, a bronze treasure of the Early Iron Age, a certificate of confirmation of Drohobych's Magdeburg right, scales for weighing salt, a public cash register of the 16th century, a collection of coins of the 14th-19th centuries, and others are presented.

To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the UPA, a model diorama "Insurgent Hideout" was opened, which was made according to the description of the UPA commander Stepan Stebelskyi.

A branch of the "Drogobychchyna" museum is the historical-memorial complex "Prison on Stryiska" in the former building of the County Court.

The dungeon of the Garrison Holy Apostles Peter and Paul Church is a complex of premises under one of the largest churches in Lviv, the history of which begins in the 17th century. Remains of houses of the 14th-15th centuries, which were located on the site of the temple before its construction, have been preserved here.

Until the end of the 18th century, the dungeons were used as crypts for the burial of priests and donors to the temple. Hetman Stanislav-Jan Yablonovskyi, the defender of Lviv from the Tatars and the hero of the Battle of Vienna in 1683, found his resting place here.

Currently, 10 halls are available for inspection. The exhibition tells about the history of the Garrison Church and the development of Lviv from the 14th to the 18th centuries. In particular, a layout of Lviv during princely times is presented. Restoration work and design of new expositions are ongoing.

Every Saturday at 16:00 a comprehensive tour of the dungeons and the upper part of the Garrison Temple is held. Individual tours of the temple are available by prior arrangement.

Art Center "Dzyga" in Lviv is the residence of the creative association "Dzyga" - an organization of artists, public figures and entrepreneurs. Active since 1993.

The gallery presents modern art. Jazz and blues concerts are held every night in the club.

At the gallery, there is a cafe "Pid klepsydroyu" - a meeting place of Lviv bohemians with a democratic and creative atmosphere.

Fromages "Elise", also known as the Chevreut Farm, is located in Dmytrovychi, on the outskirts of Sudova Vyshnia.

The farm is built according to European standards of traditional farming. The farm is open for green tourism and offers visitors high-quality farm products produced according to traditional French technology.

The main products are goat cheeses based on the milk of goats grown on the farm, as well as ecologically clean meat (goat, beef) and meat products.

Excursions are held by prior arrangement.

The wooden Church of the Epiphany in Oriavchyk was built in 1865.

An expressive example of Boyko architecture of the 19th century.

The parish belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The school ethnographic museum of Stilsko village is located in the premises of the local educational complex. Its exposition includes 460 original exhibits.

In particular, maps and drawings of the Stilsko settlement, photos from archaeological excavations are presented. The interior of a peasant's house of the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century is reproduced.

The ethnographic collection includes embroidery, pottery, tools, musical instruments, etc.

The Ethnographic Museum "Ukrainian Khutir" was opened in 2024 on the territory of the eco-landscape park "Cossack Sloboda Rakovets", located in the village of Volia Yakubova in Drohobych region.

The museum complex recreates an authentic Ukrainian yard of the 18th-19th centuries: a restored Ukrainian house with a warm stove, a barn with household goods, a barn with domestic animals. In the yard there is a working Carpathian forge, a real cart, a well with a crane and a covered shelter for recreation.

The exhibition is interactive. Here you can learn to forge iron, try baking bread or smoke ribs in a painted oven. Excursions are held.

The Museum of Ethnography and Artistic Crafts of the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine occupies a neo-Renaissance building on the main street of Lviv - Svobody Avenue.

At the base of the dome of the museum building is an allegorical sculptural group symbolizing the economic prosperity of Galicia, which is called the only sitting Statue of Liberty in the world.

The exposition of the Museum of Ethnography and Arts and Crafts presents a rich collection of ceramics, porcelain and earthenware, art glass products. Collection of watches of the XVI-XX centuries. has about 350 copies.

The People's Exemplary Ethnology Museum in Byshiv, Lviv Region, was founded in 1991 at the Byshiv Secondary School. It was created on the initiative of the former director of the school, a researcher of historical and cultural monuments, Volodymyr Koval.

