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Kazimierz Dolny

Kazimierz Dolny is a beautiful small town on the Wisla (Vistula) river, surrounded by wooded hills and has many renaissance buildings and traditional wooden houses. It has an extremely precious urban complex with a medievel market square and renaisance monuments (houses, church, granaries near the river side). There is a church and monastery from the 17th century with a long set of covered steps up to the church. On a hill above the town are the ruins of a Gothic castle from the 14th century and a tower from the 13th century.
Today is Kazimierz a very popular place for many tourists to come here for holidays and one day trips, spacialy from Warsaw.