The park is located in the northern part of the City of Uman, Cherkasy Oblast (Central Ukraine), near the Kamianka River.

[citation needed] The English landscape garden was founded in 1796 by Count Stanisław Szczęsny Potocki, a Polish noble who rebuilt Uman after a peasant uprising.

The main contractor was Ludwik Metzel, a Polish military engineer who imported many rare plants from all around Europe.

The opening ceremony was also honoured by Stanisław Trembecki, who wrote a poem praising the park and its namesake.

The park was confiscated from private possession after the Polish November Uprising in 1832 and transferred to the Kyiv Official Chamber.

It is one of the most famous examples of late 18th or early 19th century European landscape garden design that has been preserved to the present time.

The Sofiyivsky Park was named one of the Seven Wonders of Ukraine on 21 August 2007, based on voting by experts and the Internet community.

By original idea of the architect, the park illustrates different parts of Homer's poems Odyssey and Iliad.

Long time the entrance of the park was decorated with Black Poplars (trees with triangle shape).

This rock is named after the South-Eastern wall of Capitol fortress of Ancient Rome, and it has a wooden gazebo on it.

Compositional decision of the central zone of Sofiyivka in Ukraine based on scenes from the mythology of Ancient Greece and Rome, and some places are imitation of habitations of the Greek gods, heroes, writers and philosophers.

To the east of the statue of Cupid on the left side are the granite steps that lead to the grottoes Loketek and Nut.