The name “Calvary” is translated from the Latin as "a bowl of a corpse." It is considered as the cross of Christ, his torment that is why there are chapels on Calvary, symbolizing his way. The very first city cemetery, which appeared in the sixteenth century, was located in the modern Castle Hill. The castle servants and warriors were...
The interior of the cathedral is decorated in rococo style. The painting inside the cathedral was done at the beginning of the 20th century by artist Joseph Bokshay in late Baroque style. Some fragments of a XVIII century authentic painting are still preserved.
The cathedral’s facade is dominated by a four-columned portico of Corinthian order, as well as two bell...
From 1902-1907 the building housed a Christian educational institution for girls: the Roman Catholic Lyceum of St. Gizella. According to Hungarian history, St. Gizella was the wife of the first Hungarian king, Stephen I, who baptized Hungary. During Soviet rule, a music school was created in the building and the sculpture of St. Gizella, the symbol of the building,...
Botanical garden was founded on 28 November 1948 on a place where two nut and fruit gardens existed. There were 96 nuts and also apple, pear, cherry, plum, elderberry, rosehips, blackberries and willow. Botanical Garden is located on three terraces with difference in height of 22 meters. One third of area of the garden is located on the first...
The Joseph Bokshay Transcarpathian Regional Art Museum is one of the centers of culture and art in the Transcarpathian region. It is named after the Ukrainian painter Joseph Bokshay. The origins of the museum date back to June 1945, when the former Zemska art gallery’s exhibit was given several rooms in Uzhgorod castle. For years, the museum’s collection was...
The program of this festival features various performances of individuals and teams from Workout, demonstrations, entertaining contests, competitions and more.
Events like these give flavour to the everyday life of our home town and enable local youth to feel the taste of a healthy life with well-known stars of weightlifting.
Building of the church began in 1914 and ended in 1919. The church bell was made in the village Mali Heyivtsi in Uzhgorod district. The church was built in the Gothic Revival style. In Soviet times there was sports section of weightlifting and wrestling in the church, pupils who trained there became winners of republican and all-union competitions. Since...
Bozdosh Park was first opened in 1954. In 1984, the Transcarpathian Executive Committee issued a decree to create a landscaped park of local significance within the boundaries of Uzhgorod, to be located on Bozdosh Street. The total area of the park is 50 hectares and today it is part of Ukraine’s natural reserve system. The park is also a...
It is the oldest street of Uzhgorod. It was the only street located within the outer fortifications of the castle. In the 17th century it consisted of about 10 households. In the early 19th century the name “Kapitulna” was gradually assigned to the street because of Capitol which was located at the beginning of the street, near houses where...
Physics Faculty of Uzhgorod National University – is a building of a former Vasylian Monastery. At the very beginning of the XX century it was needed to build such a big monastery for Uzhgorod. The first and main monastery of St. Vasil the Great in our region was founded in the fourteenth century by Prince Fedor Koryatovych on Chernecha...