Points of Interest
- complex of former Franciscan abbey (1257), with a Gothic church of St. Stanislaus,
- Gothic - Renaissance church of Holy Trinity (16th century),
- ruins of the 18th century synagogue,
- house of Jan Długosz (16th century), which housed the Nowy Korczyn Protestant Academy,
- houses from the 16th, 17th and 18th century,
- 19th century Russian Cemetery, where Russian civil servants and soldiers were buried.
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