Object description

Bilche Zolote is a Ukrainian village located within the Borshchiv Raion of the Ternopil Oblast , about 460 kilometers driving distance southwest of Kyiv, and about 16 km west of the district seat of Borshchiv. This rural community is located in a small valley adjacent to the Seret River, which is surrounded by plateaus covered with farms, broken by occasional stands of mixed forest. Bilche Zolote is home to a remarkable park of 1,800 hectares , of which 11 hectares is covered with virgin timber, including some trees up to 400 years old. Bilche Zolote is also the location of the large gypsum karst Verteba Cave, as well as a significant Neolithic Cucuteni-Trypillian culture archaeological site, and attracts tourist and spelunker visitors from many countries.