Things to do in Kalisz
6 attractions in Kalisz, including Centre of Kalisz Fairy Tales, Legends and the Town's Founding, Kalisz Piast Stronghold (Zawodzie Archaeological…
Map of attractions in Kalisz
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Museums
Centre of Kalisz Fairy Tales, Legends and the Town's Founding
Kalisz
The Dorotka Tower is the only surviving tower of Kalisz's medieval walls – out of eighteen that once reinforced them. Since 8 December 2018 it has housed the Centre of Kalisz Fairy Tales, Legends and the Town's Founding: a multimedia exhib…
Historic sites
Kalisz Piast Stronghold (Zawodzie Archaeological Reserve)
Kalisz
Before Kalisz moved to the right bank of the Prosna, its heart was a fortress on a marshy island in Zawodzie. The stronghold, built in the 860s, was one of the key centres of the early Piast state, Poland's first ruling dynasty, and in the…
Churches & monasteries
Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Kalisz
Kalisz
St. Nicholas Cathedral in Kalisz (pronounced roughly "KAH-leesh") is the oldest church in one of Poland's oldest towns: a red-brick Gothic building founded in the 13th century and, since 1992, the cathedral of the Diocese of Kalisz. Behind…
Museums
Kalisz Regional Museum
Kalisz
The Kalisz Regional Museum is one of the oldest regional museums in Poland and the best place to get to know the history of Kalisz and the Prosna basin. In the building at 12 Kościuszki Street you can see, among other things, the denarius…
Gardens
Municipal Park in Kalisz
Kalisz
The City Park in Kalisz (pronounced roughly "KAH-leesh") is a leafy riverside park in central Poland whose history goes back to 1798, making it one of the oldest public parks in the country. In the 19th century it was considered Poland's m…
Free entry
Churches & monasteries
National Shrine of St Joseph in Kalisz
Kalisz
On 29 April 1945, Polish priests imprisoned in Dachau expected to be executed – instead, they lived to see liberation. Believing they owed their survival to St Joseph, more than 300 priests came to his image in Kalisz on a pilgrimage of th…