Berezhanskij Castle

The first mention of Berezhany, extant chronicles in documents dated 1375 year. SINYAVSKY noble Polish family has chosen this city and made his family residence here. Then in 1534 in Gold River armhole Lipa began construction of the local defense of the castle. For twenty years, was built an impregnable fortress with high walls, ramparts and a chapel that housed family tomb of famous masters.

In the early 17th century French engineer Guillaume Levasseur de Boplan Berezhany upgraded the fortress, by which finally secured her status impregnable bastion. For two centuries the descendants SINYAVSKY continued to strengthen and decorate their ancestral home, filling the palace collection of works of art and rare instances of weapons.

During an excursion to Berezhanskij lock, you hit its unique architecture. The fortress was built in the Renaissance style and was a pentagonal structure. The southern part of the semicircular tower defended the adjoining palace complex, where the main entrance gate.

Courtyard of the castle was much more luxurious than its outer part. The palace walls were decorated with large windows, sculptural elements and arched galleries. Today the residence of the former beauty SINYAVSKY resemble only two towers, decorated with orb keyed loopholes in piers pilasters. Unfortunately, to this day the only castle fortifications and Southern Palace.

In the castle there are also ancient artifacts that everyone can see. Among them - a collection of fragments of marble and stucco decorations. Semicircular arches under the first floor, you can look at the items, showing the evolution of the development of transport - from peasant carts to car Ural VMS WWII.

Strolling through the courtyard, note nestled amidst dense greenery castle model. It represents an exact copy of the structure, which must be brought before the gaze of travelers after reconstruction. The museum regularly hosts exhibition interesting excursions, and in memory of the visit of the site near the castle walls you can buy a variety of souvenirs.

Reach Berezhany Castle is on the car, it is necessary to go on the route Košice - Uzhhorod - Ternopil - Khmelnitsky - Vinnitsa - Kirovograd - Dnepropetrovsk - Donetsk - Rostov-on-Don. In Berezhany road to the castle is through the streets Ternopil, the Castle and Ivan Franko. Of Lviv and Ternopil to the city can be reached by Bershad taxi, then by bus to walk a few hundred meters to the east.