Lesko (until 1931 Lisko) - a city in the province Podkarpackie, the capital of the poviat.
Lesko is located on the right bank of the San, on the border of the Bieszczady and Przemyskie Foothills, between Solina and Sanok. So it is caused Lesko is called the "Bieszczady Gate".
Monuments in Lesko:
- Old Market Square on May 3rd Constitution Square with tenement houses from the 17th-20th centuries
- Town Hall in Lesko - from 1896, a two-storey building with a clock tower represents the eclectic style. Above the entrance is the coat of arms Leska from the period of the original owners of the town - Kmita
- Old Market Square on May 3rd Constitution Square with tenement houses from the 17th-20th centuries
- Town Hall in Lesko - from 1896, a two-storey building with a clock tower represents the eclectic style. Above the entrance is the coat of arms Leska from the period of the original owners of the town - Kmita
- Kmita Castle in Lesko - erected on the high bank of the San on the initiative of the Grand Marshal of the Crown and the Governor of Cracow - Piotr Kmita of the Szreniawa coat of arms, in the place of the former wooden castle. Currently a holiday resort.
- Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary - parish church from around 1539, next to it is a Baroque bell tower built in 1725-65
- Synagogue in Lesko - a building from the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries, destroyed during World War II, lost sacral functions, rebuilt in the years 1960-63, currently houses an art gallery
- Synagogue in Lesko - a building from the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries, destroyed during World War II, lost sacral functions, rebuilt in the years 1960-63, currently houses an art gallery
- Former Armenian temple
- Military cemetery - from the times of the First World War, in the collective graves lies about 600 soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian, Russian and German armies who died in the battles of the First World War
- Jewish cemetery in Lesko - among the Jewish cemeteries in the Bieszczady Mountains, the largest and the oldest and the best preserved Jewish cemetery, there are about 2 thousand. matzev or Jewish tombstones. The oldest matzeva comes from 1548.
- Military cemetery - from the times of the First World War, in the collective graves lies about 600 soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian, Russian and German armies who died in the battles of the First World War
- Jewish cemetery in Lesko - among the Jewish cemeteries in the Bieszczady Mountains, the largest and the oldest and the best preserved Jewish cemetery, there are about 2 thousand. matzev or Jewish tombstones. The oldest matzeva comes from 1548.
...and more curious monuments and places.
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