Halshany Castle

Halshany or Holszany Castle (Belarusian: Гальшанскі замак, Lithuanian: Alšėnų pilis, Polish: Zamek holszański) is the ruined residence of the Sapieha magnate family in Halshany, Hrodna Voblast, Belarus. It used to be the seat of one of the largest land estates in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

The current structure was built about 1610 by Paweł Stefan Sapieha to replace an older castle of the Holszanski princely family, of whom Sapiehas were descendants and heirs.

Also known as the Black Castle (although it is built of red brick), the residence formerly rivaled Mir Castle as the most elegant private château of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The name Black Castle in fact originally applies to a fictional building from a book by Uladzimir Karatkievich, which was loosely based on Halshany Castle.

Texto adaptado de «Halshany Castle» en la Wikipedia en inglés, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Halshany Castle ranks #2597 of 5793 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #14 of the 27 mapped in Bielorrusia. Fundado en ca. 1610, más antiguo que el 34% de los monumentos datados del atlas — one of 399 atlas entries founded in the siglo XVII. Compara el dato en las estadísticas de castillos.

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