For centuries, Golub Castle has had a ghost. This apparition is benevolent. Anna Vasa, dressed in white robes and wearing a royal diadem, appears on the cloisters and walls, watching over her starosty at night.
During her lifetime, she spent many years in Golub. The castle, given to Anna by her brother, King Sigismund III Vasa of Poland, was transformed from a Teutonic stronghold into a magnificent Renaissance residence. Anna quickly transformed Golub Castle into a meeting place for scholars. She established a library and a botanical garden in the castle (it was here that tobacco was supposedly first grown in Poland), as well as a pharmacy, where she brewed herbal decoctions and ground ointments.
To her subjects, Anna was a kind and gracious mistress, even funding scholarships for gifted boys. After her death in 1625, the castle fell into decline, and later, during the Swedish Deluge, it shared the fate of many Polish castles.
The White Lady of Golub is the only apparition that materializes once a year in the presence of numerous invited guests. When the famous costume ball takes place in Golub, which happens every year on the last Saturday of Carnival, at midnight the White Lady appears in a hidden door in the wall and fills her with a cup of wine presented to her by the current castle owner.
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