Things to do in Wiślica

Zielona Gallery in Busko-Zdrój

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On the spa promenade of Busko-Zdrój, slightly below the market square, stands the **Willa Polonia** from around **1900** — the only surviving wooden villa in the town centre. It was built by Dr Julian Majkowski, and today it houses the BWA…

Jewish Cemetery in Busko-Zdrój

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The Jewish cemetery on Widuchowska Street in Busko-Zdrój is a memorial to the town’s Jewish community and to victims of the German occupation. The necropolis was probably established in the 1880s and enlarged to about two hectares in 1928.…

The Bell Tower in Wiślica

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The Bell Tower in Wiślica belongs to the historic complex beside the Basilica of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It was founded by Jan Długosz and built around **1460–1470**. The four-storey structure has stone lower sections and bri…

Wiślica Hillfort

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Wiślica Hillfort, also called the Hillfort in the Meadows, is an archaeological site about 400 metres south-east of Wiślica town centre. It stands among meadows near an old channel of the Nida River. The earthworks and slopes outline a for…

St Annes Spa Chapel in Busko-Zdrój

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**St Anne’s Spa Chapel in Busko-Zdrój** stands in the eastern part of the Spa Park, surrounded by gardens and resort buildings. This small neo-Gothic church is one of Busko’s most recognisable historic landmarks and fits naturally into a w…

Collegiate Church in Wiślica

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**The Collegiate Church in Wiślica**, the Basilica of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is one of the most important medieval monuments in the region of Lesser Poland. King Casimir the Great founded the Gothic two-nave church in 135…

Church of the Immaculate Conception in Busko-Zdrój

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**The Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Busko-Zdrój** is the town’s oldest church and part of the former Norbertine complex. It stands at 8 Bohaterów Warszawy Street, between the market square and the spa pa…

Wooden Church in Świniary

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Free entry

## Key information The Church of St. Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr in Świniary, in the Solec-Zdrój commune, is a wooden monument in the Ponidzie region. Built in 1716, it was funded by Michał Zieliński, dean of Liw. It is an oriented, singl…

St Stanislaus Church in Nowy Korczyn

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The Gothic church of St Stanislaus in Nowy Korczyn is a former Franciscan monastery church and one of the oldest monuments of the Nida valley. It was founded in **1257** by Duke Bolesław Wstydliwy (the Chaste) and his wife Kinga, later a s…

Holy Trinity Church in Nowy Korczyn

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A few dozen metres from the market square of Nowy Korczyn stands the parish church of the Holy Trinity, raised on the site of a wooden medieval church of St Elizabeth and St Lawrence, burned in **1608**. The present temple was built in **1…

St. Lawrence Church in Gorysławice

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In Gorysławice, right next to Wiślica in the Ponidzie region, stands the Gothic Church of St. Lawrence — a stone, oriented temple from **1535**, built through the efforts of the local parish priest, Father Józef Dałowicz. In the past these…

Wojciech Belon Bench in Busko-Zdrój

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On the Busko-Zdrój promenade, in front of the cultural centre that bears his name, a man with a guitar sits on a bench shaped like a griffin's neck. This is **Wojciech Belon** — a singer and poet of the Ponidzie region, co-founder of Wolna…

The Baptismal Basin in Wiślica

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In Wiślica, right next to the collegiate church, beneath the pavilion of the Archaeological Museum – a branch of the National Museum in Kielce – survive the relics of the Romanesque church of St Nicholas and a stone basin 4.5 metres across…

Road Museum in Szczucin

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On the outskirts of Szczucin in the Dąbrowa district, along national road 73 from Kielce to Jasło, operates an institution without a counterpart in Poland: a museum devoted entirely to the history of road building and maintenance. It is ru…

Spa Park in Busko-Zdrój

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The Spa Park covers **16 hectares** in the southern part of Busko-Zdrój and is the green heart of a resort famous for its sulphurous waters, whose smell has accompanied patients for almost two centuries. The landscape layout was created in…

Salt Square in Wiślica

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Wiślica, today one of the smallest towns in Poland, was for centuries a significant hub on the merchant route running “from Prague to Kyivan Rus”. The heart of medieval trade was not the market square, however, but the **Salt Square** — a…

Romanesque Relics in Wiślica

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Beneath the collegiate church in Wiślica, a small town in the Ponidzie region with over a thousand years of history, survive the foundations of two Romanesque churches that stood here before the Gothic basilica founded by Casimir the Great…

Marconi Sanatorium in Busko-Zdrój

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The most representative building of Busko-Zdrój dates from **1836** and bears the name of its creator. The **Marconi Sanatorium** was designed by **Henryk Marconi**, a Warsaw architect of Italian descent, author among others of the Europej…

Słoneczny Ekspres Tourist Train in Busko-Zdrój

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In Busko-Zdrój, a sightseeing train called **Słoneczny Ekspres** runs along the promenade between the market square and the Spa Park. Colourful and battery-powered, these electric vehicles let you explore the resort town without effort — e…

Zimne Wody in Busko-Zdrój

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On the edge of Busko-Zdrój, off Stawowa Street right by the village of Łagiewniki, the Nida region reveals its geological peculiarity: hills of exposed gypsum, cut through by karst crevices known as “swallow tails”. This is Zimne Wody — a…