Przemyśl Castle

Przemyśl Castle or Casimir Castle (Zamek Przemyśl or 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 castle was built on a hill in 1340, during the reign of Casimir the Great in the place of wood and natural stronghold, which had already been built in the early eleventh century, King Boleslaw the Brave, he built a brick Romanesque rotunda and the palace. Casimir the Great built it in the Gothic style, which still retains only the arched gate. The castle was damaged during the invasion of Vlachs in 1498. It was rebuilt in the years 1514-1553 by Piotr Kmita Sobieński, strengthening its defences by building basteji. The castle had a square plan with round towers at the corners, and in the southern corner of the square tower. Below the castle was fortified przygródek. In the years 1616-1633 the governor Michał Krasicki commissioned to carry out Galeazzo Appianiemu increasing conversion of the castle towers north and east, and north-eastern wing converted to residential building with arcades. In 1678 the governor Marcin Kącki placed in the castle armory. In the 2nd half of the seventeenth century, attempts were made to strengthen the defence of the castle.

In the years 1759-1762, mayor Stanisław Poniatowski tore down a curtain along the south-west of the towers and built a new wall to weaken the castle area about 10 metres and buttresses were added. In the years 1865-1867 a repair was made to the north-east wing and the north tower. Since 1884, the castle has housed the local Dramatic Society "Fredreum".

At the end of the twentieth century, the curtain wall was partly rebuilt from the south-west and the two towers on the curtain. Unveiled in the courtyard of the outline of Romanesque rotunda and palladium formed at the end of the reign of Boleslaw the Brave.