Rzeszów stands at the crossroads of many important road, rail and air transport routes. The urban structure of the city centre distinctly reflects the history of Rzeszów.
Famous once for trading in Hungarian wines, then the cradle of the paraffin oil industry, Krosno today takes pride in producing ornate and usable glass. The city centre consists of a picturesque Market Square surrounded by historic burgher houses.
In the old part of the town, the medieval urban structure has been preserved, with a wide market square surrounded by burgher houses and the City Hall in the middle.
Other attractions worth seeing are the Bernardine monastery complex from the 15th century and the palace and park complex of the Lubomirski family from 1799 to 1807.
The church, founded in 1610 by Łukasz Opaliński, Starost of the Leżajsk District, is nowadays the greatest Virgin Mary sanctuary in the region. The miraculous painting is not the only destination for mass pilgrimages to Leżajsk though.
The city possesses substantial historic assets. It preserved its medieval urban arrangement including the Renaissance Royal Castle from the beginning of the 16th century.
From the 19th century, world-famous collections of Titan’s, Van Dyck’s and Rembrandt’s paintings were stored here, as well as a wide range of European luminaries’manus, such as the manu of ‘Pan Tadeusz’. After the fire of 1927, the castle was rebuilt according to early Baroque style.
At the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries the castle was converted into a magnate’s mansion and functioned as a palace. The interior was decorated with stuccowork, paintings and sculptures. The park was extended and an orangery was built here.
Built in the shape of an irregular quadrangle, the castle possesses four cylindrycal turrets in the corners. The bastian type castle, built of stone, was erected around 1580 by Stanisław Krasicki in the place of the former stronghold, made of wood and earth.
Built at the end of the 16th century, the castle was constructed in the shape of a rectangle with four round turrets in the corners and a round tower in the centre of the front elevation, which contains the main entrance gate. The inner court is surrounded by three residential extensions, and the fourth side comprises the screen wall surmounted with a late-Renaissance attic.
It is one of the loveliest late-Baroque mansions in Poland. The Palace was built in a horse-shoe arrangement with an Italian garden, pavilions and arcades. It was destroyed during the Second World War.
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