Pidhirtsi Castle

Pidhirtsi Castle
Підгорецький замок
The palace in 2015
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General information
StatusState Register of Immovable Landmarks of Ukraine
LocationPidhirtsi, Zolochiv Raion, Lviv Oblast
CountryUkraine
Year(s) built1635
Design and construction
Architect(s)Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan, Andrea del Aqua

Pidhirtsi Castle (Ukrainian: Підгорецький замок; 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.[1] 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.[2][3]

Today, it is part of the Lviv National Art Gallery.

  1. ^ Zamky ta fortet͡si (in Ukrainian). Mystet͡stvo. 2007. ISBN 978-966-577-003-9.
  2. ^ "Підгірці". castles.com.ua. Retrieved 2023-08-03.
  3. ^ "Pidhirtsi Castle". World Monuments Fund. Retrieved 2023-08-03.

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