1675. An Ottoman army under Ibrahim Shishman Pasha approached Terebovlia. The fortress commander, Jan Samuel Chrzanowski, decided to surrender. The castle was exhausted. The garrison …
The mountain the castle stands on is called “Mount Bona” — after Queen Bona Sforza, wife of Polish king Sigismund I. Queen Bona never once …
In 2010, Stare Selo Castle was handed to a private investor under a 49-year concession. The terms: bring the monument out of its unsafe condition …
Between 1602 and 1605, Krzysztof Zbaraski, while in Venice, commissioned architect Vincenzo Scamozzi to design a new castle. Scamozzi took the job. He published the …
In 1839, during restoration, workers found a human skeleton in one of the castle’s walls. A medieval tradition: wall a living person into a structure …
From 1540 to 1726 — nearly 200 years — Medzhybizh belonged to one family: the Sieniawskis. During that time, the Tatars stormed the castle dozens …
In 1685, Austrian forces surrounded Palanok Castle. The defense was led by a woman — Ilona Zrínyi, widow of Ferenc I Rákóczi. The Austrians waited …
In 1644, the Transylvanian prince György I Rákóczi captured Nevytske Castle and ordered its walls torn down. Nearly 400 years have passed since. No one …
From the mid-15th century to the late 18th century — 350 years — Chornokozyntsi Castle served as the summer residence of the Catholic bishops of …
Jan Golski founded a town and named it Yaniv — after himself. He then built a castle. The name survived even after Soviet authorities renamed …
1604. Within the walls of Zalistsi Castle stayed False Dmitry I — a man claiming to be the son of Ivan the Terrible, pretender to …