Architectural, Residential and Cultural Complex of the Radziwill Family at Nesvizh
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How it came to be
Nesvizh in central Belarus belonged to the Radziwiłł family from 1533. In the 1580s Mikołaj Krzysztof Radziwiłł began a three-storey residence on the site of a medieval castle, completed by 1604, and the family held the estate until 1939.
In 1706, during the Great Northern War, the army of Charles XII of Sweden sacked the castle and destroyed its fortifications. The family later brought in German and Italian architects to remodel it, joining ten buildings around a six-sided courtyard. A dam and stone bridge link the castle to the Corpus Christi Church.
Artists from Belarus, Poland, Italy and Germany formed a school of architecture here that influenced Central European and Russian building. The castle, the church and some 100 hectares of parks and ponds were inscribed in 2005.
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