Stare Selo Castle

Stare Selo Castle is a castle in Stare Selo village, Lviv Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. This castle, or fortress, was built by the princely Ostrogski family.

Its original timber fortifications, first mentioned in 1448, were destroyed by the invading Turks in the late 15th century. A more secure stone fort, intended to defend the Bârlad Road from Lviv to Romania, was built in Stare Selo in the 1580s. Those walls were breached and rendered useless by Khmelnytsky's Cossacks during the Siege of Lviv in 1648.

The existing fortress, almost triangular in shape, with 15-metre high walls and a ceremonial gate on the south side, was commissioned by Prince Władysław Dominik Zasławski, one of the last members of the Ostrogski family. The citadel was erected in 1649-54 and formerly contained the palatial residence of Prince Zaslawski, one of the richest landowners of Eastern Europe and brother-in-law of King John III Sobieski.

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Stare Selo Castle occupe la 3 551e place sur 5 793 au classement de renommée de cet atlas et le 44e rang des 120 que l’atlas recense en Ukraine. Fondé en 1448, il est plus ancien que 54 % des monuments datés de l’atlas — l’un des 243 monuments de l’atlas fondés au XVe siècle. Voyez comment l’Ukraine se compare dans les statistiques des châteaux.

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