Strzyżów

A notable landmark in the town is the Gothic church of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary and of Corpus Christi, dating from the second half of the 15th century. Interesting features inside include a chancel, with a clearly visible structure of the stone wall, as well as the high altar of Immaculate Conception with a painting of Our Lady of Strzyżów.

Young visitors will particularly enjoy the Strzyżów Wheeled Train with its red locomotive and colourful carriages; it travels around the town following three routes.

A great military attraction here is the 438 metre long tunnel shelter designed for armoured trains, as well as the bunkers of technical army divisions, located in the eastern part of the town. Unlike other WWII landmarks of this type in Poland, this one is located underground - it was cut under Mount Żarnowska.

Worth seeing:

tunnel shelter for armoured trains built in 1940–1941 by Germans under Mount Żarnowska,

• Gothic church of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary and of Corpus Christi from the second half of the 1400s,
• Gothic bell tower from the 1400s,
• church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, formerly a Greek Catholic tserkov,
• old synagogue from the 1700s, today home to the Municipal Public Library,
• late 19th century palace of the Konopka family (today Janusz Korczak Children’s Home) located within a landscape park,
• manor house of the Dydyński family built in the 1700s in a Baroque and Classicist style; it was reconstructed in 1926 (today it houses a centre for people with special needs),
• shrine at Słowackiego Street,
• monument of 11 November Independence Day ,
• figure of Archangel Michael,
• 19th century houses at the town square,
• Jewish cemetery established in 1850,
• shrine of Our Lady of Sorrows from ca.1900,
• train station building from 1890,
• obelisk in honour of Wincenty Witos,
• Otylia indoor swimming pool,
• skate park,
• tennis courts,
• ski slope with T-bar lifts,
• Strzyżów Wheeled Train.

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