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Churches & monasteries
Zielona Góra
The Co-Cathedral of St Hedwig of Silesia at ul. Mickiewicza 14 is the oldest surviving historic building in Zielona Góra. The brick Gothic hall church has survived fires, the Reformation and the collapse of its tower, and its present silho…
Churches & monasteries
Zielona Góra
Outside, a black-and-white grid of half-timbering; inside, three tiers of wooden galleries and a pulpit resting on a column shaped like a palm trunk. The Church of Our Lady of Częstochowa is the former Lutheran church "Garden of Christ" (Z…
Museums
Zielona Góra
The open-air museum in Ochla (pronounced roughly "OH-khlah"), officially the Ethnographic Museum in Zielona Góra, is a large skansen on the southern edge of the city: nearly 80 historic village buildings spread over about 13 hectares in th…
Museums
Zielona Góra
In the cellars of the Lubusz Land Museum you will find a witch-trial scene and an iron maiden, and a few rooms further on, a collection of winemaking tools from a town that has lived off its vineyards for centuries. This is Zielona Góra's…
Gardens
Zielona Góra
On ul. Botaniczna in Zielona Góra you can see more than a thousand plant species and feed the peacocks in a single walk. The University of Zielona Góra Botanical Garden was recreated in 2007 on part of a pre-war garden, and right next door…
Palaces
Zielona Góra
Roofless palace ruins with trees showing through empty windows, and the vast park of a former Duchess of Sagan: Zatonie, now part of Zielona Góra, is one of Zielona Góra’s most popular places for a walk. The palace burned down in 1945 and…
Old towns & squares
Zielona Góra
The Old Market Square in Zielona Góra (say "zhe-LOH-nah GOO-rah") is the historic heart of the capital of Lubusz Province in western Poland: a pedestrian square around a Gothic town hall with a slightly leaning 54 m tower, framed by colorf…
Other
Zielona Góra
In communist-era Poland a rumour went around that during Winobranie in Zielona Góra you were fed for free and even offered wine — which may explain why crowds poured into town. Today Winobranie, also called Zielona Góra Days, is a 9-day ev…