The remains of the castle in Terebovlia is an outstanding monument of defensive architecture skirts seventeenth century. with characteristic features refracted walls combined with be carried out towers basteyamy ... 
  One of the oldest cities in Ukraine, which was first mentioned in chronicles in Ipatiev 1097 end of XI century. city ​​became the center of an independent principality Terebovlia that played a leading role in the fight against the attacks of the Polish and Hungarian troops for unity and independence of. In 1241 Terebovlia like most of Russian cities, was destroyed by a horde of Batu. 
  
Castle, whose construction is attributed to 1631, was located on a plateau high and inaccessible mountains above the Hnizna, the site of ancient settlement. Irregular in plan, the castle had defensive wall thickness of 4.5 m and three corner towers - elipsovydnu, square and pentagonal. The towers and walls were inside the gallery. Given the terrain castle was virtually impregnable. 
  
During the Liberation War of the Ukrainian people 1648-1657 pp. In separate speeches by B.Khmelnytskyi residents degenerating into revolt, and Terebovlia became a center of national-liberation movement in Galician tail.

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Yaniv castle - the castle ruins in Dolyna village Terebovlya district, Ternopil region.
It is located on a hill near the church. It was built at the expense of Jan Golski - founder of the city Yanov in the shape of rectangle. Damaged in several places walls with loopholes still surround the church and are actually remains of old fortifications. The walls were fortified by towers at the corners, of which north tower is still preserved. This is a powerful, circular building with six small windows. Its top floor was demolished, and the first tier in almost completely covered with earth and turned into a cellar. Locals call it "the Polish gunpowder storehouse."
Then the castle of Jan Golski became the property of Bogush. In 1675 the castle was captured and destroyed by the Turks.
In the XVIII the castle Jan Golski became the possession Bohush, in which the saltpeter factory was established.

Yaniv castle

Stone castle in Mikulintsah were built in 1550 by order of then-owner Mykulynets Anne, the daughter of Polish Hetman Senyavskoho Nicholas, his wife and Castellan of Kraków royal treasurers Spytka Jordan. Later, as the dowry of their daughters Sophia, the fortress passed to the family Zborowski, and then - Koniecpolski ... 
The fortress was laid on the wooden fortifications. The castle has a square shape with a length of 75 meters and a wall thickness of defensive walls - 2 meters. At the 3 corners of the castle tower round tower, which had 3 tiers with loopholes for guns. On the west side, where defensive walls are additionally protected by a deep moat, the castle had an entrance gate of a composite bridge. Another entry to the castle on the east side. Inside the fortress were homes, and under their cellars and tunnels. 
  
Past Mykulyntsi Tatar ran aggressive way and Horde attacked the camp almost every year. The castle withstood more than one draft, on its walls to this day traces of the hot resin is poured on the heads of the attackers. According to legend the locals to protect the inhabitants of the town built a tunnel until Terebovlia, a length of 9 km. The entrances to the caves you can see so far, but they go away can not, because they are swamped. In times of Khmelnytsky Cossack fortress was destroyed, and the owners again and again it recovered. After a two-week siege in 1675 the Turkish army captured the castle, which led to the gradual decline of the city. However, by the end of the XVII century. Mykulynetska castle was one of the most important forts of the Commonwealth in its southeastern boundary and lost its military significance of the defense only after reflection Kamenetz in Turks. 
  
In the first half of the eighteenth century Mykulyntsi are Syenyavskym then - Lubomirski, and later in the same century, becomes the property of the richest magnates Potocki family. Mykulynetska castle by Potocki rule turns into a master's dwelling. It then begins a gradual decline of the castle as a fortress. In the early nineteenth century, the castle is buying an Austrian baron Ian Button, which opens in 1815 in the castle's own cloth factory. For this, he reorganized the castle complex, rather narrow loopholes in the walls pierced with large windows completely violating this fortyfikatsiynist facilities. 
  
Since the beginning of XX century. Castle was left to self-destruction. During the War of 1941 45rr. Mykulynetska castle in organized veterinary hospital which cared for the wounded and sick horses. After the establishment of Soviet power, the remains of walls and towers of power made in the register of monuments, but did not expel the settlers from there. As housing dilapidated castle vykorystovuyuyetsya so far. No restoration work was not conducted. 

Castle town Mykulyntsi

Budanivskyy castle lies aside the traditional tourist routes, so his only visit the castle fans. Although the former fortress located Psychiatric Hospital, the castle is fully available for visits and relatively well preserved. 
It is believed that by the middle of the XVI century in modern Budanov was a small settlement Skomros. It has long been held near two ways Horde - Black and Kuchmanskyy. In 1549, King Sigismund Augustus allowed the privilege of his wife Galician magistrates Yakub Budzanivska Catherine of valve rename didychne village Skomorokhy (Skomros) Budzan the city. Sometimes the name associate with the word "bundz" - head of sheep cheese. Around 1550 Galician governor Yacoub Budzanovskyy lifted high left bank of the Seret wooden fortress. In his honor settlement called Budzan, worn until 1946. The wooden castle was soon destroyed by the Tatars. 
At the beginning of XVII century and Ian Martin Khodorovsky in place of destroyed wooden fortress built a stone castle. Rock of brownish-gray built from different-sized rough blocks and a raft of local limestone and sandstone. It was rectangular in plan with four round corner towers. It was the tallest building of the former town. Simultaneously with the construction of a new castle was founded in Khodorovsky Budzan Roman Catholic parish. The first stone church of the Holy Cross was probably destroyed by the Turks. In 1631, the new owner was Alexander Budzanova Sinenskyy and later moved to the family settlement Levochynskyh. Castle twice destroyed Cossack Bohdan Khmelnytsky - in 1648 and 1651, respectively. Trying to restore it made the new owner Tomas Luzhetskyy. Luzhetskyy himself heroically died during the defense of the fortress from the Turks in 1672. 
The castle was captured and destroyed by cunning the Turks in 1675. According to legend, local residents know in advance the approximation of the Turks from Terebovlia and hid by locking walls to the castle at night knocked a woman with a small child with a request to let the castle even a child. The attackers were still far away, so the defenders opened the gate. It was a catch: the Tatars invaded the castle through the gate of the ambush and massacred all the inhabitants. Defenders of the castle buried in the field "Pohyblytsya" near the castle, near the forest "Semankovym." Women and children buried separately, and men - including three large graves. At the cemetery and 79 graves are still preserved, and one of the three burials of male defenders is a stone with the inscription: "Here in this place called Pohlybytseyu, rest defenders from the Turks and Tatars in 1675 was." 
Restored the castle in 1765, Eustace and Mary Potocki. They rebuilt it in the western part of the church. Peredsinok temple priests and arranged with two castle towers. The new church was consecrated in 1838 under the title of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. In 1846 and restored the northern part of the castle. Through the efforts Kulchytsky priest that same year the castle was given under the convent of mercy, which was at the school and hospital. Then restore one of the towers and part of the walls. This massive stone tower is well preserved until today. The castle suffered greatly during both world wars. Do not preserved entrance gates, the remains of ramparts and ditches. At the tower, which serves as the church wall, miraculously preserved memorial table in honor of the 10th anniversary of restoration of the state. Since 1956 to the present time the castle is psychiatric hospital. The church, which is in a dilapidated condition in 1994 returned to the Roman Catholic community. Continuing its revival. In the former town, and today - the village, which in 1946 called "Budaniv" kept several mansions Austrian period and a couple of churches. http://www.potolkimaker.com/