{"id":24,"date":"2019-08-20T16:07:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T16:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site112.blogs.americavip.com\/2019\/08\/20\/castillo-de-bedzin\/"},"modified":"2019-08-20T16:43:50","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T16:43:50","slug":"castillo-de-bedzin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/contents.polandvip.com\/en\/2019\/08\/20\/castillo-de-bedzin\/","title":{"rendered":"Bedzin Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20\" style=\"width: 1290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20\" class=\"wp-image-20 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/site112.blogs.americavip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/113\/files\/sites\/113\/2019\/08\/Poland-VIP-Bedzin-Castle-01.jpg\" alt=\"Castillo de Bedzin\" width=\"1280\" height=\"851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/contents.polandvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/113\/files\/sites\/113\/2019\/08\/Poland-VIP-Bedzin-Castle-01.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/contents.polandvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/113\/files\/sites\/113\/2019\/08\/Poland-VIP-Bedzin-Castle-01-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/contents.polandvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/113\/files\/sites\/113\/2019\/08\/Poland-VIP-Bedzin-Castle-01-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/contents.polandvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/113\/files\/sites\/113\/2019\/08\/Poland-VIP-Bedzin-Castle-01-1024x681.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Castillo de Bedzin<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bedzin Castle (ul. \u015awierczewskiego 15 Bedzin) &#8212; located in the town of the same name, this castle goes back to the 14th century.\u00a0 A previous wooden fortification existed here, but was burned down by the Mongols in 1241.\u00a0 In 1358, Casimir the Great (1333-1370) replaced that structure with the current (still-standing) stone-based one.\u00a0 At the time, this castle existed to protect the Polish border from invasions by the Germanic Silesians.\u00a0 The castle was again attacked at a later time, by Swedish forces in 1655 &#8212; partially destroying it in the process (with restorations made sometime after).<\/p>\n<p>The castle is now the site of Zaglebie Museum (complete with a section covering its history, as well as housing displays of armaments from the Middle Ages to World War II, and an exhibit detailing the area&#8217;s military history).\u00a0 Admission:\u00a0 10 Z\u0141 (regular)(palace or castle), 6 Z\u0141 (reduced)(palace or castle); 18 z\u0142 (palace &amp; castle)(regular), 10 z\u0142 (palace &amp; castle)(reduced); (Note: admission to the palace refers to &#8220;Palace Mieroszewskich&#8221;).\u00a0 Hours:\u00a0 9 am &#8211; 4 pm (Tuesday, Thursday, Friday), 8 am &#8211; 4 pm (Wednesday), 9 am &#8211; 5 pm (Saturday).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bedzin Castle (ul. \u015awierczewskiego 15 Bedzin) &#8212; located in the town of the same name, this castle goes back to the 14th century.\u00a0 A previous wooden fortification existed here, but was burned down by the Mongols in 1241.\u00a0 In 1358, Casimir the Great (1333-1370) replaced that structure with the current (still-standing) stone-based one.\u00a0 At the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-museums-monuments-other-sites","category-things-to-see-and-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents.polandvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents.polandvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents.polandvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents.polandvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents.polandvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/contents.polandvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25,"href":"https:\/\/contents.polandvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents.polandvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents.polandvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents.polandvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}