A Geological Paradise
Practical Information
- Detailed InformationZwińRozwiń
- Object type:
- Nature reserves
- County:
- Kielce
- Community:
- Kielce
- Address:
- Kielce
- Latitude:
- 50.86120031728
- Longitude:
- 20.617690086365
- Tourist region:
- Kielce Region
- Organizer name:
- GeoPark Kielce
- Organizer data:
- 25-659 Kielce, ul. Strycharska 6
- Phone:
- +48 41 367 66 54
- E-mail:
- geopark.kielce@um.kielce.pl
- Website:
- www.geopark-kielce.pl
- Surrounding AccommodationZwińRozwiń
Geological attractiveness of Kielce is best proved by the presence of four inanimate nature reserves on the city’s territory. Very well-known is the Kadzielnia that contains an inselberg known as the Rock of Geologists located in the central part of the former open-pit quarry.
- Kielce
- +48 41 367 66 53
The museum was founded in 1963 as a fixed part of PIG"s branch in Świętokrzyskie, first as an archive and since 1992 as a museum open for visitors.
- Kielce
- +48 41 361 25 37
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
Built on the southern slope of the Castle Hill (18thc.), it"s the only timber (larch wood) manor in Kielce. Covered with shingle roof and entered through a charming portico with columns, the Laszczyk family manor houses the head office of the Open-Air Museum of the Kielce Village and temporary exhibitions.
- Kielce, ul. Jana Pawła II 6
- +48 41 344 92 97
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 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
In 1171 the Bishop Gedeon founded a collegiate church under the invocation of the Assumption located on Wzgórze Zamkowe. It was a Romanesque-style temple.
- Kielce, pl. Marii Panny 3
- 048 41 344 63 07
The palace belonged to the Cracovian bishops who owned large estates in the Świętokrzyski region. The residence founded by bishop Jakub Zadzik (1582-1642) was erected on the Cathedral Hill. It is considered to be the best-preserved architectural construction in Poland from the Vasa dynasty times.
- Kielce, pl. Zamkowy 1
- +48 41 344 23 18
The most beautiful and historic sacred-art works from the Diocese of Kielce can be seen in the ex-curia building which now hosts the Diocesan Museum.
- Kielce, ul. Jana Pawła II 3
- +48 41 344 58 20
Description
photo Grzegorz SzczęsnyKielce is considered as a city of outstanding geological qualities with its four geological reserves located in the city’s area. The most famous of them is Kadzielnia reserve established in lieu of the former quarry. Numerous fossils of corals, cephalopods, a world-unique armoured fish and brachiopods are protected there. Moreover, you can also see there interesting examples of various tectonic, mineral and karstic phenomena, and, among them, 26 caves. This remarkable place can also boast of its amphitheatre picturesquely located among rocks. “Ślichowice” geological reserve, which was established for the purposes of preservation of a rock pit, represents an interesting example of Hercynian tectonic influence exerted on the Świętokrzyskie Mountains and visible in the form of typical and strongly undulating lime rocks. You can see there an interesting geological profile with its reversed fold of rock. In Wietrznia reserve found in the eastern edge of the Kaledziańskie Range you can see Upper Devonian limestone with banks of variable thickness containing the remains of fauna of brachiopods, corals, snails, bivalves, trylobites, lilies and armoured fish. Biesak-Białogon, a reserve surrounded by forest and the smallest of the reserves found in the city of Kielce, is also worth seeing owing to its protected Ordovician and Cambrian outcrops reflecting a lot of interesting tectonic phenomena.
The Kielce Geopark
ul. Strycharska 6
25-361 Kielce
phone +48 41 367 66 54
www.geopark-kielce.pl
Information can be obtained in The Regional Center of Tourist Information
ul. Sienkiewicza 29
25-077 Kielce
phone: +48 41 348 00 60
e-mail: informacja@swietokrzyskie.travel