A small town in Ivano-Frankovsk region — Yaremche — stands out among the resorts of Ukraine. The main attraction of Prikarpattya, the center of green tourism and ski resort, is located on the Prut River, at a distance of 62 km from the regional center. Every year thousands of people from Ukraine and abroad come here to enjoy the Carpathian nature, horseback riding or skiing, to get acquainted with applied arts of the local population (there are two souvenir markets in Yaremche), in general, everything that is called vacation in Yaremche.
The founder of Yaremche is considered to be not a prince or a hero, as in many cities, but a simple poor man Yarema Godovants, who settled in the mountains at the end of the XVIII century. In any case, the date of foundation of the settlement is considered to be 1787. However, the villages of Dora and Yamna, which are now part of Yaremche, were mentioned in 1618. For quite a long time Yaremche was a part of Dora village, and then the situation changed dramatically.
Yaremche owes its rapid development to tourism and the construction of the Delyatin — Voronenko railroad section with one of the largest railroad bridges in Europe, which, unfortunately, was destroyed in 1944. By 1894 dozens of villas, not only wooden but also stone ones, were built in Yaremche, later there were marked routes for walks in the surrounding mountains, to the pearl of Yaremche 
— Proboy waterfall a path was arranged for convenient sightseeing. Rest in Yaremche became more and more popular, and at the same time affordable, as new villas were built, and at the beginning of XX century more than 1500 people had a rest in Yaremche during the season. In 1912, even the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Karl Franz Joseph Habsburg, visited the town.
The development of the town was stopped by the First World War. In 1914, on October 22, the town was taken by Russian troops, after which it changed hands several times. After a while it was even captured by the Romanians, and then by the Poles. It was the Poles who were concerned about restoring the resort status of Yaremche. Since 1926, a power plant was functioning in the town, and in 1929 the Charter of the Yaremche resort was signed. Mineral and aromatic baths, inhalatorium and other types of hydropathic procedures were very popular. Many villas and sanatoriums operated year-round.
World War II began for the residents of Yaremche in September 1939, when the Red Army entered the town. Ukrainian political parties were banned, and a wave of arrests swept through the town. On June 30, 1941, the Germans occupied the town. During the war, many villas were destroyed, partially or completely. Some of the population was taken to Germany, some died of starvation. Kovpak’s partisans were active in the vicinity of the town, there were also UPA units, which many locals joined. The town was liberated from the Nazis on July 26, 1944. But until 1952, the local population continued to fight for their independence.
Among the sights of Yaremche it is worth mentioning the churches — Archistratiga Michael (1844), St. Apostles Peter and Paul, Assumption of the Virgin Mary and Joan of Grace. Monasteries are also of interest — the male monastery of St. Andrew, the female monastery of St. Vincent, and the monastery of the monks of the Studi Statute. You can get acquainted with the history of Yaremche and the region in the museums, which are quite a lot in the city. Among them are museum of ecology and ethnography of the Carpathian region, Museum of Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky, Ukrainska Starovina museum. Also, it is worth seeing the wooden restaurant «Hutsulschina», built without a single nail — a beautiful representative of Hutsul architecture.
And, of course, the natural sights of Yaremche — Dovbusha Rocks, proboj waterfalls, Maiden’s Tears and Zhonka, the mountains around the city. Also, from Yaremche tourists are often offered hikes to Hoverla, Mountains Pop Ivan and Homyak. In addition, there are mineral water springs in the vicinity of Yaremche.