The staircase in the Fredro-Sheptytsky Palace creaks not because builders were careless, but on purpose: the estate’s owner, Polish comedic playwright Aleksander Fredro, had sharp …
The Fredro-Sheptytsky Palace: A Staircase Built to Creak on Purpose
Lviv Oblast
Tustan — a Rock Fortress Found Nowhere Else in Europe
Somewhere between Drohobych and Skole, among the forested slopes of the Skole Beskids, columns of sandstone suddenly rise from the ground. Up to 285 ft …
The Tyszkiewicz Palace in Brody — 1912 Neoclassicism in Stari Brody
Brody is a town with an exceptionally rich architectural legacy: a 17th-century fortress, the Potocki palace, synagogues, townhouses. And amid all of it — on …
The Badeni Palace in Busk — Two Hundred Years on a Hill Above the Buh
The palace at the center of Busk is more than two hundred years old. It has outlasted three states, two owning families, fires, a military …
St. Mary Magdalene Church in Vovkiv — Art Deco Amid the “Lviv Carpathians”
Fourteen miles from Lviv, in the valley of the Zubra River, stands a building that doesn’t fit any expected image of a village church. It’s …
Brody Castle — the Third Castle by One Team, and a Library With Mickiewicz’s Letters
Between 1630 and 1635, Stanisław Koniecpolski built three castles. At Pidhirtsi: Beauplan and dell’Aqua. At Zbarazh: dell’Aqua and Scamozzi. At Brody: Beauplan and dell’Aqua again. …
Olesko Castle — the birthplace of a Polish king and the place where Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s father served
In 1605, a minor nobleman from Zhovkva — Mykhailo Khmelnytsky, father of the future hetman — entered the service of Ivan Danilovych, the owner of …
Pidhirtsi Castle — the “Versailles of Galicia,” awaiting its revival
Perched on a hill amid the forests of the Lviv region stands a castle that does not look abandoned — but does not look alive …
Pomoryany Castle — “The Ship,” the garrison that fled through an underground passage, and the West Ukrainian People’s Republic of 1918
The castle’s founder named it “Korab” (Ship). A rectangular structure amid ponds and marshes — and there is indeed something ship-like about this image: a …
Zolochiv Castle: five prison regimes and stones with indecipherable inscriptions
The initials “JSKKSK” are carved into the bastions of Zolochiv Castle. These are the initials of the patron — Jakub Sobieski, Crown Chamberlain and Starost …
Lake Zadorozhne — the “Lviv Baikal,” the deepest body of water in Lviv region
Lake Zadorozhne is the deepest body of water in Lviv region. 89 ft (27 m). 155 acres (0.628 km²). Altitude 869 ft (265 m) above …