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Churches & monasteries
Niemodlin
When conservators dismantled the Baroque high altar of the church in Niemodlin, Latin epitaphs and painted busts of apostles from the early 14th century appeared on the chancel wall. Among them is a rhyming four-line verse about a metre lo…
Churches & monasteries
Praszka
For generations the people of Praszka told each other that their church stood on wooden piles driven into marshy ground. Only a survey in 2000 disproved the legend: the stone foundations rest on natural ground, and any piles could only hav…
Museums
Góra Świętej Anny
The Museum of the Silesian Uprisings stands in woodland on the slope between Leśnica and Góra Świętej Anny – the area of the bloodiest fighting of the Third Silesian Uprising in 1921. A branch of the Museum of Opole Silesia, it holds almos…
Technical monuments
Paczków
On 15 July 1977 the last cart of coke at the Paczków gasworks was quenched – not with water, but with a symbolic glass of champagne. That cart, coke and all, now stands in the museum. Paczków has the only site in Poland where the complete…
Museums
Olesno
Olesno's museum is housed in a mid-18th-century Baroque townhouse on ulica Jaronia, with a distinctive gable framed by scrolls and topped by a semicircle. It is the easiest place to get to know the town's history – from its first settlers…
Museums
Opole
The Museum of Opole Silesia (Muzeum Śląska Opolskiego) is the main museum of the Opole region and one of the oldest in Silesia, founded in 1900. It occupies a handsome Baroque former Jesuit college on Mały Rynek (the "Small Market Square")…
Museums
Kluczbork
Cars drive right underneath the museum building in Kluczbork: in 1931–1932 part of the old castle's ground floor was demolished so a street could run beneath it. Inside is something even more unusual — the Oder bee tree, a fragment of a ho…
Museums
Nysa
The prince-bishops of Wrocław ruled not only a diocese from Nysa but an entire duchy – and they wanted to live like cardinals in Rome. The result is the three-storey, four-winged Bishops' Palace at ul. Biskupa Jarosława 11, counted among t…
Museums
Ozimek
The visit begins in a "space dock hangar": a shuttle takes 50 passengers at a time, launches every 15 minutes and carries them 66 million years back, to the moment when life on Earth was almost wiped out. The Science and Human Evolution Pa…
Castles
Rogów Opolski
Rogów Opolski Castle, near Krapkowice, is a Renaissance and Neoclassical residence set in a 19th-century landscape park. Since 1965 it has belonged to the Provincial Public Library in Opole, which keeps its most valuable collections here:…