Attractions of Ternopil region

The mini-palace in Trybukhivtsi was built at the beginning of the 20th century by the Polish landowner Timelman (or Kimelman). The manor was built in the style of romanticism with baroque elements.

In Soviet times, the manor house housed a hospital. Currently, the building is privately owned. The new owner is restoring the mini-palace. The roof is already covered with real red tiles, which were collected nearby and carefully washed.

The palace is surrounded by a large garden.

The ruins of the Toky (Ozhyhovetskyi) castle are located on a peninsula surrounded by the waters of a large pond.

The castle in Toky was built at the end of the 16th century by the Bratslav voivode, Yanush Zbarazky. Subsequently, the castle belonged to the Vyshnevetskyi, Charnetskyi, and Matkovskyi.

In 1648 it was captured by the Cossacks, and in 1675 it was destroyed by the Turks. In the 19th century, most of the towers and walls were dismantled for building materials.

The ruins of one pentagonal tower and a section of the wall have survived to this day. The upper part of the walls is destroyed, and the courtyard of the fortress is located level with the edge of the wall.

The People's Local Lore Museum of the History of the Tovste Village is located in the building of the People's House, built at the beginning of the 20th century by the "Prosvita" society.

The founder of the Ukrainian theater, Sadovskyi, as well as the founder of the Hutsul theater, Khotkevych, performed on the stage of its assembly hall.

In 1990, a local lore museum was opened here.

The Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord is the oldest church in Zbarazh. It is located on Chernecha Hill, on the southwestern outskirts of the city in the village of Zaluzhzhia, in the area of Stary Zbarazh.

Erected on the site of the ancient monastery of Saint Onufry at the expense of Yan Zbarazky. Walled loopholes in the thick walls testify to the defensive purpose of the structure.

Today it is the parish church of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in the village of Zaluzhzhia, which has been restored in recent years.

There is a sundial on the wall. A monument in honor of the 400th anniversary of the temple was erected nearby.

The picturesque ruins of the Tvorovsky Castle adorn the high bank of the Strypa River in Pidzamochok near Buchach.

The inscription above the main entrance tower indicates that the castle was built in 1600 by Voivode Yan Buchachsky-Tvorovskyi. The Renaissance portal of the building is decorated with a coat of arms with crossed arrows, the origin of which is unknown, since it does not correspond to the coat of arms "Abdank" of the Buchachsky family, nor to the coat of arms of the "Pylyava" family of the Potocki family, who owned the castle later (perhaps this is the ancient coat of arms of the Buchachskys or the coat of arms of the illegitimate son of the owner of Buchach ).

The castle protected the approaches to Buchach from the northeast, and also served as a country residence for local feudal lords. It was repeatedly destroyed, in the 18th century it was abolished by the Austrian authorities. Currently in a neglected state.

A fascinating panorama of the Strypa valley opens from the ruins.

Twin Houses in Kremenets are unusual in terms of architecture, a residential building in the Baroque style.

It consists of two symmetrical parts, which are covered with separate gable roofs and differ slightly from each other in design details.

According to legend, twin brothers once lived here.

Restoration is planned.

The Ulas Samchuk Museum is located in Kremenets in the main building of the Ulas Samchuk Lyceum. It was opened in 2005 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the writer's birth as the cabinet-museum "Ulas Samchuk's Svitlytsya". It acquired the status of a literary museum in 2010.

The museum's exposition highlights the life and creative path of Ulas Samchuk, honoring the memory of the writer. Among the exhibits are student lists, pages of class magazines, a statement, pages of the student almanac "Youth" of Ulas Samchuk's gymnasium period; photographs, documents from the writer's stay in Rivne in 1941-1943. Among the valuable exhibits are photographs of the writer from different years, his family, friends; books published by the artist in Munich, Toronto; photo documents, press materials from past years, current publications, memoirs about Ulas Samchuk, works of the writer published in independent Ukraine, works of his contemporaries. A significant number of books of the writer's creative output came from the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada and the USA.

