Attractions of Bubnyshche

The rocks of Dovbush in the Bubnyshche tract, which have long amazed people with their fantastic forms, are called the Carpathian Sphinxes.

A group of rock remains up to 80 meters high is scattered in the middle of a beech-spruce forest near the village of Bubnyshche on an area of 100 hectares. The massif of sandstone rocks about 200 meters wide and 1 kilometer long was formed more than 70 million years ago at the bottom of a warm sea.

In pre-Christian times, there was a pagan sanctuary here. Probably, in the 13th century, during the reign of King Danylo Halytskyi, a rock fortress was created here, which withstood the Mongol-Tatar invasion and lasted until the 16th century.

In the middle of the 18th century, opryshka rebels were active in this area, and in 1743, the camp of the detachment of the legendary people's avenger Oleksa Dovbush was located in the rock caves, which is where the current name comes from.

The rocks of Dovbush are a complex natural monument of national importance and are part of the Polyanytsky Regional Landscape Park. Many climbing routes of different difficulty categories are laid out on the rocks, and climbing competitions are held regularly.