22 Sights in Rzeszów, Poland (with Map and Images)

The Chłapowski Manor in Rzeszów – a manor complex comprising a manor house, a park, a steward's house, a hunting lodge, stables, a cowshed, a granary and a gate, is located at Powstańców Śląskich Street in the eastern district of the city – Słocin. The estate belonged to the family of Dezydery Chłapowski. The main building is characterized by an irregular body of varying heights. The entrance part is a low, symmetrical block on a rectangular plan, built at the beginning of the 19th century. About 50 years later, a higher west wing was added. After the war, it housed an orphanage. Currently, the manor house is falling into disrepair. After the property was taken over by the magistrate, the councillors decided that at the end of May 2008 the manor house would be handed over to the Rzeszów curia as compensation. The park surrounding the manor, however, remained a publicly accessible urban garden.

Wikipedia: Dwór Chłapowskich w Rzeszowie (PL)

The Polonia House is a tenement house located in the northern frontage of the Market Square in Rzeszów. In front of the tenement house, there is a characteristic lintel, which significantly differs from the slab of the square. Underneath it there are the oldest preserved traces of brick architecture in Rzeszów, namely, cellars, dating back to the 15th century. The tenement house gained its current shape after the reconstructions carried out at the beginning of the 20th century and after the war. Three neighbouring tenement houses were demolished, creating the so-called "Ram's hole", which is now being developed. The interior of the tenement house was decorated with polychromes. In the staircase there is a fragment of a hunt from the 19th century. The illusory rustication was shown below. The building is owned by the Polish Community, there are shops on the ground floor and a hotel on the upper floors.

Wikipedia: Dom Polonii w Rzeszowie (PL), Website

The old Jewish cemetery in Rzeszów was established in the 17th century and was located on the site of the present square on the Ghetto Victims Square. Currently, it is crossed by Sobieskiego Street. The site is commemorated with a basalt boulder and a granite plaque with an appropriate inscription in Hebrew and Polish: "In this place there is a 16th-century Jewish cemetery destroyed during World War II by the Nazi occupier. In the summer of 1942, Jews were gathered here before being deported to death camps." The cemetery was destroyed in 1942. A dozen or so tombstones have survived from the cemetery.

Wikipedia: Cmentarz żydowski w Rzeszowie (PL)

The Monument to the Revolutionary Deed or the Monument to the Revolutionary Struggles is a two-façade monument with sculptural decoration that has stood since 1974 in the central communication point of Rzeszów, at the intersection of Łukasz Ciepliński Avenue and Józef Piłsudski Avenue. It marks approximately the border of the city centre from the north-west – at the entrance to the city from the direction of Kraków and Warsaw. It is one of the few monuments from the period of the Polish People's Republic preserved in their original location.

Wikipedia: Pomnik Czynu Rewolucyjnego w Rzeszowie (PL)

The New Jewish Cemetery in Rzeszów – a Jewish cemetery located in Rzeszów at Rejtana Avenue was founded in 1849. It has an area of 2.5 hectares and can be used to distinguish between the older and newer parts. The cemetery was completely devastated during World War II. Numerous tombstones were used to pave Asnyka, Szopena and other streets, as well as the market square in Tyczyn. 754 tombstones have been preserved, the vast majority of which are broken (lying). The oldest surviving matzevah dates back to 1851.

Wikipedia: Cmentarz żydowski na Czekaju w Rzeszowie (PL)

The Diocesan Museum is an ecclesiastical institution founded in 1997 by Bishop Kazimierz Górny. The museum was officially opened on 22 September 1998 on the occasion of the European Days of Cultural Heritage in Rzeszów. The collections are works of sacred art that have fallen into disuse, however, due to the age of the diocese, most of the exhibits from its area are in the museums in Przemyśl and Tarnów. For the first 17 years it was managed by Fr. Franciszek Dziedzic.

Wikipedia: Muzeum Diecezjalne w Rzeszowie (PL)

The Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Rzeszów, owned by the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Rzeszów, is a church on W. Sikorskiego Avenue in the south-eastern part of the city in the Zaleskie commons. It was built as a votive offering for 600 years of the existence of the Diocese of Przemysl. The first church built in Rzeszów after World War II. Since 1982, the statue of Our Lady of Fatima has been venerated there.

Wikipedia: Katedra Najświętszego Serca Pana Jezusa w Rzeszowie (PL), Website, Facebook

The Museum of Bedtime Cartoons in Rzeszów is located in the city center, near the Rzeszów Market Square. The museum was established by a resolution of the City Council on 29 January 2008. It presents exhibits from Wojciech Jama's collection. The collection of the "Museum of Bedtime Stories" was handed over to the city by a notarial deed on January 24, 2008. The Museum of Bedtime Cartoons was officially opened on March 22, 2009.

