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Castles in Ukraine
127 landmarks in the Castlemap atlas — every one on the interactive map.
See them on the map →The most famous castle in Ukraine is Mariinskyi Palace, ranked #272 of 7,044 in the world — followed by Livadia Palace and Vorontsov Palace (Alupka).
The Castlemap atlas charts 72 castles, 27 fortresses, 10 palaces & châteaux and 18 ruins in Ukraine. They span more than 17 centuries — from Charax (founded 200) to Swallow's Nest (1912). Every one is plotted with its photo, founding date and story on the interactive castle map of Ukraine.
All 127 castles in Ukraine
- Mariinskyi Palace
Palace & château · 18th century · #272 worldwide · #1 in Ukraine
The Mariinskyi Palace is the official residence of the president of Ukraine. The Elizabethan baroque palace is sited on the right bank of the Dnipro…
- Livadia Palace
Palace & château · 20th century · #276 worldwide · #2 in Ukraine
Livadia Palace is a former summer retreat of the last Russian tsar, Nicholas II, and his family in Livadiya, Crimea.
- Vorontsov Palace (Alupka)
Palace & château · 19th century · #378 worldwide · #3 in Ukraine
The Vorontsov Palace or the Alupka Palace is a historic palace situated at the foot of the Crimean Mountains near the town of Alupka in Crimea.
- Swallow's Nest
Palace & château · 20th century · #4 in Ukraine
Decorative castle located between Yalta and Alupka on the Crimean peninsula
- Mangup
Fortress · 6th century · #5 in Ukraine
Medieval cave town and former capital of the Principality of Theodoro in Crimea
- Chufut-Kale
Ruin · 6th century · #6 in Ukraine
Chufut-Kale is a medieval city-fortress in the Crimean Mountains that now lies in ruins.
- Pidhirtsi Castle
Castle · 17th century · #7 in Ukraine
The Pidhirtsi Castle is a residential castle-fortress located in the village of Pidhirtsi in Lviv Oblast western Ukraine, located eighty kilometers…
- Palanok Castle
Castle · #8 in Ukraine
The Palanok Castle or Mukachevo Castle is a historic castle in the city of Mukachevo in the western Ukrainian oblast of Zakarpattia.
- Golden Gate (Kyiv)
Fortress · 11th century · #9 in Ukraine
The Golden Gate of Kyiv was the main gate in the 11th century fortifications of Kyiv, the capital of the Kievan Rus'.
- Kamianets-Podilskyi Castle
Castle · #10 in Ukraine
The Kamianets-Podilskyi Castle is a former Ruthenian-Lithuanian castle and a later three-part Polish fortress located in the historic city of…
- Genoese Fortress (Sudak)
Fortress · 14th century · #11 in Ukraine
The Genoese fortress or Sudak fortress is a fortress in Sudak, Crimea, built by the Genoese in 13th–15th centuries.
- Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Fortress
Fortress · #12 in Ukraine
The Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi fortress or Akkerman fortress is a historical and architectural monument of the 13th–14th centuries.
- Olesko Castle
Castle · #13 in Ukraine
The Olesko Castle is located within the borders of present-day Zolochiv Raion in Ukraine.
- Khan's Palace
Palace & château · 16th century · #14 in Ukraine
Former residence of the Crimean Khans in Bakhchysarai
- Khotyn Fortress
Fortress · 14th century · #15 in Ukraine
The Khotyn Fortress is a fortification complex located on the right bank of the Dniester River in Khotyn, Chernivtsi Oblast of southwestern Ukraine.
