Attractions of Ternopil region

The Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross of the Lord in Kremenets is located opposite the Epiphany Monastery.

It was built in the 19th century without a single nail in the so-called "Volyn" style. The fire of 1942 almost completely destroyed all the wooden houses and shrines of Kremenets. Only the Orthodox Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross survived.

The Church of the Ascension belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in the village of Khmelyska was founded in 1897 as the Catholic chapel of Saint Yakub.

The temple was built by the Polish community of the village on land allocated by the landowner Rozenstok. In 1905, a parish house was built nearby. The chapel was damaged during the 1911 earthquake.

In 1931-1938, a new stone church of the Ascension was built according to the project of the architect Yan Karol Sas-Zubzhytskyi, the author of the Dominican Church in Chortkiv. Neo-Gothic influence is visible in the architecture.

In Soviet times, the church was closed and used as a warehouse.

Now the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross has been revived.

The Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (Nadstavna) is the oldest church in Ternopil.

It was built by the founder of the city, crown hetman Jan Tarnovsky, on the site of the ancient Rus temple of the times of King Danylo Halytskyi. The church was located next to the western (Lvivsky) gate of Ternopil above the pond, which is why it received the second name "Nadstavna" or "Church above the pond".

In 1627, the bell tower was completed. Old Rus defensive architectural traditions are used. In 1959, the Exaltation Church was restored.

Belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The wooden church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross of the Lord is located in the southern part of the city of Kopychyntsi, in the former suburb of Kutets.

It was built in 1630 (legend attributes the construction to Ukrainian Cossacks, although the city was under the control of the troops of Bohdan Khmelnytsky a little later - in 1648-1652).

There is a small wooden bell tower nearby.

The majestic monastery of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross of the Lord rises in the center of Buchach on the opposite hill from Buchach Castle, in the Fedir tract.

It was built for the parents of the Basilians, who were invited to the city by Stefan Potoski in the 18th century to found a theological school.

The central building of the Basilian Monastery complex is the Baroque Church of the Ascension of the Holy Cross with a bell tower (architect Yohan Shiltser). It is adjoined on two sides by the buildings of the cells and the Basilian gymnasium (now the Saint Yosafat Buchach Collegium).

During the Soviet era, the Basilian Monastery was closed and fell into disrepair, but after 1991, a complete restoration was carried out. All buildings, including the hydroelectric power plant on the Strypa River, have been restored and are being used as intended.

Fragments of the fortifications of the Polish fortress of Holy Trinity Trench, built in 1692 by crown hetman Yablonovsky for the blockade of Kamyanets-Podilskyi, which was occupied by the Turks.

For six weeks, the entire army under the leadership of engineer Gommer poured powerful ramparts, erected towers and walls. A very advantageous place was chosen for the fortress from a strategic point of view - a narrow rocky isthmus at the confluence of the Zbruch and the Dniester. From the lookout tower, Khotyn and Zhvanets fortresses were perfectly visible, and in the distance you could see the domes and minarets of Kamyanets-Podilskyi.

Since 1693, the Polish garrison began to regularly carry out successful attacks on Turkish camps, disrupting the supply of products from Kamyanets-Podilskyi. After Podillya was returned to Poland in 1699, the Fortress "Holy Trinity Trenches" lost its strategic importance. In 1769, it was taken by Russian troops, later it was used as a border outpost.

The Lviv and Kamyanets gates, the ruins of the watchtower above Zbruch, as well as the system of earthen fortifications have been preserved.

God's Mountain is called Ostanets Mountain, which is located near the village of Velyki Berezhtsi near Kremenets on the territory of the Medobory Reserve, but is separated from the Kremenets Ridge by the Ikva River.

The height of the God's mountain above sea level is 366 meters. The mountain is covered with a forest with abundant vegetation. A path of health leads to the mountain, where there are several shrines. Under the very top is the Life-giving Spring, transformed into a well.

According to legend, in ancient times there was a monastery on this place. When the Tatars covered it, and the defenders of the shrine began to suffer from thirst, an image of the Mother of God appeared to them, and a healing spring gushed out of the ground at this place. Near the source is the hermit monk's cave with healing clay, over which the wooden church of the Icon of the Mother of God is built.

At the highest point of God's Mountain, on the site of the chapel with the footprint of the Mother of God, which was destroyed in the 1950s, a wooden church of the Holy Trinity and a platform for viewing the surroundings were recently built. Under the temple there is a system of caves of the 13th century monastic Siktus.

A 400-year-old linden tree (Golden Linden) growing near the road to the Zolotyi Potik is a witness to a historical event - the signing of the Buchach Peace Treaty with Turkey in 1672, which was humiliating for Poland.

The day before, the Turkish army captured Buchach and began to threaten the central regions of Poland from here. According to the peace treaty, the eastern part of Ukraine with Podillya was declared an independent state under the protectorate of Turkey.

The park of the Golukhovsky manor in Skala-Podilska is a monument of horticultural art of national importance. Founded at the end of the 18th century by the Polish elder Adam Tarlo.

