Attractions of Khmelnytskyi region

The estate of the Groholskys in Hrytsiv is an architectural landmark of local importance.

In the middle of the 18th century, Mikhal Groholsky built a Rococo-style palace with a landscaped park on the site of the old Lyubomyrsky castle. According to the original project, the main body of the palace was to be connected to the side pavilions by two steep galleries in the Palladian style.

The son of the founder of the manor, Martyn, completed the construction in 1782 in a simplified form, abandoning many of his father's architectural ideas. To the right of the palace, Lyudvik Groholskyi built in the 19th century a manor chapel in the Neo-Gothic style according to the project of Froel-Platter.

In the 1960s, the complex of manor buildings was rebuilt as a vocational school, the appearance and interiors of the palace changed significantly. Currently, it is the Hrytsiv Higher Art Vocational School No. 19.

The spring "Hamarnia" is located on the right bank of the Ushytsia River. The mineral waters of the spring are rich in copper, iron and magnesium. Experts compare the quality of these waters with the properties of Naftusya.

For a long time, there is a legend about the spring of "Hamarnia", according to which a very wealthy family - a landowner with his sister - lived in this place many years ago. The girl possessed special knowledge and helped heal many people. Rumors about her gift and beauty spread throughout the surrounding lands. Contrary to the fact that many young people asked to marry her, the brother wanted to marry his sister himself, disregarding all the canons and the will of the girl herself. But this was not destined to happen. During the wedding, the house fell into the ground, and a healing spring appeared in its place.

The palace of lawyer Samuel Hershhorin is located on the central street of Derazhnia.

The one-story residential building in the Art Nouveau style was built in 1910. Later, a gymnasium was located here, which in 1921 was repurposed into a labor school, and later into a house of pioneers. Due to an error in the documents, the building received the status of an architectural monument of local importance as the "Mansion of the private lawyer Perytorin".

In 2022, the building was purchased at an auction by the founder of the "Spadshchyna.Ua" initiative, Hanna Havryliv. She plans to use the Gershhorin Palace to develop the tourism potential of Derazhnia. The restoration of the monument has begun, research work is being carried out.

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 Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Yarmolyntsi was founded in 1792. A year later, construction began at the expense of the Orlovsky Counts, which lasted until 1862.

In Soviet times, the premises of the Peter and Paul Church were used as a cultural center, which is still visible from the outside, even after the return of the church to the Catholic community.

The first wooden Church of the Holy Intercession in Polonne was founded in 1720. In 1910, a new wooden temple was built next to the old church - also wooden, on a stone foundation.

The first priest of the newly built church was archpriest Mykolay Matusevych, who served here until 1937. With the advent of Soviet power, he was repressed and exiled to Kolyma, where he died in 1940. The church was closed and a granary was built in it, the bell tower was destroyed.

Services in the Intercession Church resumed after the Second World War.

On July 23, 2023, the church community voted for the transition to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Holy Transfiguration Monastery in Holovchyntsi is one of the oldest Orthodox monasteries in Podillya.

The monastery was founded in 1540 by the crown field hetman Mykola Sinyavskyi. During the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, it was settled by the Basilians, and in 1795 it was returned to the Orthodox.

The Holy Transfiguration Monastery was first closed by the Soviet authorities in 1923, a shelter for homeless children was organized on the territory. During the Second World War, the activity of the monastery was briefly restored, but soon it was closed again. Until 1996, the buildings belonged to a children's boarding school.

Today, the Holy Transfiguration Monastery is being revived: the monastery church and residential building have been reconstructed, a new bell tower has been erected, the abbot's building has been rebuilt, an almshouse and a pilgrim hotel have been built.

On the territory of the Holy Transfiguration Monastery, there is a miraculous Onufriy Spring, and the miraculous image of Saint Onufriy the Great is preserved in the temple.

The ruins of the Church of the Holy Trinity are located next to the Medzhybizh castle - on a hill fortified by a stone retaining wall.

The Baroque-style church with Gothic elements was built under the Senyavsky magnates in 1632, when Catholicism was massively planted by the Poles in Podillya.

The church is stone, cruciform in plan. The ceilings were vaulted, the plasticity of the faceted volumes was emphasized by tall, pointed windows. The decoration was ascetic.

In the second half of the 20th century, the Trinity Church was destroyed. It has lost its authentic appearance and the monastery building is located next to it.

The Greek-Catholic Monastery of the Holy Trinity in Kamyanets-Podilskyi was founded in 1722 by Basilian monks.

The Orthodox Trinity Church was first mentioned in 1582. It is likely that in this place there was an ancient temple of the XIII-XIV centuries. During the Turkish rule, the church was turned into a mosque, and after the departure of the Turks, it passed to the Greek Catholics and became a cathedral. After the annexation of Podillya to the Russian Empire, the Uniate monasteries were handed over to the Orthodox.

In 1836, a two-story stone wing with the warm church of Anthony and Theodosius of Pechersky was added to the monastery building, and in 1855, the reconstruction of the Trinity Church was completed, giving it Orthodox forms.

