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The Secret City of Zamość: Renaissance Poland's Utopian Dream
When Polish chancellor Jan Zamoyski decided to build a private city from scratch in the late 16th century, he turned to an Italian architect named Bernardo Morando to create a Renaissance utopia in the heart of Eastern Europe. Zamość was designed as an ideal city—grid streets, arcaded market square, fortifications blending elegance with defense—and it became a hub of multicultural trade where Poles, Jews, Armenians, and Greeks lived side by side under a charter of religious tolerance. This episode unpacks how Zamość embodied the ideals of Poland's Golden Age: humanist learning, civic…
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