The surrounding area of Bliżyn includes Szydłowiec Castle, Góra Piekło, Góra Cymbra and Sanator Czarniecka Góra.
You can rent a holiday apartment in Bliżyn.
Culture and History
The wider region around Bliżyn includes Bodzentyn Castle Ruins, Bukowa Góra and Dębno, Parish of St. Nicholas.
Bliżyn is home to the family chapel built in 1818, which now serves as a filial church of Saint Sophia, at 65 Kościuszki Street.
Bliżyn is also home to the Parish Church of St. Louis, which was built between 1896 and 1900 and is located at 90 Kościuszki Street.
The former outbuilding of a 19th-century manor house, known as “Zameczek”, now houses the Bliżyn Municipal Cultural Centre at 2 Staszica Street.
Hiking and Cycling
A 10.5 km-long black hiking trail runs from Sołtyków via Mroczków, the turn-off to the Ciechostowice Nature Reserve and Ubyszów to the Bliżyn railway and bus stops, which mark its endpoint; the green Bliżyn–Zagnańsk trail begins at this endpoint.
The Piekielny Szlak is a hiking route approximately 250 km long that runs through Bliżyn Municipality and connects nature reserves, natural monuments, industrial heritage sites and other attractions in the Łódź and Świętokrzyskie Voivodeships.
A 296.6 km section of the blue Berlin–Lviv cycling route in the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship runs through Bliżyn Municipality.
Nature and Landscape
Bliżyn Municipality lies in the buffer zone of Świętokrzyski National Park and encompasses the central part of the Suchedniowski Plateau.
Large parts of Bliżyn Municipality lie within the protected area of the Suchedniowsko–Oblęgorski Landscape Park, which contains extensive complexes of pine and fir forests.
The Bliżyn Reservoir is a body of water covering more than 10 hectares on the Kamienna River, located in Bliżyn.
For further orientation, you can also visit the pages for Skarżysko-Kamienna, Płaczków and Łączna.
