Berdychiv Sights

  1. Berdychiv Castle

    The impressive brick-walled complex hogging the horizon as you approach Berdychiv from Khmelnytsky is widely known as the Berdychiv Castle but it's actually a 17th-century Carmelite monastery. The fortress-like defensive walls and towers were built in the late 18th-century.

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  2. Jewish Cemetery

    Levi Yitzhak's mausoleum is in Berdychiv's eerie, overgrown Jewish Cemetery. While the mausoleum itself has been looked after, several-hundred-odd boot-shaped tombstones lie hideously askew and virtually hidden by weeds, neglected almost to the point of disbelief. Many tombstones, etched with barely legible Hebrew inscriptions, lie flat on the ground.

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  3. St Barbara Church

    Berdychiv has links to two great 19th-century literary figures: Joseph Conrad was born here (1857) and Honoré de Balzac was married here (1850) in the rose-tinted St Barbara Church.

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