Attractions of Vinnytsia region

The Church of Saint John Nepomuk was founded by the owner of Makhnivka, Protaziy Potocki, in 1794, when the Bernardine church, which had been damaged during the War of Independence and had existed since the 17th century, finally became unusable.

In its current form, the church was rebuilt in 1840, reconstructed in 1905.

During the Soviet rule, the church was closed, the premises were rebuilt and adapted for economic needs.

In 1992, the church of Saint John Nepomuk was returned to the Catholic community and rededicated.

The Church of Saint Joseph the Betrothed in Chechelnyk was founded in 1751 by Stanisłav Lubomyrskyi, the voivode of Krakow and Kyiv.

In 1786, a stone one was built on the site of the burnt wooden temple, which has survived to this day.

The church contains a miraculous copy of the icon of the Czestochowa Mother of God by an unknown artist.

During the Soviet rule, the church was closed, the bell tower was destroyed (now there are other buildings in its place). The miraculous image was hidden by believers, but it was damaged due to improper storage. In 1991, the Franciscan Fathers Maksymilyan Zhydovskyi and Yan Duklyan Pavlyuk took the canvas to Poland, where it was restored and consecrated by Pope John Paul II, after which the icon returned to Chechelnyk.

Currently, Saint Joseph's Church is being restored by the efforts of Franciscan monks and Albertine sisters. The priest's house has also been preserved, but is in a state of disrepair.

In 2015, the church was declared a diocesan sanctuary of the Mother of God of Chechelnytska.

The Church of Saint Joseph was built in Hnivan in 1906 at the expense of landowners Yan Baranovskyi, Karolina Yaroshynska and other Catholic parishioners.

The temple is made in neo-gothic style. Inside, it is decorated with biblical scenes carved from wood. Stained glass windows and chandeliers in the form of large candlesticks create an atmosphere of coziness and peace. Near the altar on the right side is a sculpture of Saint Joseph with the Baby, on the left side - an icon of the Mother of God. In the depth of the building there is an altar with the crucifixion of Jesus.

A grotto of the Virgin Mary was built in the central courtyard.

In Soviet times, the temple was used as a production facility. In 1992, the church of Saint Joseph was returned to the Catholic parish of Hnivani, and restoration was carried out.

The Church of Mary the Snowy in Lityn was built in 1856 on the site of the old wooden church of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, known since 1748.

During Soviet times, the temple was closed, the premises were used as a cultural center.

Today, the Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary has been returned to the Catholic community of Lityn, and its two lost towers have been restored.

Saint Nicholas Church in Yampil was built in 1770 as a Catholic chapel with a separate bell tower.

In 1862, an octagon and a dome were built, a stone belfry was added from the west, and an iron roof was made.

Currently, the Church of Saint Nicholas belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate. The main shrine is the icon of Hennadiy Yampilskyi.

Saint Nicholas Church in Kotiuzhany was built relatively recently, but its bell tower is of particular interest, as it dates back to 1701. This is the only part of the original temple that has survived.

The wooden Saint Nicholas Church in Lozova was built in 1752.

According to legend, the temple was transported to Lozova from nearby Sharhorod. The church is three-timbered, three-headed. The interior was rebuilt in 1796.

To the east of the Saint Nicholas Church is a wooden, square, three-tier bell tower. Both buildings, surrounded by a low wooden and partially stone fence, form an ensemble of landmarks of the Podillya school of folk architecture.

The Regimental Church of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker was built in 1904 for the 9th and 10th Rifle Regiments of the 3rd Rifle Brigade quartered in Zhmerynka.

The military temple was built according to the typical project of the architect Fedir Verzhbytskyi. In total, more than 60 such churches were built in the Russian Empire.

During Soviet times, the Saint Nicolas Church, located on the territory of the military unit, was deprived of domes and a bell tower. In 2005, a new iconostasis was installed in the newly opened and restored church at the expense of local patrons.

The Church of Saint Paraskeva of Serbia in Mohyliv-Podilskyi is a landmark of Podillya wooden architecture.

Local residents call it Nemiyska, because it is located in an area that used to be a separate village of Nemiya.

According to legend, a mute girl once lived in the family of the local landowner Mayevsky. Unable to withstand the constant taunts from the children of her fellow villagers, she drowned in the river. Her father built a church in her memory. Mayevsky himself is buried in the churchyard.

