RYNEK (MARKET PLACE)

Leszno boasts a pleasant cobbled Rynek, in neoclassical style with Baroque facades, as well as a handsome town hall and parish church. It was rebuilt in the ^18th century after the Northern War left the town in ruins. The town's most remarkable religious building is the Baroque church of Saint-Nicolas. Next to the Church of the Holy Cross, a lapidary collection features funerary steles from a former Calvinist cemetery, the town's majority denomination before the Counter-Reformation, which brought Baroque splendor.