Green Velo

This is a city of a medieval origin, captivating the tourists with precious monuments and its location in the beautiful Wieprz Valley, around hills covered by forests and the ravines of Roztocze Zachodnie.

It was popularised in literature by Jan Brzechwa’s poem “Chrząszcz” (“The beetle”), and because of that, there are monuments depicting the beetle both in the city centre and near a small spring in the foot of the so-called Castle Hill. Among the things worth seeing there is an Orthodox church from the 16th century, with precious polychromes depicting scenes from the Passion of the Christ and the Revelation of St John and two Renaissance churches from the 17th century with detailed stuccos on the ceilings. There is also a synagogue built the turn of the 16th and 17th century , with an Aron Kodesh made of stone, also decorated with stuccos, and a Jewish cemetery (kirkut) with over 400 graves, some of them as old as the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries.