Tsilyushchi Dzherela

Ecological trail "To the Hermit's Forest" near Satan Its length is 5.6 km, laid in the forest of Krasnyansky forestry near the picturesque village of Krutyliv (near the town of Sataniv), where to this day preserved one of the oldest activities - burning lime in primitive kilns (limestone). Here are traces of stone. , Iron and later periods of human existence. On the route you can get acquainted with typical oak-hornbeam, hornbeam-oak-ash, hornbeam forests of the reserve, in which populations of rare plant species grow: bear's onion, forest lily, purple and hellebore, snow-white snowdrop, toothfish. From animals it is possible to see a badger, a roe deer, a marten, wolves, a squirrel, to hear singing of a finch, a songbird, urticaria, nightingales, to observe flight of a great bustard, a wasp, a buzzard, to meet rare insects a tapeworm a poplar, a saturic ore ordinary xylocope. Walking along the trail you can get acquainted with such interesting natural phenomena as the remnant of the steppe among the forest and the geological outcrops of the Tovtrov ridge in the Blind Gorge. Visitors will visit the entrance to the vertical cave "Pearl", which was opened in 1969. Its walls are covered with numerous draperies. The cave is named after the balls - white pearls, which are found here in the mass of calcite. The total length of its horizontal passages is 240 m, the maximum depth is 26 m, the air temperature in the neutral zone of the cave is 9˚C all year round. The cave is a great place for bats to settle. This path will lead to a cave in the rock, which has long been loved by hermits, arranging an ascetic dwelling. These are people who ran away from worldly life, were deeply religious, knew about herbs and treated people. Information about the life of the latter dates back to the early twentieth century. Today there is a chapel, a service of the Lord on the Green and a temple holiday in the right bank of the village. Krutyliv. The route will lead along the roadside of the ancient moat and embankment surrounding Zvenigorod and its territory. It was here in the tenth and thirteenth centuries that a settlement-sanctuary with four temples functioned, the first covered pagan temple. Together with the settlements, it was part of the Zbrutsky cult center, the functioning of which is confirmed by numerous finds in the sanctuaries of things that fit into the chronological framework of the time. There are seven known satellite villages here. One of them - "Baby's Valley", located on the right slope of the Blind Gorge, was a village of artisans (potters). The sanctuary complex also included healing springs, the water from which has not lost its properties even today. According to Polish scientists, the water of one of them heals the eyes, the second the nervous system, the third - the digestive system (it is a source of desire). The route ends on the banks of the river Zbruch. Along its entire length, it is the border between Ternopil and Khmelnytsky regions. Here the river cuts into the Medobor ridge with a deep canyon and cuts it in half. An interesting history of this now small Podolsk river, which dates back to the beginning of the new chronology. ⚡️1st blog magazine of Ukraine 𝙇𝙪𝙘𝙠𝙮𝙐𝙠𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙚 #luckyukraine #blogger #massmedia #blog #tarasenkoolesia # тарасенкоолеся #event #expert #publicfigure #lifestyleblogger #trendsetter #PR