Attractions of Ivano-Frankivsk district

The healing spring on the slope of Krylos Hill near the Assumption Cathedral is called the Princely Well in Krylos.

Since ancient times, it served as a source of drinking water for the inhabitants of ancient Halych. According to legend, the spring arose from the blow of the prince's sword during a long siege, providing drink to the desperate defenders of the city.

For the 1100th anniversary of ancient Halych, a four-meter rotunda with a copper dome and a gilded cross was installed above the spring. There is also an observation deck.

The wooden church of Saint Basil the Great in the village of Cherche is one of the oldest churches of the Boykiv type.

Local residents call it the church of Saint Paraskeva Pyatnytsia.

The temple was built in the 16th century and moved to its current location (an old cemetery on the outskirts of the village) in 1733. The early type three-log church. The roof of the log cabins is tented, with three folds above the central and one above the side domes.

Basil's Church in Cherche is characterized by exquisite proportions. In 1970, restoration was carried out - the authentic central dome was returned to the temple.

The monumental building of the Roman Catholic Church of Saint Nicholas and Anna was built in the very center of Rohatyn in the 15th century on the site of a wooden temple.

It combines Gothic and Renaissance features in its architectural form. The loopholes on the 42-meter-high belfry testify to the defensive nature of the structure - it repeatedly played the role of a fortress tower during the attacks of the Turks and Tatars in the 17th century. A women's monastery and a hospital functioned at the church.

The building was damaged during the Second World War, in the 1970s it was converted into a furniture warehouse, then a local history museum. During the years of independence, the church was returned to the Catholic community, restored and consecrated as the Church of Saint Nicholas and Anna.

A monument to the legendary Roksolana has been erected on the Rynok Square in front of the church.

The defense church of Saint Nicholas in Chesnyky (according to other sources - Ascension Church) is a unique stone cult building, built according to the traditions of Ukrainian wooden architecture.

Saint Nicholas Church was built in the 14th century (some researchers assume that in the 12th-13th centuries). It also served as a fortress in which local residents defended themselves from the Tatars.

The church is three-part, with a rectangular nave, framed on two sides by a square nave and a faceted pentagonal apse. Each of the three volumes of the temple is covered by a hemispherical dome hidden under a wooden roof - shingles. In the 19th century, the northern and southern facades were strengthened with powerful buttresses.

The Church of Saint Nicholas in Chesnyky is an architectural monument of national importance. Its analogue is found only in the village of Rosokhy, Lviv region.

The Church of Saint Panteleimon is the only surviving building of Ancient Halych from the princely era.

The construction of the temple on the northeastern outskirts of the city was completed in 1194. It was founded by Galicia-Volyn bishop Roman Mstyslavych, naming it in honor of his grandfather, Prince Izyaslav of Kyiv, whose Christian name was Panteleimon.

In the 14th century, the church was transformed into the church of Saint Stanislaus, and in the 16th century, reconstruction was carried out and a Franciscan monastery with a bell tower, defensive ramparts and monastic premises was opened.

After the First World War, the Panteleimon Church was abandoned for a long time, restored in 1998, consecrated by Greek Catholics.

Ancient graffiti have been preserved on the walls, in particular the famous blossoming cross, which became the emblem of the National Reserve "Ancient Halych" and the coat of arms of the modern city.

A fragment of a defensive wall with a bastion is all that remains of the ancient city fortifications of the Stanislaviv Fortress in modern Ivano-Frankivsk.

The fortress was founded in 1662 by the Kyiv voivode Andriy Potocki according to the project of Fransua Korassini. The first fortifications were wooden, but in 1672 they helped the city withstand the Turkish siege. In 1679-1682, the Stanislaviv fortress was significantly strengthened under the guidance of the architect Sharl Benua. The city was surrounded on all sides by defensive moats, ramparts with eight bastions and stone fortress walls up to 10 meters high. The fortifications were almost completely dismantled in the 19th century at the request of the Austrian authorities.

Currently, the "Bastion" gallery is located in the casemates of the restored bastion - a shopping and entertainment complex with a terrace for walks, souvenir shops, boutiques, a cafe and a restaurant. There is a permanent exhibition of sculptures, paintings and photographs.

Panske Brewery was opened in Ivano-Frankivsk in 2011.

Two boilers of 500 liters have been installed. Unpasteurized beer of four varieties is produced: Premium, Pils, Hefe-Weissbier, Dunkel. The product is bottled in glass bottles and kegs.

