CIECHANóW

'Ciechanów' () is a town in north-central Poland with 47,900 inhabitants (2002). It is situated in the Masovian Voivodeship (since 1999) and was previously the capital of Ciechanow Voivodeship (1975-1998). Before WWII it was home to a large Jewish community. During the war many Polish Jews and resistance fighters were executed by the Germans in the castle.

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Monuments

Education

Famous people

External links

Monuments

★ Ruins of 14th century Castle

★ Augustinian monastery - Late Gothic church of Visitation of Virgin Mary (1st quarter of 16th century) and cloister from the turn of 17th and 18th century

★ Late Gothic church of the Birth of Virgin Mary (1st quarter of 16th century)

★ Gothic-revival town hall from 1844 (probably by Henryk Marconi)

Education

★ Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa

★ Wyższa Szkoła Biznesu i Zarządzania

Famous people

★ Doda

★ Mieczysław Jagielski

★ Maria Konopnicka

★ Rafał Kownacki

★ Zygmunt Krasiński

★ Ignacy Mościcki

★ Roza Robota

★ Zbigniew Siemiątkowski

★ Aleksander Świętochowski

★ Stefan Żeromski

External links

★ Official homepage

★ Architecture of Ciechanow (only in Polish)

★ Czas Ciechanowa (Local weekly magazine, local press)

★ Discussion forum of city Ciechanów