The Old Town & The Castle Hill

The name of this 16th-century townhouse is connected with the fact that the place held meetings of the City Council during sessions of the court tribunal in Lublin. A sgraffito ornament shaped like the Lublin coat of arms was placed over the main door of the building to commemorate this historic event. ...

The name of the square is connected with the first church built within the city walls – the Parish Church of St. Michael the Archangel. It was founded in the 13th c. by Leszek the Black as a votive offering for the victory over the Jatvingians. ...

Rybny Square was a market place where fish caught in the Czechówka River were sold. The Pawęczkowska townhouse in the square, named after one of its owners, was originally meant to be a church of the Trinitarian Order but the death of its benefactor, Dominik Lubomirski, stopped the building works. Some people blamed the unfinished investment on the stone of misfortune which lay nearby at the time. ...

Centrally located Old Town Market Square in Lublin has irregular shape. Its location was conditioned by the buildings from before the town's location and the shape of the hill. It was officially outlined over 700 years ago, after Lublin had been granted a city charter (15th of August 1317). ...

It used to belong to Sebastian Klonowic, an acclaimed poet, town councillor and mayor. The façade is decorated with sgraffito medallions with images of four poets and writers associated with Lublin: Biernat of Lublin, Mikołaj Rej, Jan Kochanowski and Wincenty Pol. ...

In the first half of the 19th c. the building belonged to Tadeusz Wieniawski, father of the brilliant violinist and composer Henryk Wieniawski, born here on 10th July 1835. ...

This was the first permanent theatre in Lublin and one of the oldest institutions of this kind in Poland. It was built in 1822 according to the design by its owner and architect Łukasz Rodakiewicz. It was decorated with Classicist figurative ornaments such as arcades, leaf-like feminine masks and gryphons. The auditorium accommodated a total of 334 seats. The Old Theatre had successfully functioned until the opening of a new, presentable municipal theatre (now the Juliusz Osterwa Theatre) in 1887. In the beginning of the 20th c. the building was turned into a cinema first called ‘Theatre Op ...

In its heyday this outstanding edifice situated in the centre of Market Square served as the Crown Tribunal (1578 – 1794) – the highest judicial instance for the nobility from the whole Małopolska Region, established by King Stephen Bathory. The only other tribunal in the Kingdom of Poland was in Piotrków Trybunalski.  Widely-practised corruption of judges and unjust sentences led to the dissolution of this institution. The most notorious case was a so-called a court of devils that supposedly took place in 1637. About 150 years later the building was redesigned by Dominic Merlini, a ...

"On its tower a tin cock fluttered, another - bore a clock that hummed a tune" - this is the beginning of A poem about Lublin by Józef Czechowicz. According to the legend, said tin cock, standing on the top of the Trinitarian Tower, used to warn the citizens about upcoming danger. Today it allegedly crows when a chaste maiden walks through the gate in the tower...  ...

The castle tower, also known as the keep or the donjon, is the oldest building on the castle hill and at the same time in the whole of Lublin. It was probably erected in the second half of the XIII century. The tower is about 30 meters high and its walls on the ground level are up to 4 meters thick. The lower part of the tower is made of limestone and the upper part is made of bricks arranged in the monk bond. ...