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Historic sites
Brzesko
Behind a stone wall on ulica Czarnowiejska in Brzesko lie more than 500 soldiers from the First World War: Austrians, Germans and Russians buried side by side. Cemetery No. 276 is one of the burial grounds laid out by the Austro-Hungarian…
Churches & monasteries
Brzesko
Brzesko's old Gothic church has not disappeared, though at first glance it is hard to spot. In the 1980s a new, much larger nave was added on its north side, and the former church became its entrance hall. Walking into St James's therefore…
Palaces
Brzesko
The last owner of this palace died in Kenya, where he and his wife ran a small tea room – and his ashes only came back to Okocim in 2017. The neo-Baroque "New Palace" of the Goetz family, founders of the Okocim brewery, was built in 1898–1…
Churches & monasteries
Brzesko
Szczepanów, a village a few kilometres from Brzesko, is by tradition the birthplace of St Stanislaus of Szczepanów, Bishop of Kraków and patron saint of Poland. The brick neo-Gothic basilica with its tall tower encloses a Gothic church fro…