Stepan

Stepan stands on the Horyn in the wooded lowlands of Volhynia. A settlement of Rus' occupied a defensible site here, later reused for a castle whose earthworks date from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The river linked Stepan to the wider Horyn basin and the marsh country to the north. Its wooden Church of the Holy Trinity, built in 1759, reflects the local tradition of timber construction.