Sights in Berdychiv

1. St Barbara Church

   • Berdychiv, Ukraine
   • Sights › Literary

   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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2. Berdychiv Castle

   • Berdychiv, Ukraine
   • Sights › 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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3. Jewish Cemetery

   • Berdychiv, Ukraine
   • Sights › Dark

   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. The graves predate the Nazis by at least several decades, but it was the Nazis who sealed the cemetery’s fate by leaving no Jews behind to care for it.

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