Attractions of Ivano-Frankivsk region

The Reform Synagogue Tempel was built in Ivano-Frankivsk on the initiative of members of the "Public Progress" society.

The first stone was laid in 1895, the construction lasted four years under the direction of the architect Vilhelm Shtyasny. The building is made in the Moorish style with elements of the Renaissance. At first, there were four towers decorated with stars of David at the corners.

During the two world wars, the building was damaged, but was restored. In the 1990s, part of the premises was returned to the city's Jewish community.

Nearby, in 2003, a monument was erected at the place of execution of 27 Ukrainian patriots, members of the OUN, shot by the Germans in 1943.

Tarasa Shevchenko Park of Culture and Recreation in Ivano-Frankivsk was opened in 1946 on the territory of Baron Romashkan's estate.

Around the estate, on an area of 22 hectares, there was a forest in which the Potocki once liked to hunt. At the end of the 19th century, the territory began to be cultivated, alleys were laid, and later a number of cascading ponds were dug. During Soviet times, the territory was redeveloped several times. A small bust of Shevchenko was installed here, which is still the only monument to Kobzar in Ivano-Frankivsk.

Two ponds have been preserved. On one of them, called "Swan Lake", an island has been created with a house for swans and ducks (local residents come to feed them on weekends).

There is also an amusement park here.

In 2010, the "Stone of Love" brought from Cana, a small town in Galilee, where Jesus blessed the newlyweds, was installed on the day of the city. According to legend, this place is considered lucky for lovers: here they make dates, declare their love and take pictures on their wedding day.

The Tasting Hall "Cheese Shop in the Attic" ("Syrna Lavka Na Horyshchi") opened in 2020 in the center of Verkhovyna, next to the city market. The shop offers tastings of craft products from its own polonyna farm for groups of up to 45 people.

Local certified Hutsul cow bryndza is produced according to traditional technology from whole milk of cows that graze on mountain meadows at an altitude of more than 700 meters above sea level.

During an excursion to polonyna, you can get acquainted with the production process of polonyna cheeses and taste them surrounded by mountain landscapes. In the city tasting room, you can also taste the finished products of the polonyna cheese dairy: cow bryndza, sheep bryndzya, vurda, ordinary and smoked budz. In addition, you can order wine, Carpathian tea, guslenka and kulesha. In addition to cheeses, the store offers dried and pickled mushrooms, honey and honey products, and teas made from Carpathian herbs.

Tasting hall "Cheese Shop in the Attic" is a member of the Association of Carpathian Head Cheesemongers and participates in the Cultural and touristic route "Hutsul Cheese Plays".

The tasting room "Bryndza Mine" ("Kopalnia Bryndzy") in Verkhovyna offers tastings of traditional polonyna cheese products and analogs of European cheeses of our own production.

Cheeses are made according to traditional technology on the "Krynta" mountain meadow, where cows graze in the season and a mountain cheese dairy works. In the off-season, a home mini-farm operates.

At the tastings, in particular, two Ukrainian cheeses with a registered geographical indication are presented: Hutsul sheep bryndzya and Hutsul cow bryndza. You can also taste Vurda (light cheese made from whey), smoked Budz (cheese made from whole milk), hard cheeses Caciotta and Chornohora aged for 2 months. The tasting set additionally includes polonyna fat, honey, bread, wine, moonshine.

The tasting room "Bryndza Mine" is an object of the Cultural and touristic route "Hutsul Cheese Plays".

The Tatariv Museum of History and Antiquities opened in 2020 at the Tatariv Center of Culture, Leisure, Youth and Sports.

The exposition in two rooms tells about the ancient history of the village and the unique culture of its inhabitants. A lot of rarities are presented, including authentic vyshyvankas (embroidered shirts), traditional clothes and shoes, old tools of rural work, retro photos with views of the village.

A separate exposition is devoted to the participation of Tatariv residents in the Revolution of Dignity and the Russian-Ukrainian war.

Tourist complex "Bukovel" is the largest and most popular ski resort in Ukraine. Every year, he is traditionally one of the first to open the ski season.

The complex is located at an altitude of 860-890 meters above sea level, surrounded by five mountains - Dovha (1372 meters), Chorna Kleva (1246 meters), Bulchinyokha (1455 meters), Babyn Pohar (1180 meters) and Bukovel (1127 meters). which gave its name to the entire resort.

Built on the model of European ski resorts - with modern hotels, SPA-complexes, restaurants. Today, it has at its disposal 55 kilometers of tracks of all difficulty levels (the longest track is 2106 meters), equipped with 16 lifts (15 chairlifts and 1 cable lift). Thanks to effective work on the preparation of tracks (snow guns, snow plows), a good snow cover is maintained here from December to the end of April. Several tracks are equipped with stationary lighting. There are ski and snowboard schools.

For summer recreation, there is an artificial lake with sunbeds along the shore, one of the ski lifts works in the mode of a cable car to the observation deck with the "Panorama bar", there is a pump of "Bukovelska" mineral water (an analogue of "Naftusya"), paved cycling and walking routes.

The constructivist building of the town hall on Rynok Square is the most famous symbol of Ivano-Frankivsk. At the time of construction in 1932, it was the tallest building in the city (49.5 m).

