Located on a hill in the midst of a deep hollow in the tract Dzhuryn River near the village of Red Nyrkiv Zalishchytsk district, Ternopil region. Origin of the name of the castle is associated with intense red local sandstone ... 
 The remains of a magnificent castle-palace Poninskyh, erected in 1840 on the site of an ancient fortress, today are the ruins of two Gothic towers located in the tract on Red Hill in the midst of a deep hollow Dzhuryn river. Once the structure was considered the most beautiful in the whole of the Polish Empire. 
  
Originally Chervonogorod castle fortifications was that in the first half of the XIX century. rebuilt the palace. Considered one of the most mysterious and romantic castles Ternopil. Tourists usually associate it with the fabulous "two towers" of Tolkien's saga "The Lord of the Rings." 
  
According to legend Chervonogorod castle appeared in ancient times and was destroyed by the Mongols. Lithuanian princes Koriatovychiv restore wooden lock to lose it in 1395 in favor of Poland. In 1538, the castle and the town were destroyed by the army of Peter the Wallachian ruler. At the beginning of XVII century. Nicholas D. builds a stone castle with an extensive system of underground tunnels. From 1672 to 1699 years, the castle was occupied and destroyed by the Turks. In 1778, the ruins of which consisted of two towers and wall elements, buys Prince K.Poninskyy and rebuilds the palace. By 1939, the Duchess lived in the palace of Lubomirski. 
  
During the war the castle was almost completely destroyed, and in the post-war period of the palace was dismantled for building materials for the local farm. 
  
Along with locking towers rise the ruins of the church of the Ascension.

Chervonogorod castle

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The castle was built on the orders of Michael Czartoryski, who belonged to this area. He looked like a feudal castle of the seventeenth century. It was built very slowly, but built at a glance struck by its grandeur ... 
 The castle was built by the governor of Bratslav Michał Jerzy Czartoryski 1659. In 1672 and 1676 the castle suffered damage during the war with the Turks. After rebuilding has played an important role during the Polish-Turkish war in 1685-1691, respectively. It was the easternmost fortress of the Commonwealth on the right bank of the Dniester. At the time of the Moldavian campaigns Jan III Sobieski castle was the site of storage of provisions and forage. Several times he stopped here Sobieski. 
  
The castle was very tall shestymetrovi wall thickness of 2.5 m, four bastions, sharp corners lifted beyond the walls, square tower, which is strictly set up on entrance gate. The facade of the entrance gate from the outside decorated large coat of arms "Rogop" carved in stone, but on the inside to present a well-preserved coat of arms "Rilawa" with Latin letters E.S.H.S.W.V. what it means: Stanislavitska Euphrosyne, Princess Chortoryisk, voyevodytsya Bratslav.

Chernelytskyy castle

Yahilnytskyy castle rightly considered one of the most powerful and impregnable castles of Podolia. It was built in 1630 on the orders of the Crown Hetman Stanisław Lanckoroński. It is located on a high ledge above the river Cherkaska. The castle is triangular in plan, made up of stone. Under the castle there are spacious dungeons.
In 1648 Bohdan Khmelnytsky's Cossacks made their first trip to Galicia, but they didn't conquered Yahilnytskyy castle. The  successful siege was in 1655. Then Cossacks stormed strengthening in cooperation with the Moscow troops. Perhaps then the castle could survive, but inside it revolted locals.
After signing a Buchach peace treaty Buchach, Yahilnytsya with other lands of Podolia ceded to Turkey. In the castle there was housed a garrison of Turkish sultan. In 1672 the Polish royal troops drove them out. Military history for the fortress ended with the reconquest of the Turks Kamenetz-Podolsk in 1699. So by the end of XVIII century the castle had become more manor than a citadel. But in the end it was left to the Austrian government.
In the XIX century austrian authorities ordered to fill the trenches and make out part of the fortifications and buildings were used as a tobacco and potassium carbonate factory (evidence of this - an old postcard). To the factory there was built railways. Tobacco-fermentation factory existed here in the Soviet Union.
Building remained its defensive nature, despite the restructuring. Well preserved 6-meter walls of Lanckoroński former palace (1610).

