The best walks and hikes around Pleszew

One of the oldest cemeteries in Poland, established in 1786 by Greek wine merchants of Byzantine Orthodox faith who emigrated from Macedonia and settled in Kalisz in the early 18th century. The necropolis contains graves of Russian imperial officials who served in Kalisz during the partition era, as well as the last descendants of the city's original Greek merchant families.

The Kalisz Firefighters' Glory Monument is a historic monument dating back to 1985, located in front of the State Fire Service (PSP) Municipal Headquarters in Kalisz. It commemorates local firefighters and serves as a place of national remembrance. Renovated in 2025, it symbolizes courage, dedication, and the ethos of service, paying tribute to the firefighters of the State Fire Service (PSP) and the Volunteer Fire Service (OSP).

This horizontal sundial was moved to its current location in 1889 by planner Franciszek Szanior after the flood of 1881. Previously, since 1878, the sundial stood in St. Joseph's Square, and was made by Spiro (likely a stonemason and sculptor) from the Berendt factory in Warsaw.

I've been searching for information about the date of construction of this "Chinese gazebo" for a long time. But everything points to it being a modern structure. I haven't found it in any "old photos" or postcards. It's also not listed on the National Register of Historic Places. However, "oral histories" suggest it was built before the 1990s. I'll keep looking.

The graduation tower offers visitors a therapeutic microclimate conducive to relaxation and inhalation of beneficial brine aerosols (except in winter when the whole structure freezes)

The pond was excavated in 1843 and fed by an underground pipe from the Prosna River, featuring a small central island connected by an ornate bridge and originally topped with a wooden gazebo crowned by a tin rooster figure - giving the pond its name ("kogutek" meaning "little rooster"). Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, the pond served as a popular social venue for theatrical performances, summer gondola rides, and winter ice skating accompanied by military orchestras.

The sculpture Ptolemy's Cosmogony by Robert Sobociński, depicting a geocentric model (with the Earth at the center) of the Universe, was unveiled in 2010

The theatre has occupied four different buildings throughout its history: the original 1801 wooden structure collapsed after 15 years; its 1830s replacement burned in an 1858 city fire; the neo-Renaissance building erected in 1896–1900 was deliberately destroyed by German forces during the burning of Kalisz in 1914.