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Castle Attractions In Ternopil Oblast

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Ternopil Oblast is an oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center is Ternopil, through which flows the Seret River, a tributary of the Dnister. One of the natural wonders of the region are its cave complexes. Although Ternopil Oblast is among the smallest regions in Ukraine, over 100 caves have been discovered there. Scientists believe these are only 20% of all possible caves in the region. The biggest cave is Optymistychna Cave. Measuring 230 km in total length, it is the longest cave in Eurasia and the fifth longest in the world . Twenty percent of the land in the region is chernozem soil.Ternopil Oblast has 34 castles. The most prominent is the Zba...
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Castle Attractions In Ternopil Oblast

  • 1. Ternopil Castle Ternopil
    Ternopil is a city in western Ukraine, located on the banks of the Seret River. Until 1944, it was known mostly as Tarnopol. Ternopil is one of the major cities of Western Ukraine and the historical regions of Galicia and Podolia. It is served by Ternopil Airport. The population of Ternopil is 217,800 .
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  • 2. Kremenets Castle Kremenets
    Kremenets is a city of regional significance in the Ternopil Oblast of western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Kremenets Raion , and lies 18 km north-east of the great Pochayiv Monastery. The city is situated in the historic region of Volhynia.
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  • 3. Vishnevets Estate Vishnevets
    Vyshnivets is an urban-type settlement in the Zbarazh Raion of the Ternopil Oblast of western Ukraine. Vyshnivets is better known as a family estate of the Polish royal house of Wiśniowiecki , which is known for switching from Eastern Orthodoxy to Catholicism as well as a pro-Muscovite Cossack Hetman Dmytro Baida Vyshnevetsky.
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  • 4. Berezhany Castle Berezhany
    Berezhany is a city of regional significance located in the Ternopil Oblast of western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Berezhanskyi Raion , and lies about 100 km from Lviv and 50 km from the oblast capital, Ternopil. The city has a population of about 20,000, and is about 400 m above sea level. The yearly temperature in Berezhany ranges from −35 °C in winter to 40 °C in summer.
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  • 5. Chervonohorod Castle Nyrkiv
    Chervonohorod or Chervone , meaning Red Town , is a former town in Zalischyky Raion, Ternopil Oblast of Ukraine, that was part of the municipal district of Nyrkiv . It was chartered in 1434 and was the seat of a powiat in the Podole Voivodeship. During the 19th century Chervonohorod declined in importance, and its population was reduced to 500 by the time of the September Campaign . The local castle was built in the early 17th century as a seat of the Daniłowicz magnate family. Prince Poniński acquired the ruined castle from the Habsburgs in 1778 and had it demolished. A new princely residence was erected to replace it. The prince and his family were interred in the family vault, which boasted a relief commissioned from Bertel Thorvaldsen. The Soviets dismantled the Poniński-Lubomirski ...
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  • 7. Olesko Castle Olesko
    Olesko Castle is located within the borders of the present-day Busk Raion in Ukraine. The first historical records of the castle are in a document dated 1390, when Pope Boniface IX gave Olesko and Tustan to a Catholic bishop of Halych. It is located about seventy-five kilometers from Lviv, the largest city in western Ukraine.
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  • 8. Khotyn Fortress Khotyn
    Khotyn is a city in Chernivtsi Oblast of western Ukraine, and is the administrative center of Khotyn Raion within the oblast, and is located south-west of Kamianets-Podilskyi. According to the 2001 Ukrainian census, it has a population of 11,124. Current population: 9,422 Khotyn, first chronicled in 1001, is located on the right bank of the Dniester River, and is part of the historical region Bessarabia. Important architectural landmarks within the city include the Khotyn Fortress, constructed in the 13-15th centuries , and two 15th century constructions by Moldavia's ruler Stephen the Great: the Prince's Palace and the city's clock tower. Historically, the town was part of the Principality of Moldavia , the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire [1]. Subsequently, it was pa...
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  • 9. Pidhirtsi Castle Pidhirtsi
    Pidhirtsi Castle is a residential castle-fortress located in the village of Pidhirtsi in Lviv Oblast western Ukraine, located eighty kilometers east of Lviv. It was constructed by Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan between 1635–1640 by order of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth's Grand Crown Hetman Stanisław Koniecpolski, on the place of the older fortress. The castle was then part of the Kingdom of Poland and it is regarded as the most valuable of palace-garden complexes in the eastern borderlands of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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  • 10. Dubno Castle Dubno
    Dubno is a city located on the Ikva River in Rivne Oblast of western Ukraine. Serving as the administrative center of Dubno Raion , Dubno is incorporated as a city of oblast significance and does not belong to the raion. The city is located on intersection of two major European routes E40 and E84. Population: 38,039 In Soviet times it was home to the Cold War facility Dubno air base. The city is also famous for its fortress.
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  • 11. Zbarazh Castle Zbarazh
    Zbarazh Castle is a fortified defense stronghold in Zbarazh, built during the times of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. It dominates the crests of the Zamkova Hills of Ternopil Oblast in Western Ukraine next to the city's central plaza that was not in so distant past surrounded by marshland. The castle existence has been credited to last members of the Polish Zbaraski family; Krzysztof and Jerzy Zbaraski. Evidence of the City of Zbarazh formation can be seen in the Ruthenia fortress dating back to 1211 that was positioned somewhat away from current castle. Today this is a village of Zbarazky District located in the immediate proximity of Zbarazh itself and called the Village of Stary Zbarazh. At that distant time the old castle and the province was ruled by Gediminids Landlords Zbarazky...
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  • 13. Zolochiv Castle Zolochiv
    Zolochiv is a small city of district significance in Lviv Oblast of Ukraine, the administrative center of Zolochiv Raion. The city is located 60 kilometers east of Lviv along highway H02 Lviv-Ternopil and the railway line Krasne-Ternopil. Its population is approximately 24,269 , covering an area of 1,164 km2 .
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