Bashta Stefana Batoriya

More than 450 years of defending Kamianets-Podilskyi is serious! This tower has stood guard over the northern part of Kamianets-Podilskyi since 1565. .. Read more »It was built instead of the old entrance gate of the 13th century. It is part of the defensive fortifications, which are also called the Upper Polish Gate. It looked formidable and impregnable: high, 5-tiered, with narrow loopholes. The Tower of Stephen Batory became the entrance to the city, the observation tower, and a structure adapted for enemy shelling.

It was an unusual acquaintance, you just walk along the street and such power peeps out from around the corner. A very beautiful and epic building.

In fact, a very large, tall tower with the remains of walls, which is located on the edge of the mountain (tovtrov). Undeservedly not very well known .. Read more »among tourists, although usually much more ruined castles are better known. The entrances are welded, as it needs immediate restoration inside and on the roof, because landslides are possible. Unfortunately, due to the surrounding buildings and the crampedness "does not open fully", although the building is quite spacious and beautiful.

Good place to spend a weekend in summer time

I must back there ;)

Awesome ruins.

I've read this tower is 7 stories tall, but it doesn't seem that way. Too bad it doesn't seem open to be explored.