24 Sights in Rzeszów, Poland (with Map and Images)
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Welcome to your journey through the most beautiful sights in Rzeszów, Poland! Whether you want to discover the city's historical treasures or experience its modern highlights, you'll find everything your heart desires here. Be inspired by our selection and plan your unforgettable adventure in Rzeszów. Dive into the diversity of this fascinating city and discover everything it has to offer.
Sightseeing Tours in Rzeszów1. Pomnik Czynu Rewolucyjnego
The Monument to the Revolutionary Act or the Monument to the Revolutionary Struggles – a two-façade monument with sculptural decoration standing since 1974 in the central communication point of Rzeszów, at the intersection of Łukasz Ciepliński Avenue and Józef Piłsudski Avenue. It marks approximately the border of the city centre from the north-west – at the entrance to the city from the direction of Kraków and Warsaw. It is one of the few monuments from the period of the Polish People's Republic preserved in their original location.
2. Kościół pw. Matki Boskiej Królowej Polski
Garrison Church of Our Lady Queen of Polish – the church is located in the center of Rzeszów. It belongs to both the diocese of Rzeszów and the Military Ordinariate of the Polish Army, because the church is a temple of a civil-military parish. The building is protected by law and has the status of a monument.
Wikipedia: Kościół garnizonowy pw. Matki Boskiej Królowej Polski w Rzeszowie (PL)
3. Kościół pw. Wniebowzięcia Najświętszej Marii Panny
The Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Rzeszów – a historic parish church from 1629 in Rzeszów, the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Rzeszów. It is located in the center of Rzeszów, on the western outskirts of the historic part of the city. The Bernardine religious house is directly adjacent to it.
Wikipedia: Bazylika Wniebowzięcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny w Rzeszowie (PL)
4. Kościół świętych Wojciecha i Stanisława (Kościół farny)
The Church of St. Adalbert and St. Stanislaus in Rzeszów is a parish church in Rzeszów. It is located in the center of the Old Town, on Farny Square, at the intersection of 3 Maja and Kościuszki Streets.
Wikipedia: Kościół św. Wojciecha i św. Stanisława w Rzeszowie (PL)
5. Kościół pw. Najświętszego Serca Pana Jezusa
The Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Rzeszów, Italian: Rzeszów Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus – a church at W. Sikorskiego Avenue in the south-eastern part of the city. It was built as a thanksgiving votive offering for 600 years of the existence of the Diocese of Przemyśl. The first temple built in Rzeszów after World War II. Since 1982, the statue of Our Lady of Fatima has been venerated there.
Wikipedia: Katedra Najświętszego Serca Pana Jezusa w Rzeszowie (PL), Website, Facebook
6. Letni Pałac Lubomirskich
Lubomirski Summer Palace in Rzeszów – a historic magnate holiday residence in the late Baroque style with elements of Rococo, located at 2 Dekerta Street in Rzeszów, near the castle. It was built in the 90s of the 17th century at the request of Hieronim Augustyn Lubomirski on the site of the former vineyard of Mikołaj Spytek Ligęza as part of the garden complex planned around the residence in the castle.
7. Kościół pw. Opatrzności Bożej
Church of Divine Providence in Rzeszów, property Salesians Rzeszów – Roman Catholic sacral building, church at Witold Świadka Street in the center of Os. New town. The Rzeszów Salesian Center includes: the Church of Divine Providence, the Oratory of St. John Bosco, the "Salos" football field.
Wikipedia: Kościół Opatrzności Bożej w Rzeszowie (PL), Website
8. Kościół pw. Świętej Trójcy
The Church of the Holy Trinity – a church in Rzeszów, currently located in the city center at Targowa Street. The seat of the Greek Catholic parish of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Rzeszów.
9. Wojewódzka i Miejska Biblioteka Publiczna
The Provincial and Municipal Public Library in Rzeszów is a public library located in Rzeszów. It serves as a municipal and district public library for the city of Rzeszów, a district public library for the Rzeszów district and a provincial public library for the Podkarpackie Voivodeship.
Wikipedia: Wojewódzka i Miejska Biblioteka Publiczna w Rzeszowie (PL), Website
10. Archiwum Państwowe w Rzeszowie
The Old Town Synagogue in Rzeszów is a synagogue located in Rzeszów at 4 Bożnicza Street. It is one of the oldest preserved synagogues in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship. Formerly known as the Old School and the Small School, due to its smaller size compared to the New Town Synagogue.
11. Stary Cmentarz
The Old Cemetery in Rzeszów – the oldest preserved necropolis of the city. It covers an area of 3.65 hectares, between Targowa Street and the Wisłok River. It is estimated that about 40,000 people are buried there. In 1968, it had 613 tombstones and tombs. Currently, it has 622 of them.
12. The Museum of Bedtime Cartoons
The Museum of Bedtime Cartoons in Rzeszów is located in the city center, near the Rzeszów market square. The Museum was established by a resolution of the City Council on January 29, 2008. It presents exhibits from Wojciech Jama's collection. The collection of the "Museum of Bedtime Cartoons" was handed over to the city by a notarial deed on January 24, 2008. The Museum of Bedtime Cartoons was officially opened on March 22, 2009.
