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Częstochowa
City in southern Poland

Częstochowa

Częstochowa is a city in southern Poland on the Warta with 214,342 inhabitants, making it the thirteenth-largest city in Poland.

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It is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship. However, Częstochowa is historically part of Lesser Poland, not Silesia, and before the 1795 Partition of Poland, it belonged to the Kraków Voivodeship. Częstochowa is located in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. It is the largest economic, cultural and administrative hub in the northern part of the Silesian Voivodeship.

Get in

Getting to Częstochowa

Katowice Airport (KTW IATA) is the closest, with LOT, Lufthansa and budget airlines across Europe. Flixbus runs four times a day from Katowice town via the airport to Częstochowa, otherwise take the shuttle bus into town then the hourly train to Częstochowa.

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    Częstochowa Stradom is two km south

    Trains from Kraków run every two hours, taking 1 hr 40 min and continuing to Poznań and Piła.

See

Worth seeing

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    Jasna Góra

    The most important pilgrimage site in Poland, and mobbed during mass and Marian festivals.

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    Church of St Roque and St Sebastian
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    Museum of Iron Ore Mining
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    City Hall
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    Saint James Church
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    Halina Poświatowska Museum

    Hours and prices as for Częstochowa Museum.

Do

Things to do

Filharmonia Concert Hall is at Tomasza Wilsona 16, 500 m north of the main railway station. Adama Mickiewicza Theatre is at Jana Kilińskiego 15, 100 m north of St James Church. Cinema City Wolność is on Aleja Tadeusza Kościuszki, 400 north of the main railway station. Football: Raków Częstochowa play soccer in Ekstraklasa, Poland's top tier.

Eat

Where to eat

Eating places are strung along Aleja Najświętszej Maryi Panny towards Jasna Góra. They include Rycerska, Czeski Film Pub, Gospoda Kwaśnica, Ecru, La Vita da Re, Aleja 57, Awokado, Topollino, Dobry Rok and Dom Pizzy i Wina. Another little strip is just north of Jasna Góra along Wieluńska. Here are Klimaty, Pireus, Il Gusto and Clusu.

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