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Legnica
Legnica Cathedral, the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, is the largest Gothic church in Legnica (pronounced "leg-NEE-tsah"), a historic city in Lower Silesia, southwestern Poland. Its twin green spires dominate the old town skyline, and…
Hidden gemCastles
Legnica
Piast Castle in Legnica is one of the oldest stone castles in Poland and the former seat of the Piast dukes who ruled this part of Silesia for five centuries. Two Romanesque towers, a Renaissance gateway and the excavated remains of a 13th…
Churches & monasteries
Legnica
St. Mary's Church in Legnica (pronounced "leg-NEE-tsah") is the oldest surviving church in this Lower Silesian city and one of the oldest in all of Silesia. Its story begins in the 12th century, and according to the medieval chronicler Jan…
Churches & monasteries
Legnica
In an octagonal chapel beside St John's Church in Legnica, four alabaster figures hold a conversation that never ends. They are the last of the Piasts, the dynasty that founded Poland: fifteen-year-old Duke George William, his parents and…
Museums
Legnica
Above the entrance to the Baroque palace at ul. Partyzantów 3 you can see the letters LAL – short for "Lodovicus Abbas Lubensis", Abbot Ludwig Bauch of Lubiąż. For more than sixty years this building from 1728 has housed Poland's only muse…