- Saint Elisabeth Fortress
Fortress · #16 in Ukraine
The Fortress of St. Elizabeth is a former earthen fortress in the form of a six-pointed star in the city of Kropyvnytskyi in central Ukraine, which…
- Lubart's Castle
Castle · 14th century · #17 in Ukraine
Lutsk Castle, also locally known as Liubart's Castle or Upper Castle, began its life in the mid-14th century as the fortified seat of Gediminas' son…
- Kodak Fortress
Ruin · 17th century · #18 in Ukraine
The Kodak fortress was a fort built in 1635 by the order of Władysław IV Vasa, ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and the Commonwealth's…
- Yeni-Kale
Ruin · 17th century · #19 in Ukraine
Yeni-Kale is a fortress located on the shore of Kerch Strait in the city of Kerch.
- Potocki Palace (Lviv)
Palace & château · 19th century · #20 in Ukraine
The Potocki Palace in Lviv was built in the 1880s as an urban seat of Alfred Józef Potocki, former Minister-President of Austria.
- Zolochiv Castle
Castle · 17th century · #21 in Ukraine
The Zolochiv Castle was a residence of the Sobieski noble family on a hill at the confluence of two small rivers in the south-eastern part of…
- Kinburn
Castle · #22 in Ukraine
- Kachanivka
Palace & château · 18th century · #23 in Ukraine
The Kachanivka Palace is one of the many country estates built by Pyotr Rumyantsev, Catherine II's viceroy of Little Russia.
- Massandra Palace
Palace & château · 19th century · #24 in Ukraine
The Massandra Palace is a Châteauesque villa of Emperor Alexander III of Russia in Massandra, at the south coast of Crimea.
- Zbarazh Castle
Castle · 17th century · #25 in Ukraine
The Zbarazh Castle is a fortified defense stronghold in Zbarazh, built during the times of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
- Uzhhorod Castle
Castle · #26 in Ukraine
The Uzhhorod Castle is an extensive citadel on a hill in Uzhhorod, Ukraine. It was built in a mixture of architectural styles and materials between…
- Lviv High Castle
Ruin · 13th century · #27 in Ukraine
The Lviv High Castle is a historic castle located on the top of the Castle Hill of the city of Lviv, Ukraine.
- Castle Khust
Ruin · 14th century · #28 in Ukraine
The Khust Castle is an abandoned castle located in the city of Khust in Zakarpattia Oblast in western Ukraine.
- Ostroh Castle
Ruin · #29 in Ukraine
The Ostroh Castle is a castle in the city of Ostroh, located in the Rivne Oblast of western Ukraine.
- Olyka Castle
Castle · 16th century · #30 in Ukraine
The Olyka Castle is a fortified palace in Olyka, Ukraine. Constructed in 1564, it became the principal seat of the Radziwiłł family in Volhynia, once…
- Arabat Fortress
Fortress · 17th century · #31 in Ukraine
The Arabat Fortress, built in the 17th century by the Ottoman army, stands at the southernmost part of the Arabat Spit.
- Svirzh Castle
Castle · #32 in Ukraine
The Svirz Castle is a fortified aristocratic residence in Svirzh, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.
- Medzhybizh Fortress
Fortress · #33 in Ukraine
The Medzhybizh Fortress also known as Medzhybizh Castle, is situated at the confluence of the Southern Bug and Buzhok rivers, in the town of…
- Nevytsky Castle
Ruin · 13th century · #34 in Ukraine
The Nevytske Castle is a semi-ruined castle in Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine. It is located 12 kilometres north of Uzhhorod near the villages Nevytske…
- Kremenets Castle
Castle · #35 in Ukraine
The Kremenets Castle is a castle situated in the city of Kremenets, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. The castle was built of limestone on a steep hill.
- Dubno Castle
Castle · 15th century · #36 in Ukraine
The Dubno Castle was founded in 1492 by Prince Konstantin Ostrogski on a promontory overlooking the Ikva River not far from the ancient Ruthenian…
- Zhovkva Castle
Castle · 16th century · #37 in Ukraine
The Zhovkva Castle occupies the principal square of the town of Zhovkva in Ukraine.
