The surrounding area of Bliżyn includes Szydłowiec Castle, Góra Piekło, Góra Cymbra and Sanator Czarniecka Góra. Szydłowiec Castle is suited to an interest in castles and regional culture.
You can book a hotel in Bliżyn.
Geographical setting
The broader regional surroundings of Bliżyn also include the ruins of the castle in Bodzentyn, Bukowa Góra and Dębno, St Nicholas Parish.
Getting around
A 10.5 km-long black hiking trail leads from Sołtyków via Mroczków, the turn-off to the Ciechostowice Nature Reserve and Ubyszów to the railway and bus stops in Bliżyn, which form its endpoint; the green Bliżyn–Zagnańsk trail also begins there. This is a specific reference point for travelers who would like to include a hike as part of their stay in Bliżyn.
The Piekielny Szlak is an approximately 250 km-long hiking trail that runs through the municipality of Bliżyn and connects nature reserves, natural monuments, industrial heritage sites and other attractions in the Łódź and Świętokrzyskie Voivodeships.
A 296.6 km-long section of the blue Berlin–Lviv cycling route in the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship runs through the municipality of Bliżyn.
Culture
At 65 Kościuszki Street stands a family chapel built in 1818, which now serves as a filial church of Saint Sophia.
The parish church of St. Louis at 90 Kościuszki Street was built between 1896 and 1900.
The former outbuilding of a 19th-century manor house, known as “Zameczek”, now houses the Bliżyn Municipal Cultural Center at 2 Staszica Street.
Landscape
The municipality of Bliżyn lies in the buffer zone of Świętokrzyski National Park and encompasses the central part of the Suchedniowska Plateau.
A large part of the municipality is protected within the Suchedniowsko–Oblęgorski Landscape Park; the municipality also encompasses extensive complexes of pine and fir forests.
The Bliżyn Reservoir is a body of water covering more than 10 hectares on the Kamienna River and is located in Bliżyn.
For additional location pages, you can also visit Skarżysko-Kamienna, Łączna and Płaczków.
