Attractions of Lviv region

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.

The Museum of Father Markiyan Shashkevych opened in the village of Derevnia in November 2012 in the premises of the village People's House to mark the 201st anniversary of the writer's birth. It became the fifth museum in the Lviv region dedicated to this outstanding Ukrainian cultural figure.

The author of the museum exposition was the famous Ukrainian artist Orest Skop.

The village of Derevnia was for a long time the family parish of the Krushynsky fathers, from whose family Yuliya Krushynska is the wife of Markiyan Shashkevych. It was in Derevnia that the newlyweds got married in 1839 and lived for some time.

The museum presents household items of the Shashkevychs, books, manuscripts, letters, photographs, icons, paintings. The exposition tells about the Krushynsky family, the marriage of Markiyan Shashkevych, the life of the young family.

One of the museum's halls is dedicated to the ethnography of the region - it exhibits ancient folk items that existed in the village at different times, photographs, towels, carpets, etc.

In the future, the museum of Father Markiyan Shashkevych is planned to be moved to an authentic rectory, which has been preserved in the village of Derevnia and is over two hundred years old.

The Manor Museum of Father Markiyan Shashkevych in the village of Nestanychi was opened in 2011 for the 200th anniversary of the birth of this famous Ukrainian writer, poet, priest, social and cultural figure, head of the "Ruthenian Triad" (Ruska Triytsia) society.

From 1938 to 1941, Markiyan Shashkevych was the parish priest of the village Greek Catholic Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin in the village of Nestanychi. The museum is located in the adjacent presbytery, built in 1913. The project of reconstruction of the building was developed by the famous artist Orest Skop.

The main exposition of the museum is formed from the funds of the Lviv State Historical Archive, the libraries named after Stefanyk and Drahomanov, the Lviv Museum-Reserve "Rusalka Dnistrova". In one of the rooms, things related to Shashkevych's stay in Nestanychi, collected by the villagers, are exhibited.

The greatest pride of the museum is the unique examples of Galician sacral painting - icons of folk masters dating from the end of the 17th - beginning of the 18th centuries.

The memorial estate-museum of the Galician family Fedun opened in the village of Klekotiv in 2011 during a congress of the large Fedun family, which gathered in the family village from all over the world.

The museum-estate is located in a hut built in 1938 by Mikhaylo Fedun, who, together with his younger brother Hrihoriy, was tortured during the first Bolshevik occupation of 1939-1941, and their families were repressed and sent to Siberia. The estate was completely reconstructed by Mikhaylo's sons Vasyl and Ihor - the original interior, furniture and other household items of the peasant Fedun family were restored.

The museum's exposition is decorated with a genealogical tree of the Fedun family. A separate room is dedicated to the founder of the family – Vasyl Fedun (father of Mykhaylo and Hrihoriy), an active public figure of the Brody region, an associate of the educational and cooperative movement. In the same room there are stands telling about the life of the family of Mykhaylo Fedun, who was shot by the Bolsheviks.

The kitchen recreates the interior of a peasant kitchen with household items from the first half of the 20th century. In the room of Mykhaylo and Teodoziya Fedun, the original interior is recreated and stands are placed that reveal the thorny path of the children and grandchildren of Vasyl and Anna Fedun (the founders) after World War II.

The Fedun family estate-museum is a branch of the Brody Historical and Local Lore Museum.