Szydłów acquired the name of Polish Carcassonne thanks to its well-preserved medieval urban layout and fortification walls (680 m)with the Renaissance Cracovian Gate. Built of the locally extracted limestone in the 14th century, the city walls were 1080 meters long and 1.8m thick.
- Szydłów, ul. Szkolna 8
- +48 41 354 51 46
The quarry in Zachełm became famous, when in 2010, the prestige “Nature” magazine published an article about a sensational paleontological discovery. Here, in the surface of a shoal of dolomites, in the south-eastern part of the quarry, an accumulation of fossil footprints in the form of paths imprinted in the limestone silt were found.
- Umer, Droga Wojewódzka 750 99
- +48 41 300 13 22
Nature has for ages created its underground complex of breathtaking tunnels and chambers decorated with hundreds of stalagmites, stalactites, pillars and pisoids of various shapes and forms.
- Dobrzączka
- +48 41 366 30 15
The Centre of Patriotic and Civic Reflection came into existence in the building of old prison in Kielce. It is a place where citizens of Kielce and Świętokrzyskie region could learn about their ancestors’ patriotic and civic achievements. The concept of the exhibition was developed by Mirosław Nizio – the author of the exhibition in The Warsaw Rising Museum.
- Kielce, ul. Zamkowa 3
- +48 41 367 68 01
It"s the most recently established landscape park (51,000 acres) located between Łośna and Bobrza Rivers in the south-western part of the Świętokrzyskie Mountains. o wonder the Chęciński-Kielecki Landscape Park is known as the paradise for geologists.
- Szewce, Żwirowa 3
The park encloses the Orłowińskie, Ociesęckie and Cisowskie ranges as well as the Bardziańskie Hills, occupying the total area of 51 thousand acres. The nature is its greatest attraction, especially its vegetation mantle and forests; naturalists found here the majority of lowland habitats, from dry coniferous forest to alder carr.
- Mójcza, Droga Wojewódzka 764
The former monastery of the Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit was built thanks to Zbigniew Oleśnicki, a bishop of Cracow. After the original Gothic church foundation, Oleśnicki rebuilt western porch with a Gothic cross-ribbed vault.
- Pińczów, ul. Piłsudzkiego 2
- +48 41 357 24 72
The Jan Karski Society was established in 2005 as a kind of continuation of the ‘Memory – Dialogue – Reconciliation’ Civic Association, which was formed in order to prepare the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Kielce Pogrom in 1996.
- Kielce, ul. Planty 7
- +48 577 809 333
The park encloses the southern part of the Wodzisław Hummock and stretches over an area of 16,000 acres. Its territory is mostly covered by forests growing on the slopes of loessic elevations divided by gorges, ravines and canyons.
- Chwałowice, Unnamed Road
The park encompasses the central and lower part of the Nida River Valley, Solecka Basin, and the north-western part of the Pińczów Hummock of the total area of 57,000 acres. Noteworthy is the gypsum series featuring a unique complex of gypsum karst phenomena and formations.
- Michałów, Unnamed Road