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Brzeg
Place in Opole Voivodeship, Poland

Brzeg

Brzeg is a town in southwestern Poland with 34,778 inhabitants and the capital of Brzeg County.

It is situated in Silesia in the Opole Voivodeship on the left bank of the Oder river.

Get in

Getting to Brzeg

From the

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    Brzeg Train Station
See

Worth seeing

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    The Castle of the Silesian Piasts

    Also called the 'Silesian Wawel', this castle a 20th-century reconstruction of Renaissance castle.

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    Town Hall

    It is one of the most valuable monuments of Renaissance architecture in Poland.

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    St Jadwiga's Castle Church
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    St Nicholas’ Church
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    The Raising of the Holy Cross Church
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    Oder Gate

    A gate in the fortification system of the city of Brzeg.

Do

Things to do

Museum of the Silesian Piasts, Pl. Zamkowy 1. Permanent exhibitions: The art of Silesia of the 15th to 18th centuries from the collections of the National Museum in Wroclaw; From the heritage and the past of the Silesian Piasts; Brzeg - 750 years. Saturdays: free admission.

Eat

Where to eat

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    Milk bar Brzeg

    A budget self-service eating establishment with Polish dishes.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.