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The castle of the Silesian Piasts
the so-called "The Silesian Wawel" was erected on the site of a fortified Gothic castle. Its present form is the result of the Renaissance style reconstruction by the Italian architects Jakub Parr, Franciszek Parr and Bernard Niuron. The castle was destroyed during the siege of the town in 1741 and rebuilt between 1966 and 1990. The preserved richly decorated facade of the building is considered to be one of the most magnificent historical monument of the Renaissance period in Central Europe. It also features a courtyard with restored three-storey galleries. A part of the Renaissance interior of the rooms was preserved on the ground floor of the eastern wing. Presently, the castle houses the Museum of the Silesian Piasts. Its permanent exhibition presents the town's history, the history of the Silesian Piasts as well as Silesian sculpture and painting of 15th -18th centuries from the collection of the National Museum in Wroclaw including the paintings of the greatest Silesian Baroque painter - Michael Leopold Wilmann. In the museum there are sarcophaguses of the Legnica and Brzeg dukes.