Sights in Sanok
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Franciscan Church of the Holy Cross
At the SW corner of the large rebuilt Rynek is the Franciscan Church of the Holy Cross, the town's oldest, dating back to the 1640s.
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Parish Church
The neo-Romanesque Parish Church, dating from 1886, has Art Nouveau wall paintings and remarkable stained glass behind the main altar.
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Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity
The neoclassical Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity was built in 1784 and initially served the Uniat congregation. The main door behind the grill is left open for you to admire the modern iconostasis.
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Schweik Statue
The odd little bronze likeness of a soldier sitting on a bench in the centre of ul 3 Maja is the Schweik Statue, representing the antihero of Czech writer Jaroslav Hašek's polemical novel The Good Soldier Schweik (1923). According to the book, Schweik (or Švejk) visited Sanok on 15 July 1915. Fame at last.
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Historical Museum
One of Sanok’s major attractions is the Historical Museum. Housed in a renovated 16th-century castle, the museum has several sections, of which the highlight is a 700-piece collection of Ruthenian icons. The selection on display consists of about 260 large pieces dating from the 15th to 18th centuries; most were acquired after WWII from abandoned Uniat churches.
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Museum of Folk Architecture
Sanok is noted for its unique Museum of Folk Architecture, a skansen (open-air museum of traditional architecture) about 2km north of the centre. Poland’s largest open-air museum, it has gathered about 120 traditional buildings from the southeast of the country and provides an insight into the culture of the Boyks and Lemks. Among the highlights are four timber churches, an inn, a school and even a fire station. The interiors of many cottages are furnished and decorated as they once were, while some buildings house exhibitions; one of these features a collection of 200 icons.
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