Attractions of Lviv region

The palace in Tulyholove was built in 1899 by the Galician nobleman Stanislav Bal (Ball).

The project of the palace in the French Neo-Renaissance style was developed by the Lviv architect Vladyslav Halytskyi (according to another version, Ferdinand Fellner and Herman Helmer, the authors of the Odesa Opera). The rich sculptural design of the building was executed by master Petro Herasimovych.

The park and two outbuildings have also been preserved.

Since 1954, a tuberculosis dispensary was located in the Bal`s manor. In 2022, the palace was handed over to the Historical and Local Lore Museum in Vynnyky.

The memorial museum-manor of the family of the outstanding Ukrainian politician, leader of the OUN, Stepan Bandera, was opened in Stryi for the 101st anniversary of his birth. It is part of the Stryi Local Lore Museum "Verkhovyna".

The exhibition, which is mostly devoted to the school years of young Stepan, is located in the house of his grandfather Mykhaylo Bandera, where he lived while studying from 1919 to 1927 at the Stryi Gymnasium.

Also, the exposition of the house-museum tells about all the members of the large Bandera family, each of whom in one way or another participated in the struggle for Ukrainian independence. Documents, photographs, personal belongings are presented.

A square named after Stepan Bandera has been opened in front of the house.

The Zolochiv Monastery of the Basilian Order was founded in 1567, and was then located 10 kilometers east of Zolochiv (now the village of Monastyrok).

Soon it was destroyed by the Tatars, but in 1665 it was restored by Yan Sobesky, the future king of Poland.

In 1704, Teodor Yavorskyi founded a new monastery with the Church of the Ascension - on the current site, on the western outskirts of Zolochiv. In 1740, the two monasteries were united into one Greek-Catholic Basilian monastery. In the 1840s and 1860s, the complex was rebuilt in stone at the expense of Countess Lukiya Komarnytska.

In Soviet times, a tuberculosis dispensary was located on the territory of the monastery.

Currently, it is an active monastery of the Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ of the Basilian Order of Saint Josaphat.

The Basilian Monastery of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Drohobych is one of the best examples of sacred architecture in the city of the 19th century.

The monastery was founded in 1775. The current complex was built in 1828 on the initiative of hegumenYosafat Kachanovsky, after the old wooden Peter and Paul monastery of the Basilian fathers burned down.

During the Soviet rule, the monastery was closed, many monks were tortured in the torture chambers of the NKVD.

Since 1992, the Basilian Monastery of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Drohobych has been operating again.

The Bear Sanctuary "Domazhyr" in the village of Zhornyska was founded in 2017 on the initiative of the international animal protection organization Four Paws as a rehabilitation center for rescuing brown bears. Bears that have suffered from various forms of cruel treatment are rehabilitated here.

The shelter is located on 20 hectares of forest next to the territory of the Yavorivskyi National Nature Park. About 30 bears are kept here in conditions as close to natural as possible. Each animal has its own personal enclosure with an area of ​​​​about a thousand square meters with swimming pools, artificial dens and play structures.

Special tourist paths have been built between the enclosures, so everyone can observe how brown bears live in the wild. The exhibition room "Two Worlds" shows the terrible conditions of keeping and exploitation of bears in captivity against the background of contrast - happy animals in their natural environment.

Excursions are held by appointment and with a limited number of visitors on the territory.

The wooden Church of the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist in Horodok is a sample of Galician folk architecture, one of the oldest Orthodox churches in Galicia.

Saint John's Church was founded in 1403 in the Cherlyanskyi suburb near the town of Horodok. It burned twice in the 17th and 18th centuries. It was rebuilt in its current form in 1755.

The wall painting was made by the artist Fedir Shcherbokoskyi in 1861. A small stone chapel of the Beheading of the Head of John the Baptist is attached to the church. In 1863, a three-tiered stone bell tower was built, which became a symbol of the city.

In Soviet times, the church was inactive, but in 1980 a complete restoration was carried out, which saved it from destruction.

The Church of John the Baptist in Horodok has the status of an architectural monument of national significance. Today it is an active church of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The active Lviv synagogue "Beis Aharon ve-Israel" (translated from Hebrew - "House of Aaron and Israel") is located near the railway station.

The building, built in 1897, originally belonged to Moses Grifeld, a member of the Tsori Gilod Jewish Society.

In 1923-1925, according to the project of the architect Albert Kornbluth, the building was rebuilt as a synagogue. The two halls of the prayer house were designed for 384 seats. The central lamp of the main hall is decorated with a stained glass window in the form of a Star of David. The walls were painted by the artist Maximilian Kugel.

During the Second World War, the building was not damaged - it housed a warehouse.

Since 1989, the service has been resumed. The restoration was carried out in 2007. In the interior of the "Beis Aharon ve-Israel" synagogue, a polychrome painting has been preserved. The synagogue has a kosher kitchen and a mikvah.

The ensemble of the Benedictine monastery in Lviv - the church and the monastery building - was built with the participation of the architect Pavlo Rymlyanin. It has a pronounced defensive character.

The Church of All Saints is a small stone building, rectangular in plan. Adjacent to the south-eastern part is a two-story building of cells, which has preserved techniques and elements of Renaissance architecture. The complex is surrounded by walls with baroque gates of the 17th century.

