Attractions of Ternopil region

The memorial museum of Ivan Pulyuy was opened in 1990 in the village of Hrymailiv, where he was born in 1845.

Ukrainian physicist and electrical engineer Ivan Pulyuy became famous as the discoverer of the so-called X-rays (X-rays) and the inventor of the world's first X-ray machine.

A small exhibition dedicated to the life and work of the scientist is located in one of the rooms in the building of the Hrymailiv Secondary School.

The majestic complex of buildings of the Jesuit church, monastery and collegium in the baroque style is the architectural dominant of Kremenets. In the 18th-19th centuries, the Kremenets collegium was one of the largest centers of education in the Podillya and Volyn lands. Jesuit monks were invited to Kremenets by Prince Yanush Vyshnyvetskyi to create a Catholic collegium on the basis of the sister school of the Epiphany Monastery. In 1731-1743, the famous Italian architect Paolo Fontana built the church of Saint Ignatius of Loyola and Stanislav Kostka (now the Transfiguration Cathedral of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine) with adjacent educational buildings at the expense of the Vyshnyvetskyi.

In 1805, on the initiative of the historian and educator Tadeusz Czacki, the collegium was transformed first into the Volyn Gymnasium, and then into the Volyn Lyceum. The famous park builder Dionysius Makler (Mickler) laid a botanical garden next to it, which still exists today. In 1832, after the suppression of the Polish uprising, the higher school was closed, and its library funds and teaching staff became the basis for the creation of Kyiv University. A theological seminary was opened instead of a lyceum.

After the return of the Poles at the beginning of the 20th century, the lyceum was restored, and during Soviet times, a pedagogical school was opened on its base. Currently, it is the Taras Shevchenko Taras Shevchenko Regional Humanitarian and Pedagogical Academy.

The wooden church of John the Theologian in Skoryky is an example of the Podillya school of folk architecture.

In the church there is an iconostasis in 7 rows.

The official date of construction is 1695, but there is a legend that in this church in 1649, before the campaign to Zbarazh, the Cossack Bohdan Khmelnytskyi together with the hetman made confession and received communion.

According to legend, the iconostasis and the "Last Judgment" icon (now kept in the Lviv Museum of Folk Art) were donated to the church by Bohdan Khmelnytskyi.

The castle-ship on the hill, which is washed on three sides by one of the tributaries of Zbruch, got its nickname due to its characteristic oblong shape.

Sydoriv Castle was built in the middle of the 17th century by the field hetman of the crown, Martyn Kalynovsky, as his own residence. The date of construction is recorded on a brick slab above the entrance arch. The length of the castle reached 178 meters, while the width was only 30 meters. Seven defense towers were located along the perimeter of the walls, of which only three remain. The walls of the northern edge of the well-preserved castle are joined at sharp angles, which gives the fortress the appearance of a ship floating in the sea of green.

Sydoriv Castle was badly damaged during the Turkish invasion of 1672, then it was restored, but from the beginning of the 18th century it lost its defensive significance, fell into disrepair and gradually collapsed until our time.

Access is free.

Near Podillya Tovtry, on the outskirts of the village of Vikno, there are karst lakes on a wide meadow, which are called "vikno" (windows) in these parts.

20 million years ago, waves of the warm Sarmatian Sea splashed here. From its underwater reef, giant side formations (tovtry) formed, and when the sea receded, hills several hundred meters high were formed. Now in the lowlands is a field where karst lakes were formed.

There used to be several dozen of them, then there were five, but after land reclamation in the 1980s, only two lakes remained: Sinye and Bezodnya. The lakes were formed in limestone cavities, the depth of which cannot be determined. Although the bottom of the lakes reaches four meters, the underground passages from where the powerful springs come are much deeper.

The water temperature in the lakes always remains at +12 degrees. The surface of the water in them is covered with algae, so during the day, depending on the lighting, the lakes change their color - from dark blue to blue and purple.

Karst lakes do not freeze in the strongest frosts and glow at night.

Khorostkiv Museum of Local Lore was founded in 2022 as a structural unit of the Cultural and Tourist Information Center of Khorostkiv.

The museum is located in the historic building of the New Palace of Counts Semensky-Levytsky. The two-storey neo-baroque residential building in the complex with the horse arena was built in 1837 by the Italian architect Botochchyni next to the Old Palace of the XVIII century in the style of classicism. Until recently, the New Palace housed the Khorostkiv Music School and the City Library for Adults.

Now the museum of local lore is in the process of forming a collection. The exhibition will feature ancient embroidery, icons, household items, historical photographs, old prints and more.

Two towers and a fragment of the defensive wall remained from the Kryvche Castle, built in 1639-1650 by the Kontsky Polish nobles in the village of Kryvche.

The castle had an almost regular rectangular shape with four corner towers and one entrance tower. During the first century of its existence, it was constantly at the epicenter of the Polish-Turkish wars, passing from hand to hand. During the Liberation War, he was captured by the Cossacks. In 1672, the Turkish Sultan Mahomet IV stopped here when he was returning from Buchach after signing the Peace of Buchach.

