Castles and Palaces in Poland (with pictures)

Bigger things were restored from the scratch so technically Crossaxe restoration isn`t a problem.

Another palace, this time The Palace on the Isle in Warsaw's Łazienki Park:

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Thanks for the photos, all great!

@Miloslaw
I've been taking 100s of pics, total tourist!😊

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@Miloslaw
It comical how these euros get so jealous that I'm in Poland. Not the actual ppl that live here, but the PF babies.
Here's some more pics from the castle yesterday.

How did I get these pics then???? Lol

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Very suspicious joker .....blue skies in September?

Only kidding...glad you're having a nice time back in the old country.

A couple more castles from Poznań and Przemyśl:

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Yes, it it is still Crossaxe. Nice.


This one is controvercial to historians coz it was reconstructed from a scratch and they claim it was all made up.

I knew that it was mostly destroyed in WW2.

Snow on the ground in the first pic.... you can't be in Poland.......

Pam, I am just having a dig at Jokers "Non believers"..... :-)

Nope, it had been devastated much earlier. What got destroyed in WW2 was only two simple buildings built in 19th century. Historians claim the restored castle is ahistorical. Sort of Disneyland for the mass tourist with zero knowledge. :)

There is a great site about Polish castles, with very detailed commentary and description

zamkipolskie.com/pozn/pozn.html

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  Two buildings before the war
  
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Ok, thanks for that info and for the link to the castle site, I've bookmarked it as it looks great, lovely pics of Moszna on there!! :) I can put more castles on my 'to see' list.

Wow, that's a really huge difference in how the castle looked before WW2!

Yes, theirs are nice. Look at the details, though.

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Interiors of Moszna castle. BTW, a funny name. :):):)

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My friend had therapy there and I saw it then. It still needs a lot of investment.
Not my taste though a lot of the time

Yes, I think I saw her. One of the therapy points was to draw or paint the images of the castle:

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It's a beautiful castle, remember the skeleton from the riddles thread! Gargoyles too!


That wooden ceiling is beautiful, as is the staircase. Amazing craftmanship.

If you like them so much...
PS. I took more photos but later on I found out my camera had had wrong settings and it badly influenced the quality.

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Of course, let`s not forget it was built by/for aristocratic Germans in 19th century, not Poles.


Survived the WW2 in a good condition except the interiors damaged by the Red Army troops. I tried to find some detailed info about it but it is too general. We may presume that woodwork which you like so much is post WW2.

The short period of the Soviet control caused significant damage to the castle's internal fittings in comparison to the minor damage caused by World War II.

Yes, I see what you mean but thanks for posting them :)


Yes, but it's still a beautiful castle nonetheless. There are other equally beautiful castles in Poland too!

Here is a non-existent palace (palatium) in Poznań. This is the visualisation of the first palace in Poznań built by Mieszko I, first ruler of Poland. Archeological traces of the palce suggest that the chapel had been built before the baptism of Mieszko I in 966 which fact seems to be one of the mysteries of the State of the first Piasts of Poland.



Here is where the palatium was situated shown against the existent Church of the Virgin Mary in Poznań:

What do you think about the result of this renovation.

The old castle in Pieskowa Skała:

before and after the renovation. Don`t you think the castle lost its atmosphere?

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I've read a couple of articles about this, it seems likely to have been Poland's first Christian place of worship. I've also read the Wiki article about the Palatium, all very interesting.


I don't like that at all. It look too 'new', almost as if it were a block of flats or similar. I preferred it before the renovation!

More of Lublin Castle:

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That block of flats resemblance is really disgusting to someone who knows how it looked before.


Whenever I see that castle, it reminds me of that Indian Taj Mahal. Also, I recall the old game Civilisation in which you could choose the style for your Palace.

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Yep, I see that too, doesn't particularly look like a 'Polish' castle at all.
I have been looking at castles from that link of yours, and I also want to see Gołuchów and Nowy Wiśnicz castles too. So many castles, so little time...........

When we visited it in 2011, it has just been retrieved by the old owners` family and renovated but they hadn`t managed to furnish the interiors so it looked empty inside. The exterior was impressive, though.

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A site showing pics of 30 known castles in Poland - easy pill.
podroze.onet.pl/gdzie-na-weekend/zamki-w-polsce-ktore-warto-zobaczyc/dp92bvr

More of Nowy Wiśnicz

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The last series

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Those should be all given back. Zamoyscy should be given their estates and lands long time ago.