Zamosc

The Zamosc town was designed and built by Bernardo Morando, the Italian architect at the end of the 16th century in the late renaissance style. The founder of Zamosc was hetman Jan Zamoyski.

This "Ideal Town and Fortress" is called "The Pearl of Renaissance".

The architectual beauty of this town is expressed by its general construction. The structure of the buildings and the grid of the streets and squares arranged together into the uniform complex.

The main axis of Zamosc was Grodzka Street that joined the Lvov Gate with the parade across the Great Market.

There are three markets: the Great Market, the Salt Market and the Water Market.

Important buildings are: founder's palace, collegiate church, academy, town hall, arsenal, city-gates and bastion fortifications.

In order to remind visitors that Zamosc used to be a fortress you can see three gates: the Lvov Gate, the Old Lublin Gate and the New Lublin Gate which was built while the fortress was being modernised in 1821-1822.

Due to the fact that Zamosc fair was located on the major trading routes was a multicultural community of the town.

Nowadays Zamosc is visited by many tourists from friend towns like: Schwabish Hall in Germany, Dieppe in France, Tournari in Belgium, Loughborough in Great Britain, Bologna, Sabbionetta, Padua, and Cassino in Italy, Novogorod in Russia, and Luch, Zolkiew and Lvov in Ukraine.

In 1992 Zamosc monumental town-planning complex was recognised by UNESCO and the city's Old Town was entered onto the World Cultural Heritage List.