Berezhany Castle, Renaissance castle in Berezhany, Ukraine.

Berezhany Castle is a Renaissance fortress built on a small island in the Zolota Lypa River, in the town of Berezhany in western Ukraine. It features a pentagonal courtyard enclosed by thick defensive walls, with residential sections that once served as private quarters for the noble family who commissioned it.

Mikołaj Sieniawski founded the town of Berezhany in 1530 and began a Renaissance castle, whose surviving foundation tablet bears the date 1554. The fortress was built on a plateau between two arms of the Zolota Lypa, with oak piles driven into the marshy ground to carry the cellars and thick walls. It withstood Cossack attacks in 1648, 1665 and 1667 and Turkish-Tatar forces under Ibrahim Sheitan in 1676. After Adam Mikołaj Sieniawski died in 1726 it passed to the Czartoryskis, then the Lubomirskis and Potockis.

The chapel inside the walls holds tombs that were designed to display the family's status as much as to mark their deaths. This blending of religious space and political statement was common among noble families in this part of Europe during that period.

The castle sits close to the center of Berezhany and can be reached on foot, as the island is connected by a short crossing. Visiting in the warmer months makes it easier to walk around the outer walls and explore the riverbanks nearby.

The Sieniawski sarcophagi carved by Heinrich Horst and Jan Pfister were removed to Kraków in 1920 and later moved to Pieskowa Skała Castle, so none remain in the chapel today. A scale model of the castle at its height is displayed in Berezhany's town museum.