- Type
- Castle
- Built
- 1580 · 16th century
- Location
- Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland
- Style
- Mannerism
- Architect
- Galleazzo Appiani
- Coordinates
- 49.7764°, 22.6494°
History
Stanisław Krasicki began building the castle by the San river in 1580, on the site of an earlier stronghold. His son Marcin, Voivode of Podolia, continued the work into the 1630s, turning it into a splendid Mannerist residence with four corner towers and decorative parapets. After the Krasicki line died out the castle changed hands many times until Prince Leon Sapieha bought it in 1834. The Sapiehas rebuilt it after a fire in 1852, and in 1867 Adam Stefan Sapieha, later cardinal and Archbishop of Kraków, was born here. Ravaged during and after the Second World War, it underwent a thorough restoration from the 1990s.
What to see
Guided tours take in the courtyard, whose walls are covered with sgraffito decoration showing biblical scenes, portraits of kings and hunting motifs. The finest of the towers, the Divine Tower, holds a domed chapel. The castle now houses a hotel and restaurant, and a large landscape park with veteran trees spreads around it, ideal for a walk.
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