The Carpathian bow extends over the territory of four regions (Oblasts): those of Subcarpatia, Ivano-Frankovsk, Lvov and Tchernovtsi, on the borders of Rumania, Hungary, Slovakia and of Poland. In the Carpathian mountains of western Ukraine, live 2,74 Mb of inhabitants. In 1887, Austrian and Hungarian geographers gathered in congress in Vienna define the geographical center of Western Europe in the Carpathian Mountains, on the bank of Tizsl.

This part of the country was shaped by diverse cultures and by different States as the principality of Galitch-Volhynia, the Polono-Lithuanian State " Rzecz Pospolita " arisen from the union of Lublin in 1569, the Austrian Empire, the People's republic of western Ukraine, Poland and Soviet Union.

The Carpathians are very rural and its economy is based essentially on the exploitation of the forest (transformation of the wood and manufacturing of furniture). Outside cities, people live from the cultivation of their fields, on the breeding of cattle and sheep. In the region of Ivano-Frankovsk and on the Rumanian border, at the foot of the mountains, live the famous ethnic group called the Hutsuls, in their wooden and thatched houses.

Except main roads connecting the most important cities such as Lvov, Ivano-Frankovsk or Ujgorod, infrastructures are rather summary. It is indeed a journey through time that is proposed to you through the discovery of numerous fortifications in this region, but also castles and palaces of the XVIIth and XIXth centuries, having belonged to the noble Poles, Austrians, the Lithuanians, or the Russians, who, all testify of a past rich in events. The museums of popular Arts and architecture, the markets in the cities, will complete your visit in a region of Eastern Europe, still widely underestimated. Besides, the Carpathian mountains constitute the setting of a very well protected nature, offering multiple occasions of magnificent walkings, or for winter sports holidays.