Decided to walk from the train station to the center and met an elite bird nest — inside a caryatid that had its head broken off. This was somewhere on the Franka street.
I walked 27 kilometers on one of these days.
Decided to walk from the train station to the center and met an elite bird nest — inside a caryatid that had its head broken off. This was somewhere on the Franka street.
I walked 27 kilometers on one of these days.
Passed by the art institute with a paint job not to our taste.
There were lots of Virgin Mary statues all over the city. Here's one built into the fence:
Another one made of metal:
Or another one having illumination for the nighttime:
In another fence of a private house:
Some of them were having a company:
With the infant:
Near a butcher's shop:
Under a substantial roof:
Having a personal fence and flowerbeds, also in someone's private house wall:
There are plenty of these in Franyk.
Individual heating: the pipes were sticking out of walls as in some other cities that I visited.
A chain-locked waste bin:
Currency exchange kiosks were not displaying the rates outside, only informing the passer-bys that «exchange is open».
A very artificial pond with the name meaning «city lake», Miske ozero had an interesting object: a disused swimming pool inside. Just some part of the pond having footbridge around it and a diving tower. Disused but open for entry — thanks for that!
A mallard was sleeping on the footbridges of the pool.
I went to see one of the two rivers of Franyk. The city is located between two Bystrytsias — Bystrytsia-Solotvynska and Bystrytsia-Nadvirnianska. I only went to the Solotvynska one this time. There was a dam before the river, having a paved footpath on it. Runners were using this footpath. Carpathians were visible from the dam at the distance of 40 kilometers.
Slightly lower than the dam was a grassy strip with an almost invisible track road. One more paved footpath was made on the edge of that strip, and it was abandoned at the time. It had handrails.
I could — and I did — go further down, using a very decayed stairway. There were bushes and paths through them down here.
These paths finally led me to the Bystrytsia-Solotvynska river itself.
A tiny stream was falling into the river over concrete debris.
Bystrytsia-Solotvynska as seen from a pedestrian bridge.
Found another artificial water body called «nimetske ozero». It had an island in the middle. Two very narrow pedestrian bridges were made to cross that pond.
The pond was not maintained, and served as habitat for frogs.
A tiny pier suggested that it was possible to use boats here. But the pond is so small, why even bother...
The map was saying that nimetske ozero is right outside the city limit. Here it is — the border of Ivano-Frankivsk as per OpenStreetMap data. A drain called Chereshenkiv stream.
Franyk is not big. It took me half an hour to walk from here to the center, where I took this photo of the roofed market from above.
There was some music coming from a stage in the very center, on the Vichovy square. The sound sucked hard, but some people were still listening:
What the?
It is a house with a very sharp corner.