Tourist and local history expedition to the Carpathian region of the college student community

During the excursion, students visited village of Zarvanytsia. For Christians all over the world, Zarvanytsia is well known for its miraculous icon and healing spring, near which the Mother of God appeared. Now the Zarvanytsia Spiritual Center has been built on this site - a complex of church buildings with the Cathedral of the Zarvanytsia Mother of God, belonging to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. Every year hundreds of thousands of pilgrims come here on pilgrimage. Also visited the city Ivano-Frankivsk —economic and cultural center Carpathian Mountains. One of the three main centers of the historical and geographical region Galicia. Named 1962 year in honor of Ivan Franko. The next stop was the city of Yaremche — a climatic resort and center of "green" tourism in the Carpathian region and the entire Hutsul region. We did not forget about the souvenir fair (at the Yaremche fairs you can buy products of folk crafts and handicrafts of the Hutsul region - embroidered shirts, dresses, towels, gerdans (women's jewelry woven from beads), products made of sheepskin and wool (beds, fur coats, Hutsul carpets), ceramic and clay dishes, many children's wooden toys). We also visited Dovbush Trail in Yaremche is an amazing art and memorial complex that begins in a protected area called "Dribka". The ski resort was also not bypassed Bukovel. And also village of Kryvorivnya, known in Ukraine, first of all, thanks to the outstanding Ukrainian writer, politician and public figure Ivan Franko. Ivan Yakovych, at the invitation of the famous folklorist of the Hutsul region Volodymyr Hnatyuk, first came to Kryvorivna at the end of the century before last, later he chose Kryvorivna for his permanent summer vacation and came here almost every summer with his family for 12 years. Lesya Ukrainka, Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi, Hnat Khotkevych, Vasyl Stefanyk, Marko Cheremshina, Konstantin Stanislavskyi and many others also rested in Kryvorivna. It was here that Kotsiubynskyi wrote the story “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors”, and half a century later, Sergei Paradzhanov shot his famous film with the same name. On the way home, we stopped by Monastyryska – a city in Ternopil region. It has several interesting monuments. A very beautiful and successful series of busts of figures who participated in the construction of the statehood of Ukraine: Volodymyr the Great, Yaroslav the Wise, Dmytro Vyshnevetsky-Bayda, Petro Konashevych-Sagaydachny, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Ivan Mazepa, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Symon Petliura, Stepan Bandera. Further, on the main street, a huge building of a tobacco factory appears. It was founded as early as 1797, by the Italian nobleman Karl Baco de Gotte (by the way, the owner of Monastyryski from 1844 to 1867), as the State Tobacco and Cigarette Factory (the first in Galicia); the main architectural dominant is the church, built by Josip Potocki during the time when Monastyryski was owned by them.