Attractions of Skala-Podilska

The Roman Catholic Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary was built in Skala-Podilska in 1719 at the expense of Valentiy Mezheyevsky, who owned the city at that time.

Made in the Neo-Gothic style, the spire of the belfry was completed in the 19th century. The bell tower is decorated with a tower clock installed during the reconstruction in 1852. At the same time, the church building was surrounded by defensive walls with corner towers.

During Soviet times, the temple was closed, it housed warehouses and a power plant.

Currently, the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary has been returned to believers and restored.

The park of the Golukhovsky manor in Skala-Podilska is a monument of horticultural art of national importance. Founded at the end of the 18th century by the Polish elder Adam Tarlo.

Until 1939, it was the estate of Count Agenor Golukhovskyi. According to legend, the count built the park in the shape of the name of his beloved Olena.

In 1968, the "Zbruch" tourist center (now a children's health center) was built on the foundation of the Count's Palace. An outbuilding styled after a medieval castle has survived from the original manor buildings, where the polyclinic is now located.

More than 100 types of exotic and rare trees grown in the park on 26 hectares of land, imported from different countries of the world, including: Japanese red oak, black maple, silver spruce, European cedar, black and Weymouth pine, Virginian juniper, western and eastern thuja, magnolia, sycamore and others. The pearl of the park is an old linden tree over 550 years old with a trunk thickness of 7 girths.

The Church of Saint Nicholas in Skala-Podilska was built in 1882 on the site of the old wooden Greek Catholic church founded in 1720.

The new stone church was built by the efforts of Father Kelestyn Kostecki. It was the first stone Greek-Catholic church on the outskirts.

In 1896, in the Nicholas Church, the historian Mykhaylo Hrushevskyi married Maria Voyakivska, who worked as a teacher in Skala.

In 1946, the church was handed over to the Orthodox Church. The altar wall has been decorated with a mosaic panel of Saint Nicholas since 2011. Nearby is the "Korolyvka" spring, from which, according to legend, Prince Danylo Halytsky drank water.

The ruins of the medieval castle in Skala-Podilska are located on a high rock on the right bank of the Zbruch River.

The construction of the castle began in 1331 by princes Koriatovych (Koryatovych), who owned Podillya at that time, on the site of an old wooden fortification. In 1516, the Kamyanets chief Stanislav Lyantskoronsky restored the castle destroyed by the Tatars, supplementing it with powerful walls and bastions. In 1648, it was captured by Cossack troops, then it repeatedly changed hands during the Polish-Turkish wars.

In the first half of the 18th century, the headman of Skala, Adam Tarlo, rebuilt a palace in the baroque style with magnificent decor on the ruins, but only a few years later the building burned down due to a lightning strike. Since then, the castle has not been rebuilt. In Soviet times, the ruins were preserved.

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