GUIDE isitors V Kolomyia СOLORFUL CITY WALK AROUND KOLOMYIA TOP 12 SIGHTS WHAT TO SEE WHERE TO… PRACTICAL MATTERS WALK AROUND KOLOMYIA ......................................................3 In the city of Kolomyjka dance ..................................................................................4 What does the name of the city mean? .....................................................................5 Main historic events ..................................................................................................6 Kolomyia: a brief summary ......................................................................................8 Invisible symbols of the ancient city ...................................................................... 10 Several reasons to visit Kolomyia ............................................................................12 The most famous Kolomyia natives ........................................................................ 14 TOP 12 SIGHTS ............................................................................... 17 City Hall .................................................................................................................. 18 The Сhurch of Annunciation .................................................................................... 19 Cathedral of St. Michael the Archangel of the Greek Catholic Church ...................... 19 The Greek Catholic Church of St. Josaphat .............................................................. 20 The St. Loyola Roman Catholic Church .................................................................... 20 History Museum of Kolomyia .......................................................................................21 Kolomyia Grammar School named after Mykhailo Hrushevskyi ................................21 National Museum of Hutsul and Pokuttian Folk Art named after Yosaphat Kobrynskyi ..............................................................................................................22 Kolomyia Academic Regional Drama Theatre named after Ivan Ozarkevych .............24 ..........25 Pysanka Museum ..........................................................................................................26 The City Palace of Culture ‘Narodnyi dim’ ................................................................ 28 WHAT TO SEE .................................................................................. 29 In the city ................................................................................................................30 A walk across the city ..............................................................................................38 Kolomyia Around Kolomyia ....................................................................................................43 WHERE TO… .................................................................................. 49 Eat in the City ..........................................................................................................50 Stay in the City ........................................................................................................53 Eat and Stay outside the city ...................................................................................56 Buy Souvenirs of Kolomyia ......................................................................................58 Buy Medicine ..........................................................................................................58 Use the Internet ......................................................................................................58 Be Entertained ........................................................................................................59 PRACTICAL MATTERS AND USEFUL INFORMATION 61 I v an F Uk r rainsk anko S a S t t t S yi k s let r e T . t O S t rt S a z o Uk vlyk M r a ainsk P t a S S M. t Ivan F ranko S Shopen . t F t 5 t 1000 м a S etliur A. 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RR P opening hours Highly recommended RWorth seeing This travel guide is divided WALK AROUND KOLOMYIA into five sections to cover the In the city of Kolomyjka dance most important aspects of your visit to What does the name of the city mean? Kolomyia Main historic events Kolomyia: a brief summary Invisible symbols of the ancient city Several reasons to visit Kolomyia The most famous Kolomyia natives TOP 12 SIGHTS Must to visit: sightseeing places and architectural landmarks WHAT TO SEE Kolomyia and around: brief description of the most interesting places Did you know that..? Most interesting museums Excursion itinerary in the city WHERE TO… Use our advice in order to find the best place to eat out, have a cup of coffee, buy clothes and souvenirs and have fun or simply chill out PRACTICAL MATTERS The chapter contains useful visual information for travelers WALK AROUND KOLOMYIA In the city of Kolomyjka dance 4 What does the name of the city mean? 5 Main historic events 6 Kolomyia: a brief summary 8 Invisible symbols of the ancient city 10 Several reasons to visit Kolomyia 12 The most famous Kolomyia natives 14 Walk around Kolomyia IN THE CITY OF ‘KOLOMYJKA*’ DANCE ‘...for me even There are many famous cities in Ukraine, one of which is Kolomyia. A pearl the world ‘Kolomyia’ of Ukrainian folk art – a dance of ‘kolomyjka’ – is named in honour of it. sounds like music’ Kolomyia enjoys an unofficial status of the main city of Pokuttia and Hutsul Viacheslav Chornovil land and the gate to the Carpathians. Kolomyia is also called a small Lviv or a piece of Vienna. The world famous authors, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and Sholem Aleichem, dedicated their writings to Kolomyia. The city is also mentioned in the famous novels of Jaroslav Hašek, author of the immortal ‘The Good Soldier Švejk’. Once the city sat on the important trade and military routes and since 1507 it had been marked on European maps. Nowadays it is impossible to imagine tourist roads of the Carpathians and Galicia without Kolomyia. The city can be reached by air and train, by bus and coach, by bicycle and motorcycle and, of course, by taxi. *Kolomyjka is a Hutsul music At the beginning of the 17th century a genre that combines a fast-paced legendary English captain John Smith visited folk dance and a goofy-rhymed Kolomyia. Why don’t you visit the city? City of comic verses. It was historically Kolomyia awaits its guests and believes that popular among the Poles and you will love its architecture and decorations, Ukrainians, and is also known as the kalamajka in north eastern monuments and sacred buildings, cosy Slovenia. Kolomyjkas are still cafés and noisy market, and what is the danced in Ukraine, as a tradition most important – its hospitable and friendly on certain holidays, during people. festivities, or simply for fun. In Ukraine’s rural west, they are popular dances for weddings. Kolomyia is • 65 km away from Ivano-Frankivsk • 75 km - from Chernivtsi • 196 km - from Lviv • 640 km - from Kiev The distance from Kolomyia to • Ukrainian-Romanian and Ukrainian- Moldavian borders is more than 100 km • Ukrainian-Polish border – 300 km • Ukrainian-Slovak and Ukrainian-Hungarian borders – almost 400 km 4 Walk around Kolomyia WHAT DOES THE NAME OF THE CITY MEAN? Regional ethnographers have been studied the origin of the name ‘Kolomyia’ for 150 years already. Some of them consider that the name is derived from the river Myia or a tin god Myia, near which the first settlement appeared. The others mention that in the Croatian language the word ‘kolomyie’ means a deep gully filled with water, though the latest researches show that the old Croats did not populate Kolomyia land. There is an ancient version according to which the name of the city is derived from the fact that passing through the town salters washed ‘kola’ (wheels) here. Another version says that the city was named after the first Galician crowned king born as Hungarian Koloman. A true solution to the origin of the city name is likely to be hidden in the depth of millennia. That is indicated by the first three letters – ‘kol’, that are present in the names of many cities and localities since the time of the Indo-European settlement. But it is unknown what this word means. The answer is up to future generations. 5 Walk around Kolomyia MAIN HISTORIC EVENTS 1241 – The first chronicle mention of Kolomyia. 11th – 14th centuries – Princely epoch of Kolomyia, shrouded in mystery, with the exception of a few terse chronicle lines. Archival sources left us the name of the last elder of Kolomyia from the Ukrainians – Voronko (1398). 1405 – Kolomyia