Things to do in Stara Wieś

German Gate in Byczyna

Stara Wieś

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The German Gate, also known as the Western Gate Tower, is one of the most recognisable parts of Byczyna’s medieval fortifications. It stands on the western side of the historic town, and its name refers to the direction it faced — towards…

Polish Gate in Byczyna

Stara Wieś

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The Polish Gate, also known as the Eastern Gate Tower, is one of the two surviving entrances through Byczyna’s medieval walls. It stands on the eastern side of the historic town. Its name refers to the direction it faced — towards Polish l…

St. John the Baptist Church in Biskupice

Stara Wieś

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At the western end of Biskupice village, near the medieval town of Byczyna, stands the wooden Church of St John the Baptist. The present church was built in 1626 as a Protestant church and later became Roman Catholic. It is a quiet, small…

Blue Springs in the Załęczański Landscape Park

Stara Wieś

The Blue Springs lie between Troniny and Stara Wieś in the Załęczański Landscape Park. They are karst springs by the Jarzębski Meander of the Warta: some water emerges from a fissure, while some rises from an oxbow lake. Clear water can ta…

Byczyna Stronghold (Gród Byczyna)

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Gród Byczyna in Biskupice is a timber reconstruction of a medieval stronghold beside the Biskupice “Brzózki” reservoir, in Byczyna municipality. Built in 2006–2007 as a Polish-Czech Knights’ Training Centre, it uses a six-metre palisade, g…

Church of the Holy Name of Mary in Gaszyn

Stara Wieś

**The Church of the Holy Name of Mary in Gaszyn** is a 16th-century wooden church belonging to the historic Wieluń group. It stands about 3 km south of Wieluń, beside the old route towards Bolesławiec. It fits naturally into a route linkin…

Wooden Church in Wierzbno

Stara Wieś

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## Key information The parish church of St. Leonard the Abbot in Wierzbie near Praszka is an example of wooden religious architecture in northern Opole Voivodeship. Despite later alterations, it preserves the traditional Late Gothic form o…

St Andrew the Apostle Church in Kadłub

Stara Wieś

**The wooden Church of St Andrew the Apostle in Kadłub near Wieluń** is an example of the late-Gothic Wieluń style. This 16th-century church preserves its larch log construction, steep shingled roof and modest rural form. ## Built without…

St. Nicholas Church in Byczyna

Stara Wieś

On Okrężna Street, within the medieval town walls of Byczyna, stands the Gothic church of St. Nicholas, built at the end of the 14th century. Today it serves as a filial church of the Evangelical-Augsburg parish in Wołczyn, its stately sil…

Holy Trinity Church in Grębień

Stara Wieś

About **2 km** from the Wieluń–Kłobuck road, hidden among trees, stands the wooden Holy Trinity Church in Grębień from **around 1500** — one of the oldest churches of the famous Wieluń group. Its greatest treasure is not the structure but…

Church of the Assumption in Praszka

Stara Wieś

At 22 Senatorska Street stands the town's most important church — the **Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary**, belonging to the Archdiocese of Częstochowa and serving today as a Marian sanctuary. The parish's history reache…

Town Walls in Byczyna

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Byczyna is one of the few Polish towns whose medieval fortifications have survived almost intact. A ring of brick and rough-stone walls, in places built of field boulders, encircles the old town in an oval line over **900 metres** long — a…

City Walls of Wieluń

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Wieluń is one of the twenty-five towns that were surrounded by defensive walls under **Casimir the Great**. Together with the Eagles' Nests castles it formed a belt of fortifications guarding the south-western border of the Crown, stretchi…

Manor Interiors Museum in Ożarów

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In Ożarów, **12 km** from Wieluń, stands a wooden manor house from **1757**, home to the Manor Interiors Museum — a branch of the Museum of the Wieluń Land. The architecture echoes late-Baroque manor design: the log-wall structure rests on…

Wieluń Land Museum

Stara Wieś

The Wieluń Land Museum, founded in **1926** by the Polska Macierz Szkolna educational society, is one of the oldest cultural institutions of the Wieluń region and a centre for research into the area's past. Its main seat at 13 Narutowicza…

Town Hall in Wieluń

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Wieluń's town hall stands on the western side of the old town, directly adjoining the Gothic **Krakowska Gate** — the only surviving city gate in Wieluń. This late Classicist building from **1842** serves as the seat of the municipal autho…

Remains of the Collegiate Church in Wieluń

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Between the market square and the town hall in Wieluń, opposite the church of St Joseph, lie the exposed foundations of the town's oldest parish church — the collegiate church of St Michael the Archangel. The church was built at the turn o…

Kayaking the Liswarta River

Stara Wieś

The Liswarta is a **93-kilometre** river lying entirely within the Silesian Voivodeship — very shallow, clean and easy, meandering through a narrow valley that in places resembles a ravine. The classic weekend plan covers **33 km** in two…

Trail of the Wieluń Jura

Stara Wieś

The red-marked trail, about **113 km** long, runs from Częstochowa to Wieluń through the northern, least-visited part of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. It starts at the Old Market Square in Częstochowa, passes Mstów and Kruszyna, and then…

The Windmill in Ożarów

Stara Wieś

In Ożarów near Wieluń, precisely in Kocilew, stands a wooden post mill. The present building was erected by the Kowalski family in **1914**, on the site of an older 19th-century mill. The sails sweep a circle about **17 metres** in diamete…

Brzózki–Biskupice Reservoir

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Below the walls of Byczyna, on the small Pratwa river, spreads the Biskupice-Brzózki retention reservoir — a **42-hectare** body of water with wooden piers, a walkway over the water and a reconstructed early-medieval stronghold on the shor…