Starosil's'ka Castle - the largest in Lviv. Pentagonal defensive castle of Ostrog, built in the late sixteenth century. Eastern style of the late Renaissance ...

    The ruins of the castle is located on a hill on the southeast protected marshy valley. The existence of wooden fortifications to defend against the attacks of Tatars in MYOB way known from written sources from 1448 in 1584-1589 years old village belonged to the family of Princes of Ostrog, which in place of a wooden fortification built a stone castle. Perhaps in its construction involved Lviv architect favorably. But soon fortifications destroyed by the Tatars.

In the first half of the XVII century. owner of the land became Vladislav Domenic Prince Ostrog and Zaslavsky, who in 1642 began construction of a new castle. But to complete the construction failed because in 1648, invaded and destroyed the fortifications of Cossack units Bohdan Khmelnytsky. Next build the castle falls on 1649-1654 he greatly expanded and strengthened fortifications in 1672 successfully withstood the siege of the Turkish troops. For typological grounds it was irregular fortification, pentagonal in plan, with five cornerstones and two gate on the south and north-west towers. In the castle courtyard was a chapel; along the east wall, two-story building housed the commandant. At the end of XVII century. owners of the castle were Lubomirski, then Senyavski and Czartoryski, and in 1809 1939rr. -Potocki. Today, a representative from the castle once remains of defensive walls 14-16 m tall, three towers and the ruins of the southern and eastern buildings. The walls of the castle with three tiers of loopholes completed attic with blank arkaturoyu. Against defensive walls angular towers stand tall and plastic attykovoho completion. Prominence celebrated Oriental, faceted tower located in the center of the body home. It remained vmurovana stove in Latin, which means Vladislav Domenic Prince Ostrog and Zaslavsky, governor Sandomierz, Lutsk Mayor.

Castle in the Old Village is an attraction irregular fortification XVI-XVII centuries. Galicia, which clearly revealed the features of the Renaissance style of Ukrainian architecture.