Skala-Podilska Castle (Ukrainian: Скала-Подільський замок) it is located Skala-Podilska of the Ternopil Oblast, above a ravine of the Zbruch River, on a rocky promontory accessible only from the south. An architectural monument of national importance.[1]
The castle was erected in the 14th century by the family of the Prince Koriatowiczów.[2] Then, after 1515, it was significantly expanded by Stanislaw Lanckoroński of Brzezie (1465–1535) of Zadora coat of arms,[2] starosta of Kamieniec, later Sandomierz voivode at the behest of King Sigismund I the Old.[3] The Lanckoronski family owned the castle until 1706. Then the owners were the Tarłows. All that remains of the castle, which occupied the entire promontory, is a massive 16th-century tower, standing at the base of the promontory.
The ruins of the two-story Tarłow palace, which divided the castle courtyard into two parts: the larger southern part and the smaller northern part, where the remains of the oldest part of the castle are located.[3] In 1914. The Gołuchowskis built a new one-story palace on a different site.[2]
^ abcRoman Aftanazy, Dzieje rezydencji na dawnych kresach Rzeczypospolitej, wyd. drugie przejrzane i uzupełnione, t. 9: Województwo podolskie, Wrocław: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, 1996, s. 346-352, ISBN 83-04-04268-1, ISBN 83-04-03701-7 (całość).
^ abAleksander Strojny, Krzysztof Bzowski, Artur Grossman (2005). Ukraina zachodnia: tam szum Prutu, Czeremoszu... Kraków: Wyd. Bezdroża. p. 283. ISBN83-921981-6-6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
(in Ukrainian)Бойко В., Парацій В., Скала-Подільський замок // Ternopil Encyclopedic Dictionary: in 4 v. / editorial board: H. Yavorskyi and other, Ternopil: "Zbruch", 2008, V. 3: П—Я, S. 271. — ISBN978-966-528-279-2.
Ukraina zachodnia: tam szum Prutu, Czeremoszu..., zespół red. A. Strojny, K. Bzowski, A. Grossman. Kraków: Wyd. Bezdroża, 2005, s. 283. ISBN 83-921981-6-6.
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