During the Soviet era, the temple was completely destroyed. In recent years, the Trinity Church was restored on cleared foundations by the forces of Basilian monks.

The Holy Trinity Church in Yarmolyntsi was founded in 1761 at the expense of Pavlo Starzhynskyi as a Catholic church of the Bernardine monastery.

In 1832, the monastery and the church were closed, the premises were transferred to the Orthodox Church. The reconstruction of the Trinity Church was completed in 1835, and a new bell tower was built in 1891. The cells of the Bernardine monastery have also been preserved.

Today it is the Saint Peter and Paul Church of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The Holy Trinity Monastery near Sataniv began with caves that have survived to this day. The entrance there is at the foot of the monastery rock.

According to legend, the monastery was founded in the 11th century by a monk from Athos. Officially, the Trinity Monastery in Satanivska Slobidka dates back to the 16th-18th centuries. At first, the monastery was wooden. Stone buildings appeared at the beginning of the 17th century. The monastery ensemble included the Church of the Intercession, the Saint Nicholas Church and the Trinity Church, a bell tower and cells, an entrance gate and a fence. In 1744, the monastery was rebuilt in the Baroque style.

Today, one of the three monastery churches, built in honor of the Holy Trinity, has been preserved. On the northern wall of the church, a sundial with the ancient Podillya coat of arms is preserved - a smiling face, and numbers are located in a semicircle at the bottom. A small sculpture of Saint Rochus, the patron saint of plague patients, has been preserved on the facade of the bell tower.

At various times, the monastery was visited by Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, Russian Tsar Peter I, and General Suvorov.

From 1707 to 1793, the Sataniv monastery was Greek-Catholic, in 1893 it became a women's monastery. With the advent of Soviet power, the monastery was closed, but in 1942, during the German occupation, it was briefly revived. It was then that a spring with healing water gushed out from under the ground, and the pilgrimage began. But in 1962, the monastery was closed again, the buildings began to collapse.

In 1989, the Holy Trinity Monastery was returned to the Orthodox community and restoration began.

The Trinitarian church in Kamyanets-Podilskyi was founded in the 18th century by monks of the Trinitarian order, who specialized in the redemption of slaves from Turkish captivity.

The temple is made in baroque style. Attention is drawn to the main facade, which is given the slenderness of the pilasters of the Tuscan order. The facade is finished with a pediment decorated with sculptures and vases. The church is surrounded by a stone wall. The gates are decorated with statues of Jean de Mat and Felix Valois, the founders of the Trinitarian monastic order. The stairs leading to the gate are surrounded by a parapet, on which a statue of the Virgin Mary is installed.

After the Second World War, the funds of the Khmelnytskyi Regional State Archive were housed in the Trinity Church.

Today it is the Greek Catholic Church of Saint Josaphat.

The Church of the Holy Virgin Mary - Mother of the Church was founded in the 16th century by the Kostka magnates, who owned Sataniv at that time.

At first, the temple was made of wood. Later, a stone temple in the Gothic style was built. In the 1930s, the shrine was destroyed by the Soviet authorities.

The new church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Yasnohora at the Catholic cemetery in Sataniv was built in 1990-1994. Since 1991, priests from the Pauline order (the monastic order of the Brothers of Saint Paul the First Hermit) have been serving in the Sataniv parish.

The ramparts of the Hubyn chronicled ancient Rus hillfort are located on the high bank of the Sluch River, opposite from the center of the village of Hubyn.

In the 12th and 13th centuries, Hubyn was one of the largest cities of the Bolokhiv Land - an ancient Rus historical region in the upper reaches of the Pivdennyi Buh bordering the Galicia-Volyn and Kyiv principalities. It was destroyed in 1241 by Prince Danylo Halytskyi in revenge for the participation of the Bolokhiv princes in the campaign to Bakota. Since then, the city has not been rebuilt, but a village of the same name arose in its place.

Since 1977, archaeological research has been conducted at the Hubyn hillfort. Many artifacts were found: elements of plows, horseshoes, sticks, stone axes, pendants and other women's jewelry. These are unsurpassed examples of jewelry art of that distant time. One of the most valuable finds is the lead seal of Prince Volodymyr Vsevolodovych of Novhorod, dated 1136.

The finds are exhibited in the Starokostiantyniv Museum of Local History.

The memorial museum of the reformer Count Ihnatsiy Stsybor-Markhotsky in Mynkivtsi is dedicated to one of the most extravagant Podillya landowners of the 18th century, the founder of the self-proclaimed Mynkivtsi state, which existed for 30 years within the Mynkivtsi Kluch on the territory of the present Kamyanets-Podilsky district.

Hundreds of exhibits tell about the life of Ihnatsiy Stsybor-Markhotsky, as well as the organization of his small state, which had its own constitution, a judicial system based on Roman law, and its own currency.

The museum was opened in 2012 in an ancient building that once housed the NKVD and the Gestapo. Pretrial detention cells have been preserved in the basement and basement floors. In 2010, a memorial sign to the victims of the Holodomor and repressions was installed in front of the house.