Przemyśl Castle
Przemyśl Castle or Casimir Castle ( pl, Zamek Przemyśl or pl, Zamek Kazimierzowski) is a Renaissance castle in Przemyśl, Poland, located on the Castle Hill, which rises to a height of 270 metres above sea level and 70 meters above the city and the San River. History The location of Przemyśl castle and the earlier settlement lay on an important river crossing on a trade route running from the Black Sea to the Baltic Sea and through the Carpathian passes, and was a site of a fortified Gord (archaeology), grod belonging to the Lendians (''Lendizi''), who were a West Slavs, West Slavic tribe descended from the White Croats. In 1018, the Polish king Bolesław I Chrobry recaptured Przemyśl and built a stone Romanesque architecture, Romanesque Rotunda (architecture), rotunda and Palas, palatium complex. Later, Casimir III the Great was responsible for the building of a Gothic architecture, Gothic castle in 1340, of which only a gate in Ogive style survives to this day. The buil ...
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