- Tarakanivskiy Fort
Fortress · 19th century · #38 in Ukraine
Tarakaniv Fort, also known as Dubno fort is a 19th-century fortress located next to Tarakaniv village in the Dubno Raion of Rivne Oblast, Ukraine.
- Eski-Kermen
Fortress · 6th century · #39 in Ukraine
Medieval cave town and fortress in Crimea (6th–13th century)
- Kaffa genoese fortress
Fortress · 13th century · #40 in Ukraine
Colony of the Republic of Genoa in Crimea
- Or Qapi
Ruin · 16th century · #41 in Ukraine
Or Qapi Fortress is a ruined fort located near the settlement of Perekop on the Perekop isthmus connecting the Crimean peninsula to the Ukrainian…
- Berezhany Castle
Castle · 17th century · #42 in Ukraine
Berezhany Castle, around which the modern town of Berezhany has sprung up, was built on an island in the Zolota Lypa River in the 1530s and 1540s by…
- Lubomirski Palace
Palace & château · 18th century · #43 in Ukraine
The Lviv palace of Prince Stanisław Lubomirski was built in the 1760s to Jan de Witte's design on the site of several older houses.
- Belgorod Kievsky
Ruin · 10th century · #45 in Ukraine
Bilhorod Kyivskyi or Belgorod was a city-castle in Kievan Rus', on the right bank of the Irpin River.
- Kyiv Castle
Ruin · 14th century · #46 in Ukraine
Kyiv Castle was the most powerful fortress in Dnieper Ukraine between the 14th and first half of the 16th century.
- Halych Castle
Castle · 14th century · #47 in Ukraine
Halych Castle, is a castle in Halych, Ukraine. The first castle here was built in the 14th century by the Polish king Casimir III the Great to…
- Izmail Fortress
Fortress · 16th century · #48 in Ukraine
Izmail Fortress was an Ottoman stronghold in the southernmost part of modern-day Ukraine, near the border with Romania and on a branch of the Danube…
- Stare Selo Castle
Ruin · 15th century · #49 in Ukraine
Stare Selo Castle is a castle in Stare Selo village, Lviv Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.
- Chynadiiovo Castle
Castle · #50 in Ukraine
- Kerch Fortress
Fortress · 19th century · #51 in Ukraine
Kerch Fortress is a fortress in eastern Crimea, located on Cape Ak-Burun at the narrowest point of the Kerch Strait.
- Pomoriany Castle
Ruin · #52 in Ukraine
The Pomoriany Castle is a ruined castle in the rural settlement of Pomoriany, Zolochiv Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.
- Metropolitan Palace
Palace & château · 18th century · #53 in Ukraine
The Metropolitan Palace, also known as Greek Catholic Archbishops Palace, opposite St. George's Cathedral in Lviv, Ukraine, has been the principal…
- Bilevska fortress
Fortress · #54 in Ukraine
Berestyn, formerly known as Krasnohrad or Krasnograd, is a city in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. From 1784 to 1922, it was known as Kostiantynohrad.
- Okopy Castle
Castle · 17th century · #55 in Ukraine
The Okopy Castle, also locally known as Holy Trinity Trenches is located in Okopy, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine.
- Starokostiantyniv Castle
Castle · #56 in Ukraine
The Starokostiantyniv Castle is a Volhynian castle built at the confluence of the Sluch and Ikopot' rivers by Prince Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski in the…
- Korets Castle
Castle · 14th century · #57 in Ukraine
The Korets Castle is a castle built in Korets c. 1400 by either Prince Theodor Ostrogski or Prince Dymitr Korybut.
- Zhvantsem Castle
Castle · 15th century · #58 in Ukraine
- Klevan Castle
Castle · 15th century · #59 in Ukraine
Klevan Castle is one of the oldest forts in Volynia, Ukraine. It was built in the mid-15th century by Prince Michael Czartoryski in order to control…
- Buchach Castle
Ruin · 15th century · #60 in Ukraine
The Buchach Castle is a ruin of a medieval castle, located in Buchach, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine.
