Bochnia
Bochnia is a town on the river Raba in southern Poland, administrative seat of Bochnia County in Lesser Poland Voivodeship.
Bochnia is a town on the river Raba in southern Poland, administrative seat of Bochnia County in Lesser Poland Voivodeship. Bochnia is most noted for its salt mine, the oldest functioning in Europe, built in the 13th century, a World Heritage Site and a Historic Monument of Poland.
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Salt Mine
From 12th - 13th century, smaller than Wieliczka's one, but not less interesting.
- 02St. Nicholas Basilica (Bazylika św. Mikołaja).
- 03Stanisław Fischer Museum
- 04Wooden
Part of the 1500-km-long Wooden Architecture Route in Małopolska.
- 05Butterfly Museum Arthropoda
The largest permanent butterfly exhibition in Poland, over 4,500 specimens in four different sections.
- 06Kiejdo Apiary
A place to try different kinds of honey, learn about its production and bees, see traditional beekeeping equipment.
From Wikivoyage: Bochnia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Things to do
Swimming pool (Kryta Pływalnia), ul. Św. Leonarda 34, biuro@basenbochnia.pl. Regis Cinema (Kino Regis), ul. Regis 1.
From Wikivoyage: Bochnia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Where to eat
- 01Salina Restaurant
Plac Świętej Kingi 1, restauracja@salina.pl.
From Wikivoyage: Bochnia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Bochnia
- Airports
- Kraków John Paul II (KRK), 47 km · Katowice Wojciech Korfanty (KTW), 111 km · Rzeszów-Jasionka (RZE), 114 km
- Balice → Bochnia47 km · quickest by road, 59 min · zł14–18
- Katowice → Bochnia106 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · zł28–37
- Jasionka → Bochnia232 km · quickest by road, 4h 27m · zł75–105
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Bochnia
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bochnia. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Bochnia – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Bochnia
Bochnia is 37 km from Kraków, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.