Attractions of Karpaty

The elegant hunting palace-castle of the Shenborn Counts is located in the Berehvar tract in the village of Karpaty, on the outskirts of Chynadiiovo, 10 kilometers from Mukachevo.

In 1728, Austrian Archbishop Lotar Frants fon Shenborn received a gift from Emperor Karl VI of large lands in the Mukachevo area, which in 1711 were taken from Prince Ferents II Rakotsi, the leader of the anti-Habsburg uprising.

The new owners chose the picturesque Berehvar tract for hunting and built a wooden hunting castle. In 1890-1895, Ervin Fridrikh Shenborn-Bukhhaym built a magnificent stone castle-palace in its place. The eclectic architecture dominated by Neo-Gothic and Renaissance elements gives the building a romantic look of the French castles of the Lyudovik XIV era. The project is based on the astronomical year: 365 windows correspond to the number of days in a year, 52 rooms correspond to the number of weeks, and 12 entrances correspond to the number of months. The building is decorated with numerous turrets, weather vanes, bright tiles, colored stained-glass windows, and heraldic stucco. On the clock tower you can see the coat of arms of the Shenborns with a lion and a crown. Interiors with grand staircase and fireplace have been partially preserved.

The palace is located in the center of an English park with an area of 19 hectares with a natural landscape where rare species of trees and shrubs are found: boxwood, sakura, Weymouth pine, Canadian spruce. The outline of the park pond repeats the map of Austria-Hungary.

Aristocrats from all over Europe gathered every autumn to rest and hunt in the Shenborn lands.

Since 1946, the clinical sanatorium "Karpaty" was opened on the territory of the estate, where cardiovascular diseases are treated. There is a pumping station with mineral water "Polyana Kupel". The building of the Shenborn Palace is now one of the buildings of the sanatorium.

Down by the road is the railway station "Sanatorium Karpaty", which is made in the same romantic style as the palace.