Monuments to visit Szydłowiec

Located north of the Rynek, it is a beautiful building set in a park, built between 1510 and 1526 and then remodeled in the 17th century. It has not been modified since then. The interiors have also remained intact. Today it houses a museum of folk music instruments, whose superb collection is of interest to both the curious and the initiated. Take the opportunity to eat at the Zamek café and restaurant. It serves unpretentious but good Polish cuisine.

While it stands in the center of the Rynek, with its beautifully renovated facade, this beautiful town hall copies the opulent town halls of Krakow's cities founded during the Renaissance, Kazimierz being the first. The similarity between this building, built between 1602 and 1626, and the present-day Museum of Ethnography in Kraków, also rebuilt between the 16th and 17th centuries, is striking: they both share a crenellated attic and a clock tower in the pure Italian tradition popularized by the Polish king Sigismund Iᵉʳ the Old and his wife Bonne Sforza.