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a homage to the 17th century fashion the Chinese House, a homage to the 17th century fashion, is the pride of the Zolochiv Castle complex. it is one of only three remaining Chinese Houses (sometimes also called Palaces) preserved in Europe - Palacio de Oranienbaum (Lomonosovo, Russia) and Sanssouci Park (Potsdam, Germany). |
|  | monument of 17th century defense architecture the Zolochiv castle is an outstanding monument of 17th century defense architecture (neo-Dutch bastion-type defense). Fortunately, it has been preserved almost unchanged and is now Europe’s only structure of the type (see my tip on the Zolochiv Castle). |
| | a templar trace one of three stones that have been shipped to the castle from Novosilky village, the site of 14 century castle. the stone has inscriptions that are believed to be of the Templar origin (see my tip for more info). |
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SLLiew Wed Apr 23, 2008 22:03 UTC
Interesting tip on the Chinese House.... | HORSCHECK Sun Oct 14, 2007 17:51 UTC
Olya, lovely little page about another excellent daytrip destination from Lviv. Well done ... :-) | globetrott Thu Aug 16, 2007 09:20 UTC
the chinese palace looks great, and a secret message on the stone, maybe you should post a picture with the whole text and VTers could try to solve the secret about the treasure... | lotharlerch Tue Aug 14, 2007 09:30 UTC
An other nice page of the surroundings of L'viv. Yes, thanks to firends from L'viv I could visit and enjoy all these nice places I otherwise maybe had not found at all. |
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