History of Yaremcha go to the Cottage
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Yaremche was first mentioned in the chronicles in 1727. According to a legend some 200 years ago a refugee from the feudal oppression Yarema Hodovanets settled here. The name of the town originated from his first name.
The town started developing after the construction of the railway Stanaslav-Yaremcha-Vorohta-Rakhiv in 1894 for the shipment of Carpathian timber to industrial regions of Austria, Hungary, Poland and other countries.
In the 19th century Yaremche developed as a recreational area accepting tourists from Vienna, Warsaw, Krakov and L’viv. Then resort Yaremcha specialized as climatic (treatment of tuberculosis).
Favourable natural conditions promoted the development of toursm after World War I I. New sanatoriums and rest houses were built in 1950s-1980s.
Recreation and tourist industry were at their best at the and of the 19th –beginning 1977.
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The town of Yaremcha got its municipal status of a town of regional subordination in 1977.

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