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Wiślica, Wiślica
The hillfort in Wiślica lies among meadows in an old bed of the Nida, a few hundred metres from the centre of the little town in the Ponidzie region. It was raised at the turn of the 10th and 11th centuries, when Piast rule was taking hold in Lesser Poland, and ranks among the most important archaeological sites in the region.
Wiślica was one of the main stronghold centres of southern Poland. The fort was consumed by a fire linked to the Ruthenian and Cuman raid on Wiślica in 1135; researchers still dispute which of the local strongholds was destroyed then. Traces of a stone wall are dated to the 13th and 14th centuries, the time of Władysław Łokietek's struggle for these lands.
Today the ramparts and the ditch remain clearly readable, surrounded by wetlands and meadows; the site is freely accessible along paths in the grass. The town itself completes the visit: the collegiate church with the Orants Slab, the Długosz House and the underground archaeological reserve with relics of Romanesque churches.
