Attractions of Khmelnytskyi region

Burbun waterfall is located in the canyon of the Bobrivka river. In one of the gorges of the canyon, the river forms a five-meter waterfall that flows into a small lake.

The water is clean, has a rare turquoise hue for such objects. The water temperature is low even in the summer, because the gorge is made of shell and siliceous rocks. Abundant vegetation covers the gorge from most of the sun's heat. Local residents swim in the lake in hot weather.

Tourists rarely visit this place, thanks to which its natural beauty is preserved.

In the middle of the 18th century, the hetman of the great crown Yosyp Potoski made a proposal to found a Capuchin temple and monastery in Dunaivtsi. His father's mission was continued by his son Stanislav, who in 1751 invited the Capuchins to settle in the city. Stanislav Potoski died in 1760 before completing the construction. Since then, the monks have been forced to collect funds for the construction of the temple on their own. Only in 1790, the construction of the monastery was completed and the church was consecrated under the cover of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Stanislav.

In 1832, the tsarist government of the Russian Empire liquidated the monastery. A year later, the church was rebuilt into the Church of the Ascension of Christ, and the monastery was handed over to an Orthodox church school.

In the 1870s, during his trip to Podillia, the famous artist and writer Napoleon Orda created a sketch of the temple of that time.

In the 1990s, the church was handed over to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine and bears the name Nativity of Christ.

The stylish mansion, which now houses the Antoninivsk Town Council, was built at the beginning of the 20th century according to the project of the Viennese architect Ferdinand Fellner, the author of the Odesa Opera.

This is one of the few surviving pre-revolutionary buildings in the Art Nouveau style with the use of half-timbered timbers, which were used to build the square in front of the front gate of the Sangushko-Potocki palace. The Potocki garage for 9 cars and a workshop were located here.

Today, the restored mansion is one of the most visible and attractive architectural monuments of the village.

The Casemate Tower is one of the least known fortifications in Kamyanets-Podilskyi, although it is located in the heart of the Old Town, in the courtyard behind the district council building (passage through the arch of the hospital from Hospitalna Street).

According to one version, built in 1667 as part of the city fortifications. According to another version, built in 1783-1791 as part of the guardhouse complex and in peacetime served as a toilet for detainees.

The building is round in plan, 9.5 m in diameter, with a rectangular vestibule on the north side. The walls of the upper tier, at a height of about 2 m, cut through six loophole windows.

Currently, the Casemate Tower houses an exhibition "History of fortifications of the XV-XIX centuries" with three models of fortifications, samples of cold steel and firearms, copies of ancient plans, engravings, lithographs, drawings, diagrams and more.

The annex presents a collection of Podillya smoking pipes of the XVIII century.

The Castle Bridge connecting the Old Town with the fortress looks like a solid stone wall, but in fact is a kind of sarcophagus containing an earlier structure.

According to one of the versions, the foundation of the current bridge is a construction of the Roman era. Originally, the Castle Bridge was arched. It is built above the Smotrych Canyon where the loop of the river forms a thin rocky isthmus that separates the Old Town from the mainland. It is said that this is the only bridge in the world built along, and not across, the river bed.

The Castle Bridge acquired its current appearance in the 17th century, when Kamyanets-Podilskyi was captured by the Turks. They rebuilt the bridge, using stone from the dismantled monastery of the Barefoot Carmelites. Since then, it is often called the Turkish Bridge.

On the side of the city, the powerful defensive structures of the City Gate (XVI-XVIII centuries) and the Armenian Bastion (XVI-XVII centuries) have been preserved. There is a cafe in the laboratory casemate.

The Cathedral Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul is the main religious building of the Old City.

The Peter and Paul Church was built by the Dominican monastic order, which appeared in Kamyanets-Podilskyi in the 14th century. The construction of the stone church in the years 1502-1517 is attributed to Bishop Yakub Buchachskyi. During the Turkish rule (1672-1699), the temple was used as the main mosque, and a 36-meter minaret was attached to it. After the return of the Poles, according to the peace treaty, the minaret was preserved, but a gilded statue of the Madonna was installed on top. Now the Peter and Paul Cathedral in Kamyanets-Podilskyi is the only Christian church in the world with a minaret.

