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The Best Attractions In Kielce

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Kielce is a city in south central Poland with 196,804 inhabitants. It has been the capital city of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship since 1999, and was previously the capital of the predecessor Kielce Voivodeship . The city is located in the middle of the Świętokrzyskie Mountains , on the banks of the Silnica River, in northern part of the historical Polish province of Lesser Poland. The history of Kielce dates back over 900 years and the exact date when the town was founded remains unknown. The name of the city derives from the migrating Celts, who once stopped here during their journey across the European continent. The area was later inhabited at ...
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The Best Attractions In Kielce

  • 5. Kielce National Museum (Muzeum Narodowe, Kielce) Kielce
    The Palace of the Kraków Bishops in Kielce , was built in the 17th century as a summer residence of Bishops of Kraków in Kielce, Poland. The architecture of the palace constitute a unique mélange of Polish and Italian traditions and reflects political ambitions of its founder. Currently the palace houses a branch of the National Museum with an important gallery of Polish paintings.
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  • 7. Cathedral Kielce
    The Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary also called Kielce Cathedral is the name given to a Catholic church that has the status of cathedral and basilica and is located in the city of Kielce in Poland. It is located in the Castle Hill in the heart of the city. It was built in the twelfth century by the then Bishop of Kraków, Gedeon. Destroyed by the Tartars in 1260 was rebuilt. In 1719 Bishop Kazimierz Lubienski restructuring the building in the early Baroque style that still characterizes it. Inside, the three ships have a variety of colors in the frescoes of painters of the nineteenth century Kraków. The high altar, the work of Fontana, is also baroque and rococo style.
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  • 12. Kielce Historical Museum (Muzeum Historii Kielc) Kielce
    The Kielce Ghetto was a Jewish World War II ghetto created in 1941 by the Schutzstaffel in the Polish city of Kielce in the south-western region of the Second Polish Republic, occupied by German forces from 4 September 1939. Before the joint Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, Kielce was the capital of the Kielce Voivodeship. The Germans incorporated the city into Distrikt Radom of the semi-colonial General Government territory. The liquidation of the ghetto took place in August 1942, with over 21,000 victims deported to their deaths at the Treblinka extermination camp, and several thousands more shot, face-to-face.There was a considerable Jewish presence in Kielce. The Kehilla operated two synagogues, a beth midrash house of learning, a mikveh, the cemetery with ohalim, an orphanage, ...
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  • 13. Church of St. Wojciech Kielce
    A pilgrimage church is a church to which pilgrimages are regularly made, or a church along a pilgrimage route, like the Way of St. James, that is visited by pilgrims. Pilgrimage churches are often located by the graves of saints, or hold portraits to which miraculous properties are ascribed or saintly relics that are safeguarded by the church for their veneration. Such relics may include the bones, books or pieces of clothing of the saints, occasionally also fragments of the cross of Jesus, pieces of the crown of thorns, the nails with which he was fixed to the cross and other similar objects. Pilgrimage churches were also built at places where miracles took place.
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  • 14. Sienkiewicza Street Kielce
    Henryk Sienkiewicz Street in Kielce is the main commercial and historic artery of the city of Kielce, Poland. It was built in the middle of the 19th century. It was originally called ulica Konstantego , then Postal Street and in 1919 it received its present name. Shops and department stores are located there as well as historic buildings and monuments. It is approximately 1270 meters long and runs from the railway station situated next to the Independence square to the Moniuszko Square.
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