Pidhirtsi Castle

The Pidhirtsi Castle (Ukrainian: Підгорецький замок, romanized: Pidhorets'kyi zamok; Polish: zamek w Podhorcach) is a residential castle-fortress located in the village of Pidhirtsi in Lviv Oblast (province) western Ukraine, located eighty kilometers east of Lviv.

It was constructed by Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan between 1635 and 1640 by order of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth's Grand Crown Hetman Stanisław Koniecpolski, on the place of the older fortress. The castle was then part of the property of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, and it is regarded as the most valuable of the palace-garden complexes in the eastern borderlands (Kresy Wschodnie) of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Today, it is part of the Lviv National Art Gallery.

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Pidhirtsi Castle ranks #469 of 7,738 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #6 of the 183 mapped in Ukraine. Founded 1635, it is older than 29% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 580 atlas entries founded in the 17th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 8,050 times in the last 60 days, more than 90% of the atlas. 3 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Lutsk, 93 km away. See how Ukraine compares in the castle statistics.

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