One of the most interesting tourist information offices in the Świętokrzyski region. You should start your sightseeing of the administrative district Chęciny in Niemczówka, where the kind staff will propose the best touring route to you. Since May they are also inviting you to see the Museum Chamber of Pan Wołodyjowski.

• Chęciny, Małogoska 7
• +48 41 315 18 29

It has also been called Great. It survived as one of four old gates to the city. Built in the second half of the 14th century, topped with an attic in the 16th century. It is a quiet witness of centuries of Sandomierz history. These days it is the highest viewpoint in the city.

• Sandomierz, Opatowska 21-19
• (+48) 668 713 522

The Purple Valley – the historical home of fruit farming in southern Poland – is a region where exquisite plums have been grown for centuries. We currently offer more  than 45 varieties of this fruit, and also produce apples, sweet cherries, apricots and  bilberries using the most innovative growing and orchard maintenance methods.

• Szydłów, Rynek 21
• 797 355 094

At the town market there are two tenement houses dating back to the 18th century, which house the collection of a museum of clocks founded and run by the Przypkowski Family.

• Jędrzejów, pl. T. Kościuszki 7/8 7 / 8
• +48 41 386 24 45

First Jewish settlers came to Pińczów in the late 16th century. Towards the end of the same century, a kahal came into existence. Soon Jews were granted more privileges and a permission to build a synagogue came in 1594. The owner of the town, Zygmun Myszkowski, agreed for the construction of three synagogues: two were made of brick and one was constructed of wood.

• Pińczów, ul. Klasztorna
• +48 41 357 24 72

The first blast furnace on the Polish land was located in Bobrza, a small place in Kielce Powiat (the second level of Polish administrative division), in the 17th century. In 1824, at the distance of about 1 km, a new blast furnace plant was situated at the foot of a high slope.

• Bobrza

The ruins of a rolling mill for fine rolled sections and steel sheets in Nietulisko Duże are the remains of a plant which was the last chain of the so-called “Starachowice industrial complex”.

• Nietulisko Duże

On top of the highest rocky mountain in the environs, known as Mt Zamkowa, stands a ruin of the Gothic Royal Castle of Chęciny. It was erected before 1306, and king Władysław Łokietek, bishop Jan Muskate, and king Władysław II are mentioned as its founders.

• Chęciny, pl. 2 Czerwca 4
• + 48 41 308 00 48

Both the Sandomierz defensive walls and the castle were constructed during the reign of king Kazimierz III Wielki (14th c.). The castle was erected on the Castle Hill in place once occupied by a stronghold (10th c.). It was a residence of prince Henryk Sandomierski, son of king Bolesław III Krzywousty (1086-1138).

• Sandomierz, ul. Zamkowa 12
• +48 15 832 22 65

A blast furnace plant called “Joseph’s Steel Mill”, whose ruins one can admire up to the present, was built in the years 1818–1822 owing to the efforts of Stanisław Staszic. It was set up on the site of the first blast furnace of Bergamo type from 1598, which was rebuilt in the years 1641–44.

• Samsonów