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Cieszyn

Country:
Poland
State:
Silesia
City:
Cieszyn
Type of Location:
Multiple
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Places to Visit
How to Reach

By Air

Airports nearest to Cieszyn are sorted by the distance to the airport from the city centre.

Rybnik Gotartowice Airport (distanced approximately 33 km)
Ostrava Mosnov Airport (distanced approximately 36 km)
Zabreh Dolni Benesov Airport (distanced approximately 42 km)
Zar Airport (distanced approximately 44 km)
Gliwice Airport (distanced approximately 56 km)

By Train

In Cieszyn is a railway crossing with the Czech Republic but it has no significance in international traffic.PKP since the early 90 gradually liquidated the call to Cieszyn and therefore turn now plays a marginal role in the city public transport.Currently holds residual communication Cieszyn rail (passenger) of Czechowicami-heirs, Katowice and Zebrzydowicami.

By Bus

Extra-urban bus network is very well developed Cieszyn which is associated mainly with the fall of rail transport in the city.Large handles communication bus station county and the county.Connections are supported primarily by the company Cieszyn bus and bus-y with other cities Rybnik, Bielsko-Biala, Lubliniec, Katowice, Gliwice, Krakow, Wadowice.In addition working in several private carriers such as WISPOL (Wisla, Konakow), LINEA TRANS (Chybie, Brenna, Hawks), TRANSBUS (Leszno, Rudnik, Hazlach), BUS BROTHER (Katowice), COMFORT BUS, (Krakow) and INTERPALM (Krakow).

By Road

Cieszyn is situated on the route of transit from the south to the north of Europe, the international road E75 (in Poland, which is the national road No.1), more precisely by way of express-S1.On its site to 21 December 2007 year there were three road border crossings into the Czech Republic, the Cieszyn-Boguszowice was the largest road crossing the Polish-Czech border.These transitions have been removed under the Schengen Agreement.Another important way in the city is the provincial road No.938 to Pawlowice which is the shortest connecting the city with the GOP and the ROW.County roads lead to Skoczow, Ustron, Debowiec and Upper Leszno.

Key places to visit
Jesus Church in Cieszyn, Church of St.Mary Magdalene, Castle Hill in Cieszyn, Museum of Cieszyn Silesia, Well of Three Brothers, Bracka Castle brewery in Cieszyn

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Places to Visit

Jesus Church in Cieszyn

Is a Lutheran Church located in Cieszyn, Poland.It is one of the largest and most important Protestant churches in Poland.The construction of the Lutheran basilica was made possible with the assistance of Sweden's Charles XII, who forced Austrian Emperor Joseph I to provide right for Protestants.Late Austrian Baroque in style Jesus Church was constructed between 1709-1750.In the first two decades of the church's existence it was a significant center of pietism.On 12 October 2008, President of Poland Lech Kaczynski visited Lutheran Jesus Church in Cieszyn, becoming the first Polish president who had visited a Protestant place of worship in Poland.

Church of St.Mary Magdalene

A Gothic church built in the thirteenth century.Originally belonging to the Dominicans had the title of the Blessed Virgin Mary.During the Reformation (years 1544-1611) was taken over by evangelicals.From 1611 to 1789 again passed into the hands of the law.After the fire the city in 1789, when the Dominicans left the Cieszyn became a parish church.Reconstruction has been giving it a style of the Baroque which are preserved to this day.

Castle Hill in Cieszyn

A small hill with steep slopes located in the center of the city of Cieszyn by the river Olza, near the border of the CR.Czech.On the hill a number of historic buildings (including the eleventh-century rotunda) and a romantic park with several monuments of nature.In the early twenty-first century began to restore the Habsburg palace, discovered fragments of an old castle (including the twelfth-century tower of the final defense) and built headquarters Silesian Castle of Art and Enterprise (opening early 2005) at the site of the old conservatory.At the foot of the hill also rebuilt the monument Legionnaires Silesia (the original built in 1934, he was destroyed by German troops in September 1939 onwards).

Museum of Cieszyn Silesia

Is one of the oldest museums in the public Central Europe and the oldest public museum in Poland, founded by Fr.Szersznika John Leopold in the year 1802.After the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian museum found itself in the Polish part of Cieszyn.During this time the museum's collections are combined urban and Polish Ethnological Society and 21 June 1931 the newly established headquarters facility has long been a noble family mansion Larisch-Monich built in 1794 year.24 January 1966 order of the year were closed powizytacyjnym Labour Inspector of Trade Unions Culture and Art.After the renovation the museum resumed operations on May 1 in 1969 year.

Well of Three Brothers

Probably existed since medieval town well in Cieszyn.Currently protected by cast-iron, neo-Gothic summer house from 1868 year having a remembrance of the legendary meeting at the well of the three brothers - the founders of Cieszyn.One of the symbols of the city of Cieszyn.Well you probably already served in the Middle Ages and supplied the residents and the nearby middle-class brewery in the water.It is hard to say since I associated it with the administration of the assumption of Cieszyn and since he bears the name of Three Brothers.But already in the mid-nineteenth century on the initiative of Paul Stalmacha well was renewed and in 1868 secured by cast-iron gazebo years specially cast in a steel mill in Trinec.

Bracka Castle brewery in Cieszyn

A historic brewery industry in Cieszyn, created in 1846 year.The plant belongs to the Dutch company Heineken, and is part of Grupa Zywiec.Brewery in Cieszyn since the 90s of the twentieth century belongs to a large international brewing company.Although it retained its character and the only regional brewery Grupa Zywiec beer produced by classical methods including the method used decoction brewing, fermentation vats and open vessels lager not a method of HGB and tankofermentory.The plant is still a lot of well-functioning devices from the second half of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century.Production capacity of the Castle Brewery Brackiego in Cieszyn are 160 thousand hectoliters of beer annually.Its products are bottled on the spot only to barrel keg.bottling and canning beer brands from Cieszyn takes place in a brewery bottling plant in Zywiec.

Right Time to Visit

April - August

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