Opole

Opolskie

Capital: Opole Major cities: Kedzierzyn-Kozle

Major tourist attractions

Brzeg

Renaissance castle of Silesian Piasts with arcaded courtyard. Old urban layout of the town’s centre with burghers’ houses, town hall and churches.

Moszna (Strzeleczki)

Curiously shaped palatial residence with an adjacent parkland.

Nysa

Greatest tourist attraction is its huge Gothic cathedral.

Paczków

Old urban complex surrounded by intact medieval ramparts with gates and turrets; the fortified St John’s Church (14th century) is a part of town’s defences. Paczków is often called Poland’s Carcassonne.

Opole

Town Hall and old houses line up the Market Square. Many churches, the Piast Tower.

St Ann’s Mountain (Lesnica)

Religious shrine and the Franciscan church and monastery. The Monument to the Silesian Insurgents.