1. Tustan
Tustan is a rock-fortress city located in the village of Urich, Skole district, Lviv region.
The rocky wooden fortress of Tustan is located near the village of Urich on sandstone cliffs, 85 meters high. The rocks are complexed by the names: Kamin (Stone), Gostryj Kamin (Sharp Stone), Mala Skelya (Small Rock), Zholob (Trough). The defensive structure appeared in the ninth century as a customs and defense point founded by the tribes of the White Croats.
Tustan is not just a rock, but a unique historical and landscape complex, which has no analogs in Europe. During the IX-XVI centuries, there was a rock fortress-customs Tustan: ancient builders "built" wooden structures on the rocks. The wood has not survived to this day, and the grooves carved in the rocks, numerous signs and symbols on the stone can be seen even now.
2. Manyavsky Skete (monastery) and Manyavsky waterfall
Manyavsky monastery is located in the Manyava village, Bohorodchany district, Ivano-Frankivsk region, a waterfall - 5 km from the village in the woods. Manyava village is one of the sights of Prykarpattia. Here is the Manyavsky monastery - a defensive monastery, founded in the early XVII century by Job Knyagynytsky.
Ancient walls and towers, cells and dungeons have been preserved on the territory of the Manyavsky monastery. Nowadays, the church of Saints Boris and Gleb has been rebuilt from wood. Not far from the monastery there is a rock called "Blessed Stone" and a healing spring, from which once began the history of the monastery.
Five kilometers from the village, in a gorge in the middle of the forest is one of the highest waterfalls in the Carpathians - Manyavsky. The height of the water drop reaches 18 meters.
3. Vygodska narrow gauge - "the Carpathian Tram"
Another tourist attraction of Prykarpattia. It begins in Vyhoda, beyond the Valley. There is a unique for Ukraine narrow-gauge railway, where a sightseeing train runs - "Carpathian Tram". The idea of creating a tourist project based on a functioning wooden-narrow-gauge railway was realized in 2003, during the Boyko International Festival. Now the Carpathian Tram is very popular. Many Ukrainians, as well as guests of our country, now want to take a mini-train.
The train route starts in Vyhoda and runs into the mountains, along the river Mizunka. There are two routes - a shorter one, lasting 4 hours and ideal for families with children. And longer - almost the whole day, in which in addition to a train ride you can climb the Bald Mountain. It takes place only by prior arrangement.
In Vyhoda there is a very interesting museum "Heritage Center of Vyhoda Narrow Gauge Railway", which has no analogues in Ukraine. The museum was established in the former residence of Baron Popper, in one of the oldest buildings in the village of Vyhoda.
It's a unique museum - it is allowed to touch the exhibits, you can hear, smell, see a lot of interesting things. Here you can climb into a foxhole, a bird's hole, drive a train. The interactive exposition of the museum will not let adults or children get bored.
4. Mountain Pysanyj kamin
The height of the mountain Pysanyj Kamin is 1221 m above sea level, located within the Pokutsko-Bukovynian Carpathians. Pysanyj Kamin is one of the most beautiful and mysterious places in the Verkhovyna region, shrouded in legends and mystical figures.
This is a complex of picturesque rocks from 2 m to 20 m high. Some rock paintings date back to the times of Kyiv Rus. According to ancient legends, there was a pagan temple here.
The mountain is also called the place of power. Being here, you can feel the energy of this place, listen to legends and imagine the world in which our ancestors lived. Many figures of Ukrainian culture visited this place, including Ivan Franko, Lesya Ukrainka, Olga Kobylyanska, and Mykhailo Kotsyubynsky.
5. Ternoshorska Lada
Another place of power has appeared in the Kosiv district at a distance of 120 km from Ivano-Frankivsk. On the outskirts of Snidavka village in 2007, a professor of Prykarpatskyi National University Mykola Kuhutyak discovered an ancient rock sanctuary.
In the Ternoshory tract, there is a mountain with the same name and height of 989 m above sea level. On its southern slope there are huge stones of different configurations - you can look around and see the head of a lion, a dragon, a woman with outlined shapes. She is identified with the pagan goddess of fertility - Lada.
There are different opinions about Ternoshorska Lada. Some archaeologists are inclined to think that these are ordinary natural formations, which are abundant in the Carpathians. Natural elements gave the stone an unusual shape, they did not notice obvious traces of human processing. Only by visiting this place, you can form your vision of this interesting place.
In this article are used materials from Wikipedia and articles by Ivan Bondarev.
