Yaremche

Yaremche was founded in 1787 by Hutsul Yarema Godovanets, who was the first to live in the modern city. Today, the city is part of the Carpathian National Nature Park and is the most famous lowland climate and ski resort, tourist and recreational center of Ivano-Frankivsk region and the entire Carpathian region. Yaremche is surrounded by mountains, which in the north and south turn into picturesque hills covered with dense coniferous and deciduous forests. There are numerous sanatoriums, including those for patients with pulmonary tuberculosis, rest homes, tourist centers and hotels.

Yaremche became one of the first resorts in the Carpathians at the end of the XIX century. A railroad was laid here to reach Vienna. The first 50 wooden and brick villas were built here. Later, the Yaremche Club was created. They marked routes, hiked in the mountains, improved tourist locations, and arranged places for fishing.

During the Soviet period, the villages of Dora and Yamna were annexed to Yaremche and are now neighborhoods of the city. In 1977, Yaremche was granted the status of a city of regional subordination and the town of Vorokhta and the villages of Tatariv, Mykulychyn, Yablunytsia, Voronenko, and Polianytsia were added to its boundaries. Therefore, the entire territory of Yaremche with its subordinate settlements is called the territory of the Yaremche City Council. Today, Yaremche is the most developed resort and tourist center in the Carpathian region.

Yaremche and the region are located in a hollow of mountains, within the Gorgany (mountains with asymmetrical slopes and sharp mountain crests). Yaremche is located in the southwestern part of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast and occupies the central part of the Ukrainian Carpathians within the Gorgany, Pokutsko-Bukovyna Carpathians, and Chornohora mountain ranges. The heights of the mountains range from 400 m to 1542 m. Yaremche is surrounded by mountains on all sides: the Yavirnyk Range to the south and southwest, Shchyvka, Chornohorytsia, Synyachok to the west, and Makovytsia to the east.

The natural landscape of Yaremche:

• The nearest mountains are Yavirnyk-Horgan (1432 m), Makovytsia (985 m), Velyka Rokyta (1100 m), Dovbushanka (1755 m), Sinyachka (1401 m);
• The Prut River (one of the largest rivers in the Hutsul region, 910 km long). The Prut tributaries are Zhonka, Bagrivets, Chornohirchyk, Kamyanka, Yavirnyk, and Boyarsky;
• Probiy, Zhonka, and Maiden's Tears waterfalls;
• Recreation areas - "Aviaries" (deer, roe deer), "Zhonka".

Tourist services of the city:

• Cycling;
• ATV tours;
• Car tours (off-road vehicles, UAZ and GAZ-66)
• Mountain and hiking tourism;
• Ski tourism;
• Equestrian tourism;
• Water tourism;
• Excursions in the Carpathians;
• Rental centers;
• Rafting.

Tourist attractions:

• Waterfalls "Probiy", "Zhonka", "Maiden's Tears";
• Yaremche Canyon;
• Pereslip pass;
• Elephant Rock
• Dovbush's stone;
• Dovbush's rocks;
• Museum named after Metropolitan A. Sheptytsky;
• Museum of Ethnography and Ecology of the Carpathian Region;
• Hutsulshchyna tourist center;
• an architectural monument - the wooden restaurant "Hutsulshchyna", made without a single nail;
• 2 souvenir markets of Hutsul folk art;
• 2 mineral water springs;
• an aviary with deer and roe deer.

Tourist routes:

• To the Hoverla mountain;
• from Hoverla through the waterfall;
• Dovbush trail;
• To Mount Khomyak;
• To Mount Pip Ivan;
• To Mount Makovytsia;
• To the Yavirnyk meadow and Mount Yavirnyk-Gorgan;
• To Mount Klyva and Mount Sinyachka and the Shchivka meadow;
• From Dora to Mount Klyva;
• To Mount Zmeina;
• To Mt;
• To the White Stone;
• Recreational routes of Yaremche - "Kamianka" (5 km), "Our Friend Nature" (2 km);
• Yaremche - ski trail (Bagrivets stream, 1.5 km);
• water route of the Prut River (Yamnyansky water slalom, 2.5 km).

Churches, monasteries, architectural monuments:

• Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1884);
• Church of St. John the Merciful with a bell tower (1663);
• Church of St. Elijah the Prophet (1937, burned down in a fire on March 15, 2014);
• Churches of St. Peter and St. Paul;
• The Miracle of the Archangel Michael;
• The Church of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, and the Roman Catholic Chapel of St. Joseph Bilczewski;
• The Monastery of Sts. Peter and Paul; A. Sheptytsky Museum;
• the monastery of the Studite monks;
• Convent of the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent.

Bus excursions from Yaremche

• Golden Ring of Hutsulshchyna (Yaremche - Verkhovyna - Kosiv - Kolomyia);
• Verkhovyna - Kryvorivnia (museum of folk instruments, folk music concert, Ivan Franko Museum, house-citizen);
• Maniavsky Skit (Holy Cross Monastery, Blessed Stone, Pniv Castle, Maniavsky Waterfall);
• Kolomyia. Museum of Folk Art of Hutsulshchyna and Pokuttya, Museum of Pysanka, Yew Reserve, Museum of Nature;
• Transcarpathian Hutsul region. (Yaremche - Yablunets Pass - Trufanets Kvasy waterfall, (natural mineral water), Dilove (center of Europe, kolyba-museum), Solotvyno (Salt Lakes);
• Ivano-Frankivsk (Museum of Local Lore, the ramparts, S. Potocki's Tomb, the Cathedral, the Armenian Church);
• Ancient Halych. Assumption Cathedral. Princely chambers. Princely spring. Church of St. Panteleimon. Starosta castle. Open-air museum of architecture;
• Dolyna - Hoshiv - Bubnyshche. (Museum of Boykivshchyna, Hoshiv Monastery, Dovbush Rocks and Caves in Bubnyshche village);
• Castles of Galicia (Zolochiv Castle, Pidhirtsi Castle, Olesko Castle, Svirzh Castle, Univ Monastery);
• Carpathian tram (Yaremche - Dolyna - Yaremche);
• Fortresses of Khotyn and Kamyanets-Podilskyi;
• Bukovel, (Yaremche - Vorokhta (skiing on the chair lift).

Souvenir market

There is a souvenir market in Yaremche, which can be considered a tourist attraction with a clear conscience due to the products of folk art of the Hutsul region. Among them, you can admire and buy at reasonable prices Easter eggs, carved, inlaid and fired wooden vases, caskets, plates, spoons, barrels, various ceramic dishes, kumantsi, tiles, sculptures, embroidered and woven shirts, towels, carpets and spindles, bedspreads, beads, metal and leather products.