Recently, among fans of domestic tourism there has been a surge of interest in small towns and villages that have preserved a distinctive culture and historical landmarks. The settlement of Velykyi Liubin lies 20 kilometres south-west of Lviv and has a whole list of architectural and natural landmarks, for which 3-4 hours are enough to see them. The chronicle town of Liubin has been known since the 13th century; it was repeatedly destroyed by wars, destroyed again by the enemy after being rebuilt, but time and again it was reborn. The owners of the lands and the castle changed; it was passed down by inheritance, given as a dowry, and even lost at cards. In this settlement with a population of 4,500, the memory of the locality's formation and development has been preserved. In the eastern part of the settlement, on Zamkova Street, stands a palace founded on the site of a 17th-century castle.
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| Velykyi Liubin. The Brunicki palace-estate |
Rebuilt at the beginning of the 20th century, the palazzo belonged to the family of the oil producer Baron Brunicki. In 1962 the estate was taken over by a specialised children's boarding school. The neo-Baroque palace, with family coats of arms on its facade, was restored in 2007 thanks to the patronage of a Swiss citizen, Father Robert Gots.
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| Velykyi Liubin. The Brunicki palace-estate |
Ancient trees surround the estate, and the park has the status of a monument of landscape-gardening art.
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| Velykyi Liubin. The park landmark around the Brunicki palace |
At the corner of Zamkova and Lvivska streets, the oldest church in Velykyi Liubin draws attention. The founder, Adolf Brunicki, had wooden structures brought from the Boiko Carpathians and built the Church of St. Nicholas on the site of a previous shrine. The low three-domed structure is topped by lanterns with spires.
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| Velykyi Liubin. The wooden Church of St. Nicholas. 1854 |
The church complex includes a three-tiered bell tower with a pyramidal roof. A stone cross and a wooden cross were erected in memory of important events, including for the 950th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus-Ukraine.
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| Velykyi Liubin. The bell tower and crosses on the church grounds |
The small prayer house could not hold all the faithful, and in 1993 the cornerstone of a stone church was laid, in whose construction enterprises, organisations, the community, and the diaspora took part.
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| Velykyi Liubin. The new Church of St. Nicholas. 2000. UGCC |
The central Lvivska Street, part of the H 13 Lviv-Sambir-Uzhhorod highway, crosses the settlement from west to east and impresses with its traditional Galician buildings.
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| Velykyi Liubin. Lvivska Street. Residential buildings |
The Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was built with voluntary donations in 1993. The cruciform structure is crowned by five domes.
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| Velykyi Liubin. The Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas. 1993 |
In the very centre of the settlement rises the Church of Our Lady of Czestochowa, to whose construction the Brunicki family contributed. Built on the eve of the Second World War, in Soviet times the church served as a collective-farm granary and a garage for agricultural machinery.
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| Velykyi Liubin. The Church of Our Lady of Czestochowa. 1937 |
In 2004, the Lviv Municipal Machinery Plant donated a monument to the national poet, which was erected on the main street.
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| Velykyi Liubin. Monument to T. H. Shevchenko |
The hydrogen-sulphide springs in Velykyi Liubin were known as early as the 16th century, which spurred the opening of healing baths. The Brunicki family expanded this health resort of the Lviv aristocracy, building resort blocks, a hydrotherapy clinic, and hotels. One of the healing springs bears the name of the resort founder's son - "Adolf".
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| Velykyi Liubin. The sanatorium |
The mineral-water well is a hydrological natural monument.
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| Velykyi Liubin. The mineral-water well |
The Orthodox chapel is consecrated in honour of Faith, Hope, Love, and their mother Sophia, and has the status of an architectural monument.
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| Velykyi Liubin. The Orthodox chapel on the sanatorium grounds |
A hallmark of this balneological and cardiological sanatorium can be said to be the sculpture on a flower bed created on a former fountain basin. According to various versions, these could be heroes of epics and fairy tales - Kotyhoroshko, Kyrylo Kozhumiaka, or Samson - who fought a dragon.
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| Velykyi Liubin. A sculpture on the sanatorium grounds |
As old as the resort is the park - a monument of landscape-gardening art - in which ancient plane trees, larches, beeches, poplars, and lindens grow.
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| Velykyi Liubin. The park landmark on the sanatorium grounds |
You can get to Velykyi Liubin by the suburban Lviv-Sianky train or by the Sambir-Lviv bus.
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| Velykyi Liubin. A mural in the sanatorium building |
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