The work of Gdańsk sculptor and furniture manufacturer Piotr Kazimierczak. One of the most famous and largest illegal construction projects in Poland, over which official and court battles have been ongoing for decades. Its history began in 1983, when Kazimierczak, with a building permit for a 170-square-meter house, began a project that, after a few years, turned out to be a 5,000-square-meter castle residence. In the early 1990s, the investor, lacking funds, stopped further construction, and in 2006, the building inspectorate ordered the structure’s demolition, which for the next dozen or so years became the source of a bureaucratic rollercoaster of appeals, subsequent decisions, annulments, and expert opinions.

Ultimately, in 2023, 40 years after Kazimierczak began construction, the Kartuzy City Council amended the area’s zoning plan, theoretically allowing the project to be completed and designated as a hotel. The architecture of the four-winged Łapalice Castle, conceived by Kazimierczak, references the numerals of the calendar – the building has 12 towers, 52 chambers, and 365 windows. The unfinished project – although formally forbidden to enter – has become a well-known Kashubian tourist attraction. In 2015, a group of Harry Potter fans attempted to purchase the castle, which was to house a Polish Hogwarts, but an international fundraising campaign for one million dollars was unsuccessful. Address: Zamkowa Street 132, Łapalice.