Today it is an active Holy Intercession Monastery of the Sisters of the Studio Statute.

The monastery of the Bernardine order in Lviv with the church of Saint Andrew the First-Called in the 17th century was a separate fortification unit outside the city.

The Bernardine Monastery was surrounded by a moat, a rampart and a defensive wall, which is partially preserved, with a tower of the Hlynyansky Gate overlooking the Customs Square. Powerful monastery fortifications were connected with a ring of city walls.

The Church of Saint Andrew was built in the years 1600-1630 according to the project of architects Bernard Avelides and Pavlo Rymlyanin in the Renaissance style. The lush interior is made in the Baroque style, there are many wooden altars of the 18th century. The decorative column in front of the facade was installed in 1736 in honor of Saint John of Dukla, the patron saint of the Bernardines.

The premises of the Bernardine Monastery now belong to the Central State Archives of Lviv, and the church of Andrew the First-Called was handed over to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

The current building of the maternity hospital in the southwestern part of Lviv is the former Jewish hospital Beth Hulim, built by the famous doctor Yakiv Rappoport at the expense of the Mavrytsiy Lazarus Foundation.

The monumental building is designed in the Moorish style and decorated with Eastern and European symbols. In terms of architectural and visual solutions, the hospital resembles the largest synagogue in Eastern Europe in Budapest.

The author of the project of the 100-bed hospital was the well-known Lviv architect Kazymyr Moklovsky, who collaborated with the architectural and construction bureau of Ivan Levynsky, which implemented the project.

Bohdan Khmelnytskyi Central Park of Culture and Rest is located in the central part of Lviv, on the slope of the hill between Stryiska, Heroiv Maidanu, Vitovskoho and Zarytskyh streets. A recreation and entertainment zone existed here as early as the 19th century.

The modern park was laid out in 1951 and arranged according to the Soviet traditions of creating typical parks of culture and rest for working people. From those times, the central avenue with a length of more than 800 meters, the colonnade of the central entrance and the premises of the "Druzhba" cinema have been preserved. In 1970, the central entrance was decorated with fountains.

Since 1984, the Park of Culture has the status of a monument of garden and park art of local importance. There is a children's entertainment zone "Zhu-Zhu Park" and a park of moving dinosaur figures on the territory.

Street cafes and restaurants are open. Various festivals and fairs are held regularly.

The Boryslav History and Local Lore Museum was founded in 1987 on the initiative of the local local historian Mykola Kryzhanovsky.

It is located in the building of the former department of the NKVD, where victims of repression were shot during the establishment of Soviet power in the region.

The museum's funds include more than 5,000 exhibits. Minerals, flora and fauna of Prykarpattya are presented in the nature department.

The most interesting exhibits of the historical department: fragments of an ancient Rus bracelet and a silver hryvnia, a wooden grain barrel made of solid wood, a fire pump of the end of the 19th century, tools and personal belongings of oil miners, a painting by the German artist Romuald Volkel "Old Boryslav" (1918).

Paintings by modern artists are exhibited.

The monument to the Boyko Trembitars was erected in 1985 at the entrance to the town of Skole in the "Kolodka" tract on the "Tukholski Vorota" pass in the Skolivsky Beskids.

A sculptural composition in the form of a stele, at the foot of which are two trumpeter boys, is installed above the M-06 highway "Kyiv - Chop".

At the time of its opening, the monument was dedicated to the liberation of Skole from the German-fascist occupation. A figure of a Soviet soldier was installed on the ceiling. In 2016, the monument was restored, the fallen figure was replaced by a sculpture of Archstrategist Mykhaylo.

A recreation area "Kolodka" has been arranged near the monument.

The People's Bread Museum of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God operates in the premises of the dormitory of the Lviv Automobile and Road Vocational College. It was founded in 1987 on the initiative of the honored teacher of Ukraine Bohdan Neporadnyi.

The exposition in 16 rooms highlights the history of the agricultural culture of the Slavs, tells about the importance of bread in human life, demonstrates the process of baking different types of bread. In total, more than 1,500 exhibits are placed on an area of ​​300 square meters.

The leading place in the exhibition is occupied by the ethnographic collection, which represents the culture and life of Ukrainian bread-growing peasants. These are work tools, household items, embroidered clothes, jewelry. Samples of varieties of grain crops and samples of bread and bakery products are also presented.

The monastery of the Brigids sisters was founded in Sambir in 1621 by the Polish magnate Mykola Danylovych from Zhuriv.

On the hill at the intersection of today's Ivana Franko and Stepana Bandery streets, he erected a brick and stone monastery, a church, and farm buildings. The complex was surrounded by walls and moats, had a defensive tower, and therefore it was included in the defense system of the city. The monastery complex is built in the form of a horseshoe - the southern shoulder forms a church, and the western and northern - monastery premises.

In 1782, the Austrian authorities liquidated the Brigids monastery, military warehouses and stores were placed in its premises. Since 1946, a sewing factory has been located in the monastery buildings, and a military hospital has been located in the pompous building of the treasury, which was added to them in 1905.