Prutets Chemyhivskyi. A Carpathian River, a Blue Ribbon

Great rivers absorb numerous streams along their course and are fed by the resources of small rivers. The Prutets Chemyhivskyi river is a right tributary and one of the main tributaries of the Prut, in the Danube basin. 

 

Prutets Chemyhivskyi, Nadvirna district, Ivano-Frankivsk region

Yasinia. A Cultural Centre of Transcarpathia

Yasinia is a settlement in the south-west of the Transcarpathian region, 30 kilometres from the district centre of Rakhiv. The nearby Chornohora and Svydovets ranges attract tourists in both winter and summer.

 

Yasinia, Rakhiv district, Transcarpathian region

Shchyrets. The Kirkut, Heritage of a Galician Town

Before the Second World War, Shchyrets was considered one of the centres of Jewish life in Galicia. The old Jewish cemetery on the eastern edge of the settlement is part of the cultural and historical heritage of a vanished Jewish community.

 

Shchyrets, Lviv region. The Jewish cemetery

Polonyna Zalomysta. A Rest Stop Through the Seasons

The village of Mykulychyn is the starting point for well-known tourist routes tackled by experienced peak-conquerors and novice travellers alike.

 

Polonyna Zalomysta. May

Loieva. A Railway Station Condemned to Oblivion

Loieva is a passenger halt in the village of the same name in the Nadvirna district of the Ivano-Frankivsk region. It lies between the stations of Nadvirna and Deliatyn on the Ivano-Frankivsk-Deliatyn line and belongs to the Lviv Railway.

 

Loieva. The abandoned railway station

Stare Selo. A Renaissance Castle and Its Residents

Even if you have already seen it, or on the contrary have never heard a thing about it, you will certainly slow down beside this grand castle as you drive along the highway through Stare Selo, one of the ancient settlements of the Lviv region. The road and the railway curve in an arc around the great defensive structure, and in the trains and cars the passengers, pressed to the windows, just manage to admire the surviving remains of the medieval fortress.

 

Stare Selo, Lviv region. The 17th-century castle

Obroshyne. The Archbishops' Palace

To see the true state of an architectural monument, you have to approach it from the rear. More often than not, the front façades are freshened up to pull the wool over your eyes, while in the back yard mismanagement and neglect hold sway. In the fence of the archbishops' palace in Obroshyne, in the Lviv region, the local people, to cut a corner, removed a section of the fence and made a short cut to the centre of the village. Following the Obroshyne folk along the park path, your gaze will open onto a view of this 18th-century architectural monument from a different angle.

 

Lviv. The Science Museum. A Fantastic Journey

This museum is not like its counterparts in the usual sense — a tour of the displays in quiet halls in the company of a guide. At the Lviv Science Museum you can explore the exhibits with the help of integrated programmes. The museum and education centre opened its doors on 25 December 2022 at 200a Stryiska Street, in a two-storey building specially constructed for the purpose, with a floor area of 2,200 square metres.

Mount Yablunytsia. A Three-Hour Walk with a Kolyba Lunch

                                                                  And from the Carpathian summer floats the voice of the trembita

Mount Yablunytsia is one of the eleven peaks that shape the landscape of the high-mountain resort of the same name — Yablunytsia, in the Nadvirna district of the Ivano-Frankivsk region.

 

Mount Yablunytsia near the Yablunytsia Pass, in the village of Yablunytsia

Deliatyn. The Jewish Cemetery and Its Chronicle

In Europe, Jewish cemeteries are not merely included in tourist routes — Jewish necropolises are entered on the UNESCO World Heritage lists. In Ukraine, the mass Jewish burial sites are places of remembrance of a particular person, and also of the Jewish people as a whole and the events bound up with it. Kirkuty — as Jewish cemeteries are called in Western Ukraine — are the cultural heritage of their communities and a part of the history of our country. The Deliatyn Jewish necropolis is in the northern part of the town, west of the main road, the H09, on Pohribnych Street.

 

Deliatyn, Ivano-Frankivsk region. The Jewish cemetery