Villa Goplana in Truskavets, Ukraine is a building with an extremely interesting history. Truskavets is a village that first appeared in sources in 1469, when it was part of the Polish royal estate. Due to salt deposits, mines were established in the village. There were also springs of water there, perceived to have an exceptionally good effect on health. For this reason, from as early as the 18th century, Truskavets became a place where people came to benefit from the beneficial effects of salt. As a result, sanatoriums began to be established in Truskavets. In 1849, the function of a spa doctor was created here. This function was held by Dr František Turek until 1882. In 1880, the sanatoria were purchased by a newly founded company headed by Adam Sapieha. The building was renovated. At that time, there was accommodation space, promenades and as many as 50 bath rooms for salt and sulphur baths, and 9 rooms for mud, salt and sulphur baths. The spa was described in the press, not only in Galicia, which gave it recognition and made it a well-known resort in Europe. The place prospered. In 1911, it was bought out by a company headed by Dr. Rajmund Jarosz, the mayor of Drohobych. At that time, electricity was established in the village and a railway line was brought to the spa. In 1898, a monument to Adam Mickiewicz by Tadeusz Barącz was erected in the resort park. In the 1920s, 286 villas, hotels and guesthouses were built in Truskavets. It was the most popular health resort in the whole of Poland. Many famous personalities rested here, including Jozef Pilsudski, Eugeniusz Bodo, Stanislaw Witkiewicz, Zofia Nałkowska, Bruno Schultz, Halina Konopacka. Due to its location, Truskavets was at the centre of turbulent events in the 20th century related to Ukraine's gaining independence. In 1931, two members of the OUN, carried out an assassination attempt on Polish politician Tadeusz Hołówka in one of the sanatoriums. Between 1943 and 1945, OUN-UPA nationalists abducted 20 people from Truskavets and murdered them.

Villa Goplana was built between 1924 and 1928 in the central part of the resort, designed by Ukrainian architect Jan Semkowicz. The building has elements of the Zakopane style. Its owner was the aforementioned Rajmund Jarosz.

In 1980 the building was recognised as an architectural monument by the Lviv Regional Council of People's Deputies, and was thus protected. In 1992 the Museum of Art named after Mykhailo Bilas, a Ukrainian fibre artist, was opened in the building.

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