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Churches & monasteries
Jawor
The Church of Peace in Jawor (pronounced YAH-vor) is a vast half-timbered Lutheran church built in 1654–1655 in the small Silesian town of Jawor, southwest Poland. Plain as a barn from outside, it hides a dazzling interior of painted galle…
Castles
Jawor
Few castles in Poland served as a prison for so long: the Piast residence in Jawor fulfilled that role for more than two hundred years, from the time of Frederick the Great until 1956. Beneath its uniform 19th-century façade, however, hide…
Museums
Jawor
The Regional Museum in Jawor occupies the former Bernardine monastery at ul. Klasztorna 6, close to the Church of Peace. The Gothic hall church with its cloisters and garth is itself the main exhibit: it preserves a late Gothic cycle of Pa…
Landmarks
Jawor
In 1895 Jawor's town hall burned almost to the ground – only the medieval tower survived. Within two years a new neo-Renaissance building rose around it, and its council chamber was fitted with stained-glass windows still regarded as the l…
Nature
Jawor
In the rocks above the Jawornik stream you can see pillow lavas – the traces of undersea volcanic eruptions from the early Palaeozoic. About a kilometre from the village of Myślibórz, on Rataj hill, the basalt columns of the Małe Organy My…