The Town
Zywiec's castle (Tues-Fri 9am-3pm, Sat & Sun 10am-2pm; 3zl) was founded by the dukes of Oswiecim in the fifteenth century, gaining a handsome arcaded courtyard in the Renaissance period. In the nineteenth century, it was heavily restored by the Habsburgs, who also built the pristine white palace opposite, the object of a slow-moving restoration programme. There's a generally tranquil cafe, the Zamkowa , in the castle courtyard, while the huge park to the south is well worth a stroll, even if it's just to see the whimsical eighteenth-century Chinese tea house . Just to the east of the palace is the Kosciol Mariacki (St Mary's Church), which would be an unremarkable Gothic building with standard Baroque furnishings were it not for the imperious galleried Renaissance tower, which provides a landmark from all over town. On the main street, ul. Kosciuszki, immediately north of the church, is the local museum (Tues-Fri 9am-4pm, Sat 10am-3pm, Sun 10am-2pm; 5zl), housed in a Baroque mansion, and boasting a fine collection of gorale folk crafts and costumes. The only other sight worth mentioning is the rustic wooden Kosciol sw. Krzyza (Church of the Holy Cross) on ul. Swietokrzyska, just off the western end of ul. Kosciuszki.
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