General Information What? Description Name Okun Tract Location between the village of Kitaygorod and the village of Demshyn, Kamianets-Podilskyi district, Khmelnytskyi region Character canyon with …
1637. The earliest surviving description of Novozaslavsky Castle: a palace of eleven rooms and six chambers. The chambers — with windows set in lead and …
Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s Cossack army could not take Yahilnytsia Castle. Only in 1655 did a joint Ukrainian-Muscovite force under the command of Buturlin finally overcome the …
1848. The French novelist Honoré de Balzac visited Vyshnivets and noted: “a little Versailles.” 1852. The owners shipped everything to France: 600 portraits, 21,000 books, …
On the gatehouse tower of Chernelytsia Castle — two coats of arms. On the outside: “Pogon” — the arms of the Chartorysky princes who built …
1524. A force of 12,000 Turkish and Tatar warriors burned the town of Zinkiv to the ground. Ash — and nothing more. The castle on …
When it was built in the late 16th century, Tokivsky Castle was called the most beautiful fortress of Volhynia. It stood on an island — …
Poltava region is usually soft. Fields. Forests. Flat roads. And that’s why the quarry here looks almost alien – like a big wound in the …
1673. The Turks held Zvanets Castle. The Polish king Jan III Sobieski — the same man who was born at Olesko Castle — came to …
In Sutkivtsi there are two objects. One is ruins. The second is still standing — and has no equivalent anywhere in Ukraine. The Pokrovska church-fortress …
Locals say: “looks like a ship.” They are right. Sydoriv Castle — an elongated structure 580 ft (178 m) long and 100 ft (30 m) …