Turkish bastion
d. Kamenets-Podilsky, square Russian market, 1
Description:
The Turkish bastion is a monument of architecture and urban planning of national importance. Previously, it was a defensive structure of strategic importance in the system of urban fortifications.
The bastion is an arched structure, has four runs. Built in a place convenient for observation and shelling of the road leading to the city. After the capture of the city by the Turks, the bastion was improved and fortified. Over the next centuries, it was rebuilt several times, strengthened. In the XIX century it was adapted for the theater, which was located here until the fire of 1918.
To this day, some parts of the bastion have not survived, for example, a stone fence that connected the fortification with the Wind Gate, but at the same time allows you to see the defensive structure of the XVII century in almost its original form.