Skala Podilska

Skala Podilska (in Polish, Skala Podolska or Skala Nad Zbrucze–Skala [cliff] on the River Zbrucz) is a town that for many years in history was on the line between tradionally Polish territory and Ukrainian territory. The river Zbruch (Zbrucz in Polish) was the border for many years. Because of it’s position, it has a history of ethnic diversity as well as particularly susceptible to turmoil and invasion.

On the top of the hills/cliff over the river Zrbruch is the Skala Podilska Palace, the ruins of the palace of the family Gołuchowski. These pictures are of that ruins: http://poland.leonkonieczny.com/Poland%202011/Skala%20Podilska/index.html.

You can read a bit more about Skala Podilska here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skala-Podilska, and you can see some more pictures here.

By the way, if you take the link above and read a bit more about the Goluchowski family, you’ll see just what an influential family this was and it’s importance in the 18th and 19th centuries in Polish history.

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