Attractions of Ternopil district

The small country palace of the Potocki magnates, who in the 19th century owned the neighboring Berezhany, was built on the site of the Synyavskys' old hunting lodge.

At different times, guests of the estate were Prince Ferents Rakotsi, Hetman Ivan Mazepa, Tsar Peter I.

The current palace building in Rai, rebuilt at the beginning of the 19th century, is located on the territory of an abandoned landscape park.

For a long time, the premises were occupied by a children's sanatorium.

In 2022, the Potocki Palace became a shelter for people affected by Russian military aggression in Ukraine.

The palace and park complex in Mykulyntsi is one of the few examples of Empire style palace architecture preserved in Ukraine.

The palace was founded next to the Mykulyntsi Castle by Lyudvika Potocka in the 1760s. From the original building in the Palladian style (early classicism), the original wings have been preserved, connected to the palace by semicircular galleries.

In the middle of the 19th century, Baron Yan Konopka decided to create a balneological resort at the springs of hydrogen sulphide waters in Mykulyntsi. He thoroughly rebuilt the palace, giving it stricter features of late classicism (empire). The park facade of the building is decorated with an eight-pillar portico of the Corinthian order. From here, the landscape park descends steeply to the river, and the ruins of the castle adjoin it to the left. The front part of the palace is highlighted by a risalite with four wooden sculptures of Atlanteans and opens onto a regular parterre.

The last owner of the Mykulyntsi Palace was Countess Yuzefa Rey.

Currently, the Mykulyntsi Regional Physiotherapy Hospital is located here.

The huge church of Saint Anthony, which is the central building of the Bernardine monastery, is clearly visible from the castle hill.

The monastery was founded by Prince Yuriy Zbarazky in 1627, the construction of the original complex was completed in the 1650s by the efforts of Yanush Korybut-Vyshnivetskyi and his wife Yevheniya. In its current Renaissance-baroque form, the church was rebuilt in 1723-1755 at the expense of the Kyiv voivode Yuzef Potoski (architect Yan Hants). A philosophical school, then a gymnasium, and a hospital worked at the monastery.

During Soviet times, the complex was abandoned, but in 1990 it was returned to the Bernardine family. Restoration is underway, services are held.

The interior contains altars with sculptures by Anton Osinsky (18th century), fragments of frescoes from the 18th-19th centuries.

The Catholic Church of Saint Anthony' and Our Lady of the Holy Rosary in Strusiv was built in 1894 at the expense of Yuzef Holukhovsky, the owner of Strusiv at that time.

In 1902, this temple was consecrated under the title of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary. Construction was conducted under the leadership of Jan Lesyk and was completed in 1903. From 1945 to 1990, the Soviet authorities used the sanctuary as a granary.

A beautiful neo-Gothic building stretches to the sky with a high tower, which is crowned with a cross. There are two smaller towers on its sides. On both sides of the main entrance to the church there is a beautiful window in the shape of a rose. Gothic windows, tall and beautiful, decorate the building. In the highest tower of the temple there are a large and a small bell.

The ornate facade of the Saint Anthony's Church is decorated with pointed conical tops rising with thin crosses, as well as a three-tiered tower in which the central entrance to the church is located in the form of an arch. Today, the Saint Anthony's Church is in good condition and is an active temple.

The Roman Catholic Church of Saint Charbel was built in Baikivtsi in 1936 at the expense of the wealthy Fredberg and Nesolovsky families.

The temple in the Art Nouveau style is built of stone in the shape of a cross. An elegant belfry with a tented roof rises above the bevel. The entrance to the church is decorated with a portico with columns.

The Church of Saint Charbel is an architectural monument of local importance.

The Church of Saint Nicholas of the Basilian Monastery in Strusiv was built in the 17th century over an earlier cave temple.