It houses a wonderful sculptural tombstone of 21-year-old Laura Przezdetska by Viktor Brodzkyi (1874). During a horse ride, the girl fell off her horse, broke her spine and died. In two years, on the order of the disappointed parents, the sculptor created a marble masterpiece: the beauty with the shadow of a smile on her face looks asleep, but the grieving angel has already lowered the extinguished torch, and the unread book is open on page 21. The sculpture is often called the "Sleeping Queen".

The magnificent Triumphal Arch (1781) in honor of the arrival of the last Polish king, Stanislav Avhust, leads into the courtyard of the Peter and Paul Church.

Excursions are held during the time free from religious services.

The palace of Chetvertynsky princes in Stryhany was built in 1904 in Western European forms.

During the Soviet regime, he served as a village council, then as a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients.

Currently in a dilapidated state.

The church of John the Baptist of the monastery of the Capuchin order is located in the current administrative center of the city of Starokostiantyniv, although when the monastery was founded in 1750, Prince Yanush Sangushko allocated land outside the city walls.

The Catholic Church of John the Baptist was built in the strict late baroque style by the famous Italian master Paolo Fontana. The construction of the entire complex lasted until 1778, but the church was finished much earlier.

In Soviet times it was closed, now it is valid.

The Renaissance city gate of Sataniv is part of the fortification system of the medieval city. Protected the southern entrance to Sataniv.

The gate was built in the 15th century at the confluence of the Zbruch River with an unnamed stream. In the 16th century, it was rebuilt and became part of the general system of defensive walls of the city, connecting with the castle. In 1724, Adam Senyavsky restored the damaged gate by building a toothed decorative parapet on white stone consoles.

The thickness of the walls of the stone square structure reaches 2.2 meters. The walls have loopholes with cheeks that expand in both directions. Remains of white stone decoration in the Baroque style have been preserved.

The Central Department of Registration of Civil Status Acts (RCSA) of Khmelnytskyi is located in the former mansion of one of the Proskuriv doctors, built in 1903.

From July 19, 1914, the headquarters of the 8th Army of the South-Western Front under the command of General Oleksiy Brusylov was based in this building. In the 1960s and 1970s, a city children's hospital operated here. Since 2001, it has been a palace of ceremonial events.

The palace in Bozhykivtsi was built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Zdyslavom Kolonna-Chesnovsky, a Polish landowner with Italian roots.

From 1923 to the present, the Chesnovsky manor houses a secondary school. Other manor houses have been preserved. The wing houses a kindergarten, and the bakery houses a country club. The former distillery was converted into a starch factory in 1931.

In 1998, the museum of the journalist and writer Dmytro Prylyuk was opened, a memorial plaque was installed on the school building.

The sculptural composition "Concord Table" on the hill behind the Old Fortress symbolizes the cultural diversity of Kamyanets-Podilskyi.

The monument was erected in 2001, after the first international festival "Seven Cultures" (sculptor Anatoliy Ihnashchenko). The giant concrete millstone in the center of the composition symbolizes the city, the metal pipe with a crown-shaped break is a fortress, and the limestone blocks spread around the millstone represent the seven nations that together created Kamyanets: Ukrainians, Poles, Russians, Lithuanians, Armenians, Turks and jews

The eighth stone lying aside is interpreted as a symbol of the fact that in the future any other nation or nationality may also affect the development of the city.

The Craftsmen Synagogue in Khmelnytskyi is the only surviving Jewish temple in the city.

A small synagogue was built in 1890 in the Jewish quarter of artisan bakers, opposite the current central food market.

In Soviet times, the building housed a gymnastics school. In the early 1990s, the Craftsmen Synagogue was returned to the Jewish community of Khmelnytskyi, and it is now in use.

A creative bus stop forged from iron was installed in Slavuta in 2012 for Spring Day. The author of the work is Artem Volsky.

The sculpture represents two images of a woman: spring and autumn, which can be interpreted as symbols of female beauty and wisdom.

Derazhnia Historical Museum is located in the city center.

The exposition tells about the nature and history of the region, has 8 thematic sections: "Geographical position of the region", "Nature of the region", "From the depths of the ages", "The region on the way to independence", "At the turn of the millennium", "Glorious names of the region", "Trouble of the 1930s-1940s" and "For Ukraine, for her will".

Museum employees conduct sightseeing tours of the Derazhnia.