Attractions of Ternopil region

The Roman Catholic Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary was built in Kopychyntsi in 1802 by the Bavorsky magnates, who owned the city, as a family tomb.

The first Catholic church, which existed since 1443, was destroyed in the 17th century.

Three-nave temple. In 1846, a stucco altar with figures of Peter and Paul was built. In the underground part are the remains of the tomb of the Bavorsky.

During the Soviet era, the Assumption of Virgin Mary Church was closed, revived in 1991.

The Berezhany City Book Museum is located on the first floor of Berezhany City Hall.

Founded in 1984, since 1994 it has been a department of the Ternopil Museum of Local Lore. It tells about the history of printing in Ukraine and about outstanding writers of the region.

The exhibition presents old prints of the XVII-XIX centuries, the first edition of Taras Shevchenko's "Kobzar", "Grammar of the Little Russian Language in Galicia, composed by Ivan Vahylevych" (1845), "Grammar of the Ruthenian (Ruthenian) language" by Yosyp Levytsky (1834).

Also on display are paintings by Lev Lepky, graphics by Olena Kulchytska and others.

A separate exposition is dedicated to the public and philanthropic activities of Roman Smyk.

In addition, the Berezhany City Hall houses the Berezhany Museum of Local Lore, the Museum of Sacred Art and Church History, and the Bohdan Lepky Museum.

The State Historical and Architectural Reserve (DIAZ) in Berezhany was established in 2001 to protect, restore and use the city's cultural heritage sites, which preserved European planning buildings from the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries, architectural ensembles Rynok Square, Bankova and Armenian streets.

In total, the reserve unites more than 30 architectural monuments, 6 of which are of national importance, including the Berezhany Castle Complex (Synyavsky Castle).

The administration of the reserve is housed in a manor house in the style of late classicism (empire) of the early XIX century, which is an architectural monument of local significance. The central part of the facade is decorated with a portico with four columns of the Corinthian order and a classical pediment. In 1828-1829, while studying at the local gymnasium, the famous Ukrainian writer and educator Markiian Shashkevych lived in this house.

In the administration of the Berezhany Historical and Architectural Reserve you can book sightseeing tours of the city, thematic tours of the Synyavsky Castle and the outskirts of Berezhany.

The Berezhany Museum of Local Lore is located on the second floor of the Berezhany City Hall, which is an architectural monument of national importance.

Built in 1803-1811, the two-story City hall building with a clock tower reflects the typical Halician style of provincial urban planning of the early classicism period. It is the central architectural dominant of the Rynok Square in Berezhany.

On the ground floor there were shops, and on the second floor in 1805 the Berezhany Gymnasium was opened, where the writer and educator Markiian Shashkevych and the writer-literary critic and public figure Bohdan Lepky studied.

The Berezhany Museum of Local Lore opened here in 1980. The museum exposition is opened in 26 halls: "Natural Hall", "Archeology Hall", "Middle Ages and Cossack times in Berezhany", "Berezhany Gymnasium - center of education, science and culture", "Literary Berezhany", "Plast History and Political Repression Hall", "World War II", "Boyan Choir", "National Revival Hall", "Lemko Room", etc.

The model of Berezhany Castle attracts the attention of visitors, as well as exhibits that tell about the history of the Sieniawski family and the birth of Berezhany, the coat of arms of the Potocki dynasty.

Valuable artifacts are an authentic Cossack battle braid, Cossack cradles, a spearhead and a Cossack pistol.

A separate exposition is devoted to the history of the USS (Ukrainian Sich Riflemen) in the Berezhany region, in particular the battle on Mount Lysonya.

In addition, the Berezhany City Hall houses the Regional Communal Museum of Bohdan Lepky, the Museum of Sacred Art and Church History, and the Berezhany Book Museum.

The Bernardine church and monastery was founded in Husiatyn in 1610 by the Polish magnate Valentiy Oleksandr Kalynovskyi, who handed over the first wooden church to the Bernardine brothers.

10 years later, the future Crown Hetman Martyn Kalynovskyi started the construction of a baroque stone church and a two-story monastery building. In 1648, the monastery was destroyed by the Tatars. It began to be restored after the liberation of the city from Turkish rule, and was completed only in 1728.

Under the Austrians, the church became a parish church, and under the Soviet authorities it was closed. The revival began in 1991 with the efforts of the Franciscan brothers. Currently, it is the Catholic Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the building needs restoration.

The Bilche-Zolote Village Museum opened in 2020 on the eve of Ukraine's Independence Day at the initiative of Lidia Miskiv and folk craftswoman Kateryna Butovska.

The exhibition presents ancient household items of the villagers, tools, icons, pedestals, old working women's and men's clothing, furniture (bed, bambetel, sideboard (credenza), chest).

The room "History of the Village in Figures" contains many old photographs, exhibits from the "Verteba" cave. An unusual exhibit is a wooden log with a trident and the inscription "Glory to Ukraine" carved inside. The patriotic inscription was carved by the rebels on a young tree and it grew into the trunk.

A separate room is reserved for wind-up dolls, which are created by local craftswoman Kateryna Butovska.

In 2022, the museum's collection was replenished with postcards of Ukrainian insurgents, which local residents found while cleaning an old house.

The church of Blessed Yacub Strepa was founded in Staryi Skalat in 1910. The construction of the church in the neo-Romanesque style was completed in 1912.

In Soviet times, the building was used as a warehouse. The shrine was restored after Ukraine gained Independence in 1995-1997.

