A walk around Żory

Żory received its town charter in 1272 and has preserved its medieval, spindle-shaped street layout to this day. Since the great fire of 1702, the town has celebrated the Fire Festival – in the interwar period it was a day off work. Żory is the birthplace of Otto Stern, the Nobel laureate who proved the existence of the quantisation of angular momentum, and in 1345 the Battle of Żory was to be fought beneath its walls – a battle that never took place.

We prepared a walk from the symbolic Kraków Gate through the Old Market Square with the chapel of St John of Nepomuk and the Market Square with the Żorek figurine to the Church of Saints Philip and James and the old cemetery. The recordings were made in versions for adults and for children, in Polish.