The article presents the results of a scientific expedition conducted by the lecturers and students of the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning of the Institute of Architecture, Construction and Energy Engineering at IFNTUOG, aimed at researching the bastion-type castle complex of the Belzecki and Jablonowski families in the village of Mariampil, Ivano-Frankivsk district.
According to historical documents, the city of Rohatyn was one of the most developed and well-fortified cities in Ukraine during the 16th and 17th centuries. From the city's founding, two structural parts were planned: the town center (sredmiste) and the castle. The development of the town center and its urban structure has been analyzed in several of our previous scholarly works. Despite significant destruction during the First and Second World Wars, the town center has retained its historical layout and part of its architecture.
Complexes of urban fortifications are the basis for analyzing historical development of a settlement and developing urban planning documentation. Therefore, in 2014, as part of the publication “Atlas of Ukrainian Historic Towns, Volume1: Lviv”, the authors of the present article published a scheme-reconstruction of the localization of Lviv's historical defensive buildings based on a modern topographic basis. The format of the Atlas did not provide for a full justification of the work done.
The aim of the work was to preserve for future generations of researchers and archaeologists the remains of the defensive belt that protected the town in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries from Turkish-Tatar invasions, as at that time Berezhany's fortifications were the most powerful in Opillya.
The article is devoted to the history of the monastery of the Order of
Bernardines in Berezhany in Ternopil region. The analysis of the architectural features of
the complex is main purpose of the work. The monastery is located in the northwest corner
of the city. The territory of the was surrounded by defensive bastion fortifications. The
monastery fortifications were a part of the city defensive lines. The mountain, on which the
monastery located, is called - "St. Nicholas Mountain". On the place of the present