Another group of VET students of the city had the opportunity to get acquainted with the oldest monument in Vinnytsia of the XVII-XVIII centuries - a complex of defensive and monastery buildings built by Jesuit monks.
This time the participants of the walking tour “Walls. A Look Through the Ages” were students of Vinnytsia Interregional Higher Vocational School - children from low-income families, internally displaced persons, and children whose parents are currently serving in the combat zone.
The tour was organized by the Vinnytsia State Center for Aesthetic Education of Vocational School Students and led by Anna Kovalchuk, acting head of the department of scientific, educational, exhibition and advertising work at the Vinnytsia Regional Museum of Local Lore.
The children listened with interest to the guide's story. They were especially interested in the story of a dilapidated underground passage under the floor of one of the halls of the Vinnytsia Regional Museum of Local Lore. It was discovered during the reconstruction of the museum, but they decided not to fill it up. Thus, it became part of the museum's exposition. The ancient tunnel dates back to the 30s and 40s of the 17th century. It was built during the construction of a Dominican monastery, on the site of which the Transfiguration Cathedral of the UOC is now located. The underground passages also belong to the Mury, the city's then defensive structure.
The final point of the tour was the former Franciscan monastery, now the Roman Catholic Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Angels, built at the expense of the city mayor, Ludovic Kalynowski, in 1746. The students took the photo from memory in front of a monument to Roman Catholic Polish Bishop John Paul II, the 264th Pope.
