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City Emblem Lidzbark Castle A small town fourty-odd km north of Olsztyn was a capital of the Warmian bishops for over four centuries and reputedly the richest and most cultured town in the region. A castle of the Warmia bishops, sited in the fork junction of Rivers Lyna and Symsarna, was erected in the years 1350-1401. The brick building, square in plan, with an entrance gate from the south was never a part of the city fortification system. In the early 16th century the castle was reshaped and its interior was redesigned. In the 19th century it housed a hospital and a casern. Reconstructed after the World War II, the Lidzbark Warmiński castle belongs to the most valuable monuments of the defensive architecture in Poland. Part of the interior decorations has been preserved. In the museum section of the castle we can admire collections of Gothic and Baroque arts as well as mementos connected with Nicolaus Copernicus.