St John the Evangelist Church in Paczków

Defensive Walls in Paczków

Opole

0.1 km

Paczków in Opole Silesia is called the **Polish Carcassonne** — and for good reason. Stone walls from the 14th century encircle the town in a regular oval **1,200 metres** long, rising in places to **7 metres**, and of the original **24 ba…

Gasworks Museum in Paczków

Opole

0.4 km

A few steps from the town walls of Paczków, at **6 Pocztowa Street**, stands the former gasworks — the only site in Poland where the **installations for producing town gas have survived complete**. Today it is the Gasworks Museum, whose co…

Otmuchów Lake

Opole

90–300 min · Free entry

7.6 km

Otmuchów Lake is an artificial reservoir on the Nysa Kłodzka, between Otmuchów and Paczków. It combines flood storage, energy production, fishing and recreation, while its broad water surface and open shores create a distinctive landscape…

Medieval Mining Settlement in Złoty Stok

Lower Silesian

9.3 km

On the edge of Złoty Stok, a few hundred metres from the adits of the local Gold Mine, stands a full-size replica of a medieval mining settlement. The Medieval Mining Settlement, formerly known as the Medieval Park of Technology, recreates…

Ochrowa Adit in Złoty Stok

Lower Silesian

9.4 km

The Ochrowa Adit is a tourist route of the Złoty Stok Gold Mine — an attraction opened on **28 May 1996** in a former gold and arsenic mine at the foot of the Złote Mountains. Ochrowa is its newest, recently opened section; before that, th…

Złoty Stok Gold Mine

Lower Silesian

9.7 km

**The Złoty Stok Gold Mine** is an underground visitor route in Lower Silesia, running through historic workings connected with gold mining. Highlights include the Gertruda Adit, the Black Adit, an underground waterfall and an orange minin…

Kamieniec Ząbkowicki Palace

Lower Silesian

11 km

A monumental neo-Gothic residence above the Nysa Kłodzka river, built over more than 30 years at the initiative of the Dutch princess Marianne of Orange. The design came from Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Prussia's leading architect, and in 202…

Former Cistercian Abbey in Kamieniec Ząbkowicki

Lower Silesian

11 km

**The former Cistercian abbey in Kamieniec Ząbkowicki** stands on a hill above the Nysa Kłodzka, beside the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The monastery’s origins reach back to the 13th century, and its history is tie…

Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Kamieniec Ząbkowicki

Lower Silesian

11 km

In Kamieniec Ząbkowicki towers the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary — a Gothic, three-aisle hall church built by the Cistercians for over a hundred years, from **1247 to 1350**. It is a powerful cruciform building, today part of…