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.
Creation of this Museum «Okolnyi Castle» was made possible through the project New Life for the Old City: Revitalization of the Historical and Cultural Heritage of Lutsk and Lublin». The project was implemented as part of a collaboration between the European Union and the Lutsk City Council. The project was funded by the Poland-Belarus-Ukraine Cross-Border Cooperation Program 2014-2020 under the European Neighborhood Instrument.
As part of the project, restoration work was carried out on the Chortoryiski princes Tower with its defensive wall and the Jesuit Monastery. Archaeological research and excavation were conducted, including the clearance and restoration of an 18-meter corridor, previously covered with soil and construction debris, which now connects existing and newly discovered underground basements. The total area of the newly opened underground galleries spans 700 square meters. Today, the Museum «Okolnyi Castle» is an exciting new tourist destination on the map of Lutsk, Volyn, and Ukraine. The historic underground complex includes 18 rooms, 4 corridors, a 16th–17th-century tower, and atmospheric inner and outer courtyards.
Daily
summer time
10 a.m. – 7 p.m.
winter time
10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Adress: Lutsk, Kafedralna street, 6
Phone number: +380 67 269 43 42
Web-site: https://okolnyi-lutsk.com/en/
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.
