Przemyśl city

General information

LOCATION: Przemyśl – a city with an area of 46 km 2 and a population of 65,000 inhabitants (or 139,000 including the poviat), located in the eastern part of the Podkarpackie Voivodeship,...

Przemyśl - the tourist heart of eastern Poland

Przemyśl is one of a select group of the oldest and the most beautiful Polish towns. Its thousand years of turbulent history have been inextricably linked with the fate of the whole Polish...

Important dates from the history of Przemyśl

Important dates from the history of Przemyśl 981 - the oldest note about Przemyśl 1340 - re-incorporation of the Przemyśl Land to Poland by Casimir the...

The coat of arms of Przemyśl

Przemyśl’s coat of arms potrays a striding brown bear on a dark blue escutcheon and a gold maltese cross over it. Above the escutcheon there is a gold royal crown, and underneath it is a...

Curiosities of Przemyśl

Did you know that... • Przemyśl is a city with a thousand year old tradition - it was mentioned for the first time in Nestor’s Chronicle in 981, where Nestor mentioned that the city...

The Good Soldier Švejk in Przemyśl

The fourth, last volume of the novel by J. Hašek "The Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk", entitled "The famous thrashing continued" is almost entirely devoted to the adventures of...