The Przybyłowski Tenement Houses, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland

The Przybyłowski tenement houses were built in 1615, in the southern corner of the Kazimierz market square. Their name comes from the names of the owners, wealthy brothers Mikołaj and Krzysztof Przybyła, who decorated the tenement houses with images of their patron saints. The adjacent houses have an identical arrangement of facades: a ground floor with arcades and a first floor with three windows. The facades are richly decorated with bas-reliefs depicting people, animals, plant and linear ornaments, Christian and mythological, medieval fantasies and Renaissance grotesques. All this is interwoven with Latin philosophical maxims. Both tenement houses were apparently polychrome, as evidenced by the traces still visible today.

The older tenement house, “Under Saint Nicholas”, is named after the bas-relief of Saint Nicholas placed between the first floor windows. The decorative pilasters in the corners of the building feature bas-reliefs of Saint James and Saint Thomas. After 1772, the building served as the town hall.

The tenement house “Under Saint Krzysztof” took its name from the gigantic bas-relief in the center of the facade, showing Saint Christopher, carrying little Jesus through the water, sitting on his shoulder. The figures of Judith and Salome appear on the pilasters in the corners of the building. The roof of the building has been preserved in its original form, i.e. it is concave.

Currently, the Przybyłowski Tenement Houses house the City Hall and the Bank.

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Castle in Kazimierz Dolny, Poland (part 2 of 2)

The castle was built in the 14th century during the times of King Casimir the Great, after the Tatars attack on the Lublin region. Its shape is adapted to the terrain. The courtyard was surrounded by high walls where people could take shelter in case of danger. There was a well carved in the middle.

The castle was the seat of the starosty, and its architecture changed over the centuries. There were living quarters on the town side, and a gate on the opposite side. In the place where the viewpoint is now located, a four-sided residential tower was built in the 15th century, blown up in 1809 by the Austrians. In the 16th century, the walls of the residential wing and towers were decorated with attics.

The castle was destroyed during the Swedish Deluge and was never rebuilt.

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Castle in Kazimierz Dolny, Poland (part 1 of 2)

The castle complex in Kazimierz Dolny consists of a round tower and the ruins of the castle. The tower is the oldest building in Kazimierz, built at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries. The defensive tower is 20 meters high, the walls on the ground floor are approximately 10 meters thick, and the entrance to it is 6 meters high. The tower was probably once surrounded by a palisade. It was a place of protection and customs collection for the existing crossing on the Vistula.

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