Lesko and the surroundings

During your visit here you should see the castle of the Kmita family built in the 16th century on a high cliff overlooking the San River. On the one hand the building resembles a medieval fortress and on the other it looks like a Renaissance residence. Today the castle holds a hotel. It is surrounded with a large park in which, among other features, you can see the municipal amphitheatre.

Another highlight here is the church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary from 1530. The church, built of stone, has a layout based on the shape of Latin cross. Next to the church there is a late Baroque belfry.

In Lesko there is one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in Poland from the late 16th/early 17th century with well-preserved matzevahs.

Worth seeing:

castle built by Piotr Kmita in the 1500s, further developed by the Stadnicki family after 1656

old synagogue, currently home to Museum of Galician Jews, and Gallery presenting works by artists from the Bieszczady

The Lesko Stone

SOLINA CABLE CAR

• town square

• statue of Tadeusz Kościuszko from 1901

• figurine of the Holy Mother from 1848

• town hall from 1896

• statue of the book

• late Gothic parish church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary from about 1530

• belfry from the 1700s

• Jewish cemetery – one of the oldest in Poland from the late 16th/ early17th centuries with well-preserved matzevahs

• Winter Sports Resort in Weremień

• ruins of Sobień Castle near Lesko

• Synagogue Art Gallery

• mineral springs

• statue of St. John of Nepomuk

Lesko area:

gliding strip in Bezmiechowa

church dedicated to the Assumption of Mary from the second half of the 1500s in Średnia Wieś

Słonne Mountains Landscape Park

• forest nature reserve in Średnia Wieś

• small exposition related to the history of gliding in Bezmiechowa

• tserkov dedicated to the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary from 1830 in Bezmiechowa

•  Dyrbek nature reserve

• Lesko Stone in Glinne

• Grodzisko hill in Hoczew

• Baroque church of St. Anne in Hoczew

• Zdzisław Pękalski’s sculpture studio in Hoczew

• old train station from 1873

• Uniate tserkov from 1820 in Manasterzec

• ruins of the Gothic Sobień castle

•  Góra Sobień nature reserve

• Przysłup forest nature reserve

• two ferroconcrete bunkers

• remains of the manor park in Średnia Wieś

• ski lifts in Huzele and Weremień

Photo: Krystian Kłysewicz