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Sandomierz

Sandomierz is a historic town in south-eastern Poland with 23,863 inhabitants, situated on the Vistula River near its confluence with the San, in the Sandomierz Basin.

Sandomierz
Sandomierz · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Sandomierz is a historic town in south-eastern Poland with 23,863 inhabitants, situated on the Vistula River near its confluence with the San, in the Sandomierz Basin. It is the capital of Sandomierz County within the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship. Sandomierz is known for its preserved Old Town, a major cultural and tourist attraction which the President of Poland declared a National Monument of Poland in 2017.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Sandomierz

9 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.

  1. 01
    Dominican Church and Convent of St. James in Sandomierz

    The Church of St. James in Sandomierz, also known as the Shrine of Blessed Sadok and 48 Dominican martyrs, Monastery of Dominicans (Convent of St.

    800 m · church building in Sandomierz, Poland · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Sandomierz

    The Diocese of Sandomierz is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church located in the city of Sandomierz in the ecclesiastical province of Lublin in Poland.

    700 m · diocese of the Catholic Church · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Sandomierz Cathedral

    Cathedral Basilica of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Sandomierz is a gothic cathedral constructed in 1360. The cathedral was renovated in the baroque style in the 18th century, and first received the rank of cathedral in 1818.

    800 m · also known as the Cathedral Basilica of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Sandomierz · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Długosz House

    The Długosz House is a 15th century mansionary structure in Sandomierz, Poland. The structure was financed and built with the support of Jan Długosz.

    700 m · historic house and museum in Sandomierz, Poland · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Sandomierz Town Hall

    Sandomierz Town Hall – a building raised shortly after the Lithuanian Invasion in 1349. Formerly Gothic, the town hall had an octagonal tower.

    400 m · town hall in Sandomierz, Poland · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Monastery of Dominicans Sisters in Tarnobrzeg

    Monastery of Dominican Sisters in Tarnobrzeg - Sisters of St. Dominic monastic-church building complex built in the 19th century in Tarnobrzeg, Poland.

    5.3 km · church building in Tarnobrzeg, Poland · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Church of St. Michael in Sandomierz

    The Church of St. Michael the Archangel is a Catholic church in Sandomierz, Poland.

    100 m · church building in Sandomierz, Poland · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Sandomierz Synagogue

    The Sandomierz Synagogue is a former Jewish congregation and synagogue, that was located in Sandomierz, in the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship of Poland. Abandoned as a synagogue in 1942 during German occupation in World War II, the building is standing and has been used for secular purposes since the 1970s.

    400 m · inactive synagogue in Sandomierz, Poland · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Collegium Gostomianum

    Collegium Gostomianum is a secondary school in Sandomierz, Poland. Founded in 1602, it is one of the oldest schools in Poland.

    700 m · building in Sandomierz, Poland · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

Sandomierz is a medieval town with many buildings from the late middle ages or Renaissance. From among 120 monuments of architecture, as the most precious ones are regarded the architectural and scenery complex of the old town preserving its urban layout from the 2nd half the 14th c. There is also an older Romanesque church and some wonderfully preserved medieval tunnels under the city.

  1. 01
    Sandomierz Castle
  2. 02
    Dominican Monastery

    Staromiejska 3,.

  3. 03
    Dominican Church and Convent of St

    James, Staromiejska 3.

  4. 04
    Church of St Michael the Archangel

    Michała Archanioła), Stefana Żeromskiego 6.

  5. 05
    Opatowska Gate

    Built in the 14th - 16th centuries - one of the best preserved town gates in Poland.

From Wikivoyage: Sandomierz, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Sandomierz

Airports
Rzeszów-Jasionka (RZE), 67 km · Lublin (LUZ), 92 km · Kraków John Paul II (KRK), 155 km
  • Jasionka → Sandomierz
    216 km · quickest by road, 5h 25m · zł65–85
  • Lublin → Sandomierz
    85 km · quickest by road, 4h 5m · zł22–29
  • Balice → Sandomierz
    154 km · quickest by road, 3h 39m · zł45–60
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Sandomierz

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 Sandomierz. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    845 km
  2. 02
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    925 km
  3. 03
    KorčulaHR

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    927 km
  4. 04
    MljetHR

    9 ways of moving, 28 sources

    941 km
  5. 05
    Åland (Mariehamn and Fasta Åland)FI

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    1,053 km

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