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Szydłów
From the outside it looks like a small fortress: stone walls about 2 metres thick, heavy buttresses and an attic parapet resembling battlements. Szydłów Synagogue, built in the 16th century within the town walls, is the oldest surviving sy…
Amusement parks
Szydłów
The European Fairy Tale Centre in Pacanów (roughly "pa-TSAH-noof") is a children's culture center built around Koziołek Matołek, the little goat who stars in one of Poland's best-loved picture books. In the 1932 story by Kornel Makuszyński…
Churches & monasteries
Szydłów
In stone-built Szydłów, where the walls, castle and synagogue were all raised from local limestone, the parish church of St Ladislaus stands out by its colour alone: it is a brick Gothic church from the mid-14th century. It was founded by…
Castles
Szydłów
Szydłów Royal Castle stands on an escarpment sloping down to the valley of the little Ciekąca river, built into the walls of the town known as the Polish Carcassonne. Its Knights' Hall from around 1400 is the best-preserved medieval reside…