St Nicholas’ Church
St Nicholas' Church in Bochnia - a gothic temple dating back to the 15th century, with the equipment from the 17th-19th centuries and polychromes from the 16th-20th centuries (among others designed by J. Matejko) as well as the painting of Blessed Virgin Mary, famous for its graces. Since 1997 it has had the title of...
The Museum of Stanisław Fischer
The Museum of Stanisław Fischer in Bochnia - is located in the historic monastery of the Dominicans (the oldest fragments date back to the 16th century), presenting, among other things, a collection of ancient sculpture and folk painting characterised by religious subject matter, a collection of the Polish painting (canvases by Olga Boznańska, Tadeusz Makowski, Jacek Malczewski, Leon...
Salt Mine (UNESCO)
A few words about the mine The history of salt extraction in the Bochnia region dates back to 3,500 years B.C. Salt was acquired by evaporating water from brine. Brine wells gave way to excavating salt with the use of mining methods. The beginnings of the Bochnia mine as an excavating plant date back to...
ARTHROPODA Butterfly Museum
ARTHROPODA Butterfly Museum is the largest permanent exhibition of butterflies of the world in in Poland. It includes more than five thousand specimens from all zoographic zones. The collection, which is presented on two storeys, has been built over the last 37 years and is still updated. The visit to the museum is a great...
The monuments of Bochnia
- The statue of King Casimir the Great
- The statue of Holy Father John Paul II
- 800 Anniversary Memorial
- The statue of General Leopold Okulicki
- The monument to the Katyn massacre
- The monument “To the fallen for freedom 1914-1920”
- The monument to the victims of Nazi crime from 18th December 1939
- The statue of Jan Kaczmarczyk “Baca”
- The monument of the victims of holocaust
- The statue of Stanisław Fischer
- The obelisk commemorating Marcin Samlicki
- The monument to the victims of the peasants’ strike
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