Mountains
former PTTK mountain hut in a pre-war villa on the slope of Zagoj, now a restaurant with rooms
Parks and nature
a forest reserve with a natural site of several dozen two-hundred-year-old yews
Churches and monasteries
a Lutheran church from the Polish People's Republic era with reinforced concrete frames and an organ donated by the Lutheran World Federation
mound left from 18th- and 19th-century iron ore mining in Cisownica
Things to do in Cisownica: the Zadni Gaj reserve with two-hundred-year-old yews, traces of iron mining, a Lutheran church and a former mountain hut.
Cisownica is a village in Cieszyn Silesia, beneath the slopes of the Silesian Beskids. The four places on the list combine nature, industrial history and sacred architecture on a small scale.
The Zadni Gaj Nature Reserve, 6.39 ha, created in 1957 on the Zagój slope, protects several dozen yews about two hundred years old growing among Carpathian beech forest. Entry is free. The yew is a rare species in Poland, which gives the site its natural value.
The industrial strand is Łopuka, a heap of earth left from old iron ore mining, one of a dozen or so such traces nearby. The poor ore, siderite, was dug from primitive adits until 1870 and carted to ironworks in Ustroń and later in Třinec.
The Church of St John the Baptist is a modern Lutheran church, built from 1976 and consecrated on 21 June 1981. The former PTTK hut "Pod Tułem" at ulica Turystyczna 17, from the 1930s, no longer takes in hikers as a hut, because a restaurant with guest rooms operates there now. More ideas for a trip alone are in what to do alone in Cisownica.
Several dozen common yews about two hundred years old on the Zagój slope in the Cieszyn Foothills. Entry is free.
A heap of earth left over from old iron ore mining in adits of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
