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Kosiv - it is unique a picturesque corner of the Ukrainian Carpathians, edge of high mountains, steep streams, pure mountain air, hardworking people. The city of Kosov - cultural-tourist center of Gutsulschina which is in territory of National park " Gutsulschina ". Here, among riches of mountain landscapes, unique kinds of flora and fauna, sources of mineral waters and mountain falls till now were kept, and absence of the industrial enterprises only assists in this region to this.

Kosiv with its surroundings is famous not only thanks to its unique nature or inimitable customs and ceremonies of its inhabitants. Kosiv – is a world Mekka of folk-applied art. Here are represented not any kinds of the art like in the other known world centres but practically all of them. The skillful and workful hands of the masters make East eggs (pisanka), vases (cut, inlaid or burned), cases, rahvas, plasts, eagles, spoons, barrels, berbenies, painted ceramic plates, kumancies, sculptures, bowels, embroidered and weaved shirts, towels, carpets and veretas ( bed-covers ), things out of glass beads, metal and skin...

In Kosiv there is unique and only one in the Europe an State Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts with centenary history, in which the true masters - teach known all over the world descendants of dynasties Korpanyuks, Shkryblyaks and Druchkyvs.