Things to do in Chęciny

Miedzianka Hill

Chęciny

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Miedzianka Mountain in the Świętokrzyskie Mountains is a rocky limestone summit of about **354 m above sea level** in the Chęciny municipality. The massif is protected as a nature reserve and is known for rock outcrops, karst features and…

Cistercian Abbey in Jędrzejów

Chęciny

**The Cistercian Abbey in Jędrzejów** is one of Poland’s oldest Cistercian monasteries and the country’s oldest continuously active abbey of the order. Its foundation dates to 1140, when Janik of the Gryfit family and his brother Klemens b…

Kadzielnia Nature Reserve in Kielce

Chęciny

A limestone rock in the middle of the city: Kadzielnia rises in the south-western part of Kielce to **295 m above sea level**, and its rocks formed in the coral reef of a warm sea in the Upper Devonian. The hill's culmination is Skała Geol…

Open-Air Museum of the Kielce Region in Tokarnia

Chęciny

At the foot of Chęciny lies Tokarnia — the Ethnographic Park of the Museum of the Kielce Countryside and one of the largest open-air museums of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship. Founded in **1976**, it arranges dozens of wooden 19th-century…

The Cistercian Trail

Chęciny

When the Cistercians arrived on Polish lands in the **12th century**, their monasteries became centres of culture, economy and contact with Western Europe. The Cistercian Trail, established in September **1990** at the abbey in Mogiła near…

Tarło Palace in Podzamcze Piekoszowskie

Chęciny

From the fields of Podzamcze Piekoszowskie rises a quadrangle with four hexagonal bastions — the former residence of the Tarło family, built in **1649–1655** on the model of the palace of the Kraków bishops in Kielce. The ruin still impres…