- Pniv Castle
Castle · #61 in Ukraine
- Cembalo
Fortress · 14th century · #62 in Ukraine
14th–15th century Genoese fortress in Balaklava, Crimea
- Sydoriv Castle
Ruin · 17th century · #63 in Ukraine
The Sydoriv Castle is a ruin of a stronghold built by Marcin Kalinowski in Sydoriv, a village located 7 km south of Husiatyn.
- Chortkiv Castle
Castle · 17th century · #64 in Ukraine
The Chortkiv Castle is a brick castle built in the early 17th century on the left bank of the river Seret in Vyhnanka on the site of a previous…
- Brody Castle
Castle · #65 in Ukraine
The Brody Castle is a former fortress in the city of Brody, part of Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.
- Letychiv Fortress
Fortress · 16th century · #66 in Ukraine
The Letychiv Fortress is a complex of limestone walls built in 1598 by Jan Potocki to defend Podolia from the regular raids of the Crimean Tatars.
- Chervonohorod Castle
Castle · #67 in Ukraine
The Chervonohorod Castle is a former defensive structure in Ukraine that was rebuilt into a palace in the first half of the 19th century, an…
- Skala-Podilska Castle
Castle · #68 in Ukraine
The Skala-Podilska Castle it is located Skala-Podilska of the Ternopil Oblast, above a ravine of the Zbruch River, on a rocky promontory accessible…
- Yazlovets Castle
Ruin · #70 in Ukraine
The Yazlovets Castle is the remnants of a ruined castle in the former privately owned town, now village, of Yazlovets, Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil…
- Kudryntsi Castle
Castle · 17th century · #71 in Ukraine
The ruined Kudryntsi Castle is perched on a hilltop overlooking the Zbruch River in Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine, 25 km west of a larger…
- Skalat Castle
Castle · 17th century · #72 in Ukraine
The Skalat Castle is located in Skalat, Ternopil Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine.
- Chernelytsia Castle
Castle · 17th century · #74 in Ukraine
The Chernelytsia Castle is a castle built in Chernelytsia in Pokuttia, then part of the Kingdom of Poland, in 1659 by Bratslav Voivode Michał Jerzy…
- Herburt castle in Dobromyl
Castle · #75 in Ukraine
- Budaniv castle and convent
Castle · #76 in Ukraine
The Budaniv Castle is a located in Budaniv, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. The nest of the 16th-century Budzanowski family, and an architectural monument…
- Novobohorodytska Fortress
Fortress · #77 in Ukraine
The Bohorodytska Fortress or Novobohorodytska Fortress is a 17th-century retrenchment of the Cossack Hetmanate on the right bank of the Samara River.
- Chornokozyntsi Castle
Castle · #78 in Ukraine
- Vynohradiv Castle
Castle · #79 in Ukraine
- Yahilnytsia Castle
Castle · 15th century · #80 in Ukraine
The Yahilnytsia Castle is located in Yahilnytsia, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. The castle, built at the end of the 15th century as a wooden one, is…
- Gubkiv Castle
Castle · #81 in Ukraine
- Sataniv Castle
Castle · #82 in Ukraine
Sataniv Castle is a fortress in the rural settlement of Sataniv, Khmelnytskyi Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine.
- Korolevo Castle
Castle · #83 in Ukraine
- Aluston Fortress
Fortress · 6th century · #84 in Ukraine
Алустон — византийская крепость в Крыму, памятник архитектуры, ныне находящийся в центре города Алушта, в пределах улиц Розы Люксембург, 15 апреля,…
- Tsetsyno Fortress
Fortress · #85 in Ukraine
- Konstantin Battery
Fortress · 19th century · #86 in Ukraine
The Konstantin or Consantine Battery is a fortification on the north side of Sevastopol in Crimea, also known as Fort Constantine.
