The best city hikes and walks in Rezerwat Żubrowisko

This open-air museum was opened in the 70s. Here, on an area of 2 hectares, there are many monuments of Pszczyna's wooden architecture. The oldest is the manor granary from Czechowice from 1784. Don't miss the octagonal barn from Kryr from the 18th century either - and many other beautiful monuments. More on the open-air museum website: http://www.skansen.pszczyna.pl/

One of my favorite towns in Silesia, an extremely picturesque palace with a park and a beautiful market square.

This small neoclassical tea pavilion is located on an island amid the Pszczynka River within the castle park in Pszczyna, built in the third quarter of the 19th century during a renewed interest in Oriental culture. A beautiful place to drink tea or eat something sweet 🍰

Every day at noon, a municipal fanfare based on a local folk song plays from the town hall.

A neo-Renaissance building located on the northern side of the market square, adjacent to the Evangelical-Augsburg church, and has served as the seat of municipal authorities for three centuries. Originally built around 1658 and purchased by the city in 1716, the building survived major fires in 1679 and 1748, underwent several expansions including the addition of a clock tower in 1738, and received its current neo-Renaissance appearance during a major reconstruction in 1931.

This historic building housed the "Pod jodłowym jeleniem" (Under the Fir Deer) inn from 1852 to 1894, which was later demolished and replaced with a modern hotel that opened on May 19, 1900. The property changed hands multiple times throughout the 20th century, serving various purposes including a hotel, residential apartments, offices, and several restaurants and cafes. In recent decades, the building housed banks.

The castle's Mirror Hall features two enormous mirrors (each 14m²) that were manufactured in Paris and transported to Pszczyna, along with five crystal chandeliers that can be lowered to floor level using pulley systems from the attic - a mechanism that still functions today from the Hochberg era.

A palace complex that evolved from a 15th-century Gothic defensive castle into an elegant residence through multiple reconstructions in Renaissance, Baroque, and French Baroque styles. The castle served as the seat of various noble families including the Promnitz, Anhalt-Köthen-Pless, and Hochberg dynasties, with its final architectural form achieved during the 1870-1876 renovation directed by French architect Hippolyte Alexandre Destailleur. During World War I (1915-1916), it housed the German Army's Great General Headquarters where Kaiser Wilhelm II, Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, and General Erich Ludendorff made crucial military decisions for the Eastern Front.