Art & culture
A 15th-century larch church, built without a single nail and painted inside like a jewellery box.
Photo: Tomasz Zielonka / Unsplash
The Church of St Michael the Archangel in Dębno is one of the wooden churches of southern Poland on the UNESCO list. From the outside it looks like a simple barn with a shingled roof; inside, every surface is covered in medieval stencil patterns.
It’s a short stop on the way to the Dunajec or the Tatras, and one of those places people talk about long after the trip.
Yes, if you are going to the Dunajec or Zakopane anyway: it adds less than an hour and is one of the most beautiful interiors in Poland.
A farming village where the women paint flowers on everything: houses, wells, barns and even the dog kennel.
A sloping wooden market town that inspired painters, next to a UNESCO pilgrimage park in the hills.
Under the Old Town lies a maze of brick cellars, and in some of them very good jazz plays late into the night.
