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Historic sites
Lesko
The Lesko Jewish Cemetery ("LESS-ko") is one of the oldest and most important Jewish cemeteries in Poland. On a wooded hill a few hundred meters from the town's 17th-century synagogue, some 2,000 gravestones (matzevot) survive, the oldest…
Nature
Lesko
As early as 1896 the Lesko town council resolved that this rock should be a "natural memorial" – which makes the Lesko Stone one of the earliest protected geological monuments in the former Austria-Hungary and in today's Poland. The massiv…
Landmarks
Lesko
The Lesko Synagogue ("LESS-ko") is one of the finest surviving Jewish monuments in southeastern Poland and the most striking building in Lesko, the small town known as the gateway to the Bieszczady Mountains. Built of stone in the 17th cen…
Castles
Lesko
In 1767 the cellars of Lesko Castle held 122 bottles of Hungarian wine, 64 barrels and several casks of mead – the household inventory of a residence that over four centuries changed hands many times, burned and was rebuilt. Kmita Castle i…
Castles
Lesko
On a wooded hill above a bend of the San river, by the road from Lesko to Sanok, stand the ruins of the Kmita family's medieval stronghold. Sobień Castle is sometimes called the historic Gateway to the Bieszczady Mountains. Since summer 20…