Ostroleka - PKS bus - restaurants and attractions

Ostrołęka on the surface appears to be an insignificant city, both from a tourist and economic perspective. But nothing could be further from the truth. Let's start with a historical sketch, because this locality has played an important role actually since the beginning of its existence.

Ostrołęka - history and related monuments

The first mention of it dates back to the tenth century, when a Piast stronghold and a settlement with a market rose near today's Ostroleka.

The first mention of it dates back to the tenth century.

The official date of the city's founding is May twelfth, 1373. It was then that Ostrołęka was to receive from the hands of Siemowit III, Duke of Mazovia, the privilege of aldermanship. Unfortunately, the document of granting the city rights itself has not survived, but the mentioned granting of aldermanship has, so it is customary to treat the date of granting aldermanship in the city as the moment of granting the city rights.

The city of Ostroleka was founded in May 1373.

In the fifteenth century Ostroleka, due to its location, was an important commercial and economic center. This is because the city lay on the route between Warsaw and Vilnius. Exchange was conducted there primarily with the Teutonic Order.

In the middle of the third decade of the sixteenth century, the city was incorporated into the Polish Crown, which allowed the city to develop rapidly.

Ostrołęka - what to see - the most interesting attractions

The city's rich history is the reason for the repeatedly changing layout of the city. Because over the centuries, the reconstruction of the center occurred frequently. Admittedly, the current old town with its street layout dates back to the fourteenth century, and the town hall located at the market square dates back to 1824. It should be pointed out, however, that it was rebuilt a century later after the damage sustained during the First World War.

One of the city's more distinctive landmarks is the bridge named after Antoni Madalinski, erected in the mid-1990s. Because of its construction, it has marchingly become one of the symbols of Ostroleka.

It is one of the symbols of Ostroleka.

You can't say you've gotten to know Ostroleka without visiting the Museum of Kurpie Culture, especially the Kurpie homestead in Kadzidlo. The place was opened to visitors in one thousand nine hundred and ninety-one. There you will find the Golonka Cottage, a house with a wide front of asymmetrical construction, commonly built in the early nineteenth century. The open-air museum also has a granary, a well with a crane, a lumber forge, beehives, a barn, a cowshed or an oil mill. It's worth visiting the homestead in early June, when ethnographic workshops "Disappearing Occupations" are conducted. On the third Sunday of June, you'll hit the "Kurpiowskie Wesele" (Kurpie Wedding), and the first Sunday of September is "Kadzidla Sunday", during which a village tournament and folk art fair are held.

How to get to Ostrołęka?

One of the best ways to get to this wonderful city is to take advantage of our offer, that is, to come to the bus station by our bus lines. We stop at 21 Genała Ludwika Bogusławskiego Street, from where it's actually a stone's throw to the Old Town and the aforementioned Museum of Kurpie Culture. And interestingly enough, right behind the museum you will also hit the bridge we mentioned.