- Pidhaitsi Castle
Castle · #87 in Ukraine
The Pidhaitsi Castle is a defensive castle built in Pidhaitsi, Ternopil Oblast on the Koropets River.
- Baturyn Fortress
Fortress · #88 in Ukraine
La Cittadella della fortezza di Baturyn è un complesso museale all'aperto a Baturyn, nel Distretto di Nižyn, Oblast' di Černihiv in Ucraina.
- Toky Castle
Castle · #89 in Ukraine
The Toky Castle is located in Toky, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. The castle is located on a stone hill of the peninsula, which is surrounded by a pond…
- Mykulyntsi Castle
Castle · 16th century · #90 in Ukraine
The Mykulyntsi Castle is a castle built in 1550 in Mykulyntsi of the Ternopil Oblast by Anna Jordanowa from the Sieniawski family, wife of Spytek…
- Staryi Zbarazh Castle
Ruin · 15th century · #91 in Ukraine
The Staryi Zbarazh Castle was a castle built in the 15th century by Kniaz Kaributas on a high rock.
- Gurzuf Fortress
Fortress · 6th century · #92 in Ukraine
Гурзуфская крепость, или крепость Горзувиты — византийская и генуэзская древняя крепость, расположенная в южной части Крыма, в черте города Гурзуф,…
- Suiren Fortress
Fortress · 6th century · #93 in Ukraine
Medieval castle on Cape Kule-Burun in Crimea (6th–15th century)
- Vysichka Castle
Castle · 17th century · #94 in Ukraine
The Vysichka Castle is located in Vysichka, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. The castle built at the beginning of the 17th century, on a small plateau on a…
- Kvasovo Castle
Castle · #95 in Ukraine
- Zaliztsi Castle
Castle · 16th century · #96 in Ukraine
The Zaliztsi Castle is located in Zaliztsi, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. A defensive castle built in 1516 by Marcin Kamieniecki of the coat of arms of…
- Pidzamochok Castle
Ruin · #97 in Ukraine
The Pidzamochok Castle is a ruined castle, dating c. 1600, located in Pidzamochok, Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine.
- Kryvche Castle
Castle · 17th century · #98 in Ukraine
The Kryvche Castle is located in Kryvche, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. It was built in the first half of the 17th century by the Kątski family, and an…
- Cossack fortress in Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi
Fortress · #99 in Ukraine
- Hrymailiv Castle
Castle · 17th century · #100 in Ukraine
The Hrymailiv Castle is located in Hrymailiv, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. At the end of the 16th century, Hrymailiv was owned by the Ludzicki family of…
- Fortress of Saint Peter
Castle · 18th century · #101 in Ukraine
- Husiatyn castle
Castle · 17th century · #102 in Ukraine
The Husiatyn Castle is located in Husiatyn, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. Castle built in 1630 on the steep bank of the Zbrucz River, north of the city…
- Bronka Castle
Castle · #103 in Ukraine
- Dolha Castle in Dovhe
Castle · #104 in Ukraine
- Zbryzh castle
Castle · #105 in Ukraine
The Zbryzh Castle is located in Zbryzh, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine. The castle was built by General Adam Tarło, starosta of goszczyński,…
- Borshchiv castle
Castle · #106 in Ukraine
The Borshchiv Castle is a defensive castle built in Borshchiv, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine.
- Kyz-Kule
Castle · 15th century · #107 in Ukraine
Кыз-Куле́ — средневековый феодальный замок-крепость, памятник археологии федерального значения.
- Kozova castle
Castle · #108 in Ukraine
The Kozova Castle is a defensive castle built in Kozova, Ternopil Oblast on the Koropets River in the early 16th century.
- Horodok castle
Castle · #109 in Ukraine
The Horodok Castle was a lost defensive structure in the village of Horodok of the Zalishchyky urban hromada in the Chortkiv Raion of Ternopil Oblast…
- Zavaliv Castle
Castle · 17th century · #110 in Ukraine
The Zavaliv Castle is a defensive castle in Zavaliv, Ternopil Oblast. Castle built by the Makowiecki family in the early 17th century.
