Poland · 16th century
Janowiec Castle - a Renaissance castle built in between 1508 and 1526, on a steep Vistulan hillside in Janowiec (14,5 km south of Puławy), Lublin Voivodeship, in Poland.
The castle was most likely built by Mikołaj Firlej at the beginning of the sixteenth century and expanded by his son, Piotr, the Voivode of the Ruthenian Voivodeship. The bastion, used as a residence, was destroyed by the Swedish army in 1655 during The Deluge. Although the following owners of the castle did their very best to rebuild the castle, the castle never managed to regain its former glory. In 1928, an archaeologist, Leon Kozłowski had taken over the castle, but his plans to reconstruct the castle were stopped by the Second World War. After the Second World War, the castle was left in its former state, being one of many private castles. In 1975, the castle was bought by the Nadwiślańskie Museum in Kazimierz Dolny in Poland.
Text adapted from “Janowiec Castle” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Janowiec Castle ranks #2,997 of 9,035 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #108 of the 397 mapped in Poland. Founded 1526, it is older than 41% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 886 atlas entries founded in the 16th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 2,777 times in the last 60 days, more than 76% of the atlas. 4 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Radom, 53 km away. See how Poland compares in the castle statistics.
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