The museum's exposition has sections: "Childhood and Youth of Ulas Samchuk (1905-1921), "Study at the Kremenets Gymnasium (1921-1927)", "First Emigration (1928-1941)", "Return to the Homeland (1941-1943)", "Stay in camps for the displacement of persons (1943-1948)", "Second Emigration (1948-1987)", "Honoring the Memory of Ulas Samchuk in Ukraine", "Havrylo Chernykhivskyi - a Researcher of Ulas Samchuk's Creativity", "Honoring the Memory of Ulas Samchuk in the Lyceum".

On February 19, 2016, a memorial tablet dedicated to the memory of Ulas Samchuk was unveiled on the facade of the Lyceum.

The courtyard of a large building on the corner of Taras Shevchenko and Stefan Kachala streets is called the "Venetian (Italian) courtyard" in Ternopil.

In 1893, the Polish stock exchange and library "People's School Society" (Towarzystwa szkoly ludowej) opened here. In 1913, the Podillya Museum was opened with four departments: ethnographic, historical-numismatic, natural history and archeology (its exposition formed the basis of the current local history museum). Later, the building housed a women's gymnasium, and now it houses the Ternopil City Council Education Department.

The inner courtyard of the building was nicknamed "Venetian" ("Italian") for its characteristic design with an arcade and a portal with columns.

Until recently, the Municipal Police Department was located there, the object was in a very bad condition. Currently, the partially restored "Italian Courtyard" is the summer patio-terrace of the conceptual restaurant-gallery "Bunkermuz".

The castle in the village of Novosilka (old name Novosilka-Kostyukova) was built in the 16th century by representatives of the noble family of Kostyuk-Volodiyevsky (it is believed that someone from this family inspired Henryk Senkevych to create the image of Mr. Volodiyevsky).

The castle was quadrangular in plan, with four towers. It was located on top of a hill and was washed by the waters of the Khromava River on three sides. In 1672, the castle was destroyed during the Turkish invasion and has not been restored since then. It remained in ruins until the middle of the 19th century, after which it was dismantled for building materials for the construction of a church and a road.

Currently, only the ruins of one of the towers remain from the castle, which in some literary sources is called the Volodiyevsky Tower.

The Volodymyr Hnatyuk Ethnographic Memorial Museum was founded in the village of Velesniv in 1969 on the initiative and with the participation of the outstanding Ukrainian local historian, ethnographer, literary critic and public figure Ostap Cheremshynsky.

The museum's exposition is located in eight rooms and a foyer, four of which tell about the life and scientific activities of Volodymyr Hnatyuk - a Ukrainian ethnographer, folklorist, linguist, literary critic, art critic, translator and public figure, academician. In particular, it contains photographs of Volodymyr Hnatyuk, maps of Austria-Hungary for 1895-1902, manuscripts, albums, books and separate collections with the scientist's autographs, books and collections of works of many writers and scientists of Ukraine and other European countries published by him, homespun towels, sackcloths created by the academician's father - Mykhaylo Hnatyuk.

The fifth room is dedicated to the memory of Volodymyr Hnatiuk, where unique publications with reports of his death and obituaries are collected.

The sixth room recreates the interior of the living room of Volodymyr Hnatyuk's family. The seventh room recreates his study - here are personal belongings of the scientist and his family members, manuscripts and letters of Hnatiuk, handwritten folklore collections of Osyp Bodyansky, Frantyshek Hlavachek, Serhiy Hrabovsky, Zoryan Dolenga-Khodakovsky, Ivan Franko from the archive of Volodymyr Hnatiuk, memoirs about him by Ivan Krypyakevych, editions of the scientist's works, books from his library, albums.

The eighth room is a fund and exhibition room.

In total, the museum's funds have collected over two thousand exhibits, over five hundred of which are presented in the exposition.

In 1971, a bronze bust of the academician was installed in front of the museum (sculptor Luka Bihanych, architect Volodymyr Blyusyuk).

The Museum of Volodyslav Fedorovych was founded in 2007 as the Vikno Village History Museum. Located in the administrative building in the center of the village.

