The best city hikes and walks around Piotrków

For nearly 200 years, the Crown Tribunal – the most important appellate court for the nobility in Greater Poland – convened here.

The building known as Gustav Kramer's Bank House from the cult crime comedy "Vabank" (1981) directed by Juliusz Machulski is a corner tenement house called "Złoty Róg" (Golden Horn), located at Kościuszki Square 6 (at the intersection with Sieradzka Street) in Piotrków Trybunalski.

The corner building "Golden Horn" (officially entered into the register of monuments in March 1992) has permanently inscribed itself into the city's architectural and film landscape.

The bench of Henryk Kwinto in Piotrków Trybunalski was created in May 2015 as part of the film trail. It commemorates the iconic film "Vabank" (1981) by Juliusz Machulski, scenes of which were filmed in this city (including in the corner tenement house "Złoty Róg" at Plac Kościuszki, which played Kramer's bank). In the autumn of 2024, the renovated bench was moved to a better, new location.

The Orthodox parish in the city was founded in the 18th century by merchants from Macedonia and Greece, who were fleeing persecution in the Ottoman Empire.

The water tower was completed in 1926 according to the design by Władysław Horodecki. The construction was financed by a loan taken from the New York company „Ulen & Co.”, as part of an agreement concerning the financing of investments in four Polish cities (Częstochowa, Lublin, Radom, and Sosnowiec) aimed at modernizing infrastructure and improving sanitary and health standards. The tower was intended to be part of the water and sewage system of Piotrków Trybunalski, which is why it was located in the very center of the city on Słowackiego street, right next to the railway station. In the mid-1990s, a radio transmitter was placed on it. Until May 20, 2013, the Polsat television company had a transmitter on the tower. In mid-2008, the exterior of the Water Tower was renovated as part of the Trail of Many Cultures project.

It may not be the French Riviera or even a substitute for Polish Masuria. But as a park with a beach in the city. Quite an interesting development of the place.

The establishment of the Orthodox parish in Piotrków is associated with a group of Greeks who came to Piotrków from Macedonia in the mid-18th century. King Stanisław August allowed the opening of an Orthodox pastoral facility in the attic of a private house, owned by the Grabowski family at today's Plac Stefana Czarnieckiego (former Krótka Street) 10 in 1788. The first parish priest was hieromonk Grzegorz, originally from the island of Chios, a monk from one of the Athos communities. He performed his duties until his death in 1832. His duties were taken over by a Russian priest, Fr. Żadziński. Until 1839, the Piotrków parish, as an ethnically Greek one, was not subject to the local structures of the Russian Orthodox Church. It was only after that date that it was incorporated into it, which meant the removal of the Greek language from the liturgy. Located at 15 Juliusza Słowackiego Street. Built in the years 1844–1847, and expanded according to the design of the Russian architect Ivan Vasilyevich Shtrem in the years 1867–1869.