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Occupying a stately pre-WWI bank, the main branch of Nowy Sącz's regional museum features permanent exhibitions exploring the city in the early days of…
Must-see attractions in Carpathian Mountains
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Rzeszów's pretty town hall is the natural focus of attention in the Rynek, dominating its southwest corner. It dates from the 16th century but was wholly…
Franciscan Church of St Mary Magdalene
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This beautifully evocative church, with its enormous pillars dwarfing the three baroque statues at the front, was built between 1754 and 1778 in late…
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The shingled Church of Our Lady, built by peasants in the mid-15th century, has charming folk decorations inside and a fine rococo high altar. Note the…
Museum of Zakopane Style – Inspirations
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This companion museum to the main Zakopane Style museum is more of an ethnographic exhibition, highlighting the highlander folk roots and styles that…
Felicja Curyłowa Farmstead Museum
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This three-room farmhouse houses the work of Zalipie's best-known painter, Felicja Curyłowa (1904–74). Every flat surface is painted with colourful…
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At the House of Painters, which serves as a centre for the village’s artists, you can watch the painters at work. You can also find a basic map to the…
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Six centuries of Rzeszów's life, triumphs and tribulations are revealed through the interesting exhibits of this worthwhile city museum, housed in a 17th…
Monument to the Revolutionary Act
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Rzeszów's vast, leaf-shaped Monument to the Revolutionary Act, commemorating the battles and sacrifice in and around the town, especially during WWII, was…
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Built by King Kazimierz III Wielki (Casimir III the Great) in the 1340s to guard his kingdom's eastern flank, Przemyśl's castle evolved into a Renaissance…
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In John Paul II Place stands the 18th-century Minor Basilica, dedicated to the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. An earlier brick church on the…
Collegiate Church of St Margaret
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Dating in its earliest parts to the 14th century, this parish church was made a minor basilica under Pope John Paul II in 1992. It's principally famous…
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Located inside Wadowice's former town hall (which also houses the tourist office), the Town Museum comprises the five-room exhibit 'Wadowice: The City…
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Around 500m north of the Old Town, on the opposite side of the Kamienica River, is the former Jewish cemetery. It contains a couple of hundred headstones,…
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This synagogue dates from the early 17th century and was built in Renaissance style. It was destroyed several times in the Cossack invasions and burnt…
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For centuries Jews lived in the area north of the Rynek. This is also the area where the Germans built their wartime Jewish ghetto, before shipping 25,000…
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A separate ethnographic section of the Niedzica Castle Museum is located in this three-storey stone-and-wood granary, built in the late 18th century as an…
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The Kromer Townhouse, a second branch of the Biecz Regional Museum, occupies a 16th-century tenement house 100m west of the Rynek and directly in front of…
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Housed in a handsome 16th-century tenement behind Tarnów Cathedral, this well-curated museum dates to 1888, and now comprises five distinct rooms: a…
Parish Church of St Elizabeth of Hungary
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The Parish Church of St Elizabeth of Hungary is two blocks south of the Rynek and dates from the town’s 13th-century beginnings. It's been altered…
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This curious museum, housed in an 18th-century baroque clock tower, contains vintage bells as well as elaborately carved wooden and meerschaum pipes and…
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This museum has traditional folk costumes and old woodcarvings from the region on permanent display. Expect clothes worn on traditional holidays, musical…
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The 'new' Jewish cemetery dates from the 19th century. It was devastated during WWII, but some 300 tombstones have been preserved. It's located at the…
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About 1km south of the Rynek, along ul Tuchowska, lies the weathered timber Church of the Holy Trinity, built from 1597. It has a naive, charming rustic…
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This modest museum exhibits 19th- and 20th-century photographs, postcards, weapons and commemorative mementos connected with Przemyśl Fortress.
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Military buffs will want to see the remnants of Austria-Hungary’s Przemyśl Fortress surrounding the town. As these were mostly earth ramparts, however,…
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The remains of Nowy Sącz's royal castle, built by Kazimierz III Wielki in the 1350s, stand in pleasant parklands just south of the confluence of the…
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This scary-looking cement bunker was built by the USSR in 1939 as part of the Molotov Line, along its then-border with Nazi Germany. It saw intense…
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Dating back to the 15th century, and once occupied by a prominent councillor, this handsome townhouse is fronted by Ionic columns and a decorated portal…
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The more important of two synagogues that survived WWII (four existed previously), the New Synagogue was built in the early 20th century. It was used as a…
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