The temple is made of oak and ash in the Ukrainian Baroque style, the interior is decorated with paintings and embroidered towels. At various times, Taras Shevchenko, Oleksandr Pushkin, Vasyl Tropinin, Ferents List, Mykhaylo Starytskyi, Olena Pchilka visited the church of Saint Paraskeva.

The Church of Saint Stanislav was founded in Orativ in 1765 at the expense of magnate Stanislav Oransky. In 1845, the old church was rebuilt in the neo-Romanesque style at the expense of the parishioners.

In 1856, Apollo Kozhenovsky and Eva Bobrovska, the parents of the writer Dzhozef Konrad (Dzhozef Teodor Konrad Kozhenovsky) were married in this church.

In Soviet times, the church building was used as a cinema, then as a cultural center. In 1996, the church of Saint Stanislav was returned to the Catholic community of Orativ.

The Sharhorod Museum of Fine Arts represents the works of Ukrainian artists of the 60s and 80s of the 20th century: Odaynyk, Derehusov, Lemeshko, Lozovy, Shchebryakov and others.

The greatest value is the tapestry "Sharhorod - the land of Podillya", created according to the sketches of a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Yuriy Kyzymov.

The palace of the Shchenovsky landowners in the village of Nosykivka is one of the little-known architectural monuments of Vinnytsia region, an example of Podillya manor construction at the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century.

Until 1905, the estate in Nosykivka was owned by the Korevytsky landowners. After the fire that destroyed the manor house, Stanislav Korevytsky sold it to Stanislav Shchenovsky, the son of the Polish sugar farmer Ihnatsiy Shchenovsky from Kapustiany. Shchenovsky built a new palace in the style of romanticism and laid out a large decorative park with a pond. In Soviet times, it housed a hospital, a pharmacy, a school and a post office.

The estate is located on a hill in the middle of an old park. It is surrounded by a wall with a guard at the gate. The palace is decorated with a decorative tower that overlooks the surrounding area. Stucco decor and fragments of wooden decorative elements in the neo-Gothic style have been partially preserved in the interior of the palace.

The restoration and transformation of the palace into a tourist attraction is planned at the initiative of the activists of preservation of historical and cultural heritage.

The palace of the Sobansky family in Obodivka was built in 1800.

First, a house with a tower was built in the style of Romanticism with elements of the Italian Neo-Renaissance. The central building of the palazzo is connected by a two-story covered gallery with a four-story tower and a U-shaped building that form an inner courtyard.

The park, which descends to a 17-hectare pond, was created by the famous Irish park builder Dionysius Mickler.

During the reconstruction in 1900, the third floor of the left wing of the palace was added, the front part of the palace was decorated with an open terrace, which offers a panorama of the park and pond.

After the Bolshevik coup of 1917, the Bessarabian Commune was housed in the Sobansky palace, and after the Second World War, it housed the district executive committee, district committee of the party and other district organizations. In 1959, the palace and park were handed over to the Obodivka boarding school.

Currently, the building of the Sobansky Palace is in a state of disrepair.

The Sobansky Palace in Mykhailivtsi was built at the beginning of the 19th century by the landowner Bronislav Sobansky, who inherited the estate.

The two-story rectangular building is made in the style of classicism. The main facade is decorated with a triangular relief with a portico and columns. Interiors in the French Rococo style have not survived.

Today, the palace houses an agricultural lyceum.

Palace outbuildings, a system of ponds with dams and bridges, and a stone fence have been preserved in the manor park. Wide avenues radially diverge from the palace. There are many conifers among the trees. About 50 names of tree crops are known: lindens, chestnuts, European larch, silver spruce, black pine, weeping ash. Fruit-bearing relic mountain ash is found only in Podillya. The place of honor is occupied by a 300-year-old oak tree.

The mineral spring "Regina", located 5 kilometers northwest of Murovani Kurylivtsi, in the forest on the eastern edge of the village of Zhytnyky, has long been considered miraculous.

According to legend, the spring is named after Regina, the daughter of the landowner Oleksandr Sobansky, who owned the Zhytnyky estate in the 19th century. In 1898, Sobansky brought the seriously ill Regina here for treatment, because he heard from local residents about "living water". For several months, Regina drank only mineral water from this source and was completely cured, and Sobansky arranged the industrial bottling of Regina water and its supply to Europe.

After the Second World War, production was resumed. Currently, mineral water is bottled by OJSC "Murovani Kurylivtsi mineral water plant "Regina".