Attractions of Letychiv

The elegant round toothed tower rising above the Vinnytsia-Khmelnytskyi highway is a fragment of the Letychiv castle, built in the 16th century by the Kamyanets chief Yan Potocki at the request of the Polish king.

Previously, there was a wooden fortress in Letychiv, which was repeatedly burned by the Tatars. After Potocki converted from Protestantism to Catholicism in 1606, the castle came under the control of Dominican monks. They brought with them the icon of the Mother of God from the Vatican (a copy of the icon from Saint Peter's Cathedral in Rome) and began rebuilding the castle into a monastery.

The Church of the Assumption (XVI-XVII centuries) has since that time been the sanctuary (holy repository) of the icon of the Virgin of Letychiv - the patroness of Podillya (now the icon is in Lublin, Poland, and a copy is in Letychiv).

During the Liberation War of 1648-1652, the monastery was destroyed, but was soon restored.

During the Second World War, a concentration camp was located here, during Soviet times - warehouses.

In 1989, the church was returned to the Roman Catholic parish of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the restoration is ongoing.

In front of the tower there is a monument to the national hero Ustim Karmalyuk, who is buried here.