In 1991, already in independent Ukraine, the Hlybochok village council decided to demolish the four-story tower of Vysichka Castle, ruling it structurally unsafe. Only the …
Vysichka Castle: A Tower the Village Council Tried to Demolish in 1991
Ternopil Oblast
Budaniv Castle: A Fortress That’s Run a Psychiatric Hospital for Over 50 Years
Budaniv Castle has housed a psychiatric hospital and psychoneurological clinic for more than fifty years — which is exactly why tourists are rarely brought here, …
The Voronin Castle in Bilokrynytsia: An Estate That Changed Hands Because of Someone Else’s Uprising
The castle in Bilokrynytsia came to Count Oleksandr Voronin not through inheritance or construction, but through a public auction in 1866 — after the previous …
Zolotyi Potik Castle — One of the Best-Preserved in the Ternopil Region, and Almost No One Knows It
The castle stands in the center of the small town of Zolotyi Potik. Residents’ houses sit almost right up against its walls. No ticket booth, …
Yahilnytsia Castle — Khmelnytsky failed; Buturlin took it through treachery; then a tobacco factory
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 …
Tokivsky Castle — “the most beautiful fortress of Volhynia,” on an island, dismantled for a road
When it was built in the late 16th century, Tokivsky Castle was called the most beautiful fortress of Volhynia. It stood on an island — …
Sydoriv Castle — a 580-foot “ship,” Khshanovskyy before Terebovlia, and a UPR cavalry victory in 1920
Locals say: “looks like a ship.” They are right. Sydoriv Castle — an elongated structure 580 ft (178 m) long and 100 ft (30 m) …
Dzhurynsky Waterfall — the Loudest Spot in Podillia, and Nobody Built It on Purpose
Standing beside Dzhurynsky Waterfall, you’ll barely hear the person next to you. The water drops 52 ft (16 m) across a 66-ft (20 m) width …
St. John Nepomucene Church in Turylche — Fresh Flowers for an Empty Church
Among the hills of the Borshchiv area, amid fields and scattered farmsteads, stands a church larger than you’d expect from such a small village. Larger …
Buchach Castle — a Treaty Signed Beneath Its Walls Made Ukraine a State for 11 Years
On October 18, 1672, beneath an old linden tree next to Buchach Castle, three parties signed a peace treaty. Poland was ceding ground. The Ottoman …
Chervonohorod Castle — a Vanished Palace of a Vanished Town, in a Bend of the River
A town once stood here: Chervonohorod. Then the town disappeared. The Dzhuryn River, which had almost fully looped around the hill holding the castle, shifted …