Mir

Mir is a village with a castle far larger than it needs, a red brick fortress of five towers begun in the sixteenth century and finished with a renaissance palace along its inner wall. It is inscribed as world heritage and is the single most visited castle in the country, usually combined with Niasvizh in one long day out of the capital. An English park and a chapel holding the last of the owners lie behind it across a pond. The village itself keeps a square, a church and the buildings of a former yeshiva.