Attractions of Chortkiv district

Yazlovets Castle, nicknamed the "Key of Podillya", in the 16th and 17th centuries was one of the most important defensive structures in the eastern part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, along with Kamyants-Podilskyi.

It was founded by representatives of the Buchatsky-Yazlovetsky magnate family. In the 15th century, Teodor Buchatsky-Yazlovetsky turned it into a powerful bastion, in 1550-1575 Yuriy Yazlovetsky expanded the castle and later completed a huge four-story tower. Below were casemates, on the third floor was the entrance to the city, on the fourth floor there were living quarters. The gate was led by a bridge on wooden posts, in its final part - hinged.

In 1643, the new owner Hetman Oleksandr Konetspolsky built an outer defensive ring - the Lower Castle. During the Liberation War, the fortress withstood the siege of the Cossack troops, but in 1672 it fell under the pressure of the Turks.

In 1746, Stanislav Ponyatovsky (father of the Polish king Stanislav Augustus) built a palace on the site of the Lower Castle, which was remodeled and improved by Baron Khrystof Blazhevsky.

In 1863, the baron donated the palace with the ruins of the castle and the garden to the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception for the establishment of a convent and a school for girls. Blessed Martselina Darovska, the founder of the monastery, is buried in the crypt on the territory.

During Soviet times, the monastery was closed, there was a hospital, then a sanatorium. The latter is still functioning, sharing premises with the monastery, which was revived in 1999.

Today it is the Retreat House named after Martselina Darovska of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. The nuns keep the palace and park in good condition and welcome tourists.

The Zalishchyky Museum of Local Lore is located in the premises of the House of Folk Art.

Founded in 1929, still in Poland, by seminary teacher Yosyp Shvarts.

The basis of the collection was made up of things found during archaeological research, as well as donated by local local historians. After the Second World War, it was revived in 1964. For some time it was in the closed by the Soviet authorities Holy Intercession Church, and in 1985 it moved to the current premises.

Over the years of work, 18,000 exhibits have been collected. In recent years, the exhibition has been supplemented with materials about the participation of Zalishchyky residents in the UGS, OUN, UPA and other patriotic organizations.

Zalishchytsky Park on the banks of the Dniester is a monument of garden and park art.

The landscape-style park with an area of ​​5 hectares was founded in the middle of the 19th century on the territory of the former palace of the Brunytsky barons in Zalishchyky (now the Central District Hospital). More than 50 species of trees, shrubs and vines grow in the park, including rare, exotic and relicts: baobab, ginkgo, tulip tree, iron tree, Japanese sophora, Canadian bunduk, aged oaks, ash trees, etc.

Zalishchytsky Park is part of the protected zone of the regional landscape park "Dniester Canyon"