Kalisz

The St. Nicolaus Cathedral

– the temple was built in 13th cent thanks to money from the local duke Boleslaus the Pious and the presbitery still has gothic form with a star-style vaulting; the side-aisles are late-gothic, but the main aisle in already renessaince - which is the result of the reconstruction in 16th and 17th centuries. Up to 1973 church posessed a picture by Rubens "Taking down from the cross"; unfortunately the masterpiece has disappeared after the fire in the church now you can admire only a copy. In the interiors you can find a wonderful picture presenting the old Kalisz, epithanies and the geatest treasure of the temple : baptistry from XIIIth cent. In so called Polish Chapel called as well the Chapel of Our Lady of Consolation – interesting polichromies and stainded-glass windows according to the project by polish writer and artist Wladislaus Tetmajer from 1907. Next to the church - a parish house, which in 14the and 15th centuries played the role of canonry from roman Lateran. .

The church is open from the early morning the first Eucharist till evening. Entrance is free.

The Old Market Square

– a rectangul 100 x 120 metres, was the heart of the medieval city located here appr. 1257. In the middle of the square you'll find the Town hall from the 1920s, which up to now has been the seat of municipal office. There's a viewing point on the top of the town hall tower. Tenement houses, surrounding the Square were as well built in the perod between the wars, as the previous ones had been destroyed by germans at the end of WWI.

The Franciscan Church and Monastery

erected thanks to the fundation of Duke Boleslaus the Pious. There're still few remnants from the original construction : 13th-century presbitery and 100 years younger aisles, later on rebuilt after fires in 16th cent. In the main altar you can find a late-baroque picture by Franciszek Smuglewicz "The resurrection of peasant Peter" it's a copy of the picture by Szymon Czechowicz from the Parish Church in Poznan. The neighbouring monastery was built in 17th cent on the fundaments of a previous one. In its wall you can still find parts of ancient gothic city wall. The church can be visited in the hours between eucharists. Entrance is free. The monastery - due to enclosure - is closed for visitors.

The Wojciech Boguslawski Theatre

the first theatre building was constructed here in 1835. The present - thisrd - construction comes from 1936. The theatre organises yearly "Kalisz Theatre Meetings". It's interesting to know, that first performances were organised in Kalisz by Jesuits, already in XVIth century, and - at the beginnings of XIXth - Wojciech Bogusławski called sometimes : "The father of Polish Theatre" played here personally.

The Church of St. Joseph

the building from the first half of XIIIth cent. Originally it as built of wood, in 1353 reerected using bricks and foundated by the Gniezno bishop Jaroslaw Skotnicki. There are some remnants from the original construction : the presbitery with star vaulting, but the most precious part of the temple is the treasury, with e.g. patene from XIIth cent, cup from 1363 a gift of the king Casimir the Great. The temple owns as well - modernly equppied - undergroud chapel, which is the main polish place of commemorations of all priests and monks died in Nazi concentration camp in Dachau.

On the square, in front of the church - the monument of Pope John Paul II, erected in 1999, who had prayed in the temple two years before.

The archeological reservation in Zawodzie district

the oldest district of the city, a small fortress in the piast-dynasty times. During the archeological excavations the entrance gate with a bridge and rampart were recreated, as well : the defence tower was built. The fundaments and by-ground parts of the old collegiate romanesque church were reconstructed, too. The shape of the original timber building, the oldest temple in Kalisz, was shown on the floor. Inside you'll find 7 houses, a grave from tribal times and replices of boats used then. There're as well too exhibitions : a multimedia one devoted to the history of the fortress and ethnografical one, organised in the housing building from the end of XVIIIth cent.

The reservation is open from spring to mid-autumn, usually 1 Mai - 30 Sept, Tue, Thu and Fri 10:00 - 15:00, Wed, Sat, Sun - till 18:00. A normal ticket costs 5 zlotys, reduced : 3 zloty, a family one max 2 adults and 3 kids : 10 zlotys. The reservation is located at Bolesława Poboznego str, ohone : +48 691 996 528, (http://www.muzeum.kalisz....)

The Museum of the Kalisz Grounds

with archeological, ethnografical and historical departments as well as with a interesting numiznatic collection. The most precious exhibit is the sandstone grave plaque, found in the Zawodzie-reservation look above, treated as the grave of Duke Mesko III the Old died in 1202 from the collegiate church of St. Paul. The Museum owns as well the copy of the patane, foundation by the Duke for the Cistersian Monastery in Lad

The museum is located at 12, Kosciuszki str., phone : +48 62 757 16 08, (http://www.muzeum.kalisz.pl), mailto:[email protected]. On Tue and Thu is open 10:00 - 15:00, on Wed and Fri 11:00 - 17:30, on Sat and Sun : 10:30 - 14:30. The normal ticket costs 4 zlotys, reduced - 2, and a family one the same rules as in the Reservatiosn - 7 zlotys. On Sundays the entrance is free.

KKS 1925 Kalisz

over 80 years of tradition. Kalisz soccer team is playing matches from August to November and from March to June. For more info - *Official site of KKS 1925 Kalisz