Until 1939, it was the estate of Count Agenor Golukhovskyi. According to legend, the count built the park in the shape of the name of his beloved Olena.

In 1968, the "Zbruch" tourist center (now a children's health center) was built on the foundation of the Count's Palace. An outbuilding styled after a medieval castle has survived from the original manor buildings, where the polyclinic is now located.

More than 100 types of exotic and rare trees grown in the park on 26 hectares of land, imported from different countries of the world, including: Japanese red oak, black maple, silver spruce, European cedar, black and Weymouth pine, Virginian juniper, western and eastern thuja, magnolia, sycamore and others. The pearl of the park is an old linden tree over 550 years old with a trunk thickness of 7 girths.

The Palace of the Golukhovskys in Strusiv is located on a cape formed by a loop of the Seret River.

It was built at the end of the 18th century by the Lyantskoronsky nobles, who decided to dismantle the old, dilapidated Strusiv castle. A two-story building in the Empire style was erected from the stone obtained during the dismantling of the castle.

At the end of the 19th century, Count Yuzef Golukhovsky, the son of the Austrian Minister of Internal Affairs and Governor of Galicia Agenor Golukhovsky, reconstructed the palace. The interiors were decorated with stucco and carved wood, crystal chandeliers and two-meter candelabra (fragments of the decor have been preserved).

The palace is surrounded by a balustrade, the central portal has 6 columns, the park facade is decorated with monumental stairs. A beautiful park descends from them to the banks of the Seret River, where a 250-year-old black Austrian pine grows, a natural monument of state importance.

Currently, the Strusiv boarding school for children with diseases of the cardiovascular system is located on the territory of the manor.

According to local legend, some hermit settled in these places about 200-300 years ago. There are conjectures about the honorable origin of this man, but the reasons for which he was forced to renounce worldly life are not known. During the first four years, he hollowed out a cave cell in the ancient rock in which he prayed. According to legend, the hermit was killed and buried next to the cell in a stone niche.

In the 1990s, the place was restored. Every year, believers from nearby villages come to pray on the Trinity.

"Hermit's Cave" is part of the complex of monuments of the ecological trail of the same name, developed for tourists by the "Medobory" nature reserve. Also nearby are the ancient pagan settlement of Zvenyhorod and the Perlyna cave.

You can visit these sights independently by following a marked route from the village of Krutyliv, or accompanied by employees of the reserve.

The Pochaiv History and Art Museum was founded in 1959 on the initiative of Andriy Andriyuk as a museum of atheism. Later, it was repurposed into a museum of spiritual culture, then a museum of the history of Christianity. In 2000, it became the historical and artistic department of the Ternopil Regional Art Museum, and in 2002 it became an independent historical and artistic museum.

Having changed several premises, the museum is now located in an old bank building in the center of Pochaiv.

The main exhibition is devoted to the history of the Pochaiv Lavra, sacred art of Volyn, Taras Shevchenko's stay in Pochaiv.

The Historical and Folklore Center of National and Cultural Revival "Prosvita" has been operating on the basis of the vocational training department of the "Ternopil Professional College of the Ivan Pulyuy Ternopil National Technical University" since the early 1990s.

The exposition of the local history museum of the center presents documents, materials and photographs that tell about the history, culture, customs and traditions of Ternopil.

The Center of National and Cultural Revival "Prosvita" is a permanent center of leisure and creative development - various master classes (bead weaving, Easter egg making, making amulets and wind-up dolls) and thematic exhibitions and excursions are systematically held here.

The Zboriv Battle Historical and Local Lore Museum was founded in the city of Zboriv in 1993 on the initiative of the writer and journalist, a long-time prisoner of Siberian camps, Hrihoriy Baran-Radoshivsky. The museum is located in a two-story building, founded by an Austrian banker in 1895-1896.

The exhibition hall on the second floor houses the diorama "Zboriv Battle of 1649", made by a native of Zboriv Stepan Nechay, as well as the high reliefs "Prayer of the Warrior", "Chronicler Nestor" and "At the Cossack Council" by sculptor Volodymyr Ropetsky, the figure of the Cossack Ivan Pidkova by sculptor Petro Kulyk, and the bust of Colonel Ivan Bohun by sculptor Vasyl Sadovnyk. In 2002, the museum's collections were replenished with the findings of the International Archaeological Expedition that explored the Zboriv Battlefield.

The lower hall houses exhibitions dedicated to the activities of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen, the OUN-UPA, and the Czech and Slovak legionnaires of the First World War.

Since 2012, work has been underway to create the State Historical and Cultural Reserve "Field of the Zboriv Battle of 1649".

The Museum of the History of Ternopil Art Vocational College named after Solomiya Krushelnytska has a museum room, which introduces the history of the school since its founding in 1958.

The exposition tells about each department that operates in the school: "Piano", "Orchestral string instruments", "Orchestral wind and percussion instruments", "Folk instruments", "Choral conducting", "Singing", "Music Theory", "Music Theory", Art".

The exposition presents concert costumes of orchestras, choirs and ensembles, ancient musical instruments. Separate stands reveal the achievements of some graduates.