Zolochiv Castle

One of the main attractions of the Lviv region is Zolochivsky Castle, which for its history was a fortress, and a manor manor, and a royal residence, and an educational institution, and a prison. Currently, Zolochivsky Castle serves as a museum-reserve and is a branch of the Lviv Art Gallery. Every year it is visited by many tourists, it is included in the famous tourist route called "Golden Horseshoe of Ukraine".

The castle is a type of "palazzo in fortezzo", which combines the functions of housing and defense, it is a neo-Dutch type of defensive buildings. Fortifications of the Zolochevsky castle include bastions, ramparts, gate tower, ravelin and bridge. Currently, the Grand Residential Palace, as well as the Chinese Palace and the gate tower, significantly reconstructed in the XIX century, have been preserved in the yard of the building.

One of the most interesting exhibits of the Zolochivsky Castle are stones with encrypted inscriptions dating from the XIV - XV centuries. It is assumed that they could be made by the Templars, at present their meaning has not been deciphered.