Chęciny
Chęciny is a town in Kielce County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, southern Poland, with 4,361 inhabitants as of December 2021.
Chęciny is a town in Kielce County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, southern Poland, with 4,361 inhabitants as of December 2021. It was first mentioned in historical documents from 1275, and obtained its city charter in 1325. At that time was one of major urban centers of northern Lesser Poland.
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Worth seeing in and around Chęciny
2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Jaskinia Raj
Paradise Cave is a horizontal karstic limestone cave located inside the Malik hill, to the south of Kielce, Świętokrzyskie Voivodship, Poland. It is part of the "Red tourist trail Chęciny - Kielce" in the Świętokrzyskie Mountains.
3.4 km · cave in Poland · Wikipedia - 02Chęciny Castle
Chęciny Royal Castle was built in the late 13th century in Chęciny, Poland. It fell into ruin in the 18th century and remains in that state to this day.
800 m · ruin of castle in Chęciny, Poland · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Chęciny Castle
This castle dates back to the end of the 13th century and is the town's biggest tourist attraction.
- 02Saint Bartholomew
The present church was built in the 14th century.
- 03Former Franciscan Monastery Complex
Founded by Casimir III the Great from the 14th century.
- 04Jewish Cemetery
- 05Former Synagogue
It is not in use and not open for visitors.
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Where to eat
- 01La Baguette
Parking pod Zamkiem Królewskim w Chęcinach,.
From Wikivoyage: Chęciny, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Chęciny
- Airports
- Kraków John Paul II (KRK), 94 km · Katowice Wojciech Korfanty (KTW), 104 km · Łódź Władysław Reymont (LCJ), 126 km
- Balice → Chęciny92 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · zł26–35
- Katowice → Chęciny118 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · zł40–55
- Łódź → Chęciny128 km · quickest by road, 3h 17m · zł35–47
- 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 Chęciny
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 Chęciny. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inIt is possible to reach Chęciny from Kielce by private minibus departing from the main bus station.
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