13. Cmentarz Pobitno
The Pobitno - Necropolis cemetery in Rzeszów, in the Pobitno district on the right -bank of Wisłok, in the eastern part of the city. It is located in the immediate vicinity of the North Rzeszów bypass and Lwowska Street, at the Pobitno roundabout. The cemetery has the legal status of a monument.
14. Tablica pamiątkowa w miejscu kirkutu;XVI-wieczny Cmentarz Żydowski
The old Jewish cemetery in Rzeszów was founded in the 17th century and was located on the site of the current square on the Ghetto Victims Square. Currently, it is crossed by Sobieskiego Street. This place is commemorated with a basalt boulder and a granite plaque with an appropriate inscription in Hebrew and Polish: "In this place there is a sixteenth-century Jewish cemetery destroyed during World War II by the Nazi occupier. In the summer of 1942, Jews were gathered here before being deported to death camps." The cemetery was destroyed in 1942. A dozen or so tombstones have survived from the cemetery.
15. Kaplica pw. Świętego Huberta
The Chapel of St. Hubert in Rzeszów – a Baroque hunting chapel. The chapel is located in the church area of the newly established parish of the same name near the Baranówka IV and Miłocin housing estates, with a direct exit from Warszawska Street into Borowa Street.
16. Muzeum Diecezjalne w Rzeszowie
The Diocesan Museum is a church institution founded in 1997 by Bishop Kazimierz Górny. The museum was officially opened on September 22, 1998 on the occasion of the European Days of Cultural Heritage in Rzeszów. The collections are works of sacred art that have fallen out of use, but due to the age of the diocese, most of the exhibits from its area are in the museums in Przemyśl and Tarnów. For the first 17 years, it was led by Fr. Franciszek Dziedzic.
17. Zamek Lubomirskich
Rzeszów Castle is one of the main landmarks of Rzeszów. It was rebuilt between 1902 and 1906, and it is located on the former grounds of the castle of the House of Lubomirski. The castle is located between Aleja Pod Kasztanami and Aleja Lubomirski, Chopin Street, Śreniawitów Square, and Colonel Lis-Kula Street. Currently the castle houses the seat of the provincial court; the building housed a prison until 1981.
18. Teatr Przedmieście
Przedmieście Theatre – was founded in 2001 in Krasne near Rzeszów on the initiative of Aneta Adamska. In August 2006, the theatre changed its seat to Łańcut, and since 2010 it has been operating independently and staging its plays in the Cultural Cellar in Rzeszów at 4 Reformacka Street.
19. Cmentarz żydowski na Czekaju
The Jewish cemetery in Czekaj in Rzeszów, sometimes also the New Jewish cemetery in Rzeszów – the Jewish cemetery located in Rzeszów at Aleja Rejtana was founded in 1849. It has an area of 2.5 hectares and can be distinguished between the older and newer parts. The cemetery was completely devastated during World War II. Numerous tombstones were used to pave Asnyka, Szopena and other streets, as well as the market square in Tyczyn. 754 tombstones have survived, the vast majority of which are broken (lying). The oldest surviving matzevah dates back to 1851.
20. Dom Polonii
The House of Polonia is a tenement house located in the northern frontage of the Rzeszów Market Square. In front of the tenement house, there is a characteristic lintel, which significantly differs from the square in terms of level. Under it there are the oldest preserved traces of brick architecture in Rzeszów, namely cellars from the fifteenth century. The tenement house gained its current shape after the reconstructions carried out at the beginning of the 20th century and after the war. Three neighboring tenement houses were demolished, creating the so-called "Bar's hole", which is currently being built up. The interior of the tenement house was decorated with polychromes. In the staircase there is a fragment of a hunt from the nineteenth century. The illusory rustication was presented below. The building is owned by the Polish Community, there are shops on the ground floor, and a hotel on the upper floors.
21. Rzeszów Cellars
Underground Tourist Route "Rzeszów Cellars" in Rzeszów – a complex of former city cellars connected into a tourist route, located in Rzeszów, under the Old Town Market Square. The entrance to the underground is located at the Rzeszów Town Hall, while the exit - at Rynek 12. Currently, the route is managed by the Municipal Board of Residential Buildings in Rzeszów. The length of the route is 396 meters.
Wikipedia: Podziemna Trasa Turystyczna w Rzeszowie (PL), Website
22. Pomnik Łukasza Cieplińskiego
The Monument to the Cursed Soldiers in Rzeszów – a monument dedicated to Polish activists of the anti-communist underground, located in Rzeszów. The author of the monument's design and contractor was Karol Badyna.
23. Pomnik Sybiraków
The Monument to the Siberians in Rzeszów – a bronze sculpture in the Siberian Park in Rzeszów, unveiled on September 17, 2014 on the World Siberian Day and on the 75th anniversary of the USSR's aggression against Poland. The author of the monument's design is Jakub Ataman. The sculpture was made by the sculptor Michał Batkiewicz. The cast was made in the Bronze Studio Art-Studio in Szczyglice near Krakow.
24. Kościół pw. Matki Bożej Śnieżnej
The Church of Our Lady of the Snows – a former parish church belonging to the parish of Our Lady of the Snows in Rzeszów-Budziwoj. It is located in the former village of Budziwój, since 2010 a district of Rzeszów.
Wikipedia: Kościół Matki Bożej Śnieżnej w Rzeszowie-Budziwoju (stary) (PL)
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