Tourism

The town is the best sally point to attractive tourist regions of the Cracow-Częstochowa Upland. Its central location to rock areas and good communication determine that.  You can get to such convenient climbing areas as the “Rzędkowickie” Rocks, the “Zborów” Mountain in Podlesice and Podzamcze near Ogrodzieniec by PKS bus (Polish Motor-car Railways). Eastern part of the town is situated in central part of the Cracow-Częstochowa Jura and it is a a departure to the “Eagels’ Nest” Park, constituting a very attractive tourist area because of limestone island mountains’ landscape and karstic phenomena. Neighbouring areas of Zawiercie are characterised by unique topographic profile, picturesque and extraordinary morphological forms of the Cracow-Czestochowa Upland. Nowhere in Poland we find communities of plants extremely differed in respect of floristics and ecology. Pine and leafy forests, where beech is predominant, dominate here alternately. Protected species of game, wild fowls, reptile and amphibia can be met in forests. Existing water reservoirs complete beauty of areas surrounding Zawiercie. In Zawiercie neighbourhood, on the “Eagels’ Nest” Route you can find a number of castles’ ruins such as: Morsko, Mirów, Bobolice and this route’s pearl the Ogrodzieniec castle in Podzamcze.