Yahilnytskyy castle

Settlement Yazlivets (now Yablunivka) was first mentioned at the beginning of the fourteenth century. as a large city that was famous for its fairs. Until now, remains of the castle, and that after a century of destruction and decay still impressive thick dark walls and size ... 
Overall strength of the XV century. Buchatskiy-Yazlovetskis and repeatedly reconstructed. The castle was built in a very convenient spot for the defense and well fortified and had Rondell system, which is a transition element to the bastion to construct fortresses. Later, due to the reconstruction of the palace was given the form of a grand parade yard and travel to the castle. Special pomp celebrated portal castle. In the XVIII century. the new owner of the castle Stanislaw Poniatowski rebuilt it into a luxury three-storey palats.Poryad the castle is a small monastery-palace. He built 1644-1658rr. kazematne as strengthening the lower castle with two angular bastions. 
  
In 1946 the monastery was closed. In Soviet times, there was a hospital. And 1990p. of the monastic buildings turned the community of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Yazlovetskis Castle (village Yablunivka)

Construction of the castle began Bratslav governor Stefan Potocki in the early XVII century. as family rooms ... 
In 1676 the castle was captured and burned by the Turks. Later it was rebuilt and it remained in the ownership of the Potocki until the second half of the XVIII century. 
  
The castle is located on a hill above a small shallow valley flows under the planning scheme is a square pentagon with corner tower, flanking defensive walls to be carried out substantially sharp-speaking. The walls are three-tier corner tower of the castle, as well as defensive walls built of local red sandstone reaches a thickness of about 2 m, extending into the basement part. They had arranged rectangular slits with bow bridges. 
  
Along the northwest wall, from the castle courtyard, preserved building housing and economic purpose of the three-tier entrance tower in the middle. At the gate of the framing white stone carvings fragments survived late Renaissance style. To the right of nadbramnoi towers along the north-western defensive wall was a palace, originally a one-story with basement, and later built on. From the castle yard he had a gallery. On the opposite side of the court there was another economic body, which has not survived. Fortified with. Golden Stream is a typical example of regular locks protobastionnoho type. 
  
  
Information and photos from the book "Castles and Fortresses" (2007r.m.Kyyiv, "Art")

Castle village Zolotyy Potik

Castle ruins are located on the southern edge of the village, in a very scenic area . It has a magnificent view of the river that covers a wide horseshoe village with surroundings. To date, preserved Northwest Tower and fragment of the south -east, which later became the chapel ...
In historical and literary sources construction of the castle dates back to the 40 years we XVII century and is attributed Galician podchashie Dominica , Wojciech Benyovszky .
The castle stood in the Tatar siege 1667r . in the Turkish war, however 1672r . it won the Turks. The second time the Turks seized the castle 1676r . After rebuilding the castle played an important role in ensuring the campaigns of the Polish king Jan Sobieski against Turkey in 1685 1691rr . At the end of XVII century , where the castle was located Rakovetskiy was crossing the Dniester, and the castle was stored supplies and ammunition. That is why it is important military and strategic site became a place of military clashes. At the time of the Bar Confederation ( 1768) the castle burned. In the 40s of the XIX century was the owner Rakovka Dvernytskyy he built among the ruins ptashnyu that burned a few years . At the end of the century became the owner of the ruins Shmul sheep . From the time of the decline of the castle locals gradually dismantled the building : fence their dwellings built of reddish stone castle .
From the preserved ruins rozplanuvalnu difficult to determine the structure and character building of the castle , the building features can only speak on the basis of the aggregate consideration of all data - field , iconography , written .
The castle was in terms of irregular polygon shape of its subordinate contour area. He was the overall size of 40x60 meters, when you count the towers that stood for perimeter defense walls , there were three: South West , Gate (from the village ), Northwest (from the slopes ) , South East (over the steep banks ). At the end of XIX century , according to the old photos and graphics, in addition to the stored full-height (20 m) north- west in terms of hexagonal tower existed the floor of the three-tiered rectangular gate tower and almost triangular in plan southeastern tower to a height of one tier. Their connecting saved almost the entire perimeter (except on the steep banks of the Dniester River ) tall defensive walls from 2 to 8 m, which sometimes preserved loopholes . Defensive walls adjacent to the tower were thick 1.7 - 1.8 m and a height of about 9 pm They placed two combat tiers. Fighting the course was to trim the upper wall at a height of 6.5 m above the ground. Since it napillya limited breastworks height of 2.6 m , which also , as in the tower were two levels of loopholes . They are from the castle court martial had holes about 0.45 x 0.45 m, with the floor - holes of two types : square and Liners identical apertures tower - also located on the altitude offset. This interesting reception is very rare , it is not used on the walls , which constituted the main castle from the forehead and adjacent to the entrance gate of the tower , where there were two tiers of loopholes traditional placement of arch bridges. On this basis the entry of the castle can be considered later on the northern formed hexagonal tower and walls of the system in terms of an arbitrary configuration.