Kamenets Tower and swifts. Каменецкая башня и стрижи.

The town of Kamenets, Brest Oblast, Belarus is home to a unique specimen of defense architecture – the Kamenets Tower (also referred to as the Kamenets pillar or Kamenets Vezha). Its origins go back a long way to the second half of the 13th century. Ancient KamenetsAccording to the chronicles, the Kamenets Tower was built between 1276 and 1288 on the orders of Galicia–Volhynia Prince Vladimir Vasilkovich by architect Aleksa who found the site to build a town and a wooden castle. The Belaya Vezha