The tourist product “The old towns trail” is an attractive car trail that takes you on a tour of the Euroregion’s picturesque towns which still have the old layouts of streets and historic buildings. Driving along it you can visit places of spectacular scenery where the past and the present “live” together. The cross-border tour will take you two days.
Programme:
- Bohumín: Roman-Catholic church dedicated to the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary dating from the 13th century; epidemiological chapel dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary from the first half of the 19th century; chapel dedicated to the Holy Cross (so-called Desert) from the latter half of the 18th century; Henckel von Donnersmarck and Vösendorf earls’ tomb from the latter half of the 17th century
- Orlová: Roman-Catholic church dedicated to the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary dating from the latter half of the 15th century; market square; castle park; town hall from the first half of the 20th century
- Karviná: market square with a fountain from the 20th century; town hall from the first half of the 19th century; Fryštát the castle from the first half of the 14th century surrounded by an English-style park (27); Roman-Catholic church dedicated to the Holy Cross Exaltation dating from the latter half of the 14th century; Roman-Catholic church dedicated to St. Mark dating from the latter half of the 18th century
- Strumień: market square with a town hall from the first half of the 17th century; the ninetheenth-century tenements; Roman-Catholic church dedicated to St. Barbra dating from the latter half of the 18th century
- Skoczów: market square with a town hall from the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries; fountain with a statue of Jonas called “Triton” from the latter half of the 18th century; tenements from the latter half of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century; the St. Jan Sarkander Parish Museum; Roman-Catholic church dedicated to the Holy Cross Finding (so-called the hospital church) from the latter half of the 16th century; Roman-Catholic church dedicated to Sts. Peter and Paul the Apostles dating from the latter half of the 18th century; the Gustaw Morcinek Museum.
- Cieszyn: market square (28); well with a statue of St. Florian from the latter half of the 18th century, town hall from the first half of the 19th century; „Pod Brunatnym Jeleniem” hotel; post office; Dom Narodowy (the National House) from the beginning of the 20th century; the Larisch family palace (Museum of Cieszyn Silesia); Roman-Catholic church dedicated to St. Mary Magdalen from the 13th century; Evangelical-Augsburg church dedicated to Jesus from the first half of the 18th century; the town’s library from the 19th century; arcaded tenements from the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries; the Three Brothers’ well; the Adam Mickiewicz theatre from the first half of the 20th century; the Cieszyn Library; the Castle Hill; Romanesque rotunda (the chapel dedicated to Sts. Nicholas and Vaclav) from the 11th century; Ultimate Defence Tower from the 13th century; the Piast Tower from the 14th century; the Habsburgs’ hunting lodge from the first half of the 19th century; brewery from the first half of the 19th century
- Český Těšín: Těšínska Museum; market square with a town hall from the first half of the 20th century on it; Roman-Catholic church dedicated to Sacred Heart of Jesus dating from the end of the 19th century; chapel from the end of the 19th century; the eighteenth-century statue of St. John Nepomucen; the eighteenth-century tenement; „Szomre Szabos” the synagogue; railway station from the latter half of the 19th century; former shooting range from the latter half of the 19th century; „Na Nivách” the Evangelical-Augsburg church from the first half of the 20th century
- Jablunkov: market square; town hall from the beginning of the 18th century; the nineteenth-century tenements; fountain with a statue of the Immaculate Mother of God; Roman-Catholic church dedicated to the Body of Christ dating from the first half of the 17th century; convent of the Sisters of St. Elizabeth from the latter half of the 19th century; convent along with Roman-Catholic church dedicated to St. Joseph from the first half of the 20th century