Cultural
Local festivals
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International Huţuli Festival
The International Huţuli Festival started out in 1990, and takes place on the Hutuli ethnic territory (in the Ivano-Frankivsk, Zakarpatia and Cernauti regions). The festival is meant to inform guests on Hutuli culture. In Rahiv, the festival took place in 1993, 1997 and 2005. The festival exhibits original performances of various folklore groups throughout the country and works of art from local craftsmen.
The Rock&World Music International Festival. "Europe Ţenter"- The Center of Europe was established in 2005. The festival's main objective is to spread European culture among Ukrainians, and to get the European tourist acquainted with Ukrainian culture. This outdoor festival is music and party-based.
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Museums
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The Museum of mountain ecology and history of exploitation of natural resources - the museum is open within the Biosphere Reservation in the Carpathians as a center for ecologic-educational and historic-cultural information.
The museum is structured into three departments:
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"Carpathian nature" - displays the history of the Carpathians, geology, geo-morphology, fauna and flora.
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"Exploitation of natural resources in the Carpathians" - based on the sustainable exploitation in Ukraine's Carpathians since the beginning of late Paleolithic, some 20,000 years ago, until present days.
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"Ethnic culture in the Ukraine's Carpathians" - displays ethnic culture in the Ukrainian Carpathian region, the lifestyle and traditions, as well as working and home tools.
Address: town of Rahiv, Crasne Pleso street, no. 77.
The Coliba Museum in the Center of Europe - the museum presents the history of the Hutulis. The exhibit displays specific home (kitchen) tools and lifestyle items: highland outfits, shepherds' tools, popular seams, working tools, etc.
The Ethnographic Museum of the town of Rahiv - based in School no. 3 in Rahiv, exhibits information on the town history.
The Ethnographic Museum in Bocicoiu Mare - was set up in 1957, exhibits documents on the locals' history, lifestyle and culture.
The Ethnographic Museum in Iasina - set up in the year 1963, includes 5 sections with over 2,000 exhibits on the history of the Hutuli area, their lifestyle, tools and folklore.
Europe's Geographical Center - located on the outskirts of the Dilove commune on the road from Mucacevo to Rahiv, on the Tisza river bank. Continental Europe's geographic center is to the right of the river, and is marked by the geodesic sign which reads, in Latin "Locus Perenis Dilicentissime cum libella librationis quae este in Austria et Hungaria confecta cum mensura gradum meridionalium et paralleloumierum Europeum... MDCCCLXXXVII" - "The exact place forever set with a special device built in Austro-Hungary, with Europe's center and the scale of meridians and parallels. 1887"
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