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A stronghold town, established in 1580, built by Chancellor and Hetman Jan Zamoyski, assisted by an Italian architect Bernard Morand, according to Renaissance treatises, which argued that a city should be planned functionally, like the ideal human organism.

Currently Zamość is the biggest tourist attraction of the Lublin region, and is included on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The most important monuments of the city are the Great Market Square (which is indeed a square, with each side 100 metres long), surrounded by arcaded residential buildings with decorative attics and the Town Hall with a tall tower and representative double staircase, two smaller city squares – Wodny and Solny, the Chancellor’s Palace with an equestrian monument of the city’s founder, Zamojski Academy, a collegiate with a mausoleum of Zamoyski family, as well as fortifications, with the Arsenal Museum of Fortifications and Weaponry Bastion VII – Nadszaniec.