Kalisz Sights

  1. Bernardine Church

    Kalisz also has some fine religious buildings. The 1607 former Bernardine Church, now owned by the Jesuits, has a spectacular interior. The church is unprepossessing from the outside, but its wide nave glows with sumptuous baroque decoration. Both the altars and the wall paintings on the vault date from around the mid-18th century.

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  2. Centre of Drawing & Graphic Arts

    The Regional Museum also has an annexe in the Jesuit college, the Centre of Drawing & Graphic Arts. It displays temporary exhibits of drawings and graphic arts, including works by Tadeusz Kulisiewicz (1899-1988), a Kalisz-born artist known mainly for his drawings. Enter from ul Łazienna.

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  3. City Park

    The Old Town sits in the angle between the Prosna and Bernardynka Rivers, with a dozen small bridges and the City Park stretching to the southeast.

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  4. Collegiate Church

    Kalisz also has some fine religious buildings. The Collegiate Church is a typical example of a lavish Catholic church, built in 1353 and rebuilt in the 18th century. It boasts a baroque interior flooded with gilt and glitter and is a popular pilgrimage site thanks to an allegedly miraculous picture of the Holy Family, dating from the 17th century.

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  5. Main Market Square

    Start your sightseeing in the low-key but attractive Main Market Square, whose name is unusually rendered in Polish as Główny Rynek, rather than the other way around - obviously the city's founders valued a certain eccentricity in adjective order.

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  7. Regional Museum

    For a more in-depth examination of the city's story, the Regional Museum features archaeological and historical exhibits from Kalisz and surrounding areas.

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  8. St Nicholas' Church

    Kalisz also has some fine religious buildings. The oldest, St Nicholas' Church, dates from the 13th century and was originally Gothic, but has been modernised several times. The painting of the Descent from the Cross over the high altar is a copy. The original, painted in Rubens' workshop in about 1617 and donated to the church, was burnt or stolen during a mysterious fire in 1973.

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  9. Town Hall

    Head for the tower of the Town Hall. There are fine views from the top, and an exhibition relating the history of Kalisz.

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