Kielce is located in the central part of the country, 170 from Warsaw.
The city is quite large and old, the people lived here from the 11th century. So and see here there is something!
Palace of Krakow Bishopov (Palac Biskupow Krakowskich)
This is a summer residence of bishops and a very beautiful building, in whose architecture, traditional Polish and Italian architecture styles have been mixed. Today, the Museum is located a branch of the National Museum and the Gallery of Polish Painting. The palace built closer than the 17th century on the 1940s, and the architect was built quite famous for the whole country. Near the palace, the park was planted and surrounded by all the wall with two bastions. The most beautiful in the palace-logs with columns from black marble and Dutch decorations. In the 18th century, the garden was redone in accordance with fashionable in those days a French style, a stable and even brewery added. In the following years, this building housed the Technical University of the country and even later - the city municipality. Before World War II, Military Administration Sent here. Since 1971, a museum has been located in the building, which consists of a hall of historical interiors and the exposition "nine centuries of Kielts", as well as the hall of Western European painting of 17-18 centuries and Polish painting17-20 centuries. There are archaeological and numismatic stands at the museum.
Address: Plac Zamkowy 1
Jewish Cemetery (Cmentarz Zydowski W Kielcach)
Yes, and the cemetery can be a landmark. Today, the Jewish cemetery is closed. And smashed him here in 1868 in the territory in more than 3 hectares. On the cemetery you can see about 330 tombstones. The need for such a cemetery arose when in the second half of the 19th century, the Jewish communes in Kielce began to expand very quickly and it was necessary to have a new burial place. Up to the same, Jewish burials were localized in the neighboring settlement. Over the city, a plot of land was bought. During the Second World War, many Jews were killed in the town. The worst thing happened in May 43, when 45 children aged from one and a half years have been shot here. When the war ended, another terrible event occurred in the town when 47 Polish Jews were killed. Their bodies folded into the fraternal grave and held a mourning procession, in which representatives and foreign Jewish organizations and political parties participated. After that, the bloody event, representatives of the Jewish community began to gradually leave the town, and the cemetery came to uncomfortable, and many graves simply began to defile and plunder. So in 56 the cemetery closed. However, in 2010, in memory of the terrible events in Kielce, the cemetery was set a new monument from sandstone with the names of all the dead. There is a cemetery in the south-west of the city, a 5-minute drive from the center.
Celk Museum of the village (Muzeum WSI Kieleckiej)
The Ethnographic Museum tells its guests about the heritage of this field and folk culture. The museum has been working since 1976 and consists of several parts: an ethnographic park in Tokarny, the Memorial of the Martyrs, the estate manor. About each part separately.
Lyashchik manor is located on the slope of the castle mountain. It seems like, this is the last building of the tree of this species, and he is generally more than 200 years. The house was built of larch tree.
Memorial of the martyrs are looking in the village of Michnov - he was in memory of those killed during the Second World War. In 1943, in this settlement, one of the centers of the underground partisan movement of Poland was located, and in July of that year, at night, all 203 villages were killed. This monument is since the beginning of the 80s.
The park in Tokarnia stretches on the area of 65 hectares and contains about 30 facilities - church, windmill, forge, houses, cauldron shops, workshops, shops. In each building, everything is recreated in accordance with historical data, everything, from furniture to household items. Folklore festivals and fairs are held in this park.
Address: Jana Pawła II 6
Museum of Toys and Games (Muzeum Zabawek I Zabawy W Kielcach)
The largest toy museum in Poland offers to admire several thousand exhibits - historical and folk toys, dolls from around the world, models of machines, airplanes, ships and puppets. Interestingly, in the 70s of the last century, the National Cooperative Union of Toys worked in Kielce, who regulated the production of 80% of the toy factories in the country. Once the museum of toys occupied only a small room in the building of the National Museum.
But already in 1982, the museum moved to the old barn. True, the conditions for the storage of valuable and old dolls in the barn were completely unfit, so, after three years, the gallery was simply closed. The museum of exit exhibitions in different cities of the country arranged the following several years. Only by 88 the museum managed to knock the building with 3 rooms. All toys were not placed, the part had to be stored in a dark corner. And, finally, 10 years ago, the Museum has found a permanent spacious house - in the 19th century building, where an indoor market was located before.
It is one of the best places in the city to visit with children, because toys can be touched and play with them. Such a huge and very interesting playground!
Address: Plac Wolności 2
Tomasz Zielinskiego Palac Tomasza Zielinskiego
A beautiful gothic building in the center of Kielz is part of the former residence of the bishop, and today is the house of artists. Thomas (or Tomas) Zelinsky is the head of the city and the famous lover of art, it was he who turned this building and adjacent territories into a perfect work of art. It was in the middle of the 19th century. Where today is the park, there were previously laundry, riding school, stables and economic structures. Their foundation can be seen today in the park. Walls of those buildings, by the way, were amazingly thick - 1.2 meters!
When the palace will bother Zelinsky, the building has turned into a Cultric Cultural Center, artists and musicians often had the parties. Although today it happens here, there are concerts and interesting meetings here. The palace also has the same hotel, restaurant and winter garden. This building is 150 meters from the Palace of Krakow Bishops, at Zamkowa 5