Castle
Ojców Castle
🇵🇱 Poland
Ojców Castle (Polish: Zamek Ojców) - a castle located in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, part of a system of castles known as the Eagle's Nests (Polish: Orle Gniazda) - formerly protecting the southern border of the Kingdom of Poland; currently housing a museum dedicated to the castle in its renovated castle-tower. The castle is located in the village of Ojców (25 kilometres (16 mi) north of Kraków), Lesser Poland Voivodeship; in Poland.
The castle was used as a stronghold, built by Casimir III the Great in the second half of the fourteenth century.
The castle is located in the Ojcowski National Park.
Text adapted from “Ojców Castle” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ojców Castle ranks #3,053 of 3,691 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #106 of the 163 mapped in Poland. See how Poland compares in the castle statistics.
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