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Przemyśl
City county in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland

Przemyśl

Przemyśl is a city in southeastern Poland with 56,466 inhabitants, as of December 2023.

Plan a trip to Przemyśl→From Jasionka

In 1999, it became part of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship. It was previously the capital of Przemyśl Voivodeship.

Get in

Getting to Przemyśl

Trains run every hour or two daytime from Kraków, taking just under 3 hr via Tarnow, Rzeszów and Łańcut, for a fare of 50 zł. There's one direct train from Warsaw but you can connect via Kraków every couple of hours, total time 6 hr; similarly from Gdańsk, Poznań, Wrocław and Katowice.

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    Przemyśl

    This is the border station with Ukraine, so you have to go through passport control and customs to access the eastbound platforms, which are wide-gauge, 1520 mm.

See

Worth seeing

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    Castle

    Built by Casimir III the Great in the 14th century.

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    Franciscan Church

    Franciszkańska 2A.

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    Uniate Cathedral of St

    John the Baptist (Corner of Asnyka and Katedralna streets).

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    Carmelite Church of St

    Theresa.

  5. 05
    Cathedral

    Katedralna 1.

  6. 06
    New Synagogue

    Słowackiego 15.

Do

Things to do

Walking and cycling. The tourism board has worked out several walking and cycling routes in the city and the near surroundings.

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    Kino Helias

    Wojciecha Budzewskiego 1,.

  2. 02
    Centrum Cinema
Eat

Where to eat

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    Pub Restauracja Melduję Posłusznie

    'The Good Soldier Švejk' atmosphere recreated.

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