In the 16th century, the castle of the Strusiv nobles stood on this well-protected place on the mountain slope in the Chortova Debrya tract. In the 19th century, the remains of the castle were dismantled, but the ramparts can still be traced. Next to the castle, the Basilian fathers founded a cave monastery in the 16th century, carving a cave temple with an altar in the rock. There were cave cells for monks.

Built in 1770, the Basilian Church of Saint Nicholas was transformed into the Latin Church of Saint Stanislaus in 1788, then it was abandoned for a long time. Currently restored, it belongs to the Greek-Catholic community of Strusiv

From here you can enjoy a wonderful panorama of the village with its architectural landmarks: the neo-Gothic church of Saint Anthony (1903) and the modern Greek Catholic church.

The Greek Catholic Church of Saint Nicholas in Strusiv was built in 1930 on the site of an old wooden church.

A bell tower in the form of a rotunda was built nearby.

The Church of Saint Nicholas is an architectural monument of local importance.

Skalat Castle is a rare example of a defense complex of the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Era in Ukraine, which has the correct geometric shapes.

The first mention of the fortification of Skalat dates back to 1503. Probably then it was a wooden fortress with earthen ramparts. The current stone castle in Skalat was founded in 1630 by the Galician swordsman Kshyshtof Vikhrovsky. He built a regular castle, almost square in plan, surrounded by a moat. At its corners are pentagonal four-tiered towers with loopholes in the form of keyholes. The basements of the towers can be reached through tunnels.

Skalat Castle was damaged during the Liberation War led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky and during the Polish-Turkish War of 1672-1675, as a result of which it lost its defensive significance. It was not until the end of the 18th century that it was rebuilt by the new mistress Mariya Shynionova of the Vodzitsky family. She ordered a two-storey palace building to be added to the eastern wall and the entrance gate to be magnificently decorated (not preserved).

At the end of the 19th century, at the expense of Count Morits Rozenshtok (Rostotsky), the architect Teodor Marian Talovsky from Lviv reconstructed the tower and the castle church in the neo-Gothic style. The buildings were badly damaged during the two world wars. In 1960, the ruins were preserved. Only after Skalat Castle became part of the "Castles of Ternopil Region" National Reserve, its restoration began.

Now the territory and the preserved buildings of the castle have been cleared, tents have been erected over the towers, a wooden bridge has been thrown over the defensive moat, the central part of the courtyard is paved with cobblestones. In two towers there is an art gallery and a historical exposition, where you can see the firearms of the fortress of the XV-XVII centuries. In the basement there is an exposition of the castle prison. On the defensive walls there are pedestrian detours to see the panorama of the castle and the town. Thematic festivals with knightly battles are held.

The world's first monument to the outstanding opera singer Solomiya Krushelnytska was erected in Ternopil in 2010.

A full-length bronze cast figure of the prim. The monument is 3.8 meters high and weighs 3.5 tons.

The authors of the composition are sculptor Volodymyr Stasyuk (Rivne) and architect Isabella Tkachuk, who worked together with Ternopil artists Danylo Chepil and Anatoliy Vodopyan.

Until now, the memory of the Ukrainian singer Solomiya Krushelnytska, who was born in Ternopil, was immortalized only by busts in Lviv and Milan, where she performed at the La Scala theater.

A monument to the head of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), the leader of Ukrainian nationalists, Stepan Bandera, was erected in Ternopil in 2008 to mark the 100th anniversary of his birth.

It is located in Tarasa Shevchenko Park, opposite the building of the Ternopil Regional State Administration.

The author of the monument to Stepan Bandera in Ternopil is the Ternopil sculptor Roman Vilhushynsky.

The ruins of the Terebovlia Castle are located on a hard-to-reach mountain in the northwestern part of Terebovlia. This is one of the objects of the National Reserve "Castles of Ternopil Region".

Fortifications existed here even in princely times, when the settlement was owned by Prince Vasylko Rostyslavych. By building a new royal castle in 1366, the Polish king Kazymyr III approved Terebovlia as a border fortress of the Polish state.

