Things to do in Brzesko
Brzesko lies on the road from Kraków to Tarnów and is best known for the Okocim brewery. Its owners, the Goetz-Okocimski family, left the town a neo-Baroque palace set in a park. In the centre, by the market square, stands St James's Church, where a 15th-century Gothic nave became the entrance hall of a new church. On ulica Czarnowiejska is a First World War cemetery with a stone gateway, and about 5 km from town lies Szczepanów – by tradition the birthplace of St Stanislaus, with a basilica that incorporates Jan Długosz's church. Brzesko is a good stop on a route through Lesser Poland.
Map of attractions in Brzesko
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Historic sites
War Cemetery No. 276, Brzesko
Brzesko
Behind a stone wall on ulica Czarnowiejska in Brzesko lie more than 500 soldiers from the First World War: Austrians, Germans and Russians buried side by side. Cemetery No. 276 is one of the burial grounds laid out by the Austro-Hungarian…
15–30 min
Churches & monasteries
St James the Apostle Church, Brzesko
Brzesko
Brzesko's old Gothic church has not disappeared, though at first glance it is hard to spot. In the 1980s a new, much larger nave was added on its north side, and the former church became its entrance hall. Walking into St James's therefore…
20–30 min
Palaces
Goetz Palace in Brzesko
Brzesko
The last owner of this palace died in Kenya, where he and his wife ran a small tea room – and his ashes only came back to Okocim in 2017. The neo-Baroque "New Palace" of the Goetz family, founders of the Okocim brewery, was built in 1898–1…
Churches & monasteries
Sanctuary of St Stanislaus, Szczepanów
Brzesko
Szczepanów, a village a few kilometres from Brzesko, is by tradition the birthplace of St Stanislaus of Szczepanów, Bishop of Kraków and patron saint of Poland. The brick neo-Gothic basilica with its tall tower encloses a Gothic church fro…
45–90 min