When you hear something about the Ternopil city, you have in your mind the subconscious associative series: “faine misto”, “barabolya”, “zupa”, “randka”. Many of these words were taken from Polish. Why Polish? Of course, everyone has heard about Galicia. So, Ternopil is one of three regional centers of Galicia. The city was founded by Polish tycoon Jan Tarnovskyi in 1540 and originally was called Tarnopil, but after the war the name was changed. Why you should visit the pearl of Galicia, read on.