Tourists in Horodenka should be interested primarily in the late Baroque Church of the Immaculate Conception of Mary by Bernard Meretin from the middle of the XVIII century. Don't miss it: it can be seen almost everywhere, because it is healthy - especially compared to the low buildings around. Just in case - st. Volodymyr the Great, 1, coordinates: N 48.670665 E 25.506937
The temple of the Congregation of Regular Clerics of Divine Providence (Theatine) was once decorated with many sculptures by Johann-Georg Pinzel, now you can see only the figure of the Madonna on a column near the temple. It is believed that the stellar tandem of architect and sculptor worked for the first time here in Pokut. Many of Horodenka's sculptures are now exhibited and preserved in Olesky Castle and the Lviv...
Read moreThe extremely beautiful church and Theatine monastery, located nearby, are considered to be one of the most valuable late Baroque monuments of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The church was built by order of the Potocki family in 1745-1769 in cooperation with Pinzel. In Soviet times, the church housed a vocational school for mechanics, and the interior of the shrine was barbarically destroyed. The altar of Pinzel's work (13 of the 18 almost three-meter altar sculptures) was cut into firewood. The rescued remains are stored in Lviv. In addition to the church and the building of the monastery cells, the complex includes a column with a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary by Pinzel. Around the column, there are four tombstones from the...
Read more22 серпня 1743 року фундаційним актом Миколи Потоцького, в Городенці було засновано монастирську резиденцію Конгрегації кліриків Божественного проведіння. Будівельні роботи по спорудженню монастирського комплексу було розпочато в 1745 році і завершено...
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