Where to go: Zbarazh

It is worth taking with you

• - lyrics of the song "Oh, Frost-Frost" (or its recording performed by Vicky Vradiy);
• - The book by Henryk Sienkiewicz "Fire and Sword";
• - good appetite and refined manners;
• - model of a Cossack saber (pistol, cradle, herring);
• - some hryvnias.

It was the residence of princes Zbarazh, Vyshnevetsky, Potocki. Within these walls, fateful decisions were made for the region and ominous tribal curses were heard. One of the owners of the fortress, who began to build a new castle, was a favorite student of Galileo Galilei. Another owner died at a banquet held in honor of the completion of the fortress.

But Zbarazh Castle became famous also thanks to Bohdan Khmelnytsky. Only the fortress was completed, as it was at the center of military events. The fortress, where Yarema Vyshnevetsky encamped with the nobles, was besieged by the hetman for almost 2 months. However, she persevered. Henryk Senkiewicz will write about this in the novel "Fire and Sword". Meanwhile, historians are convinced that it was under Zbarazh Castle that the victory of the Cossacks near Zborov was being prepared.

So if you want to know what connects the legendary Cossack Morozenko with this place, for which his mother cursed Yarema Vyshnevetsky, who once owned the fortress, listen to stories about the secrets of the dungeons, and visit the restored almost medieval banquet hall, which is used for destination, then the fortress route is just for you.