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Cieszyn
Of the four towers that once defended the castle of the Dukes of Cieszyn, only one survives. Climb the 120 steps of the Piast Tower and you reach a terrace overlooking two towns on either side of the Olza River — Polish Cieszyn and Czech Č…
Castles
Cieszyn
Castle Hill (Góra Zamkowa) is where Cieszyn began. On a steep rise above the Olza River, right on the Czech border, stand the Romanesque Rotunda of St Nicholas and St Wenceslas – the oldest masonry building in Silesia and the image on the…
Historic sites
Cieszyn
On Hażlaska Street in Cieszyn, a few hundred metres apart, lie two Jewish cemeteries. The older, founded in 1647, is among the oldest Jewish burial grounds in Poland and one of the few that remained in continuous use for more than 250 year…
Museums
Cieszyn
The Museum of Cieszyn Silesia is the oldest public museum in Poland and one of the oldest in Central Europe – it was founded in 1802 by the priest Leopold Jan Szersznik, who opened his collections to visitors. Since 1931 it has occupied th…
Old towns & squares
Cieszyn
Cieszyn Market Square is a rectangular square of around 6,800 m², with the St Florian fountain at its centre and a classicist town hall on its south side. It is lined with arcades and townhouses whose history goes back to the 16th century,…