By prior agreement, it is possible to conduct tours of the brewery, familiarize yourself with the technological process and taste beer in the branded pub "Panske" at the brewery.

The private museum of family professions was created in Ivano-Frankivsk in 2005 by journalist Roman Fabryka.

The exposition tells about 150 different professions that the collector's family has been engaged in over the past 200 years. Among them were beekeepers, architects, blacksmiths, doctors, builders, geologists, miners, musicians, agronomists, zootechnicians, teachers, gardeners and others.

A variety of professional tools, devices, mechanisms and devices are presented - from a plow to a computer.

In a small house in the center of Halych, a museum of the history and culture of the Karaite people - a small ethnic group whose origins are the subject of long-standing scientific disputes - has been opened.

Probably, a small group of Karaites moved to Halych from the Crimea in the 13th century. Reliable information about the Karaite colony in Halych dates back to the 16th century.

The exposition of the museum acquaints visitors with the religious and cultural traditions of the Karaites, the social and everyday life of the Karaite community of Halych.

The only active mud (clay-bituminous) volcano in the Carpathians is located on the outskirts of the village of Starunia.

It was formed in 1977 on the site of the old ozocreite industry after the earthquake in Romania. Initially, it had 4 nozzles with a diameter of 10-50 centimeters and a cone height of about 3 meters. Now there is a large flat patch of dirt, with 8 craters and 12 irregular microcraters. Gases, oil and water of different mineralization are emitted from them with different frequency and intensity.

The access road to the volcano is covered with large gravel.

The territory behind the Potocki Palace in Ivano-Frankivsk is known as the "Hetman's Ramparts".

It was part of the city fortifications - the Stanislav fortress. In order for the castle of the owners of the city to be higher than other city fortifications, artificial ramparts with two bastions were built. Walls were built on the embankments, which were demolished at the beginning of the 19th century, and in 1876, the "Hetman's Ramparts" square was built on this site.

Today it is a small park in which the Ascension monument is installed, the central element of which is a sculpture of Jesus Christ.

The manor of the Count family of Reys in Pryozerne (in the past - the village of Psari) was created in the 18th-19th centuries.

The Reys were descendants of the ancient Potocki family. The initial palace complex (classical, with a colonnade and a portico) arose in Psari in the second half of the 18th century. In 1880, the old palace was dismantled, and Countess Vilhelmina Rey began to build a new palace. The manor was designed by the well-known Lviv architect Yulian Zakharevych. The estate was surrounded by a landscape park with plane trees with an area of about 8 hectares.

The last owner of the estate was Lyudvik Rey. With the beginning of the Second World War, the count left for France, and his estate fell into the hands of the collective farm. During the Soviet period, it was used for economic purposes. Later - as a psychiatric hospital. In 1955, students of the Rohatyn zoo-veterinary complex settled in the palace. During the time of independent Ukraine, a nunnery operated here, and later the manor was transferred to the UOC of the Kyiv Patriarchate.

Currently, the Reys manor is in a deplorable state, although the Ukrainian-Polish "Psari" fund, headed by Martin Ryy, the grandson of the last owner, has already taken an interest in it.

The "Art na Mur" Gallery of Contemporary Art opened in 2012 in the Bastion Fortress Gallery complex on the territory of the Stanislaviv Fortress in the historical center of Ivano-Frankivsk.

The gallery hosts exhibitions of works of art by artists from Ivano-Frankivsk and other cities of Ukraine, including classical painting and avant-garde.

The institution offers organization and holding of exhibitions, sale of paintings.

The picturesque waterfall "Girl's Tears" in Ivano-Frankivsk region is located on the right bank of the Dniester between the villages of Isakiv and Monastyrok.

Many small streams flow from the young travertine overgrown with mint and moss, forming a miniature waterfall.

You can also see picturesque rock outcrops, one of which resembles the profile of a human face with an open mouth. Among the rocks is the hermit's grotto, in which, according to legend, a monk in seclusion redeemed himself for killing his brother.

The monument to Adam Mitskevych in Ivano-Frankivsk is one of two monuments to the outstanding Polish poet erected in Ukraine for the centenary of his birth (the other is in Lviv).

Initially, the figure was carved from pink marble and was 2.3 meters high. The words in Polish were engraved on the pedestal: "To Adam Mitskevych in the century since his birthday - citizens of the city of Stanislaviv. 1898."

During the First World War, the monument was damaged. In 1930, a new figure was installed, this time cast in bronze. The Polish board was replaced with a new one: "Adam Mitskevych, 1798-1855". In this form, the monument has been preserved to this day.