Sosnowiec, Poland Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Forty-five kilometres north of Kielce, SZYDLOWIEC is exactly the kind of dusty Stare Miasto most people whizz through on the way to and from Kraków, but there's enough worth seeing in its small, but nonetheless enjoyable, set of historical monuments to justify a brief stopover. A placid central Rynek provides the focal point of the town, dominated by a fine town hall , substantially renovated since the late 1980s, a robust early-seventeenth-century construction topped with a high tower, the attic's arcaded decorative frieze emphasizing the influence of Kraków's Sukiennice on the … more »