In Galich - hill towering over the city, one can see the ruins of the old fortress ...

According to written sources , the castle was built in the mid- fourteenth century. , During the Galician starostvo whence comes its name. During the Turkish- Polish war in 1676 the castle suffered a crushing blow , and then, in view of the emergence of a new fortified city - Stanislav (modern Ivano -Frankivsk) , interest has significantly decreased.

By the middle of the XVIII century. Galician castle turned into ruins. After the collapse of the mountain with the Austrian authorities ordered the walls of the ruins interpreted. To this day the remains of the noble tower of the south exterior wall of the castle chapel of St.. Catherine, the tower on the second tier and the remains of defensive walls with loopholes. Also traced the foundations corner , square, south tower building. At the castle survived numerous basements . Since 1997, the reconstruction of the surviving fortifications to create a museum of the history of Galich on the Dniester.