8 Kolobrzeska, Bydgoszcz, Poland
ITS Poland invites you to the Kielce - legendary land of witches and dinosaurs. St.Cross Mountains is the most interesting region in Poland in geological terms. It gained international publicity due to numerous international studies. Discover Kielce region full of museums and unusual attractions such as striped flint stone age mine enlisted at UNESCO World Heritage List.
3 nights/ 4 days
BB (3 breakfast), HB optional
All year
10 - 150
Medium
Up to 30 days*
Arrival to Kielce. Discovering the Old Town. Sightseeing with a guide: Kielce Catherdal, Palace of the Kraków Bishops in Kielce and Kadzielnia Nature Reserve with entrance to Kadzielnia caves.
Former Palace of Cracow's Bishops in Kielce is now one of National Museum branches. It is the best preserved original early Baroque palace residence in Poland which was built in the first half of the 17th century. Since 1971 it has been National Museum and in 2005 it also opened Italian Garden for tourists. The Palace exhibition includes interiors from the 17th and the 18th century with amazingly well preserved original historic ceilings. The exhibition shows furniture, porcelain, pictures and tapestry. There is also...
Kadzielnia nature reserve (295 m above sea level, 0.6 hectare). It is an old excavation of Devonian limestone and since 1962 it has been nature reserve in which tourists can admire unusual rock formation, visit caves and listen to concerts in a natural amphitheater. Limestone was mined here for about 200 years. Nowadays, tourists can admire limestone walls with fragments of marine animals fossils. A red tourist trail goes via Kadzielnia. Moreover, tourists use various walking paths circling the area which are also ve...
Breakfast. Transfer to Chęciny. Sightseeing of the most beautiful Polish cave - Raj Cave and Chęciny Castle Ruins. Then transfer to Leonardo Science Centre. Sightseeing. Return to Kielce.
Chęciny are located in St.Cross Mountains area. Chęciny town is located about 15 km from Kielce. The castle was built at the turning of 13th and 14th century still, from 17th century it is only a ruin. The castle ruins have irregular shape and predominate over surrounding town as they are situated at the top of the hill (360 m above sea level). From the castle we can admire magnificent views to the surrounding hills and from 20 m high tower, on sunny days, even summits of the Tatra Mountains can be seen. The castle d...
Leonardo Centre has the following exhibitions: human an unusual machine, human senses and exhibits. In these series of interactive games visitors explore functioning of a human body, for example they can observe work of a skeleton during a bicycle ride, watch influence of cigarettes on lungs or measure their speed and agility. The exhibits have Polish and English instructions. A tour through the museum takes about 1-2 hours. Leonardo Da Vinci Science Center is interesting variety to Chęciny trip.
Paradise Cave (Jaskinia Raj) is situated 11 km from Kielce. This cave is definitely one of the 2 most interesting ones in Poland as it has various geological cave formations. Do you remember your geography lessons about stalactites, stalagmites, pillars and cave pearls? You will find all of them here live. The cave is rather small as its length is only 240 m. Still, the amount of cave forms is so amazing that you won’t like to leave the cave too soon. In the cave there is a stable temperature of 9° C, the humidity is...
Breakfast. Transfer to Krzemionki Opatowskie (UNESCO World Heritage List ). On the way stop in Święta Katarzyna - visit in the Museum of Minerals and Fossils. Sightseeing Krzemionki. Next, transfer to Ćmielów. Sightseeing of the Live Museum of Porcelain in Ćmielów. Return to Kielce.
Archeological Museum and Reserve Krzemionki (Polish: Krzemionki Opatowskie) is located eight kilometers north-east of Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, between the villages of Sudół and Magonie. Krzemionki Opatowskie is a Neolithic and early Bronze Age complex of flint mines for the extraction of Upper Jurassic (Oxfordian) banded flints. There area contains about four thousand mines. In prehistory, flint, used for making smoothed axe blades, was excavated here. The tourist route in Krzemionki is approx. 1.5 km long and presen...
The museum is situated about 30 min drive from Kielce (23 km). It can also be visited in connection to climbing trip to Łysica summit, as a walking trail there starts only about 800 m from the museum. The museum is small, as it only has 3 rooms including a souvenir shop with minerals, rocks and jewellery. Still, the owners have gathered surprisingly huge number of exhibits in this small area. The rocks and minerals come not only from Poland but also from all around the world. The exhibits are of high quality, they in...
Ćmielów is famous for its porcelain production so, we are going to visit Living Museum of Porcelain. It is situated at 243 Sandomierska Street (about 33 km from Sandomierz 40 min drive and 72 km from Kielce about 1:10 drive). In the museum visitors learn how porcelain tableware and porcelain figures production process looks like and they can also make their own figures. Museum stands show us the procedure step by step and tourists can perform all the tasks to create these beautiful and valuable objects. Apart from li...
Breakfast. Transfer to Saint Cross Mountain. Sightseeing monastery of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, Świętokrzyski National Park Natural History Museum and a viewing point to "gołoborza" the effect of frost erozion. Return to Kilece.
Saint Cross Mountains National Park was established in 1950 and it protects the area of the oldest Polish and world mountains. It is one of the most interesting areas in the world in terms of geological structure study so, it is a magnet for geologists from all over the world. The park area is 7626,45 ha and 95% of it are forests. One of the main attractions of the park is Łysogóry Range (Bold Mountains) with the highest peak Łysica 612 m above sea level; Łysa Góra which according to legends was a place of witches’ S...
Saint Cross gives the opportunity to see a splint from Christ Cross has been kept since medieval times. The relics ware a gift from St. Emeryk in 11th century. Thanks to this gift the mountains in this region are called St. Cross Mountains. The monastery was built by Polish King at Łysa Góra summit which is now also called St. Cross peak at 594 m above sea level. It is the second highest summit in St. Cross Mountains. At the top of the mountain we can see an interesting rock debris formations which are known in this ...
Local guides for sightseeing
Kielce Catherdal, Palace of the Kraków Bishops in Kielce, Kadzielnia Cave, Raj Cave, Chęciny Castle Ruins, Leonardo Science Centre, Krzemionki Opatowskie, Museum of Minerals and Fossils, Museum of Porcelain in Ćmielów, Monastery of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, Świętokrzyski National Park Natural History Museum, Gołoborza - viewing point.
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Round Tour
No, it is easy, it just involves stroll along asphalt road in a nice forest.
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