Poland · 16th century
Pieszyce Castle is a historic castle (palace) in Pieszyce, a town in Poland, in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in Dzierżoniów County, in the south-western part of the Dzierżoniów Basin, at the foot of the Owl Mountains.
The building was erected around 1550, extended in the years 1615–1617 and considerably enlarged in the years 1710–1730. It is currently private property.
Machine-translated from “Zamek w Pieszycach” on the Polish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Pieszyce Castle ranks #8,040 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #324 of the 398 mapped in Poland. Founded c. 1550, it is older than 37% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 891 atlas entries founded in the 16th century. 17 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Świdnica, 16 km away. It is one of the 80 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Lower Silesia. See how Poland compares in the castle statistics.
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