KAMENETZ-PODILSKI, one of the historical cities oldest of UKRAINE and principal city of the area of PODILLIA form part of the European cultural heritage incontestably. Its single geopolitical situation near borders, of important ways terrestrial and river, most notable being the DNIESTR, as well as the site of the city on an inaccessible rock island defined its principal function: a frightening fortress.
During its long history KAMENETZ once hand on arrival of new conquerors changed more: Tataro-Mongols, noble Polono-Lithuanians, Turks, Austro-Hungarians, Emperors Russian, Bolsheviks and Nazis successively occupied it. Each historical period marked of its print the topography and the architecture of the old city. One counts with KAMENETZ-PODILSKI more than 200 historic buildings. A particular place will be granted to the old citadel of KAMENETZ and its architectural complex, among which the bridge of stone strengthened prolonging in the east the ramparts to connect the fortress to the old city. Impressive ramparts hones some rising above whirling water of the river…
Visit this citadel and you will plunge inevitably in the atmosphere of a historical film or a medieval drama!