Wikipedia: Muzeum Dobranocek w Rzeszowie (PL), Website

The Underground Tourist Route "Rzeszów Cellars" in Rzeszów – a complex of former municipal cellars, located in Rzeszów, under the Old Town Market Square, connected into a tourist route. The entrance to the underground is located at the Rzeszów Town Hall, while the exit is at 12 Market Square. Currently, the route is managed by the Municipal Board of Residential Buildings in Rzeszów. The length of the route is 396 meters.

Wikipedia: Podziemna Trasa Turystyczna w Rzeszowie (PL), Website

The Monument to the Siberians in Rzeszów is a bronze sculpture in the Siberian Park in Rzeszów, unveiled on 17 September 2014 on the World Siberian Day and on the 75th anniversary of the USSR's aggression against Poland. The monument was designed by Jakub Ataman. The sculpture was made by the sculptor Michał Batkiewicz. The cast was made in the Art-Studio Bronze Workshop in Szczyglice near Cracow.

Wikipedia: Pomnik Sybiraków w Rzeszowie (PL)

The basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Rzeszów is also a parish church at the same call and the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Rzeszów. The temple is located in the very center of the city in Śródmieście on the edge of the Rzeszów old town. The religious house of oo adheres to him directly. Bernardine. The entire assumption protected by law has the status of a monument.

Wikipedia: Bazylika Wniebowzięcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny w Rzeszowie (PL)

Summer Palace of Lubomirski in Rzeszów - a historic, late Baroque residence with elements of Rococo, located at Aleja Lubomirskie in Rzeszów, near the castle. Established in the 1990s in the former vineyard of Mikołaj Spytek Ligęza, as part of a larger assumption, which was aimed at creating a large garden complex around the residence at the castle.

Wikipedia: Letni Pałac Lubomirskich w Rzeszowie (PL)

The Pobitno Cemetery is a necropolis in Rzeszów, Poland, in the district of Pobitno on the right bank of the Wisłok River, in the eastern part of the city. It is located in the immediate vicinity of the northern ring road of Rzeszów and Lwowska Street, at the Pobitno Roundabout. The cemetery has the legal status of a monument.

Wikipedia: Cmentarz Pobitno w Rzeszowie (PL)

Garrison Church of Our Lady Queen of Polish – the church is located in the centre of Rzeszów. It belongs both to the diocese of Rzeszów and to the Military Ordinariate of the Polish Army, because the church is a temple of a civil-military parish. The building is protected by law and has the status of a monument.

Wikipedia: Kościół garnizonowy pw. Matki Boskiej Królowej Polski w Rzeszowie (PL)

The Old Town Synagogue in Rzeszów is a synagogue located in Rzeszów, Poland, at 4 Bożnicza Street. It is one of the oldest surviving synagogues in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship. It used to be called the Old School and the Small School, due to its smaller size in relation to the New Town Synagogue.

Wikipedia: Synagoga Staromiejska w Rzeszowie (PL)

The Provincial and Municipal Public Library in Rzeszów is a public library located in Rzeszów, Poland. It serves as a municipal and district public library for the city of Rzeszów, a county public library for the Rzeszów district and a provincial public library for the Podkarpackie province.

Wikipedia: Wojewódzka i Miejska Biblioteka Publiczna w Rzeszowie (PL), Website

The Church of Divine Providence in Rzeszów, owned by the Salesians of Rzeszów – a church at Witold Śwoka Street in the centre of Os. New town. The Salesian Center in Rzeszów consists of: the Church of Divine Providence, the Oratory of St. John Bosco, the "Salos" football field.

Wikipedia: Kościół Opatrzności Bożej w Rzeszowie (PL), Website

St. Hubert's Chapel in Rzeszów – a Baroque hunting chapel. The chapel is located in the churchyard of the newly established parish of the same name, near the Baranówka IV and Miłocin housing estates, with a direct exit from Warszawska Street into Borowa Street.

Wikipedia: Kaplica św. Huberta w Rzeszowie (PL)

The Church of Our Lady of the Snows is a former parish church belonging to the parish of Our Lady of the Snows in Rzeszów-Budziwoj. It is located in the former village of Budziwój, a district of Rzeszów since 2010.

Wikipedia: Kościół Matki Bożej Śnieżnej w Rzeszowie-Budziwoju (stary) (PL)

The Church of St. Adalbert and St. Stanislaus in Rzeszów is a parish church in Rzeszów, Poland. It is located in the center of the Old Town, on Farny Square, at the intersection of 3 Maja and Kościuszki Streets.

Wikipedia: Kościół św. Wojciecha i św. Stanisława w Rzeszowie (PL)

The Monument to the Cursed Soldiers in Rzeszów is a monument dedicated to Polish activists of the anti-communist underground, located in Rzeszów, Poland. The monument was designed and executed by Karol Badyna.

Wikipedia: Pomnik Żołnierzy Wyklętych w Rzeszowie (PL)

The Church of the Holy Trinity is a church in Rzeszów, Poland, located in the city centre at Targowa Street. The seat of the Greek Catholic parish of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Rzeszów.

Wikipedia: Kościół Świętej Trójcy w Rzeszowie (PL)