Gołuchów Castle (Poland)

AIRVŪZ STAFF NOTE : Check out this excellent drone video of Poland's Gołuchów Castle, compliments of contributor wktorastrone.pl. Built in the first half of the 16th century, this landmark is located in its namesake town in the Greater Poland Voivodeship, one of the main provinces of central Poland. Originally built in the Early Renaissance architectural style, the castle was substantially refurbuished in the 19th century in the French Renaissance style it takes today. The castle itself is surrounded by one of the largest landscape parks in the region.

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Gołuchów Castle is an early Renaissance castle built in 1550-1560 on a square plan and used as a defensive stronghold and residence. The castle was predominantly used for defensive purposes with keeps in the corners of the structure. The subsequent owners expanded the residence – making the residence into a magnate Renaissance stronghold. In 1853, the partially run-down castle was bought by Tytus Działyński, for his son Jan and his wife Izabela of the House of Czartoryski. The castle was reconstructed in the nineteenth century, in the style of the French Renaissance; the residence is surrounded by the largest Landscape Park in Greater Poland Voivodeship, which asserted additional Romanesque and English architectural styles upon the castle. After the Second World War the castle housed the Branch of the National Museum in Poznań.