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Rzeszow

Rzeszów, the cultural and industrial centre of Podkarpackie, can take pride in its varied history. We would be pleased to invite you for a stroll along the city streets, and to bring you closer to the story of the Rzech borough.
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Rzeszow - discovering the legend

The mysteries of the underground city
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To the most well-known and admired landmarks of Rzeszów there has been added one more - the Underground Tourist Route. Though, it has been in existence since 2001, last year it received a new, more attractive appearance. The new route comprises 25 cellars linked by 15 corridors located on three different levels. The deepest one is nearly 10 m below the ground. The total route is now 369m long. The entrance is in a modern but matching the ancient surroundings building. Here we can begin an approximately one hour long journey into the past, enabling us to breathe in history, to touch a few hundred years old stone portals, walls or ceilings, as well as knights armour and swords ...

City Guide: museums & active

The Office of Artistic Exhibitions (BWA) – the Office of Artistic Exhibitions is situated in the historical 17th c. Nowomiejska synagogue. It houses exhibitions of Polish and foreign artists. Opening hours: Thu-Sun 10:00 am- 5:00 pm, Jana III Sobieskiego 18, +48 17 853 38 11, www.bwa.rzeszow.pl
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The theatre houses the Szajna Gallery.

It is the only such permanent exhibition of works by Józef Szajna, one of the most prominent European artists in the 20th c. All works which are in the gallery were donated to the town of Rzeszów by the artist who was born here.
There are 54 works of art displayed in the gallery: monumental paintings, drawings, collages, spatial compositions as well as elements of stage scenery from the most outstanding Szajna’s plays. From its very beginning the gallery is a meeting place for various artists: visual artists, writers, musicians and people connected with theatre.
The atmosphere of this spacious gallery room, full of the works of one of the most eminent 20th c. theatrical figures, is absolutely unique. We warmly invite you to visit it (both as an individual or with a group) at any time but please phone book in advance.

Józef Szajna
Born in 1922 in Rzeszów. He is a renown stage designer, theatre director, theatre theoretician, painter and graphic artist. During WW II he was a prisoner of nazi camps in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, which had a profound impact on his art. Seen mainly as a man of theatre, an author of a personal formula – “the theatre of visual art narration” (called also “the vision teatre”) in which visual signs such as extensive stage scenery and – often grotesquely enlarged - props occupy a crucial role. He is also a moralist, unceasingly warning through his art about existing and emerging world threats.