Zamość
Attractions in Zamość
Attractions in Zamość give you a compact Renaissance old town to explore on foot, from the arcaded Great Market Square to Zamość Cathedral a short walk away. If you want a change of pace, the Bastion VII Underground Tourist Route follows the old fortifications below ground, and the Zamość Zoo suits families or a slower afternoon. Most of these sights sit close together, so you can pair the square and cathedral in one walk and add the bastion or the zoo depending on your time. Fine weather makes the open squares and fortifications more comfortable, though the underground route works in any season.
All Attractions in Zamość
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Great Market Square, Zamosc
A near-perfect Renaissance square of arcaded, pastel burgher houses, the centrepiece of a sixteenth-century ideal city.
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Zamość Cathedral (Cathedral of the Resurrection and St Thomas the Apostle)
One of Poland's finest Renaissance churches, designed by Bernardo Morando and paid for by Jan Zamoyski, raised to cathedral rank in 1992.
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Bastion VII Underground Tourist Route (Nadszaniec)
A half-kilometre walk through the casemates and galleries of Bastion No 7, the biggest bastion of a fortress that was never taken by an enemy.
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Zamość Zoo (Stefan Miler Zoological Garden)
One of Poland's oldest zoos, started in 1918 as a school project by teacher Stefan Miler and now spread over about 13 hectares.
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Zamość Town Hall
The pink-and-white town hall on the north side of Zamość's Great Market Square, with a 52-metre clock tower and a fan-shaped double staircase that sweeps down into the square. It is the most photographed building in the city.
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Zamość Fortress
Zamość Fortress is one of Poland's best-preserved star fortresses, with restored bastions and curtain walls that now form a walking route around the historic centre.
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Franciscan Church (Church of the Annunciation)
The Franciscan Church of the Annunciation is the largest church in Zamość, a monumental Baroque building near Rynek Wielki whose white facade rises close to 40 metres.
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Lwów Gate (Lviv Gate)
A Mannerist gateway built around 1597 to 1599 on the southeastern edge of Zamość's fortified Old Town, once fitted with a drawbridge on the road toward Tomaszów and Lviv.
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Zamoyski Academy
The Zamoyski Academy was Poland's first private university, founded in 1594 by Crown Chancellor Jan Zamoyski. Its restored late-Baroque building stands in Zamość Old Town and now houses a high school.
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Salt Market (Rynek Solny)
Rynek Solny is one of Zamość's two smaller market squares, named for the salt trade that once passed through it and marked today by a large ship's anchor.
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Water Market (Rynek Wodny)
The Water Market is the smallest of Zamosc's three Renaissance Old Town squares, a quiet pedestrian plaza in the southern quarter with an illuminated fountain and the former Poor Clares church.
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Zamoyski Palace (Pałac Zamoyskich)
The Zamoyski Palace was the first building raised in Zamość, designed by Bernardo Morando in 1579 to 1586 as the residence of the city's founder, Jan Zamoyski.
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Arsenal - Museum of Fortifications and Weapons
A branch of the Museum of Zamość set in a 17th-century arsenal building, dedicated to the military history of Zamość and its fortress, with historic weaponry and twentieth-century military vehicles among its displays.
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Old Lublin Gate (Stara Brama Lubelska)
The oldest of Zamość's fortress gates, built in the 1580s and later sealed shut, standing on the northern line of the Old Town defences.
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Szczebrzeszyn Gate (Brama Szczebrzeska)
One of Zamosc's three original decorated fortress gates, completed in 1603 on the southern defensive line and now a stop on the walk around the town's ramparts.
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Rector's Pharmacy (Apteka Rektorska)
The Rector's Pharmacy on Zamosc's Great Market Square has been dispensing medicine since 1609, making it the oldest continuously operating pharmacy in Poland.
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Monument to Jan Zamoyski
An equestrian statue of Jan Zamoyski, the Crown Chancellor and Grand Hetman who founded Zamość, standing on the square in front of the Zamoyski Palace.
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Former Poor Clares Church of St. Anne
A late 17th-century church on the Water Market square in Zamosc's Old Town, built with a Poor Clares convent whose former buildings now house a music school.
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Zamość City Park (Park Miejski)
A landscaped park of about 11 hectares wrapping the northern edge of Zamość's Old Town, laid out in the 1920s on former fortress moats and earthworks. It is a green belt around the historic centre, with a pond and preserved fortification relics.
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Infułatka (Sacred Museum)
The Infułatka is a Baroque building beside Zamość Cathedral that now holds a museum of sacred art, with liturgical vestments, vessels and a coronation alb on display.