The first wooden town hall on this site was built shortly after the founding of the city in the XVII century, but then it was repeatedly rebuilt. The most interesting from an architectural point of view was the town hall of Austrian times, which existed in 1871-1915.

In its current form, the town hall was built in the interwar period. Monolithic reinforced concrete walls could not be blown up by the German occupiers before the retreat in 1944.

In April 1990, the national Ukrainian flag was raised for the first time over the building of Ivano-Frankivsk Town Hall.

The building houses several exhibits of the Museum of Local Lore: nature, history, folk art, archeology. There are rich collections of weapons and books, as well as antique furniture. In total – 120 thousand subjects. An interesting exhibit is a model of the old Stanislaviv of the Potocki era.

Branches of the Ivano-Frankivsk Museum of Local Lore are the Prykarpattya Literary Museum in Ivano-Frankivsk, the Hutsulshchyna Historical and Local Lore Museum in Verkhovyna, the Ivan Franko Literary Memorial Museum in Kryvorivnia, the Mykhaylo Hrushevsky Historical and Local Lore Museum Museum in Kryvorivnia, and the Khata-Grazhda Museum in Kryvorivnia, the Les Martovych Literary Memorial Museum in Torhovytsia, the  Oleksa Dovbush Historical and Local Lore Museum in Pechenizhyn.

Numismatist meetings are held in the lobby every Sunday.

The wooden Church of the Transfer of the Relics of Saint Nicholas in Isakov is an architectural landmark of local importance.

Restoration was carried out in 1927.

The temple belongs to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

The wooden Orthodox Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord was built in 1938 in the center of the village of Novytsia, a hamlet of Staryi Uhryniv, with donations from parishioners.

The Transfiguration Church in Novytsia was the largest wooden church in Galicia. In Ukraine, it was inferior in size only to the Trinity Cathedral in the Samar city.

On the night of June 11, 2018, the temple burned down as a result of a fire. Currently, the church is being rebuilt.

The Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Christ in Kolomyia is the largest Greek-Catholic church in Western Ukraine.

Construction was started in 1998 under the direction of architect Viktor Mytsay. The consecration took place in 2012.

The temple is two-story, 50 meters high. 2,000 believers can be accommodated on the first floor, 3,000 on the second floor. Energy-saving technologies are used for heating the temple, in particular, a capillary floor heating system. The cathedral is built of brick, the domes of the cathedral are made of copper, the funds for which were donated by Pope John Paul II during his visit to Ukraine.

Today, the Transfiguration Cathedral is the main Greek Catholic church in Kolomyia. A 60-meter bell tower is planned to be built next to the cathedral.

The Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord in the village of Spas was built in 1811 at the expense of the parishioners. Before that, there was only a chapel in the village, built after the Tatars burned down the Ispas Monastery in the 17th century.

The church is wooden, five-bay, cruciform in plan. The iconostasis was ordered by Italian masters.

The Church of the Transfiguration has been restored several times, as a result of which it is now covered not with authentic wooden shingles, but with sheet metal.

Aquapark "Tsunami" in Ivano-Frankivsk is considered one of the largest in Ukraine.

Its area is 6 thousand square meters. It can accommodate up to 500 people at a time.

In total, there are 6 swimming pools and 12 slides in the "Tsunami" water park, as well as a jacuzzi, solarium, sauna, massage room, fitness center. One of the pools with a depth of 12.5 meters is intended for diving. From the central indoor pool, you can swim outside to a 30-meter, four-lane, heated, year-round outdoor pool.

In addition to the water park, the Tsunami sports and entertainment complex also includes an ice arena, a restaurant, and a hotel.

The Tysmenytsia City History Museum named after Stepan Havrylyuk is housed in a historic two-story building from 1902 near the city center.

The first hall presents archaeological findings from the Tysmenytsia hillfort and a model of the old Tysmenytsia. The second hall is the fur industry, to which the city owes its fame. Here you can see fur products of different eras, tools. The third hall is used for temporary exhibitions.

The Ukrainian Museum of Sacred Art opened in November 2019 on the territory of the Baron SPA Hotel in the center of the Yaremche resort. The museum presents a unique collection of religious works of the 17th-21st centuries.

The basis of the exposition are rare works of church art, as well as modern icon painting samples, reproduced from the originals. Most of the icons in the museum's exposition repeated the tragic fate of the Ukrainian church and culture. The total ban and destruction of monuments left deep wounds on the canvases themselves, most of which were saved by patron Ivan Havron and restoration artist, head of the restoration department of the Ivano-Frankivsk Museum of Local History Valeriy Tverdokhlib, after undergoing conservation and restoration.

The collection of the Ukrainian Museum of Sacred Art includes more than 60 works. The pearls of the collection are the icons of the 18th century "Saint Luke" and "Descent into Hell".

The Museum of Ukrainians Deportations in the 20th Century was founded in 2019 in the urban-type village of Broshniv-Osada. It is located in the oldest preserved building of the town, built in 1927 for the administration of the forestry enterprise of Yozef Hlezinher.

An exposition is currently being formed, which will tell about the life of people during their stay in the Broshniv-Osada detention center. A special exhibit is a four-axle wooden carriage of a freight train in which the Soviet authorities transported people to Siberia.

The museum is preparing for opening.