Ukraine - Precarpathian region
 

Cities: Lviv Morshyn Ivano-Frankivsk Truskavets

LVIV
       Lviv is one of the most beautiful cities of Ukraine, the real pearl of European architecture. November 1998 Lviv City was officially included to the UNESCO List of World Monuments of Architecture.
       The walls of old Lviv buildings still keep the spirit of past centuries. Cozy streets and fascinating monuments make it a unique tourist attraction among the Ukrainian and Eastern European cities.
       Lviv is one of the major industrial, scientific and cultural centres of Ukraine, the town which is a kind of museum, the town which is ancient but eternally young!
       Nowdays Ukraine, and Lviv in particular, invites guests and tourists from around the world. There are really things to be seen, and one can expect that hotels and restaurants do not disappoint...
       Built in 1983, it is a member of the Trade Leader's Club and Deutscher Reiseburo Verbande (DRV).
       All rooms have private baths, cable TV, and direct-dial telephones. "Dnister" was given the International Award for the tourist, hotel and catering industry in Madrid, Spain. Hotel received the 'Certificate of Honour' from the European Market Research Center in Brussels, Belgium.
       Over two hundred people can dine in comfort in restaurant. Two bars offer both continental and Ukrainian cuisine along with a full range of drinks.
       Hotel also offers all the other facilities that the international tourist or businessperson expects, including: hairdressing, beauty parlor, solarium, news-stand, currency exchange, guarded parking, conference room for 20 persons, comprehensive tourist services with English-speaking staff and bilingual tour guides.
Grand Hotel
       First opened in 1898, its name was synonymous with quality, elegance and impeccable service.
       Hotel is decorated in marble, wood and brass, soft pastel colors. The hotel offers 60 elegance appointed rooms and suites with bathroom, satellite TV, direct dial telephone.
       Outstanding features: Restaurant and 24-hour room service; Guest Lounges and Bar; 24 hours security service/security car parking; Business Center.
       The Grand Hotel is a business card of Lviv, most elegant meeting place. Well-known politicians, businessmen, diplomats and celebrities used to stay here.
MORSHYN

       Morshyn - one of the most famous and prospective resorts - is situated in Ukraine, near the Carpathian Mountains. It is located within 82 km from Lviv. Morshyn isone of the unique resorts in Ukraine, founded in 1878.
       This is a balneological resort, mainly characterized by its mineral waters. It is located in a foresty area at the height of 340 m above the sea level; the climate is moderately continental. The average temperature of the summer is +20 C, in winter it gets near -4 C.
       Clean highly ionized with oxygen air which is absolutely free of radiation will make staying at the resort pleasant and useful because it favorably influences central nervous system, heart and vessel systems, and lungs.
       The main curative factor of the resort is the true power of mineral springs that stand among the best springs of the European resorts according to their chemical structure.

       One of the best sanatoriums in Morshyn is "Cheremosh". It occupies a large forest area of the Precarpathian Lowland. Mild continental climate favorably influences central nervous system and breath organs.
       The sanatorium "Cheremosh is a specialized institution, which provides medical treatment of stomach-intestinal tracts, liver, gall-excretory tracts, and intestines.
       There are highly qualified specialists who work in the sanatorium; all the necessary medical consulting rooms are fitted out with the best diagnostic equipment.
       Clients are offered mineral baths, showers, ozocerite applications, curative physical exercises, different types of inhalations, massages along with some other kinds of treatment.
       "Cheremosh" offers a pleasant rest, successful treatment, and memorable impressions.
IVANO-FRANKIVSK
       Ivano-Frankivsk is the administrative center of Ivano-Frankivsk Province. The area is a part of the ethnographic zone called Halychyna [Galychyna, Galicia]. Most of the territory is mountainous. Population of Ivano-Frankivsk is 246,000.
       Built on the site of the village of Zabolottya, in 1662 (during the period of Polish reign) it was named Stanislawow. In 1962 the city was named after the famous Ukrainian writer, Slav scholar and philosopher - Ivan Franko.
       The standard city tour usually includes: Roman-Catholic Cathedral (1672-1703) (currently an art museum, Armenian Church (1742) (currently the Ukrainian Autokefalna Orthodox Church), and Resurrection Cathedral (1753) - samples of baroque style; the City Hall (1695). From Ivano-Frankivsk tourists can make trip to Kolomyia city (museum), to Manyana Monastery (1612), to Goshiv Monastery (Dovbush caves).

       This small, deluxe hotel was built in 1907 and completely renovated in 1992. It is located in walking distance from the center of the city.
       Its guestrooms and suites maintain high standards of Western hospitality and offer comfortable accommodation and the convenience of telephone, television and mini-bar. A friendly welcome, simple charm, relaxed atmosphere and attentive personal service are a norm at "AUSCOPRUT".
       Noteworthy are the independent heating and water systems, secured parking on hotel grounds, bar, coffee shop, Viennese outdoor cafe, laundry services, gift shop with Ukrainian handicrafts and souvenirs, and conference rooms.
TRUSKAVETS
       Truskavets is a well-known balneological health resort situated in a picturesque and calm corner of Ukraine, a pearl of the Ukrainian Carpathians - Prykarpattya. It is situated in a picturesque low place among hills. Truskavets resembles a large forest-park. There are many mountain steep slopes and green lawns there. The highest picks are situated in the southern suburbs of the resort-town and they reach as high as 500-600 m above sea-level. Truskavets is an ecologically clean zone.
       The spa area is remarkable for its mineral waters. It is famous for its unusual spring NAFTUSSYA. The water consists of nearly all microelements, different gas and microorganisms.
       Truskavets is decorated with poetry in stone. Due to creative inspiration of sculptors the old Truskavets park became decorated with wonderful romantic works of art.
       The mineral waters, ozocerite, regimen, diet, physical exercises, walking and jogging, climatotherapy and physiotherapy set up the medicative complex applied for a successful treatment nephritis, hepatitis and metabolic diseases.

       The nine-storeyed building of "KARPATY" was built for 500 people. It is connected by sheltered passages with the club hall, the dining room, the medical treatment building, the swimming pool and the gym-hall. All the single and double rooms have bathrooms and modern furnishing with refrigerators, radiators, telephones and TV sets.
       In 1993 according to the edict of President of Ukraine the architectural style of "KARPATY" was awarded the State Premium.
       The health resort provides medical treatment for such diseases as chronic hepatitis, cholecystitis, gallstone disease, pancreatitis, colitis, gastritis, stomach ulcer, chronic pyelonephritis, uretritis, diabetes mellitus of the first and second stages.
Sanatorium "Perlyna Prykarpattya"
       The sanatorium consists of building for 505 rooms, medical and administrative buildings, a restaurant, a cinema and concert hall for 220 places, a dancing hall, a training hall, a swimming-pool, Russian baths, and a billiard-room.
       More than 50 medical and diagnostic rooms with modern medical equipment function are there. There are 2 physiotherapeutic rooms, 2 dental surgeries and a clinical and biological laboratory, rooms for taking ozocerite, douche-massage, pneumomassage, and vacuum-massage, a medical physical training hall, bath-rooms with mineral water, a room for lavage intestines, rooms for thermal and ultrasound therapy, needlereflex therapy, and others.