Since the dawn of time, the cold springs discharge their waters from below the surface on the north-west slope of Mount Krylos, just several hundred metres away from the Assumption Cathedral. There were just few springs and people took care of them. Special attention was given to one of them, existing nowadays, the Princely Well.
The well water is said to be healing. Legend has it that the well water gave strength and enthusiasm to warriors of Old Russia, made them invulnerable against enemy arrows and swords and also gave them confidence in their victory. There is an ancient legend telling us about a magus and a nameless prince who reigned here in the year one.
Once, when the enemies besieged the town and two deep wells dried up, the town defenders pleaded the prince to let them lay down their arms and give in without a struggle because the rage of thirst had absolutely destroyed their will to resist.
The prince had been thinking for the whole night, and in the morning the old magus came and asked him not to answer the defenders till evening. Before the sun went down, the magus took out the prince to the mountain slope, protected with a defensive wall, and said to him to look at the place where the last sunbeams would fall. After the sunbeams fell into a small hollow where the tired warriors were sitting, the magus said to dig there the ground. The prince took a sward and pricked it at the ground, and a spring appeared. The fortress was saved from thirst. The enemies did not get the town. And the prince commanded to clean the spring and stone it. Since then the spring has been called the Princely Well.
On the eve of the 1,100 year anniversary of the ancient Halych in 1998, the Princely Well celebrated its new birth. The Lviv restorers recovered it to new life, made a four-metre long rotunda over the Well and dome with a cross. Easy access was provided for visitors and a viewing point was arranged. The same year the Princely Well was blessed by priests of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
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