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Pieskowa Skała (pronounced [pʲɛsˈkɔva ˈskawa]; Polish for Little Dog's Rock) is a limestone cliff in the valley of river Prądnik, Poland, best known for its Renaissance castle. It is located within the boundaries of the Ojców National Park, 27 km north-northwest of Kraków, close to the village of Sułoszowa.
The Polish story begins with: On a glass mountain grew a tree with golden apples. An apple would let the picker into the golden castle where an enchanted princess lived. Many knights had tried and failed, so that many bodies lay about the mountain. A knight in golden armor tried. One day, he made it halfway up and calmly went down again.
Became queen consort Coronation as Queen Ceased to be Consort Death Spouse; Anna of Celje: William, Count of Celje 1381 1402 25 February 1403 in Wawel Cathedral: 21 May 1416 Władysław II: Elisabeth of Pilica: Otton of Pilica, Voivode of Sandomierz (Pilica of Sandomierz) 1372 2 May 1417 19 November 1417 in Wawel Cathedral: 12 May 1420 Sophia ...
Gola Castle in Gola Dzierżoniowska - Lower Silesian Voivodeship; Golczewo Castle – West Pomeranian Voivodeship; Golesz Castle in Krajowice, Subcarpathian Voivodeship (ruins) Golub Castle in Golub-Dobrzyń – Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship; Golub Castle. Gołańcz Castle – Greater Poland Voivodeship; Gołuchów Castle – Greater Poland ...
Bona was born on 2 February 1494, in Vigevano, Milan, as the third of the four children of Gian Galeazzo Sforza, the legal heir to the Duchy of Milan, and Isabella of Naples, [1] daughter of King Alfonso II of Naples from the House of Trastámara.
Richeza of Lotharingia (also called Richenza, Rixa, Ryksa; born about 995/1000 – 21 March 1063) was a member of the Ezzonen dynasty who became queen of Poland as the wife of Mieszko II Lambert. Her Polish marriage was arranged to strengthen the ties between Mieszko and her uncle Emperor Otto III.
A fortified settlement was mentioned before the year 1238, and the first record of the castle dates from 1292. [2] After World War II, the surviving buildings held Hungarian and Italian prisoners of war. Later, there was the Soviet branch office of the International Committee of the Red Cross. In the 1970s, the castle underwent another ...
Foundations of the stone Romanesque rotunda and palatium complex built by the Polish king Bolesław I Chrobry in the 11th century Aerial view of Przemyśl castle. The location of Przemyśl castle and the earlier settlement lay on an important river crossing on a trade route running from the Black Sea to the Baltic Sea and through the Carpathian passes, and was a site of a fortified grod ...