Northern Podillia National Nature Park
Beech forests, karst lakes and three castles in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine
Eighteen separate sites on the northern slope of the Podilian Upland protect beech and hornbeam hills in the Holohory and Voronyaky ranges. Small blue karst lakes, steppe slopes and floodplains sit alongside three castles and First and Second World War sites.
Things to do
- On footWalk one of the six ecological education trails
- UndergroundLook into the Blue windows, small blue karst lakes formed in sunken limestone caves
- On footClimb Zhulitskaya Gora, Storozhich Mountain or Mount Vysoka to see the protected plants
- Try thisFind the 600-year-old linden named for Bohdan Khmelnytsky
Signature sights
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Blue windows
A series of small blue karst lakes in sunken limestone caves. - 2
Lipa Bogdan Khmelnitsky
The oldest linden tree in Ukraine, about 600 years old. - 3
Oak witness
A 348-year-old oak, 25 metres high, in the town of Brody.