Conference Location
The conference will be held in the capital of the Świętokrzyskie region, Kielce. The city is located in the southern part of central Poland on the river Silnica. Surrounded by the massif of the Świętokrzyskie Mountains, which are considered one of the oldest in Europe. According to the first mentions, Kielce received civic rights in 1260. Around the 11th and 12th centuries, a significant part of the territory, south of the Świętokrzyskie Mountains, was handed over to the bishops of Kraków - then the richest sovereigns in Poland. In 1493, Cardinal Fryderyk Jagiellończyk offered the city a coat of arms consisting of the golden letters C.K. (Civitas Kielcensis - Kielce community) and the crown placed on a red background.
Nowadays, Kielce is recognized as the main regional economic, scientific, tourist and exhibition and market center. The city is the only place on the Old Continent that has as many as five nature reserves (Ślichowice, Kadzielnia, Biesak, Wietrznia) and one landscape reserve (Karczówka) within its borders. The most important attractions of Kielce and the surrounding area include:
• Palace of the Krakow Bishops erected in the years 1637-1644 on the initiative of the bishop of Kraków Jakub Czekik. Classified to the highest class - group "0" (in the old classification) of monuments. Considered the most valuable of the surviving examples of the Polish residence from the Vasa age;
• Tomasz Zieliński's palace - built in 1846–58, and from the mid-nineteenth century was the property of the head of the Kielce powiat Tomasz Zieliński, who is 1851–57 added a neo-Gothic tower, orangery and a tower. The inner courtyard was a romantic park enclosed by a wall with the Gossip Tower.
• The Market Square - its layout has been preserved since the 14th century. It houses the classical building of the municipal office built in 1835, the Sołtyków tenement house built in 1765 by Mateusz Gilb - cook of the bishop Kajetan Sołtyk, the coat of arms of the Sołtyków on the facade, the building of the National Museum with arcades from II. half. XVIII century, "Wójtostwo" - the head of the village head from the end of the 18th century, in which T. Kościuszko stayed in 1794.
• Kadzielnia - a strict inanimate nature reserve with an area of 0.6 ha created in 1962. Created from Devonian stromatoporoid-coral limestone covered with marly limestone;
• The Holy Cross, the symbol of the Holy Cross Mountains located on Łysa Góra. In the monastery erected on the site of pagan worship there are relics of the Holy Cross kept in the Oleśnicki Chapel;
• Raj Cave - the most beautiful karst cave in Poland inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. It is distinguished by the richness and variety of calcite stalactite formations. It has clusters of stalactites with a unique density on a global scale.