Przemyśl Castle

The location of Przemyśl castle and the earlier settlement lay on an important river crossing on a trade route running from the Black Sea to the Baltic Sea and through the Carpathian passes, and was a site of a fortified grod belonging to the Lendians (Lendizi), who were a West Slavic tribe descended from the White Croats.

[1] In 1018, the Polish king Bolesław I Chrobry recaptured Przemyśl and built a stone Romanesque rotunda and palatium complex.

Later, Casimir III the Great was responsible for the building of a Gothic castle in 1340, of which only a gate in Ogive style survives to this day.

Przemyśl town elder Marcin Krasicki began the reconstruction of the castle in the Renaissance style in 1616.

Towers were raised and attics finished, and more housing was attached, however after Krasicki's death, the reconstruction of the castle stopped.