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Hidden gemMountains & peaks
Prudnik
Biskupia Kopa (say "bees-KOO-pya KOH-pa"; 890 m) is the highest peak of the Opawskie Mountains, a small range of the eastern Sudetes on the Poland–Czech border, and one of the peaks of the Crown of Polish Mountains. Beech forests, a mounta…
Hidden gemChurches & monasteries
Prudnik
In 1735 Prudnik's new church was almost finished — the Blessed Sacrament was already kept there — when a fire in the town destroyed it along with the freshly painted frescoes by Felix Anton Scheffler. The builder Johann Innozenz Töpper reb…
Hidden gemChurches & monasteries
Prudnik
In this forest monastery near Prudnik, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński spent a year as a prisoner of Poland's communist authorities — and it was here, reading Sienkiewicz's historical novel "The Deluge", that he came up with the idea of renewing…
Churches & monasteries
Prudnik
On Piastowska Street, in the western part of Prudnik's Old Town, stands the Baroque monastery complex of the Brothers Hospitallers – an order that has been caring for the sick here since 1766. It began as a story of gratitude: a colonel, b…
Old towns & squares
Prudnik
Prudnik's rectangular market square was laid out using the "Flemish rope", a medieval unit of measurement – which is why the square covers exactly one morgen (an old land measure). In the middle stands the town hall with a 63-metre tower,…
Fortifications
Prudnik
The Lower Gate Tower on Batorego Street is the most visible trace of Prudnik's medieval fortifications and one of the town's symbols. Its stone core, brick superstructure and octagonal top under a slender spire show three building phases a…
Castles
Prudnik
On Castle Square in Prudnik stands a thick, round stone tower that is older than the town itself. This is Wok's Tower — the only remnant of the medieval castle of Wogendrossel, regarded as the oldest castle tower in Upper Silesia and the o…