There is a Wicker-Craft Centre was established here to properly present the history and traditions of the craft going back to the latter half of the 1800s
The Centre preserves the 135-year long traditions of basket weaving crafts in the region and promotes Rudnik nad Sanem as the Polish capital of wicker weaving. The wealth of the region’s history is presented in permanent ethnographic and historical expositions. Other events organized here include exhibitions displaying everyday items and works of art made of wicker, presentations of the intricacies of weaving, workshops, and wicker fashion shows.
Visitors can enjoy here a tour along a trail of 22 wicker sculptures, starting in front of the statue of Count Ferdynand Hompesch, “father” of basket weaving in Rudnik.
In 2008 the commune of Rudnik nad Sanem received the main award in a nationwide competition “Poland more and more beautiful – 7 wonders of the EU funding” in the category “development of tourism in rural areas”, for the excellence in implementing the project entitled “Centre of Wicker-Weaving in Rudnik nad Sanem”.
Worth seeing:
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statue of Ferdynand Hompesch,
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church of the Hole Trinity,
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figure of the Holy Mother from 1902,
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figure of St. John of Nepomuk,
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19th century town buildings,
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memorial for the fallen and the slaughtered,
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classicist mansion and landscape park from the 18th century,
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gristmill from 1905
Photo by Krystian Kłysewicz
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