Radom

Lying on the road between Kraków and Vilnius, Radom Castle was a favourite stop of the Jagiellonian kings. Casimir IV received envoys from the Crimean Khanate, Bohemia and Bavaria here, and in 1489 the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights came to the castle to pay him homage. His son Prince Casimir, later venerated as a saint, lived in Radom from 1481 and governed the Crown from here while his father was away in Lithuania. From 1613 the town was also the seat of the Crown Treasury Tribunal, the court that oversaw the kingdom's taxes. The Deluge ruined it. Swedish troops took Radom without a fight in 1655, then looted and almost destroyed it in August 1656, and by 1660, of some 2,000 people before the war, only 395 were left, living in 37 houses.