Municipal Park in Legnica

Legnica town hall

Lower Silesian

0.9 km

**The neo-Renaissance seat of Legnica's city authorities, built in 1902–1905 to a design by building councillor Paul Öhlmann. The L-shaped building has five storeys, richly decorated gables and sculptures telling the story of the town.** #…

Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Legnica

Lower Silesian

30–120 min · Free entry

1.0 km

**The Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Legnica** is one of the most important historic buildings in the city centre. Its history reaches back to the early 13th century, while the present structure combines medieval origins with a Neo-…

Former Town Hall in Legnica

Lower Silesian

1.0 km

**A Baroque building on Legnica's market square, raised in 1737–1741, which served as the seat of the town council for over 160 years and has been tied to the theatre since 1928. Today the administration of the Helena Modrzejewska Theatre…

St Mary's Church in Legnica

Lower Silesian

1.2 km

**St Mary’s Church in Legnica** is one of the oldest churches in Silesia. Its origins reach back to the second half of the 12th century, and a stone church recorded in 1192 preceded the present Gothic basilica. Also known as the Niederkirc…

Mausoleum of the Silesian Piasts in Legnica

Lower Silesian

1.3 km

In the Baroque church of St John the Baptist in Legnica survives the first Baroque funerary chapel in Silesia: the **Mausoleum of the Silesian Piasts** of 1677–1679. It was built for the last members of the dynasty and at the same time sta…

Piast Castle (Legnica)

Lower Silesian

1.4 km

Built at the end of the 12th century by Boleslaw I the Tall, this castle was — together with the stronghold in Wlen — **the first brick-and-stone castle on Polish soil**. The former principal residence of the Silesian dukes survived the Mo…

Church of Peace in Jawor

Lower Silesian

16 km

**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…

Town Hall in Jawor

Lower Silesian

17 km

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…

Jawor Castle

Lower Silesian

17 km

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…