From the first day of the Russian invasion Truskavets turned into a refuge and evacuation haven for Ukrainians who have suffered from the war. The community took in displaced people from the front-line territories, housed them temporarily, and provided food and necessities to those in need. The people of Truskavets united, set up a humanitarian headquarters, and keep receiving refugees and giving every kind of support to those arriving from the hot spots. The number of displaced people has exceeded the local population and the infrastructure is overstretched, but the townspeople are coping and try to help everyone who needs it.
Truskavets. Lviv region
The war will end, and holidaymakers will come to Truskavets again for treatment and to explore the cultural heritage of this Subcarpathian town.
One of Ukraine's finest balneological resorts is famed for the wide choice and high quality of its health treatments, and is also ready to surprise you with exceptional monuments of architecture and nature. The town has created every condition for preserving its historical and cultural heritage and for popularising the region's history among guests and tourists.
Truskavets. Torosevych Boulevard
The resort's history started in 1827 with the appearance of the spa salon's forefather — a room with hydrogen-sulphide baths annexed to a tavern. The main treatment is still the mineral-water cure, and pump room No. 1, built in 1960, is the health resort's calling card. Its halls, with dispensers fed from the natural springs Naftusia, Bronislava, Maria and Sofia, are decorated with relief panels depicting national scenes and local landmarks.
Truskavets. Pump room No. 1
All the sights, with protected status or without it, can be seen during a two-to-three-hour promenade around the small resort, and all of them are chronicle witnesses of the growth of Truskavets.
Truskavets. The colonnade
Almost 200 years of Truskavets history and wealth are kept in the luxurious Sirius villa, which has housed a museum since 1982.
Truskavets. The Museum of the History of Truskavets
The Mykhailo Bilas Art Museum occupies the Hoplana villa, which belonged to Raymund Jarosz, the resort's proprietor.
Truskavets. The Mykhailo Bilas Art Museum
One of the oldest villas was built using half-timbered (Fachwerk) construction and dates from 1848.
Truskavets. The Victoria villa
Not all the resort mansions have managed to keep their original appearance over time, and many have changed through rebuilding and commercialisation.
Truskavets. 5 Stebnytska Street
Truskavets. The Mozart villa
The tourist route will not leave out the places of worship.
Truskavets. The church of the Assumption of the Mother of God
Truskavets. The church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Mother of God
The church of St Nicholas was built in 1886 on the site of an ancient church whose history is documented from the 16th century.
Truskavets. The church of St Nicholas
The spring cap-houses, made in the form of bright pavilions, are considered historical monuments.
Truskavets. A wooden pavilion
Truskavets. The Edward spring
Truskavets. The Bronislava spring
Truskavets. A pavilion in the water-intake zone
Truskavets. The Yuzia spring
The mosaic panel on the facade of the Palace of Culture undoubtedly ranks among the monuments of monumental art. The 40-metre-long picture depicts scenes from the history of Ukraine.
Truskavets. The mosaic on the facade of the Palace of Culture
Monuments to the national poets form the core of the town's monumental stock, which is constantly replenished with new sculptural portraits.
Truskavets. Monument to Taras Shevchenko
Truskavets. Monument to Andrey Sheptytsky
Truskavets. Monument to Ivan Franko
Truskavets. The sculpture "Christ and the Samaritan Woman"
Truskavets. Bust of Adam Mickiewicz. 1898
Truskavets. Sculpture of the Mother of God
The Subcarpathian health resort is unthinkable without the Resort Park, where besides the plants usual for this climatic zone you can see other wonders – a tulip tree, a staghorn sumac, a Weymouth pine, a magnolia, a Japanese pagoda tree and other exotic specimens.
Truskavets. The park
The green oasis, which holds the status of a monument of landscape art, is adorned with stone statues whose meaning you sometimes have to puzzle out, racking your brain over the author's intent.
Truskavets. Park sculpture "The Two"
Truskavets. A park sculpture
Truskavets. Park sculpture "The Three"
Truskavets. Park sculpture "Under the Umbrella"
Truskavets. A park sculpture
Truskavets. The park
Among the resort's architectural landmarks of the Soviet period are the glass-and-concrete sanatoria Almaz and Krystal, where life was in full swing in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Truskavets. The Almaz sanatorium. 1975
Truskavets. The Krystal sanatorium. 1974
The derelict pump room No. 2, designed to water 10,000 resort guests at a time, was built in 1975.
Truskavets. Pump room No. 2. 1975
Next to the round building an auxiliary facility is crumbling – an underground public toilet, something never superfluous at a resort.
Truskavets. The public conveniences. 1975
The trading rows, dubbed the "Vernissage" for the artistic and decorative bent of their wares, may well count as a tourist attraction. Paintings of local landscapes, national dresses and shirts, wooden tableware, Hutsul crafts, colourful toys, knitwear, embroidered vyshyvankas, Carpathian honey, herbal teas and much else are bought by resort guests as keepsakes of their beloved Truskavets.
Truskavets. The trading rows
To get to know this hospitable land and its traditions, the excursion bureaus offer trips to Lviv, Mukachevo and Morshyn, to the Dovbush rocks, and a ride on the Carpathian Tram.
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