Attractions of Lviv region

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.

The Austrian fort in Briukhovychi was built in 1912 on Zyavlenska Hora, at the foot of which passes the road to Lviv.

On the western edge of the mountain there are 4 covered brick galleries with a reinforced concrete floor. Two of them are straight, and two are curved in a quarter circle. Rifle galleries have wide loopholes connected by trenches. At the top of the fort there is a gun shelter. From the east, the complex is protected by earth fortifications.

Fort "Zyavlenska Hora" in Briukhovychi did not take an active part in hostilities. The Russian army during the offensive bypassed the fort from the flanks, and the garrison left it. Later, the fortifications were used during the Ukrainian-Polish war of 1918-1919 and during the defense of Lviv in 1939.

A powerful citadel was built in Brody by Crown Hetman Stanislav Konetspolsky in 1630-1635 on the site of the old castle.

The complex with a defensive rampart and a system of casemates in the shape of an octagon was designed by Hiyom de Boplan based on the bastions of Dutch and Italian fortresses. The construction work of Brody Castle was supervised by the Italian architect Andrea del Akva. In 1648, the fortress withstood a siege by the troops of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi.

In the middle of the 18th century, Stanislav Potoski reconstructed the fortress, which had lost its strategic importance, into his own residence. The Rococo-style Potoski Palace has been preserved in the courtyard.

Until recently, Brody Castle was in the hands of the military, as a result of which it fell into serious disrepair. Now the palace houses a boarding school, tours of the castle are conducted by employees of the Brody Museum of Local History.

The Brody Gymnasium was founded in 1865. The construction of the current building in the style of classicism began in 1881, and the first classes were held in 1883.

During both world wars, the building was used as a barracks and a hospital. In the post-war period, it was returned to its main purpose - secondary school No. 1 was opened here.

In 1997, a gymnasium was revived on the basis of the school, which was named after a former graduate, the outstanding Ukrainian artist Ivan Trush. The classic of Austrian literature Yozef Rot, General of the Ukrainian Galician Army Myron Tarnavskyi also studied here.

The museum of the Brody Grammar School operates in five sections: "Austrian Grammar School named after Archduke Rudolf", "Polish Grammar School named after Yuzef Kozhenevsky", "Secondary School No. 1", "Revived Grammar School named after Ivan Trush", "Faces in the History of the Grammar School".

Busk City Hall is an architectural landmark of the city center. It was built only in 1999, although the traditions of self-government in the city are very old - it received Magdeburg law in 1411, one of the first in Galicia.

The current building of the city hall was built on the site of the county court, which housed the Gestapo during the Second World War.

Today, the city council and the tax inspectorate are located here. In 2011, a clock made by the famous Lviv craftsman Oleksiy Burnayev was installed on the tower of the city hall. The clock's repertoire includes 12 melodies that play every hour. At noon, the national anthem of Ukraine plays.

Nearby is the new Peter and Paul Church (1998).

The Buvet "Hrybok" is the main source of "Morshynska" mineral water, which has become a hallmark of the resort due to its characteristic architecture.

Depicted on the coat of arms of the city and on the label of bottled mineral water "Morshynska".

The Buvet "Hrybok" was opened in 1935 in the central park of Morshyn, it is designed to serve 6 thousand people. Preparation and heating of therapeutic concentrations of mineral waters is carried out in a special department of the pump room under the constant control of the hydrochemical laboratory.

Nearby "from the hands of the mermaid" flows weakly mineralized water of spring No. 4 - "The Mother of God". Nearby is a large closed pavilion of the resort-wide mineral water pumping station, as well as the resort-wide balneo-gyrazeli.

Throughout the park there are many sculptures on an antique theme.