Skala-Podilska Castle
Скала-Подільський замок
Ruins of the Tarło palace in the courtyard
General information
Status	Architectural monument of national importance
Location	Skala-Podilska, Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast
Country	Ukraine
Coordinates	48°51′24.6″N 26°11′57.2″E / 48.856833°N 26.199222°E / 48.856833; 26.199222

Skala-Podilska Castle (Ukrainian: Скала-Подільський замок) it is located Skala-Podilska of the Ternopil Oblast, above a ravine of the Zbruch River, on a rocky promontory accessible only from the south. An architectural monument of national importance.^[1]

The castle was erected in the 14th century by the family of the Prince Koriatowiczów.^[2] Then, after 1515, it was significantly expanded by Stanislaw Lanckoroński of Brzezie (1465–1535) of Zadora coat of arms,^[2] starosta of Kamieniec, later Sandomierz voivode at the behest of King Sigismund I the Old.^[3] The Lanckoronski family owned the castle until 1706. Then the owners were the Tarłows. All that remains of the castle, which occupied the entire promontory, is a massive 16th-century tower, standing at the base of the promontory.

The ruins of the two-story Tarłow palace, which divided the castle courtyard into two parts: the larger southern part and the smaller northern part, where the remains of the oldest part of the castle are located.^[3] In 1914. The Gołuchowskis built a new one-story palace on a different site.^[2]

• (in Ukrainian) Бойко В., Парацій В., Скала-Подільський замок // Ternopil Encyclopedic Dictionary: in 4 v. / editorial board: H. Yavorskyi and other, Ternopil: "Zbruch", 2008, V. 3: П—Я, S. 271. — ISBN 978-966-528-279-2.
• Ukraina zachodnia: tam szum Prutu, Czeremoszu..., zespół red. A. Strojny, K. Bzowski, A. Grossman. Kraków: Wyd. Bezdroża, 2005, s. 283. ISBN 83-921981-6-6.

• "Skała". Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland (in Polish). 10. Warszawa: Kasa im. Józefa Mianowskiego. 1889. p. 642—643.