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Churches & monasteries
Bolesławiec
A slender 55-metre tower and a brick-and-white gable patterned with lozenges are Bolesławiec's landmark, visible from many streets in the Old Town. Inside the 15th-century Gothic hall lies a completely different world: Baroque altars, gild…
Museums
Bolesławiec
Since April 2024 the Museum of Ceramics in Bolesławiec has had a new home: the restored Pückler mansion at ul. Zgorzelecka 28/29, set in a revitalised historic park. It is the best place to understand how Bolesławiec stoneware became famou…
Monuments & mounds
Bolesławiec
A dark obelisk about 10 metres tall, guarded by four lions, stands by the old town walls of Bolesławiec. It commemorates the Russian field marshal Mikhail Kutuzov, Napoleon's nemesis, who died here in 1813. The monument was designed by Kar…
Old towns & squares
Bolesławiec
In the Wedding Hall of Bolesławiec town hall, newlyweds stand beneath a vault that Wendel Roskopf modelled on the royal Vladislav Hall at Prague Castle. That is the best reason to look not only into the ceramic shop windows on Bolesławiec'…
Technical monuments
Bolesławiec
On the western edge of Bolesławiec the railway leaps across the Bóbr valley on 489 metres of stone arches. Built from pale sandstone and opened in 1846, the viaduct looks like a Roman aqueduct transplanted to Lower Silesia – and trains bet…