Where to Stay in Piotrków Trybunalski, Łódź Voivodeship

What is Piotrków Trybunalski known for?

On the plain of central Poland between Łódź and the hills, it was one of the great towns of the old realm, where the parliament met and the kings were chosen before Warsaw rose, and it keeps a royal castle of brick, an old market square of burgher houses, a Gothic parish church, and the memory of the high court that gave the town its name. The old town rings the square. The flat plain runs around.

What are the main landmarks in Piotrków Trybunalski?

The royal castle stands at the heart of Piotrków. The brick tower-castle raised by a king five centuries ago, where the parliament once met, rises over the old town, the emblem of the city, above the streets. A market square lies nearby.

The old Trybunalski square of burgher houses holds the centre, while the Gothic parish church, the Jesuit church, and the old synagogue mark the streets of Piotrków.

What is the history of Piotrków Trybunalski?

Piotrków was a royal seat of medieval Poland. One of the oldest towns of the kingdom, it stood on the road that kings travelled, and the parliament of the realm met here and chose kings within its castle and churches, in the days before Warsaw. Kings and lords gathered.

The great men of the kingdom came to Piotrków for its assemblies, and the town grew rich and proud on its place at the heart of the realm. The high court made its name. In the sixteenth century the Crown Tribunal, the highest court of the land for the Polish crown, was seated here, and Piotrków took the name Trybunalski, the town of the Tribunal.

War fell hard on the town. Later wars and partitions cost Piotrków its old greatness, and in the last century its large Jewish community was walled into a ghetto and destroyed, a grief the town remembers. The old castle still stands.

Piotrków keeps its castle and its square on the plain.

Where is Piotrków Trybunalski?

Piotrków Trybunalski lies in central Poland, on the plain south of Łódź. The town stands on flat lowland where the great central plains roll toward the uplands of the south, in a country of fields and pine woods watered by small rivers, with low hills rising away to the south. Flat fields spread around.

Pine woods edge the plain.

What is the climate of Piotrków Trybunalski?

The weather over Piotrków Trybunalski is temperate and continental. Warm summers and cold winters cross the central plain, with rain fairly even through the year and snow in the winter months. Grey damp days are common.

The plain turns white in winter.

How do you get to Piotrków Trybunalski?

Piotrków Trybunalski lies in central Poland, on the road and rail south of Łódź. Trains and the motorway run to it across the plain from Łódź and Warsaw, and roads fan out to the country towns. Lanes cross the old market square. Łódź lies north up the line.