5/5 Inna A. 2 years ago on Google • 625 reviews
This
mark
on
the
Google
map
-
Chigirinsky
Castle
is
misleading.
There
is
not
and
never
has
been
any
castle.
And
there
were
fortifications,
so
it
would
be
more
correct
to
write
-
Chigirinskaya
fortress.
Since
the
15th
century,
the
trade
route
from
Kyiv
to
Crimea
passed
through
Chigirin,
and
Crimean
Tatars
often
made
their
way
to
Ukrainian
lands
along
this
route.
To
resist
Tatar
raids,
a
fortress
was
founded
in
the
17th
century;
it
served
as
an
outpost
of
the
Polish-Lithuanian
Commonwealth.
The
fortress
was
quite
powerful,
with
towers
and
bastions;
thanks
to
its
location
and
design,
it
allowed
a
small
army
of
15–20
thousand
Cossacks
to
defend
against
the
120
thousand
Turkish
army.
It
is
very
good
that
one
of
the
key
bastions
of
the
fortress,
the
Doroshenko
Bastion,
was
recently
restored
on
the
mountain
and
a
model
of
the
fortress
was
installed.
Now
you
can
clearly
see
what
the
fortress
looked
like,
where
and
what
was
located
in
it.
Personally,
I
was
struck
by
the
huge
size
of
the
bastion;
I
did
not
expect
such
power.
The
bastion
is
not
only
fortress
walls
with
embrasures
through
which
they
fired,
but
also
an
entire
three-story
complex
where
ammunition
was
stored
and
the
defenders
of
the
fortress
could
even
live.
We
visited
Castle
Hill
as
part
of
an
excursion
to
Chigirin
in
January
2022,
paid
110
UAH
for
two
excursions
and
a
visit
to
all
sites,
and
55
UAH
for
beneficiaries.
There
was
no
need
to
climb
the
mountain
on
foot,
our
bus
brought
us.
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