The history of the castle dates back to six hundred years. During 1340-1384 the Grand Duke of Lithuania Lubart Gedyminovych started qualitative renovation of fortifications, replacing the wooden fortifications with brick ones. After the death of Lubart the renewal of the Castle was continued by Vytautas Keistutovych. Castle has three high rectangular towers: Entrance, Styr and Bishop’s.
Guests of the city can visit Museum of bells, Book museum and Art museum on the Castle courtyard. If you book an excursion, you can climb the Entrance tower (28 m), which is depicted on the 200 hryvnia banknote, or see the foundations of the ancient church of John the Theologian (the end of XII century.) – the Orthodox sanctuary of Lutsk. Castle hosts various cultural events such as festivals, concerts, exhibitions, knights’ tournaments.
Tickets are available at the box office on the territory of the castle.
summer time
10:00 – 19:00
winter time
10:00 – 17:00
for adults 100 UAH
for children (from 6 y. o.), students and pensioners 50 UAH
Address: Kafedralna street, 1A
Phone: +38 0332 724 588, +38 066 552 00 91
We invite you to visit the main tourist site of Lutsk – a medieval castle of the XIV century. It won first place in the category “castles” of the All-Ukrainian competition “Seven Wonders of Ukraine: castles, palaces, fortresses”.
Mision of the museum is to create museum institution of the highest level that changes past, reflects present and creates future to develop the nation spirituality and promote Ukrainian art in the world. Here you can see the largest painting in the world – “Cosmogony”, covering an area of over 2000 square meters.
The Chortoryiski princes Tower is the only one of the 8 towers of the Lutsk Lower (Okolnyi) Castle that has survived to this day. The Museum space «Okolnyi Castle» is a modern historical part of the defensive structure of Lutsk from the 14th – 17th centuries. The Upper Lutsk Castle was rebuilt from wooden fortifications to stone ones between the late 14th and 15th centuries. The first line of defensive of the Upper Castle, the Okolnyi Castle, began its transformation in the early 16th century, when wooden towers were gradually replaced with stone structures.
In addition to the above-ground city, Lutsk has an extensive network of underground tunnels. The two levels of the underground city housed sacred objects, a refectory, a prison, and tombs. There are many legends about the unique two-level underground complex, the entrance to which is located beneath the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul. Their height is particularly impressive, reaching almost 8 meters in some places.
Lutheran church (now Baptist) in Lutsk an architectural monument, located on Karaimska Street, 1 in the State Historical and Cultural Reserve “Old Lutsk”.
The Museum Space «Okolnyi Castle» is a new tourist attraction created on the basis of restored architectural monuments of national importance: the Chortoryiski princes tower with part of the defensive wall and the Jesuit Monastery with its dungeons.
