The best walks and hikes around Pleszew

A 27-meter water tower built in the late 1930s, designed by city architect Antoni Karolak as part of Kalisz's municipal waterworks system established from 1935. After being decommissioned in the 1960s, the tower stood abandoned until sculptor and cultural animator Bogdan Jarecki initiated its transformation into an art space. Since 1987 it has operated as the Plastic Arts Culture Center "Wieża Ciśnień," now bearing Jarecki's name.

A monument designed by Józef Petruk

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 building was one of only two structures on Śródmiejska street to survive the near-total destruction of the area by Prussian forces in August 1914; the other survivor was the Holy Trinity Hospital.

This two-storey neo-classical bank building at ul. Śródmiejska 29 was designed by Warsaw architect Hugo Kuder and constructed in 1912 as the headquarters of Bank Handlowy Warszawski. The L-shaped structure features a distinctive rounded corner section framed by Ionic half-columns with garland-decorated capitals, crowned by a pediment containing an allegorical relief. The interior banking hall is notable for its marble checkerboard flooring, marbled pilasters with gilded capitals, elaborate stucco decorations, and a large steel-framed stained glass skylight.

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).

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)