Old City of Zamość
Stare Miasto w Zamościu
A UNESCO World Heritage Renaissance “ideal city” whose pink town hall and arcaded merchant houses around its great square have earned it the nickname “Padua of the North.”
Zamość was planned in 1580 by the statesman Jan Zamoyski, who commissioned the Italian architect Bernardo Morando to build it according to Renaissance ideal-city principles. It was inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 1992. The city centres on a square Great Market Square. To the north stands the pink town hall, with its fan-shaped grand staircase and tall bell tower, surrounded by colourful Armenian merchant houses with arcades on the ground floor. Nearby are the cathedral, the Zamoyski Palace, a Renaissance Jewish synagogue and a partly preserved star-shaped bastion fortress. Located about 80 km southeast of Lublin, it is about 1.5 hours by bus, making it suitable for a day trip. At noon there is a trumpet-call ceremony at the town hall.
Opening hours
All day
Nearby sights
- Majdanek State Museum
- Old Jewish Cemetery, Lublin
- Dominican Basilica of St. Stanislaus
- Lublin Castle & Chapel of the Holy Trinity
- Lublin Archcathedral
- Trinitarian Tower
- Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre Centre
- Lublin Underground Route