Wiśnicz Castle is one of the most important and monumental examples of early modern residential-defensive architecture in Poland. Its powerful silhouette, rising above the surrounding landscape, was conceived to both demonstrate the owner’s authority and provide effective protection in an era marked by frequent military conflict. The earliest fortifications on the site date back to the 14th century, but the decisive phase in the castle’s development came in the first half of

Rzemień Castle, located in the Wisłoka River valley in the Subcarpathian region, is one of the most valuable surviving defensive-residential strongholds in the area. Its origins date back to the 14th century, when Count Rafał of Tarnów founded a Gothic defensive complex on this site. Over the centuries, the castle underwent multiple reconstructions, enriched with Renaissance elements and later neo-Gothic additions introduced in the 19th and 20th centuries. In the 17th century

Lublin Castle is a structure whose origins date back to the 12th century, when a wooden and earthen stronghold was built on the hill. In the 13th century, a brick defensive and residential tower (donjon) was erected, which is the oldest surviving part of the complex. In the 14th century, during the reign of King Casimir the Great, additional walls and the Gothic Holy Trinity Church were constructed, serving as the royal chapel. Funded by King Władysław Jagiełło, the chapel’s