The museum room of the world-famous Ukrainian, Canadian, Swiss economist, public figure, philanthropist, former member of the Club of Rome Bohdan Havrylyshyn has been operating in the village of Koropets on the first floor of the House of Culture since 2019.

Bohdan Havrylyshyn was born in Koropets in 1926. He was an advisor to three presidents and 14 prime ministers of Ukraine.

In the museum exhibition you can see the table at which Bohdan Havrylyshyn worked, his personal belongings, awards and many photos from different stages of his life.

The Regional Municipal Museum of Bohdan Lepky in Berezhany opened in 1995 in the Berezhany City Hall on Rynok Square. In addition, the Berezhany City Hall houses the Berezhany Museum of Local Lore, the Museum of Sacred Art and Church History, and the Berezhany Book Museum.

It was here that the Berezhany Gymnasium was located from 1805, where the outstanding Ukrainian poet, writer, literary critic and public figure Bohdan Lepky studied and later taught. Here he began to write his first poems and stories.

The main fund of the Bohdan Lepky Museum has about 3,500 exhibits. The exposition in six halls consists of lifetime editions of the writer's works, original photographs, various documents, textbooks, publications in German magazines and paintings. 

Bokhit (Bohyt) is an ancient pagan settlement on the mountain of the same name in Medobory. Some elements, such as the local dolmen, date back to the 6th-5th centuries BC, while the main buildings date back to the 9th-10th centuries.

The length of the settlement is 300 meters, the width is 50-100 meters. In the center of the temple, an eight-petaled figure with indentations on the edges was found, paved with stone. A similar object has an analogy with the elements of the Perun temple in Novhorod. A square earthen recess for the idol was discovered near the shrine.

In 1848, a Zbruchansky stone idol was found on the bank of the Zbruch River (Lychkivtsi village district), the origin of which is associated with the Bohit settlement. There is an opinion that after the baptism of Rus, most pagans left their lands and moved their spiritual center from Kyiv to these places. Confirmation of this theory is the presence of other hillforts nearby (Zvenyhorod, Hovda) and its satellites.

The "Medobory" Nature Reserve has developed a tourist route and laid an ecological trail through the hillforts.

The Museum of Bolshevik Terror, Political Prisoners and Repression in Chortkiv is located in the premises of the diocesan administration of the Buchach Eparchy of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. The initiative for its creation belongs to the former UPA liaison officer, public activist Mariia Shtepa.

In the basements of the former monastery of the Sisters of Mercy (now the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary Church), where during the Soviet occupation the NKVD detention centers were located, the "Calvary" exhibition is located. The interior of the prison cell has been recreated here, the hiding place of the repressed Greek Catholic Church has been reconstructed, and a church chapel has been equipped.

The exposition "Repressed Church" collects materials about the blessed Bishop Velichkosky. Authentic items from the 1940s, photos of the repressed, as well as symbolic pieces of land from places sprinkled with Ukrainian blood in the fight against the Russian occupiers are presented: Baturyn, Berestechko, Kruty, Uman, Makivka, etc.

A separate exhibition "The Chortkiv Offensive" tells about the offensive military operation of the Ukrainian Galician Army in 1919, which became one of the most significant events of the Polish-Ukrainian War of 1918-1919.

The Brush Museum opened in 2025 in the premises of the Zabolotivka Starostvo on the initiative of the starost of the village of Zabolotivka, Mariia Hadzhala. The exhibition is dedicated to local brush makers and their craft - brush making, which has long been widespread in this village.

The exhibition presents ancient tools and instruments of brush makers, sheaves of local sedge, which served as the main material for making bristles, and samples of finished products.

The interior of the museum hall is decorated with other antiques - a bambetl, century-old images, household items, samples of local embroidery from the villagers' hiding places. A separate corner is dedicated to local participants in the Russian-Ukrainian war.

By prior arrangement, the museum can organize a master class on making brushes.

Budaniv Castle was built at the beginning of the 17th century by Yan Khodorovsky on the site of a wooden castle burned by the Tatars, built at the end of the 16th century by Voivode Yakub Budzanovsky, whose name the village still bears.

The new stone castle on top of the hill was quadrangular in plan, with four round corner towers around the perimeter. During its existence, the castle was captured and destroyed several times by Bohdan Khmelnytskyi's troops, as well as by Turkish troops. It was restored every time, and in the middle of the 18th century, the new owners of Potocki Castle rebuilt the western part of the fortifications into a church.

To this day, in addition to the church, two round towers and part of the castle walls have been preserved. A women's psychiatric hospital has been located on the territory of the castle since Soviet times, but the castle can be freely viewed both from the outside and from the courtyard.

The Carmelite monastery-fortress with the Renaissance Church of the Assumption was built in Terebovlia on the banks of the Hnizna River in 1617 at the expense of Petro Ozhyha.

Surrounded by a fortress wall with four corner towers with loopholes. The most notable building of the monastery is the former Terebovlia parish church, the construction of which was completed in 1639. A miraculous icon of the Mother of God was kept here, which is now in Gdansk.

In Soviet times, the premises of the Carmelite monastery housed a Christmas tree toy factory.

In 1990, the complex was handed over to the community of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. The church was rededicated as the Orthodox Church of Saint Volodymyr, a seminary was opened in the monastery premises.

The ruins of the castle tower in Ozeriany are located in the very center of the village near the crossroads.

The castle probably dates back to the 17th century, when Ozeriany belonged to the Polish king. The castle controlled the salt road that runs through the village. The walls of the surviving tower are 1 meter thick. The rectangular tower measures 10 by 7 meters.

Only the first tier and the dungeon have survived.