- Chortkiv Castle (old)
Castle · #111 in Ukraine
The Old Chortkiv Castle is the lost defensive structure in Chortkiv of the Chortkiv urban hromada of the Chortkiv Raion of Ternopil Oblast in Ukraine.
- Place of Shmankivtsi Castle
Castle · 17th century · #112 in Ukraine
The Shmankivtsi Castle is a lost defensive structure in the village of Shmankivtsi, Zavodske settlement hromada, Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast,…
- Novosilka Castle
Castle · #113 in Ukraine
The Novosilka Castle is a castle located in Novosilka, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine.
- Yaniv Castle
Castle · 17th century · #114 in Ukraine
The Yaniv Castle is located in Dolyna, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. The stronghold was built in the 17th century on a sloping hill by Jan Golski,…
- Lychkivtsi Castle
Castle · #115 in Ukraine
The Lychkivtsi Castle is located in Lychkivtsi, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. The castle built by Kalinowski.
- Strusiv Castle
Castle · #116 in Ukraine
The Strusiv Castle is a defensive castle built in Strusiv, Ternopil Oblast.
- Burun Kaia
Castle · #117 in Ukraine
Бурун-Кая — развалины средневекового укреплённого загона IX—X века. Расположены на одноимённом утёсе горного массива Курушлю, образующего восточный…
- Kotsiubyntsi Castle
Castle · #119 in Ukraine
The Kotsiubyntsi Castle is a lost defensive structure in the village of Kotsiubyntsi, Vasylkivtsi rural hromada, Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast,…
- Butsniv castle
Castle · #120 in Ukraine
Butsniv Castle is a defensive castle built in Butsniv, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine.
- Bila Castle
Castle · #121 in Ukraine
Bila Castle is a lost defensive structure in the village of Bila, Chortkiv urban hromada, Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine, and a newly…
- Kamara-Isar
Castle · #122 in Ukraine
Камара Исар — средневековый замок XIII—XV века в юго-западной части Крыма. Располагается в 1 км к югу от села Оборонное в Балаклавском районе, на…
- Isar Baga
Castle · #123 in Ukraine
Бага — развалины укреплённого поселения IX—X века. Расположены в 1 км к северу от села Новобобровка, на склоне горы Таш-Кой.
- Asarane Burun
Castle · #124 in Ukraine
Асаране-Бурун — развалины средневекового укреплённого поселения X—XIII века, расположенные на вершине одноимённой горы, в 4,5 км к северо-западу от…
- Kala-Fatlar
Ruin · 13th century · #125 in Ukraine
Кала-Фатлар — развалины средневекового, предположительно феодального, замка в Балаклавском районе Севастополя.
- Demerdji Isar
Castle · #126 in Ukraine
Демерджи II — развалины средневекового укрепления в Крыму, недалеко от села Лучистое большой Алушты, сооружённого жителями селения Демерджи в X веке…
- Funa Fortress
Fortress · 15th century · #127 in Ukraine
Frequently asked questions
How many castles are in Ukraine?
The Castlemap atlas maps 127 landmarks (72 castles · 27 fortresses · 10 palaces & châteaux · 18 ruins) in Ukraine — a curated selection of well-documented landmarks from Wikidata, not a count of every fortification ever built.
What is the most famous castle in Ukraine?
Mariinskyi Palace, ranked #272 of 7,044 worldwide in the atlas's fame ranking, founded in the 18th century.
What is the oldest castle in Ukraine?
The oldest dated landmark in the atlas in Ukraine is Charax, founded 200. Earlier structures may have existed — this is the oldest with a documented founding year.
See also: the most famous castle in every country · the oldest in every country · medieval castles · castle statistics.
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