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Zhvantsem Castle

Ukraine · 15th century

Zhvantsem Castle in Ukraine
Photo: Madlen-y · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Zhvantsem Castle ranks #4,946 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #71 of the 195 mapped in Ukraine. Founded c. 1401, it is older than 50% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 556 atlas entries founded in the 15th century. 7 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Kamianets-Podilskyi, 16 km away. See how Ukraine compares in the castle statistics.

The ruins of Zhvantsem Castle (Ukrainian: Жванецький замок) stand on a hill rising above the Zhvanchyk river, twenty kilometres south-west of Kamianets-Podilskyi, in Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine.

Machine-translated from “Château de Jvanets” on the French Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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