Przemyśl Castle

Przemyśl Castle or Casimir Castle (Polish: Zamek Przemyśl or Polish: Zamek Kazimierzowski) is a Renaissance castle in Przemyśl, Poland, located on the Castle Hill, which rises to a height of 270 metres above the city and San River.

The city of Przemyśl, which probably originated in the era of Great Moravia, with early buildings built in forms quite common in the lands of the White Croats. Przemyśl lay on an important river crossing on a trade route from the Black Sea, Galicia, Kyiv Poland, the Baltic Sea and the Carpathian passes through Hungary, Slovakia, Moravia. It is believed that the Kiev Grand Prince Yaroslav the Wise, after the death of the eldest son Vladimir of Novgorod gave it to his grandson, Prince Rostislav of Tmutarakan in 1054.

In 1071, Polish prince Bolesław II the Generous kept the castle under siege and the defenders eventually succumbed to a lack of food and water. Under his control the brick Romanesque rotunda and the palace were built. Later Casimir III the Great was responsible for the building of a castle in gothic style in 1340. Only a gate in Ogive style survives to this day. The buildings were damaged by invading Vlachs in 1498 and rebuilt once again for Piotr Kmita Sobieński.

Przemyśl elder Martin Krasitsky began the reconstruction of the castle in the Renaissance style in 1616. The works were led by Italian architect Galleazzo Appiani. Towers were raised and attics finished, and more housing was attached but after the elder's death reconstruction stopped.

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