Glusk. Castle Hill.

   Castle fortifications have been partially preserved in the regional center of Glusk near the Ptich river. Glusi Castle existed during the period of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 16th and 17th centuries. At first, the castle was wooden, and then bastion.

      Prince Yuri Golshansky-Dubrovitsky built a wooden castle in the early 16th century. The prince was the master of Glusk and the surrounding lands. The castle became the center of the town of Glusk-Dubrovitsky, which we now know as the regional center of Glusk.

       The castle was made of wood, around which a defensive moat and an earthen rampart were erected. The castle had two towers, a gate tower and a small gate on the side of the Ptich River. City walls were built between the towers along the perimeter of the castle. After the death of Prince Yuri, the castle passed to a new owner, Prince Konstantin Alexandrovich Polubinsky. And then to his son Alexander Gilyari since 1646.

       During the war between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Kingdom of Moscow in 1655, the castle was destroyed by the cossack army.

Prince Alexander Polubinsky built a modern bastion castle. A stone church and a monastery of the Catholic Order of the Bernardines were built on the territory of the castle. The castle was built in the tradition of the Dutch school: a pentagonal courtyard. Outbuildings were erected in the castle itself.

In the 18th century, the Radziwill magnates became the owners of the castle.

       The church was blown up after the Great Patriotic War in Soviet times. The foundations and part of the walls have been preserved to our time. Excavations were carried out at the castle site by archaeologists Gennady Saganovich and Irena Ganetskaya. As a result of the excavations, I. Ganetskaya wrote a book about the castle.