Sights in Kielce
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National Museum
National Museum, where 17th- and 18th-century interiors are so alive you feel like you’re trespassing in a bishop’s boudoir. Keep an eye on the ornamental ceilings (plafonds) painted from 1641 by Venetian Tommaso Dolabella. The centrepiece is the former dining hall where the whole brood of bishops stare down from their 56 portraits. The upper and lower portraits of this evocative historical montage were painted two centuries apart. The rest of this captivatingly cavernous multilevel museum leads through collections of porcelain, historical armour and various centuries and genres of Polish painting.
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Cathedral
The Cathedral facing the palace looks nothing like the Romanesque church first erected here in 1171. The cathedral was rebuilt in the 17th century and later dressed in Baroque decorations. Pope John Paul II celebrated Mass here in 1999.
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Toy Museum
The delightfully presented Toy Museum offers the chance to reminisce about toys you forgot you wanted. The room full of frogs somehow makes sense when you’re there.
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Museum of the Kielce Village
The Museum of the Kielce Village is housed in the only 18th-century wooden mansion in Kielce.
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