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Museums
Rymanów
Glass frogs and lizards from Rymanów end up in galleries on several continents – around 80% of production at the Sabina Art Glassworks goes abroad, including to the United States, China, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, the Netherlands and Engl…
Churches & monasteries
Rzeszów
In the chancel of the Bernardine church in Rzeszów, eight members of the Ligęza family kneel in prayer – life-size, carved in alabaster and facing the altar. It is said to be the largest group of alabaster praying figures in Europe. The ch…
Churches & monasteries
Łańcut
Beneath its neo-Gothic dress from around 1900, Łańcut's parish church hides more than six centuries of history: a wooden church of St Barbara from the town's founding, eighty years as a Protestant meeting house, a Baroque rebuilding design…
Churches & monasteries
Rzeszów
Rzeszów's Fara, the parish church of St. Adalbert and St. Stanislaus, is the oldest parish in Rzeszów (roughly "ZHEH-shoof") and one of the city's key historic sights. It stands on Farny Square, a few minutes' walk from the Market Square,…
Churches & monasteries
Krasiczyn
In Prałkowce, just outside Przemyśl, a former Greek Catholic church from 1842 holds a painting that travelled from today's Ukraine via Leżajsk to the San valley. It is Our Lady of Zbarazh (Zbaraż) – a 16th-century copy of the Częstochowa i…
Churches & monasteries
Dubiecko
A few kilometres from Dubiecko, among old trees, stands a larch-wood church from 1763 that lay abandoned for almost 40 years – and that, after restoration, looks once more as it did when the Krasicki family founded it. St Catherine's in Ba…
Churches & monasteries
Baranów Sandomierski
The Church of the Beheading of St John the Baptist on Kościuszki Street in Baranów Sandomierski is a late-Renaissance building from 1604–1607, built by the Leszczyński family – the same family that raised Baranów's famous castle. For half…
Churches & monasteries
Blizne
All Saints' Church in Blizne (say "BLEEZ-neh") is a 15th-century Gothic wooden church in southeastern Poland, set on a small rise among old trees and surrounded by a complete group of historic timber parish buildings. Since 2003 it has bee…
Churches & monasteries
Dubiecko
A yellow, centrally planned church with a dome on a tall drum stands by the main road through Dubiecko. This is the former Greek Catholic Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, built in 1927, which after years as a warehouse has found…
Museums
Przemyśl
The Baroque tower on Władycze Street was meant to be the bell tower of a cathedral that was never built — today its bells hang there as exhibits. The Museum of Bells and Pipes in Przemyśl is the only museum in Poland combining bell-foundin…
Palaces
Dukla
The Historical Museum in the Mniszech Palace in Dukla is housed in a late-Baroque magnate residence, one of the best-preserved palaces in southeastern Poland. Its "entre cour et jardin" layout, between a forecourt and a garden, is unique i…
Museums
Żarnowiec
In this manor house near Krosno, Maria Konopnicka wrote, among other works, "Rota" – a patriotic song that generations of Poles still know by heart. She received the house and its park in 1903 as a gift from the nation to mark 25 years of…
Museums
Przemyśl
The National Museum of the Przemyśl Land (Muzeum Narodowe Ziemi Przemyskiej) is the main museum in Przemyśl ("PSHEH-mishl"), a historic town on the San River in southeastern Poland, close to the Ukrainian border. Its modern building, a few…
Museums
Krosno
The Podkarpackie Museum in Krosno (kROHS-noh) is housed in the former Bishop's Palace on the edge of the old town, a yellow building at ul. Piłsudskiego 16. It is best known for "The History of Lighting," one of the most valuable kerosene…
Museums
Markowa
The Ulma Family Museum of Poles Saving Jews in World War II, in the village of Markowa (say "mar-KOH-vah") in southeastern Poland, tells the stories of local people who hid Jewish neighbors during the German occupation – and the price many…
Museums
Ustrzyki Dolne
The Bieszczady National Park Nature Museum in Ustrzyki Dolne ("oo-STSHI-kee DOL-neh") is the best place to understand the Bieszczady Mountains in about an hour: how they formed, who lived here and which animals roam the beech forests and h…
Palaces
Zarzecze
The first guest at Zarzecze Palace was Princess Izabela Czartoryska herself – no surprise, since Magdalena Morska née Dzieduszycka modelled her residence on Czartoryska's estate at Puławy. The same architect, Christian Piotr Aigner, who de…
Historic sites
Rzeszów
The Rzeszów Cellars Underground Route (Rzeszowskie Piwnice) is a maze of old merchants' cellars beneath the main square of Rzeszów (say "ZHEH-shoof"), linked into a 396-meter (1,300-foot) tourist route. You descend as deep as 10 meters, sq…
Museums
Łańcut
The Stables and Coach House at Łańcut Castle (say "WAHN-tsoot") hold one of Europe's most remarkable collections of horse-drawn carriages – and, unusually, it is still displayed in the very buildings where the Potocki family kept it. A sho…
Churches & monasteries
Dukla
The Shrine of St. John of Dukla (DOOK-lah) is a baroque Bernardine church and monastery in the small town of Dukla, in the Carpathian foothills of southeast Poland. It is the main place of devotion to St. John of Dukla, a medieval friar ca…
Churches & monasteries
Pruchnik
According to tradition, in 1680 a poor widow carried her child, bitten by an adder, up the hill, washed him with water from the spring below an image of the Virgin hanging on a tree – and the boy recovered. That story marked the beginning…
Landmarks
Łańcut
The Łańcut Synagogue (say "WAHN-tsoot") is an 18th-century Baroque synagogue on Sobieski Square, right next to the park of Łańcut Castle in southeastern Poland. Its plain exterior hides one of the finest surviving synagogue interiors in th…
Landmarks
Lesko
The Lesko Synagogue ("LESS-ko") is one of the finest surviving Jewish monuments in southeastern Poland and the most striking building in Lesko, the small town known as the gateway to the Bieszczady Mountains. Built of stone in the 17th cen…
Castles
Odrzykoń
Kamieniec Castle in Odrzykoń (kah-MYEH-nyets, oh-jeh-KOHN) is a romantic Gothic ruin on a rock at 452 m above sea level, a few kilometers from the town of Krosno in southeastern Poland. A feud between two families over a wall that split th…