City High, Kamenets district, Brest region – a beautiful ancient city that once knew the days of greatness and glory. First mention of the city as a High Castle in the fourteenth century, but later it was renamed the High-Brests. Now the name of the city itself, simplify. Now it is simply called High.

The town sits on a high Bank of a tributary of the Western bug river of Polivy. According to ancient tradition, stayed here the Duke Gedimin. He decided to have a rest in the city that has fascinated the legendary Prince with her beauty.

The Magdeburg right and the coat of arms High Brests received in 1494, which speaks of his prosperity, the development of crafts and exemplary manner on the High streets. In the XVI century it became a fief of the Prince Jan Littauer of Hreptovich and his wife Jadwiga of Golshany.

In 1647, the town was owned by the princes Sapieha, after he bought Hetman Jan Sapieha. The Hetman built on the banks of the river Pulva castle, who combined a defensive structure and a beautiful Palace, surrounded by a flowering garden. In our days, from the residence of the Sapieha family in ruins. Over the centuries, many wars have patted a beautiful building: the Russian-Polish, North, the First and Second world wars. Unfortunately, there is not much to the Belarusian government was going to restore the castle of the Sapieha family.

Another interesting attraction is a great High Trinity Catholic Church, recognized as one of the most beautiful Catholic churches of the Belarusian Polesye.

High knew different periods and, as elsewhere in Belarus, if the town has a Catholic Church, then it definitely will be and the Orthodox Church. At High cross Church competes in beauty and magnificence in the Trinity Church.

In 1785 Alexander Sapieha was invited to a High Catholic religious God, built for them a monastery and Church.

Was High and synagogue. Unfortunately, after the great Patriotic war with its atrocities of the Holocaust, from the synagogue remained only ruins.

To fans of the old cemeteries will be interesting ancient Catholic cemetery, where graves of Polish soldiers.

The scenic town will delight small chapels and roadside chapels with statues of Catholic saints. Now the ancient city High still kept its original charm, and the river banks are overgrown with willows and bushes, have become even more attractive.