Cemeteries and monuments
disused Jewish cemetery from the late 18th century with about 20 surviving matzevot
Parks and nature
rock outcrops, beech woods and the springs of the Wiercica near Złoty Potok
strict reserve with beech woodland on limestone and loess in the Eagles' Nests Park
Parks and nature
fir and pine forest with trees aged 100-160 years, a reserve from 1953 in Janów municipality
forest reserve with beech woods and rock outcrops on the hills of Bogdaniec and Koziarska Góra
Free things to do in Janów: four nature reserves on the Jura and a historic Jewish cemetery - five places with free entry.
The municipality of Janów lies in the Częstochowa district, on the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, within the Eagles' Nests Landscape Park. We mean this municipality, not the neighbourhoods of the same name in other towns of the region. Free outings from the whole region are gathered under free things to do in Silesia, and a separate Janów page covers the whole municipality.
The largest is the Parkowe reserve, enlarged in 2011 to 234 ha. It lies near Złoty Potok and Siedlec. It takes in hills, stretches of the Wiercica valley, rock outcrops, caves and the places where the river rises.
The reserve was established on 3 September 1957. Anyone who likes Jurassic rock will find outcrops, caves and water here, more than at the other places. The remaining reserves are smaller, but each has a different forest.
In the Bogdaniec reserve and the Bukowa Kępa reserve. The first grows on limestone rises, the second occupies 52.84 ha.
Bogdaniec spreads over the hills of Bogdaniec and Koziarska Góra; two kinds of beech wood are protected there, together with tall rock faces and their rock vegetation. Bukowa Kępa, established in 1995, is a strict reserve: beside the beech grow sycamore, pedunculate oak and large-leaved lime. Check before you go where you may enter, because protection in a strict reserve is the tightest.
The fir and pine forest of the Kaliszak reserve and the Jewish cemetery on Janów's Kościuszki Street. The first covers 14.64 ha, the second 1.2 ha.
The Kaliszak reserve belongs to the Sieraków forest district and neighbours Apolonka; some trees are a century old or more. The cemetery was founded at the end of the 18th century, and the register dates it to the second half of that century. It is closed to burials, covers 1.2 ha and has been on the register of monuments since 1986. About twenty matzevot survive from the old gravestones, the oldest dated 1791.
No, all four reserves and the cemetery are free to enter.
The Eagles' Nests Landscape Park includes the Parkowe, Bogdaniec and Bukowa Kępa reserves.
About twenty, mostly damaged. The oldest dates from 1791, and the cemetery is no longer used for burials.
Near Złoty Potok and Siedlec, in the Janów municipality, within the Eagles' Nests Landscape Park. The reserve takes in stretches of the Wiercica valley.
A mixed fir and pine forest. The reserve was created on 18 December 1953 and covers 14.64 ha.
