Krasiczyn castle in Krasiczyn - castle built in the style of Renaissance-Mannerist at the turn of the sixteenth-seventeenth centuries. The castle is located on the right bank of the San River, 10 kilometers south-east of the city of Przemysl, owned by the Polish magnate Stanislaw Krasicki. Consideration is being given to including Castle World Heritage Site.
At the end of the XIV century. there are wooden fortress with a stone tower. These lands inherited from the mother's family Stanislaw Krasicki, who in 1580 began to build in its place a stone castle with stone walls, four corner towers chetyrehyarusnoy bastions. A fundamental restructuring of the castle's residence held by his son, Governor Martin Krasitsky Podolsk. When life Krasicki restructuring carried out by the Italian architect Galeazzo Appiani. It has been expanded to the residential part of the building, which was erected in front of the gallery. All loopholes replaced windows. The castle walls from the outside and from the courtyard was decorated with sgraffito décor (total area of 7000 square meters) with images of the saints of the Roman emperors, kings, kind of Krasicki, hunting scenes. Bastions were rebuilt, which were supposed to symbolize the hierarchy of power - God, the Church, the monarchy and the aristocracy. The castle was surrounded by earthen bastion fortifications with 20 guns.
Martin Krasitsky had no heirs, and in 1642 the castle passed to his nephew, Constantine Krasitsky, which had large debts and launched a palace. Since 1724 the castle owned by General Jan Tarlo. Due to the general political views, the castle was plundered and desecrated by Russian troops in 1726. Until the mid-nineteenth century, the castle passed from hand to hand, losing its former greatness. In 1835 it was bought by Prince Lev Sapieha, who turned it into a family residence. He restored the park, where in honor of the birth of sons planted oaks and linden trees at the birth of girls. The architect from Vienna Engert held restoration of the palace premises. Restoration work suspended the First World War, were then damaged the roof of the castle. From September 1939 to June 1941, the castle was the military part of the Red Army.
During this time, was completely destroyed interior decor, all of the furniture taken out, desecrated chapel and ancestral tomb. The new restoration of the external walls of the castle, begun in 1963, continues today in the public and private funds. Restoration of the old decoration and furnishing of premises was considered impossible.
Today the castle with picturesque park owned by the Industrial Development Agency.
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