Things to do in Zawiercie
6 attractions in Zawiercie, including Bąkowiec Castle (Morsko), Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Zawiercie and Jewish Cemetery in Zawiercie-Kromołów.
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All attractions (6)
Hidden gemCastles
Bąkowiec Castle (Morsko)
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No road led to the upper castle: you climbed a system of walkways and ladders fixed to the rock. The ruins of Bąkowiec Castle stand on a limestone crag called Tygrys ("Tiger") in Skarżyce, a district of Zawiercie, and have been linked with…
Churches & monasteries
Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Zawiercie
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Five red-brick towers above central Zawiercie are a reminder of the days when the town grew up around a huge cotton mill. The neo-Gothic Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul was built for the workers of the Zawiercie Joint-Stock Company (TAZ)…
Free entry
Landmarks
Jewish Cemetery in Zawiercie-Kromołów
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Behind a brick wall on Piaskowa street in Kromołów, now a district of Zawiercie, stand around 920 matzevot (Jewish headstones) – the oldest commemorates Sulka, daughter of Avraham Hirsh, who died on 21 August 1730. According to Poland's Na…
Palaces
Szymański Palace in Zawiercie
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This brick villa with a tower and a half-timbered gable in the centre of Zawiercie was once the home of the man who ran the town's largest factory. The Szymański Palace was built for Stanisław Szymański, director of the Zawiercie Joint-Sto…
Churches & monasteries
Sanctuary of Our Lady of Skarżyce
Zawiercie
In Skarżyce, a separate village until 1977 and now part of Zawiercie, stands a church you could not mistake for any other in the Jura. Three white chapel rotundas, symbolising the Holy Trinity, adjoin a 12th-century stone tower. The Church…
Nature
Limestone Rocks of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland
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White limestone outcrops rising out of the woods and fields are the signature of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland – and the reason the whole region is simply called the Jura. The rock formed on the floor of a shallow sea in the Late Jurassic,…