UKRDOUG Castle Tours - Perenyi Palace Traditional Cache
UKRDOUG Castle Tours - Perenyi Palace
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Perenyi Palace (Vynohradiv)
The noble Perenyi family purchased Vynohradiv, inhabited by the winemakers of the royal court, at the end of the 14th century building a palace in 1399 and taking control of the local castle that defended the strategic Salt Road. The family would maintain their rule over the town for the next 400 years.
They gave the castle to the Franciscan Order to turn the fortress into a monastery which is why the castle today is called Kankiv Castle. The outer woolen clothing of the monks was called “canco”.
As the Reformation Movement was spreading through the region it claimed as one of its important converts F. Perenyi who forced the monks out of the castle in 1556 and turned it into a knight’s stronghold. The monks left after placing a formal curse on the fortress. The fortress was shortly afterwards destroyed by Austrian Emperor Ferdinand when Perenyi joined the other Transylvanian lords in their failed rebellion against the Habsburg Empire.
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