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Dubno – a town in Ukraine, in Rivne Oblast, a centre of Dubno Raion. Historically, it is located in Volhynia. It has got about 38 thousand inhabitants. Dubno is one of the oldest Ukrainian towns, first mentioned in 1100. Since the end of the 14th century, with the status of a rural settlement, Dubno belonged to the estate of the Ostrozky dukes.
In 1498, Lithuanian Grand Duke Alexander granted the charter to the settlement, at the request of Dubno's owner, Prince Konstantin Ostrozky. The prince was famous mainly for adding huge fortifications: the castle was modernised and rebuilt from wooden to stone. In the first half of the 16th century. Dubno turned into a fortress town.
This was facilitated by both the natural conditions (location) and the erection of defensive structures (Lutsk Gate, western and eastern defensive ramparts). Thanks to these fortifications, Dubno went down in history as a town that was never occupied during the Tartar invasions.
The castle was protected from the side of the nearby town by a wide and deep moat, flooded by water, with a drawbridge. All the castle buildings were surrounded by a high wall made of brick and natural stone, with two forward bastions of the New-Italian type (17th century), crowned by round, two-storey towers.
In 1739, the private nobleman's town, together with the grange, belonged to the Dubno estate of the Lubomyrsky Dukes. In 1774, Dubno became an important trade centre thanks to the establishment of contract fairs, which were held until 1795. This was the period of the town's greatest splendour. Dubno's growing commercial and cultural importance made it the largest city in Volhynia in the late 18th - early 19th century.
In the second half of the 18th century, the castle was rebuilt by the order of its owners, Lubomyrsky Dukes, into a magnate residence.
There is only one entrance to the castle from the town side through a vaulted gate decorated with a portal. A vaulted corridor could be used to get from the castle courtyard to the moat outside.
During the reign of Dukes Stanislaus and Michael Lubomyrsky in the second half of the 18th century, the Castle in Dubno was fundamentally transformed and rebuilt in the classicist style by the outstanding architects Domenico Merlini (Dominik Merlini) and Enrico Ittar (Henryk Ittar) (?).
The castle complex consists of three buildings: the entrance gate (1), the Ostrozky Palace (4) and the Lubomyrsky Palace (2) (two-storey buildings, arranged on a rectangular plan). The buildings are arranged around a large castle courtyard.
The aim of the Contest is to develop a concept project for landscaping of the area at the Ostrozky-Lubomyrsky Castle in Dubno (Ukraine), with a playground.
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