Churches and monasteries
brick church with a single nave and a tower, with a Renaissance tomb in the chancel
Historic sites
late Neoclassical Habsburg palace with a park, today the seat of the municipal office
Historic sites
Renaissance cenotaph of the Voivode of Kraków, hidden behind an altar for over 160 years
Museums
municipal museum with a coach house, carriages and farm tools, run since 1993
Things to do in Bestwina: the Habsburg palace in its park, a late Gothic church with a Renaissance Myszkowski tomb and a regional museum.
Bestwina is a commune where the four places on the list cluster around the church and the palace park. It is enough for a few hours among historic buildings, with one museum for a wet hour.
The Habsburg Palace at ulica Krakowska 111 is a late Classical building of 1824-1826, built for Karl Ludwig Habsburg and set in a park of 4.5 hectares. Today it houses the commune office, which means visitors enjoy its facade and the grounds rather than the rooms.
The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, finished in 1577, is late Gothic with a single nave and a Baroque interior. In the presbytery stands the Myszkowski tomb, a Renaissance sandstone cenotaph 789 cm tall, regarded as one of the most monumental works of funerary art in the Silesian Voivodeship. After conservation in 2015-2017 it can be admired in full again.
The Regional Museum has operated since 1993 in a former school. It shows old carriages, farm tools, a weaver's workshop and sacred art, so it suits a rainy day. Ideas for visiting the buildings are collected in architecture in Bestwina.
The palace is the seat of the commune office, so it is best viewed from outside and on a stroll through the park.
Old carriages, farm tools, a weaver's workshop and sacred art, along with mementos of local history.
