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Buchach town. Ukraine. Town Hall. Basilian monastery. Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary

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Buchach is a town, district center of Ternopil region of Ukraine. Magdeburg (German) city law was obtained at the end of the fourteenth century or in 1393.
Many of the famous Buchach's buildings were co-sponsored by the Potocki family.

Buchach Town Hall is a cult building, a monument of architecture of national importance in Buchach. It was built in the distant 1750-1751 in the Baroque style. Initially, the facade was decorated with 14 figures; images taken from the Bible and ancient mythology of the work of the famous sculptor Johann George Pinzel; images taken from the Bible and ancient mythology. The sculptures are marked by the expression of the plastic language and the dynamism of the composition; carved of monolithic limestone, where there are inserts. Unfortunately, the town hall suffered a fire in 1865. Much of the magnificent sculptural decoration was destroyed. It is planned that copies of the statues, which will be executed by modern Lviv masters, will take place at the town hall. The originals of the surviving sculptural ensembles are stored in the museum.

The Basilian monastery in Buchach is located on the slopes of Mount Fedir. The central structure of the complex is the Church of the Holy Cross, erected on the site of the dismantled church in 1751-1761. It was built in the late Baroque style. To the church in 1761-1771, on the left, two-storeyed buildings of the monastery were completed. And on the right is the school building. The Basilian monastery repeatedly suffered heavy fires. But it has been restored to the smallest detail and today is one of the business cards of Buchach.

Buchach Castle is a monument of architecture of all-Ukrainian significance. Now it has only ruins left, but once its walls were a formidable fortification against the invaders. The first mention of the castle dates back to 1379, when in 1372-1379 Michal Adwaniec (n / a-1392) built a castle and church in Buchach.

Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary is a cult building, a monument of architecture of national importance. The current parish church of one of the oldest in Lviv archdiocese of Buchach parish of the Chortkiv dean of the RCC. It was built in 1761-1763 on the site of the dismantled headquarters. In the tympanum of the pediment contains a copy of Raphael Santi's Sistine Madonna, the original of which is now in the Dresden Art Gallery. The exterior decoration of the church is quite modest, but the interior of the church is very luxurious, Baroque style.
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