Stefan Żeromski was particularly connected with the Kielce region. He was born in Strawczyn, near Kielce, spent his childhood in Ciekoty, lived in Kielce and studied at the local grammar-school. Today, the building houses the Museum of Stefan Żeromski’s School Years...

• Kielce, ul. Jana Pawła II 5
• +48 41 344 57 92

The Museum of Toys and Play was established in 1979. In June 2006 it received a new seat and its name. The most precious part of its collection constitutes historical toys and, among them, dolls dating back to the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries...

• Kielce, pl. Wolności 2
• +48 41 344 40 78

The seat of the National Museum in Kielce is a palace, which once belonged to Cracow Bishops. The Cracow Bishops’ palace was founded by Jakub Zadzik in the years 1637–1641.

• Kielce, ul. Zamkowa 1
• +48 41 344 23 18

The oak “Bartek” which, according to various sources, is as old as 700 to 1000 years, belongs to the most famous and most widely admired monuments of nature in Poland.

• Bartków
• +48 41 300 13 22

The Parish Church of St Bartholomew is located at the rock terrace cut in the slope of the Zamkowa Mountain (300 m above sea level). It was probably founded by Władysław the Elbow-High. The construction was started around 1315 and was finished in the times of Kazimierz III the Great.

• Chęciny, ul. Radkowska 4
• +48 41 315 10 31

A blast furnace plant called “Joseph’s Still Mill”, whose ruins one can admire up to the present, was built in the years 1818–1822 owing to the efforts of Stanisław Staszic. It was set up on the site of the first blast furnace of Bergamo type from 1598, which was rebuilt in the years 1641–44.

• Samsonów, 0 -

The main exhibition of the Museum of Kielecka Village is the Ethnographic Park in Tokarnia, which is located on the E77 route leading from Kielce to Cracow. In the picturesquely located in the Czarna Nida river bend over 70-hectare area...

• Tokarnia
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In 1847, the head of the Kielce county authorities Tomasz Zieliński, a patron of fine arts and lover of antiquities, became a leaseholder of a riding school building and transformed it into a private residence.

• Kielce, ul. Zamkowa 5
• +48 41 368 20 53

The little town of Zagnańsk is located on the territory of the Suchedniowski-Oblęgorski Landscape Park, surrounded by beautiful woods of the Świętokrzyska Forest. These woods became an excellent source of raw material for the nearby foundries in Samsonów and Bobrza in the 18th century.

• Zagnańsk

One of the Świętokrzyski Region caves known as the The Robber"s Cave is situated near Łagów. It can be entered from the eastern slope of the Dule gorge, some 20 meters from its bottom level.

• Łagów