Ostroh. Vacation

Ostroh - city center Ostrog district, Rivne region, located 16 km from the railway station jail on line Zdolbuniv-Shepetovka for 47 km to the level. 
Known since 1100. Status of z1795 year. The city of regional importance since 1995. The status of the city in 1795. Population 15657 people. Area - 10.9 km ².
The name of the city comes from its location on the river Vilia volvulus, which formed a sharp corner. There is another version of the etymology jail: Hill Castle Hill is situated in the city was surrounded by a wooden fence, which consisted of a pointed top decks - jail. 
From 1981, the jail was declared a State Historical and Cultural Reserve, which now consists of Ostrog Castle Church of the Epiphany and fragments of city walls. As part of the reserve operating museum institutions: Ostrog Museum, Museum of Books and Printing, Museum of Numismatics. Worth visiting tourists Castle Princes of Ostrog, Tatar gate, Lutsk Gate, Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, Great Synagogue, Capuchin Monastery, Monument Princes of Ostrog. Every year in the festival "Rock-jail", which is often the venue for a cultural and artistic center of the National University "Ostrog Academy" guests of the festival are mostly bands jail and Rivne region. Also repeatedly conducted a large-scale festival "other", which were such grants Ukrainian year as ours Shadow, Bram Stoker, sagebrush field and others.

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