Berezhany Castle

Berezhany Castle, around which the modern town of Berezhany has sprung up, was built on an island in the Zolota Lypa River in the 1530s and 1540s by Mikołaj Sieniawski as the main residence of the Sieniawski magnate family.

In 1630, the castle's fortifications were expanded. It was so well fortified that neither Khmelnitsky's Cossacks nor the Turks succeeded in taking it. In 1655, it was surrendered to the Swedes without a fight. The local Jewish community was made responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of the walls in 1667.

After Maria Zofia Sieniawska's marriage to August Aleksander Czartoryski, the castle passed to the Czartoryski family, then to the Princes Lubomirski and to the Counts Potocki.