The exposition in five halls tells about the history of Byshiv and neighboring villages, introduces the culture and crafts of the region. Museum funds contain more than 3,000 exhibits.

In the first hall, ancient icons of the 19th and 20th centuries are exhibited. The historical exposition contains documents and old maps of the villages of Byshiv, Zabava, Ordiv and Torky, a collection of old clocks and a large school bell. The tools of weavers, carpenters, coopers, etc. tell about the ancient crafts of the Galician peasantry. A unique attraction is a wooden beehive-log from the 17th century.

In the "Galician Peasant's House" hall, the interior of a donkey is recreated with a stove, ancient pots and plates, and a large wooden chest. The exhibition "From Grandmother's Chest" presents a collection of embroidered women's shirts and suits, spare parts, skirts, towels, shawls.

In the "Weaving shop" exhibition, visitors are offered master classes on working looms.

The Roman Catholic Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross and Saint Joseph the Betrothed was built according to the project of the engineer Karol Romanus as a temple-tomb of the Rzevuskyi family (according to one version, the author of the project was Prince Vaclav Rzevuskyi himself).

Made in the Baroque style in the form of a rotunda, to which a 300-meter linden alley leads from the Pidhirtsi Castle. Figures of the Mother of God and Saint Joseph on columns are installed in front of the church. The main facade is decorated with a portico of 14 columns of the Corinthian order, on the attic of which 8 sculptures of saints by Fessinger and Leblas were installed (one of them was destroyed during the Second World War).

The interior of the Exaltation of Holy Cross Church has preserved frescoes by Lukash Smuhlevych and several Galician masters.

Since 1861, the temple was a parish church, in 1945 it was closed by the Soviet authorities. Currently, the church is under restoration, but you can get inside during services held by the Greek Catholic parish of the Church of the Blessed Mykola Charnetskyi and the New Martyrs of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

The wooden three-log church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Drohobych is considered one of the best buildings in the style of Galician folk architecture.

The temple was founded in the 16th century, but as a result of the reconstruction in 1661, it lost its original appearance.

Monumental tempera painting of the 17th century and unique examples of icon painting of the 15th-18th centuries have been preserved.

The Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross is located in the suburb of Drohobych Zvarychy, on the territory of the fire department. Nearby is a wooden bell tower of the 17th century.

The Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross is the main Catholic church of the town, which existed already during the time of Vladyslav Yahaylo. In his image, the architectural techniques of various stylistic directions - Gothic, Baroque and modern - were originally combined.

Probably, the first wooden Exaltation Church was laid in 1372 by the Polish governor Vladyslav Opolchyk. In its current form, the traditional Gothic church was rebuilt in 1419. In the 16th century, reconstruction was carried out and a belfry with six bells was built, the largest of which was consecrated in 1753.

During the last reconstruction, carried out in the 1930s of the 20th century by the architect Bronislav Viktor, the western, largest part of the church was completed. The facade was decorated with sculptures of the Mother of God, the apostles Peter and Paul.

The interiors were completely destroyed during the Soviet rule.

Today, the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross is active again.

The Roman Catholic Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross was built in 1780-1790 on the site of the church of the Discalced Carmelites, who came to Novyi Myliatyn in 1745 from Lviv and brought here the miraculous image of Jesus Christ from the village of Novyi Stav, which was kept in the Sobeshansky chapel.

In 1788, the Austrian government liquidated the monastery, and its premises came under the care of parish priests. The new Exaltation Church was built at the expense of Frantsisheka Hlohovsky according to the project of the architect Frantsysk Kulchytsky.

The architecture of the facade combined baroque features with elements of classicism. The facade is decorated with a decorative balcony, under which the inscription "De Tuis Donis..." is partially preserved.

Fragments of wooden sculpture and carvings of the main altar have been preserved in the interior. The walls are decorated with decorative paintings of the 19th century.

There was also an organ in the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, which during Soviet times was dismantled and taken to the Cathedral of Saint George in Lviv, where it remains to this day.