Standing high on the bank of the Smotrich River you can take in the breathtaking details of the inimitable panorama - high fortress walls, towers and domes of ancient structures amid the lush greenery. The Old Fortress, the Russian and Polish estates and gates, the Cathedral and Dominican Catholic churches, the town hall, the Armenian well and bastion - these very names breathe of history.

Flowing to the south to join the Dnester, the river Smotrich winds across the Volhynian - Podolian highland, and on the territory of present-day Kamenets-Podolsky it makes a loop which encompasses the Old City. Archeological finds provide evidence that people have settled in this area from unmemorable times. In the first century A.D. the territory of the future Kamenets-Podolsky and its environs was inhabited by the tribes of Chernyakhovsk culture, whose main occupation was agriculture. Roman coins of the 2nd - 3rd centuries A.D. found in this area point to commercial and cultural ties the local population maintain with the inhabitants of the Northern Black Sea Maritime Region and Roman provinces.

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