Baranów Sandomierski in the 1400s was owned by the Baranowski family, occupied a site of a much older settlemen
The castle in Baranów Sandomierski is one of the most valuable examples of Polish architecture of the late 1500s. The edifice with a rectangular floor layout features four round towers in the corners and a rectangular tower in the middle of the front facade, comprising the main entrance gate. The inner courtyard is enclosed by three residential sections and on the fourth side there is a screen wall, topped with a late Renaissance attica. This wall and the two side wings are lined with arcades (their columns are ornamented with mascarons – human or animal faces). Four cupolas of the corner towers and the decorative attica of the front facade are a lively addition to the main body of the castle.
The castle is situated within a 14-hectare park, with a golf course. During a tour of the museum you can learn about the history of the place and its owners, and admire the 16th and 17th century interior design. You can also visit the armoury with a torture chamber, and you can see re-enactments of historical scenes and use a historical changing room.
Each year the place hosts the Easter Fairs, as well as the Festival of Manor Style Cuisine, an event designed to cultivate aristocratic customs and culinary traditions.
Worth seeing:
Museum of Polish Radio Theatre,
- town square with houses from the late 19th/early 20th century,
- church of the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, from the early 1600s,
- statue of the Heart of Jesus, from the 1930s,
- bronze heart of the Lasowiacy,
- neo-Classicist tombstone of the Dolański family,
- shrine from 1900,
- monument of St. John of Nepomuk from 1753,
- ferry crossing.
Photo: Agnieszka Kołodziej
