Tripto Guide
Things to do in Jawor
5 places. The best places, landmarks and ideas for exploring the region. Open a place to see all details.
Churches & monasteries
Church of Peace in Jawor
Jawor
**The Church of Peace in Jawor** is one of the two surviving Churches of Peace in Silesia and part of the UNESCO entry covering Jawor and Świdnica. The timber church was built in 1654–1655 to a design by Albrecht von Säbisch. Its restraine…
CastlesHidden gem
Jawor Castle
Jawor
The Piast castle in Jawor, built in the 13th century by **Bolko I the Strict**, was the seat of the Duchy of Jawor — and its most recent chapter unfolded as a prison, which operated here until **1956**. Survivors within the walls include t…
Museums
Regional Museum in Jawor
Jawor
A few steps from the famous **Church of Peace**, in the former **Bernardine monastery complex from the 15th century**, operates the **Regional Museum in Jawor** — one of the best-preserved late-Gothic monastic complexes of Lower Silesia, t…
Landmarks
Town Hall in Jawor
Jawor
On the market square in Jawor stands a town hall whose tower reaches back to the Middle Ages and whose present body comes from the end of the 19th century. Its current form was created after a fire in which only the tower survived. Today t…
Nature
Myślibórz Gorge and the Little Organs of Myślibórz
Jawor
A wooded ravine carved by the Jawornik stream and the basalt Organs of Rataj hill — two chapters of one volcanic story in the Land of Extinct Volcanoes. The area belongs to the Chełmy Landscape Park and lies near Myślibórz, a few kilometre…