The last rebuilding of the fortress was carried out in 1631 by the city mayor Oleksandr Balaban. It had an irregular shape, consisted of three towers, defensive walls, ditches and ramparts on the most vulnerable northern side.

The Terebovlia castle survived several Tatar raids. It became famous during the heroic defense in 1675, when the commandant's wife Zofiya Khshanovska managed to raise the fighting spirit of the city defenders who were preparing to surrender, and the castle withstood the Turkish siege (in the 18th century, grateful residents erected a monument to Khshanovska, which was later lost and restored in 2012 year).

The last Tatar siege in 1687 turned out to be fatal - the Terebovlia castle was burned and was not rebuilt after that. In the 1930s, the ruins were preserved, a park was laid out on the defensive ramparts (commemorative plaques with the names of patrons were mounted in the castle wall). The best-preserved oval tower (bastei) "Rondel", from which a wonderful panorama of the city opens.

Ternopil Castle was founded in 1540 by the Grand Crown Hetman Yan Tarnovskyi on the site of the ancient Rus settlement of Sopilche (Topilche) to defend the Polish borders from the Tatars.

In the 17th century, the Grand Crown Chancellor Tomash Zamoyskyi significantly expanded the fortifications, but in the following years they were repeatedly destroyed. In particular, the Ternopil castle was almost completely dismantled by the Turks after the capture of the city in 1672.

At the beginning of the 19th century, Count Frantsishek Korytovskyi built a palace in its place, for which the surviving fortifications, towers and gates were demolished, and the building was surrounded by an ordinary fence. Some castle elements have been preserved.

During the First World War, the palace was burned and was in ruins for a long time. Renovated in 1951, it houses exhibition halls and a training and sports center.

From the street the Ternopil castle building looks inconspicuous, but from the side of the lake its fortification character is well visible.

The "Museum of the City of Ternopil" was opened in the dungeons of the castle.

The Great Pond in the center of the city of Ternopil was created at the initiative of Crown Hetman Yan Tarnovsky during the construction of the Ternopil Castle.

For this purpose, the channel of the Seret River was dammed. The area of the Ternopil pond is about 300 hectares. In addition to protective, it also performed an economic function - it was used for breeding fish.

Currently, Ternopil Pond has become surrounded by parks, which are a favorite place for walks among the citizens.

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 lore 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 Yaroslav and Slava Stetsko People's Historical and Memorial Museum was opened in 2002 in the village of Velykyi Hlybochok in the oldest (1773) building of the village - the former parish house, in which in 1912 the future ideologist of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, leader of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Peoples, Prime Minister of the Ukrainian State Government Yaroslav Stetsko was born.

The organizer and founder of the museum is Myron Sahaidak, who became interested in Stetsko's biography after meeting his uncle Vasyl when he returned from Siberia, and after meeting Slava Stetsko in 1991, when she came to visit her husband's native village.

The museum's exposition reflects the life and struggle of Yaroslav Stetsko himself, as well as his wife and long-time associate - Slava Stetsko. The museum exhibits paint a detailed picture of Yaroslav Stetsko's childhood - photographs of the Stetsko family home, Yaroslav's father-priest and mother, his first nanny, brother and sister, and high school friends. The exhibition includes more than a hundred original exhibits related to the life and activities of the Stetskos, in particular - personal belongings of Mr. Yaroslav, which were transferred by Slava Stetsko from Munich, and those that Myron Sahaidak himself collected from everywhere, many interesting photographs, letters, and documents.

The main exhibit of the museum is Yaroslav Stetsko's embroidered shirt, which his wife Slava Stetsko embroidered for him in 1944 in Munich in order to support his wounded husband.

In 2018, the Yaroslav and Slava Stetsko People's Historical and Memorial Museum in the village of Velykyi Hlybochok became part of the museum complex "Museum of the National Liberation Struggle of the Ternopil Region".