The updated exhibition opened in 2021. It is dedicated to the Ukrainian public and political figure and philanthropist Volodyslav Fedorovych, whose father Ivan Fedorovych was an heir from the village of Vikno in the 19th century. Having inherited the estate in Vikno, Volodyslav Fedorovych collected works of folk art in it, founded a school and carpet production.

In 1873-1874, the Ukrainian painter Kornylo Ustiyanovych lived and worked in the Vikon manor. Ivan Franko came to the estate at Fedorovych's invitation. You can learn more about this in the museum exposition, which is spread over five halls.

The central exhibits of the museum are a part of a carpet and a statuette of a parrot, which the villagers managed to save from a fire in the Fedorovych estate in 1917. Also presented are samples of the pottery school of the village of Tovste and copies of carpets woven in the village of Vikno. Ancient objects of peasant life are exhibited in the ethnographic hall.

The museum offers visitors both traditional tours and audio guides.

The palace in the English Neo-Gothic style was built in Bilokrynytsia by the landowner Chosnovsky in the middle of the 19th century on the site of a defensive castle founded in the 16th by the Zbarazsky princes.

The first wooden castle was burned by the Tatars, after which Yuriy Zbarazky rebuilt it in stone (ancient cellars, earthen ramparts and one bastion have been preserved). At the beginning of the 19th century, the castle completely burned down. Landlord Chosnovsky, having bought Bilokrynytsia from the Radzyvill, reconstructed one of the parts of the castle into a ceremonial residence.

The last owner of the palace was an official of the Kyiv Governor-General, a secret adviser, Count Oleksandr Voronin. After Voronin's death, according to his will, the Bilokrynytsia Palace was transferred to the agricultural school. Now it is the Kremenets Forestry College.

A small museum of the history of Bilokrynytsia, the college and the palace itself has been opened in the premises of the college dormitory.

The ancient stone water mill on the Hnizna River in Zbarazh is a monument of industrial architecture of local importance. At this place, a dam was built on the river under the Zbarazh Castle.

The water mill building is in a neglected state.

The complex nature monument of local importance "Pustelnia Tract" with the waterfall "Maiden's Tears" and the grotto "Hermit's Cave" is located 1.5 kilometers south of Chervonohorod. This is one of the objects of the National Nature Park "Dniester Canyon".

A small grotto is carved out of the travertine rock above the Dzhuryn River. Before the Second World War (according to other sources, at the end of the 19th century), a hermit monk lived in the cave, who was engaged in stone carving. A statue of Saint Onuphrius, carved by a hermit, has been partially preserved.

Part of the cave was destroyed by a landslide.

Three statues of the Mother of God are installed above the spring at the approach to the hermit's cave. The waters of the spring flow down from the rock in thin streams of the "Maiden's Tears" waterfall, around which a special microclimate with unusual vegetation has formed. In 2024, the waterfall suffered from a travertine rock collapse.

The ascent to the "Pustelnia Tract" from Dzhurynskyi Waterfall takes about half an hour. Car access is possible from the side of Ustechko village.

The Ivanna Blazhkevych Memorial Museum-House was created on a non-profit basis in the village of Denysiv in the writer's native estate in 1986 at the initiative of the Ternopil Regional Museum of Local Lore and with the consent of her relatives. Ivanna Blazhkevych's descendants still live in this house, but two rooms and a porch were given over to the museum for exhibition.

The first room, in which the writer spent the last years of her life, contains her personal belongings, antique furniture, a book collection, paintings and photographs. In the boxes are the writer's letters, manuscripts of memoirs, works, speeches, articles, photographs. The room also has stands on which the writer's works published during her lifetime and after her death are exhibited.

In the second room is a portrait of Ivanna Blazhkevych and other paintings, books, souvenirs donated personally by the writer, as well as to the museum.

In 1997, the museum received the status of "People's Museum". A monument to the poetess is erected in the garden.

The memorial museum-estate of the writer Ivanna Blazhkevych is a branch of the Denysiv Museum of Local Lore.