Dukla - Points of Interest

Points of Interest

  • market square with a Renaissance town hall (17th century),
  • ruins of a 16th century border tax office,
  • ruins of a synagogue (1758),
  • Dukla Palace with a park (1636). The palace was remodelled in 1764–65 by Jerzy August Mniszech and his wife Maria Amelia Bruhl. Currently, it serves as a History Museum, with World War Two-era weapons on display,
  • Rococo St. Maria Magdalena parish church (1764), with tomb of Franciszek Stadnicki (1742–1810),
  • complex of a Bernardine abbey and church (1731), with the church itself built in 1761–1764. In the church there is a coffin of John of Dukla
  • ruins of a brewery (1750–1799),
  • park chapel (1875),
  • World War One and World War Two cemetery.

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