Things to do in gmina Niegowa

Devil’s Bridges in Złoty Potok

gmina Niegowa

The Devil’s Bridges in Złoty Potok are natural limestone outcrops in the Parkowe reserve, about 4 km from Złoty Potok. The highest rocks reach 15 m and are cut by deep crevices. In the upper part of one massif, an opening about 8 m long fo…

Wooden Church in Podlesie

gmina Niegowa

Free entry

The wooden Church of St Giles in Podlesie near Lelów is part of the Wooden Architecture Trail of Silesian Voivodeship. It stands in a quiet village on the edge of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland and the Włoszczowa Basin. The present church w…

Wooden Church of St. Giles in Zrębice

gmina Niegowa

## Key information The wooden Church of St. Giles in Zrębice stands at 4 Żarecka Street, on a small hill in the village centre in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. The present building was erected in 1789 through the efforts of parish priest…

Krasiński Manor House in Złoty Potok

gmina Niegowa

## Key information Krasiński Manor in Złoty Potok is a single-storey Classical manor house built in 1829 for the Krasiński family. It stands at 11 Tadeusza Kościuszki Street, in a historic park beside the Raczyński Palace. The building hou…

Manor House in Bystrzanowice

gmina Niegowa

## What is this place? The manor house in Bystrzanowice-Dwór is an 18th-century brick historic building preserved in a Classical form, with a portico and columns. It stands at 1 Ogrodowa Street, in Janów municipality on the Kraków-Częstoch…

The Manor House in Żytno

gmina Niegowa

## The manor and historic park Dwór w Żytnie is a Classical residence built in 1819 for the Siemieński family of the Leszczyc coat of arms. It stands at 92 Konopnicka Street in Łódź Voivodeship, about 45 km from Częstochowa and 35 km from…

EtnoJura in Żarki

gmina Niegowa

EtnoJura in Żarki is a handicraft workshop on the Kraków–Częstochowa Upland. During a session, you make your own toy or decoration from wood, hay, wicker and other natural materials. It is a good option for families, school groups and anyo…

Geopark of the Northern Jura

gmina Niegowa

Free entry

The Geopark of the Northern Jura is a developing geotourism area in the northern Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. It covers seven municipalities: Mstów, Olsztyn, Przyrów, Janów, Poraj, Żarki and Niegowa. Limestone formed in a warm sea more than…

Tomb of the Tzadik of Lelów

gmina Niegowa

The ohel in Lelów commemorates Dawid Biderman, known as the Lelower (1746–1814), a rabbi and founder of the Lelov Hasidic dynasty. It stands on Ogrodowa Street near the market, at a site connected with the former Jewish cemetery. It is an…

Bear Grotto in Złoty Potok

gmina Niegowa

Bear Grotto in Złoty Potok lies in the Wiercica Valley, within the Parkowe nature reserve in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. It is a natural cave with a spacious chamber and darker, damp passages, not a lit show cave with guided tours. Trea…

Fairs in Żarki

gmina Niegowa

Żarki in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland keep up a fair tradition going back to the times of **King Sigismund Augustus**, who granted the town the right to hold **three fairs a year**, each lasting at least a week. For centuries the markets…

Ostrężnik Cave

gmina Niegowa

Beneath the limestone hill of **Ostrężnik in the village of Siedlec** near Złoty Potok lies a horizontal cave, **90 metres long** — a system of passages and small chambers that once served as the **dungeons and cellars of Ostrężnik castle*…

Warsaw Quarry

gmina Niegowa

In the village of Siedlec, in the municipality of Janów, at the top of a forested hill at about **374 m above sea level**, one of the most interesting exposures of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland comes to light. The quarry is disused and pri…

Jewish Cemetery in Żarki

gmina Niegowa

**The Jewish cemetery in Żarki**, also known as the cemetery on Kierków Hill, lies on Polna Street in the north-western part of town. It was founded in 1821 as the third Jewish necropolis in Żarki. Covering about 1.5 hectares, it is one of…

Church of St. Martin in Lelów

gmina Niegowa

On Klasztorna Street in Lelów, not far from the market square, stands the Gothic parish church of St. Martin — today the Sanctuary of Our Lady the Consoler of Lelów. The parish is among the oldest in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland: it was f…

St Stanislaus Church in Żarki

gmina Niegowa

On Laskowiec hill, a limestone ridge near the centre of Żarki in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, stands the tidied-up ruin of the church of St Stanislaus. The masonry church was built after **1763** of quarried limestone, on the site of a w…

Church of St Simon in Żarki

gmina Niegowa

By the Old Market Square in Żarki stands the parish church built in **1518–1522** at the initiative of Marcin Myszkowski, castellan of Wieluń. Its full dedication reads: church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul and of Sts Simon and Jude…

Jura Cuesta

gmina Niegowa

Near Żarki, at the northern edge of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, the Częstochowa Upland comes to an abrupt end: towards the Varta pradolinya (ice-marginal valley) drops a steep rock scarp about **70 metres** high — the Jura cuesta, one o…

"Babka" Linden Tree in Żarki

gmina Niegowa

At Kościuszki Street in Żarki, on road **792** leading to Jaworznik, stands a small-leaved lime called Babka — a natural monument more than **500 years old**. The tree has kept barely a third of its trunk and the wood is partly rotten, yet…

Hokus Pokuss Candy Manufactory in Żarki

gmina Niegowa

In the centre of Żarki, at the foot of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, runs the Hokus Pokuss candy manufactory — a place where lollipops are made by hand and before the visitors' eyes. Piłsudskiego Street 17 hides a workshop where hot sugar…

Kołaczew Water Mill in Złoty Potok

gmina Niegowa

On the upper course of the Wiercica river, where it flows out of Zielony Staw (Green Pond), stands the wooden Kołaczew mill of **1807** – the last of six water mills that once worked on the river near Złoty Potok. The building lies within…