Only in the 18th century, the Kryvche Castle lost its strategic importance and was transformed into the residence of the Polish magnates of the Holiyovsky. In the 19th century, the entrepreneur Lazar Zeydman bought the ruins, ordering most of them to be dismantled for building materials for a distillery.

An attempt at restoration was made in 1920 by the Podillya Tourism and Local History Society.

Currently, the Kontsky Castle is part of the "Castles of Ternopil region" reserve. Two towers are preserved, access is free.

Koropets People's Museum of History and Local Lore is located in the center of the village of Koropets in the premises of the House of Culture. The museum was founded in 1972 on the initiative of Stepan Kudrynsky. In 1975 it received the status of "People's Museum".

The museum's exposition contains information about the historical, ethnographic, and natural features of the development of the village from ancient times to the present day.

The Kozova Local Lore Museum is located in the center of the village of Kozova. It is planned to move the museum's exhibits to the premises of a former synagogue, which was converted into a cinema during the Soviet era.

The museum's ethnographic collection tells the story of the life of peasants at the end of the 19th century. The exhibition features ancient embroideries, icons, household items, historical photographs, old prints, etc.

The building of the Kremenets School of Arts named after Mykhaylo Verykivsky was built in the 19th century and is an architectural monument.

During Polish times, it housed a polyclinic. Since 1939 - a music school.

The Kremenets Botanical Garden at the Kremenets Lyceum was founded in 1806 by the Irish gardener and park builder Denis McClair (Dionizy Mikler).

On 4.5 hectares, he planted 460 species of local plants and 760 imported from different places. Already by 1809, the number of trees and shrubs reached 12 thousand. Among them: edible chestnut, Canadian pine, Pontic azalea, araucaria, red-leaved beech, ginkgo, white mulberry, fig, white-flowered ash, tulip tree.

After the dissolution of the lyceum in 1832-1834, the most valuable breeds were transported to Kyiv to the garden of Saint Volodymyr University.

Currently, the Kremenets Botanical Garden is a monument of horticultural art. It occupies 200 hectares.

The first museum in Kremenets called Muzeum Ziemi Krzemienieckiej emerged as part of the Kremenets Lyceum.

Currently Kremenets Museum of Local Lore there are 65,000 exhibits. It is located in the building of the former seminary. Archaeological finds, numismatic collections, ancient weapons, household items, handicrafts, the first editions and personal belongings of the Polish poet Yuliush Slovatsky and other famous Kremenets residents are presented in 10 halls.

The well-preserved ruins of a defensive castle rise on Mount Strelka above Zbruch.

The Kudryntsi castle was built by the Polish noblemen Herburts to protect against frequent Tatar and Wallachian raids at the time (the Moldavian border was nearby and the Wallachian road passed).

A quadrangular fortress with three corner towers on three sides was protected by the steep slopes of the mountain. The weakly defended northern side was separated from the plateau by a moat and rampart, as well as a powerful fortification complex with two towers, one of which was the entrance. In 1648, the Cossack troops of Maksym Kryvonos expelled the Polish garrison from the castle, and it was also captured twice by the Turks.

In the 18th century, the Polish magnates Humenetsky reconstructed the Kudryntsi Castle, turning it into a palace-residence, and the next owners, the Kozebrodsky, gathered a collection of works of art here (individual copies of ancient canvases and furniture can now be seen in the Ternopil Museum of Local Lore).

There is a legend about a ghost - supposedly, sometimes in the castle you can see the spirit of a young girl who was walled up by the Turks. Another legend tells about treasures buried by the owners of the castle, over which the earth hums.

The Leopold Levytskyi Art Memorial Museum was founded in his native village of Burdyakivtsi in 1996 on the initiative of Borshchiv artist Stepan Makovskyi.

The exhibition is located in six halls, three of which are dedicated to the life and work of Leopold Levytskyi. The museum collection includes over 1,000 exhibits, including etchings by Levytskyi from the 1930s, linocuts and lithographs from the post-war period, his illustrations for the book "Mykola Shuhay, the Robber" by Ivan Olbrakht and the fairy tale "Abu Kasym's Slippers" by Ivan Franko. In addition, family photographs, documents, and a series of portraits of Leopold Levytskyi created by Lviv photographer Oleh Vvedensky are presented.

A separate hall presents the works of Stepan Makovskyi - portraits, landscapes, still lifes, sculptural wooden portraits, root plastic, and monotypes.

The museum also exhibits the works of local artists and hosts solo exhibitions.

The People`s Lepky Family Museum was opened in the village of Zhukiv next to the previously erected monument to Bohdan Lepky in 1995 on the initiative of a local teacher, local historian and composer Vasyl Podufalyi with the help of the Lepky family from the USA.

The Lepky family annually conducted cultural and educational activities in the Berezhany region, in particular in Zhukiv, where they lived from 1891 to 1901.

The five exhibition halls of the museum present unique exhibits about the Lepky family, the sons of Father Sylvester Bohdan, Mykola, Levko and other family members.