Castle in Sanok

n a steeply rising high hill in the place where the Płowiecki Stream flows into the San in the fourteenth century, Casimir the Great erected a brick and wooden castle. Previously, there was probably a stronghold here, but there is no trace of it. In the spacious courtyard there were numerous farm and residential buildings and a brick tower which was a watchtower and a prison. After 1520, the castle underwent the first reconstruction during the reign of Sigismund the Old, it was carried out by the 

photo by ZeroJeden, VIII 2001

starost Mikołaj Wolski. So far, the wooden fortifications have been replaced with a wall and the wooden gate with a brick one. From the side of the San River, the complex was enlarged by an impressive residential house, long, with a basement and a two-storey storey. This building has survived to this day with minor changes.

In the seventeenth century, the castle was enlarged by two perpendicular wings, in the eighteenth century it fell into ruin. The Austrian authorities partially demolished it, the Renaissance building and parts of the perimeter walls and the former moat have survived to this day, and in the courtyard there is a deep well carved in the rock.

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