1548 – 1600 Rebuilt against Turks who never camePrestavaný proti Turkom, ktorí neprišli

After the lords of Torysa backed the losing side in the fight for the Hungarian crown, King Ferdinand took the estate off them in 1548 and gave it to Gašpar Šeredy. Under the Šeredys the medieval castle was rebuilt in earnest in the second half of the sixteenth century: a third courtyard was added with polygonal and semicircular bastions, a wall-walk and gun loopholes, and a gate protected by a drawbridge, all on Italian models, and the old Gothic core was turned into a comfortable lordly residence. The reason given was the Ottoman danger — and here is the point worth holding on to: no Ottoman army ever reached Zborov. The frontier was hundreds of kilometres to the south. What that danger did here was change how buildings were designed. The Šeredys also brought in fresh Rusyn settlers from Polish Galicia, which is why the villages around are Rusyn to this day.Keď páni z Torysy podporili v boji o uhorskú korunu porazenú stranu, kráľ Ferdinand im v roku 1548 panstvo odňal a dal ho Gašparovi Šeredymu. Za Šeredyovcov sa v druhej polovici 16. storočia hrad poriadne prestaval: pribudlo tretie nádvorie s polygonálnou a polkruhovou baštou, hradbový múr s ochodzou a strieľňami a vstupná brána s padacím mostom, všetko podľa talianskych vzorov, a staré gotické jadro sa zmenilo na pohodlné panské sídlo. Dôvodom bolo turecké nebezpečenstvo — a tu je vec, ktorú si treba zapamätať: k Zborovu nijaké osmanské vojsko nikdy nedošlo. Hranica bola stovky kilometrov na juh. Čo tu to nebezpečenstvo naozaj spôsobilo, bola zmena v tom, ako sa stavalo. Šeredyovci zároveň priviedli nových rusínskych osadníkov z poľskej Haliče — preto sú dediny naokolo rusínske dodnes.