Attractions of Selyshche

The ruins of two castle towers on the hill above the Pivdenny Buh remind of the once great Podillya city of Cherlenkove, known since the 13th century.

The castle was probably built by princes Koriatovichi (Koryatovichi) in the 14th century, after the Lithuanian prince Olherd defeated the Hordes and joined Podillya to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. For a long time, Cherlenhrad Castle belonged to the family of Ukrainian nobles Kmyt-Cherlenkivsky, controlled the crossing over the Pivdenny Buh. It was destroyed in 1624 during the campaign of the Tatar army of Kantemyr Murza to Podillya.

In 1670, Anatas Cherlenkivskyi founded the Basilian monastery on the ruins of the castle. In the 18th century, the Trakhtemyriv old man Stanislav Shchenevsky tried to reconstruct the castle, but soon his heir Onufriy Shchenevsky rebuilt the fortress into a magnate's residence. One of the towers near the road next to the bridge over the Pivdenny Buh was turned into a burial chapel. The second of the surviving towers was tried to be blown up in Soviet times, but three of its walls survived.

Currently, the territory of the castle is built up with private houses. A tourist and entertainment complex with a hotel, restaurant and museum is being built over the surviving ruins.