Zawiercie - City Tour

Zawiercie is a young town – it only received town rights in 1915. Yet as early as the 19th century, thanks to the Warsaw–Vienna Railway, it developed into a thriving industrial centre, and the Zawiercie Joint-Stock Company (TAZ) became one of the largest spinning mills in the Russian Empire.

We prepared a walk around the centre that begins in front of the historic railway station. The route leads along 3 Maja Street past the villa of industrialist Stanisław Holenderski to the monumental neo-Gothic Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, the Szymański mansion and the unique TAZ workers' housing estate.

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