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Churches & monasteries
Komańcza
On the evening of 13 September 2006 one of the most remarkable wooden churches of the Carpathians burnt down in Komańcza, together with its iconostasis of 1832. Only the bell tower survived. The next day the Orthodox Archbishop of Przemyśl…
Churches & monasteries
Komańcza
In the valley of the Rzepedka stream, a tributary of the Osława, stands the wooden Greek Catholic Church of St Nicholas the Wonderworker from 1824 – a typical Eastern Lemko church with three onion domes and a free-standing bell tower. It s…
Churches & monasteries
Komańcza
The wooden Church of the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God in Szczawne stands on a small rise above the Osława valley, by the road to Komańcza. Built in 1888–1889 as a Greek Catholic church, it now serves the Orthodox faithful. It h…
Churches & monasteries
Turzańsk
These wooden churches, known in Polish as cerkwie, are what remains of the Lemko and Boyko villages that filled the Osława and San valleys before the Second World War. The Lemkos and Boykos are Ruthenian highland communities of the Carpath…
Mountains & peaks
Smerek
Chatka Puchatka ("KHAHT-kah poo-KHAHT-kah", Polish for Pooh's Hut, named after The House at Pooh Corner) is the highest tourist building in the Bieszczady Mountains of southeastern Poland. Perched at about 1,228 m on the open grassland rid…
Monuments & mounds
Turzańsk
Silent Memorial is an open-air gallery of portraits scattered across villages and painted directly onto the boards of old barns and sheds. Sanok-born artist Arkadiusz Andrejkow started the project in 2017 in the Subcarpathian region, and t…
Historic sites
Lesko
The Lesko Jewish Cemetery ("LESS-ko") is one of the oldest and most important Jewish cemeteries in Poland. On a wooded hill a few hundred meters from the town's 17th-century synagogue, some 2,000 gravestones (matzevot) survive, the oldest…
Churches & monasteries
Zarzecze
In Zarzecze, a former village on the high right bank of the San and now part of Nisko, stands a larch-wood Church of Our Lady of the Snows dated to 1722. It was not built here, though: in 1923 it was moved from Jeżowe, bought by two Zarzec…
Churches & monasteries
Krzeszów
On Rotunda hill above the San river stands a wooden church that survived the front line of the First World War, only to come close to losing a battle with its own foundations. The three-aisled Baroque church begun in 1727 is a rarity – woo…
Churches & monasteries
Haczów
The wooden church in Haczów (say "HAH-choof"), dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and St. Michael the Archangel, is the largest Gothic wooden church in Europe and one of the oldest log-built churches in Poland. It stands in the…
Fortifications
Siedliska
Fort I "Salis Soglio" in Siedliska lies just a few dozen metres from the Ukrainian border – on a clear day you can see the border posts from its ramparts. It is one of the best-preserved forts of the outer ring of the Przemyśl Fortress, bu…
Museums
Sanok
The Zdzisław Beksiński Gallery in Sanok ("ZJEE-swaf bek-SHEEN-skee", "SAH-nok") holds the world's largest collection of work by the Polish painter famous for his haunting, dreamlike landscapes of ruins, skeletal figures and burning skies.…
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
Krasiczyn
Kalwaria Pacławska (roughly "kahl-VAR-yah pahts-WAHF-skah") is a Franciscan pilgrimage sanctuary on a forested hill about 465 m (1,525 ft) above the Wiar River valley in southeastern Poland, close to the Ukrainian border. Founded in 1665,…
Nature
Lesko
As early as 1896 the Lesko town council resolved that this rock should be a "natural memorial" – which makes the Lesko Stone one of the earliest protected geological monuments in the former Austria-Hungary and in today's Poland. The massiv…
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
Zagórz
On Mariemont Hill above a bend in the Osława river stand the walls of a monastery that was also a fortress: the Discalced Carmelites prayed here behind five-metre defensive walls and ran a hospital next door for twelve war veterans. In 177…
Viewpoints
Solina
The Solina Gondola Lift is a modern cable car above Lake Solina in southeastern Poland, carrying visitors from Plasza station beside Solina Dam up to Jawor hill. From the cabins you look down on the dam, the lake's winding bays and the gre…
Monuments & mounds
Przemyśl
On Zniesienie hill, which rises above Przemyśl to the south, stands a man-made mound that legend says holds the grave of a Tatar khan. Historians date it to the late 9th century and link it with the presence of the Magyars, and from its to…
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…