The Town
Other than Jasna Gora, Czestochowa has very few sights, although the broad tree-lined boulevards at least give the heart of the city an agreeably spacious, almost Parisian feel. On pl. Bieganskiego, just off al. NMP, is the district museum (Tues, Thurs, Fri & Sat 8.30am-4pm, Wed 10.30am-5.30pm, Sun 10am-4pm; 3zl), which has a decent archeology section plus the usual local history displays. If you want to continue with the ecclesiastical theme, you can visit the small Baroque Kosciol sw. Barbary (St Barbara's Church) to the south of Jasna Gora, allegedly the place where the Black Madonna was slashed; Kosciol sw. Jakuba (St James's Church), opposite the town hall on al. NMP, a tsarist-era Orthodox building converted into a Catholic place of worship following the attainment of independence in 1918; and the cathedral , east of the train station on ul. Krakowska, a vast, soulless neo-Gothic structure built - but never fully completed - in the early 1900s. Near the suburban station of Rakow, reached by any southbound tram, is an important archeology reserve (Tues-Sat 9am-3pm, subject to random closures), with 21 excavated graves from the Lusatian culture of the sixth and seventh centuries BC.
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