The Synagogue in Lesko is an Ashkenazi synagogue built between 1626 and 1654. It was restored in 1838 and between 1981 and 1991. In use until WWII, this Baroque stone synagogue is now a museum.
For more information visit on this building visit http://historicsynagogueseurope.org/browser.php?mode=set&id=13524
The Saint-Michel-Archange church is one of the Carpathian wooden churches listed by UNESCO. It was built at the beginning of the 19th century on an old 16th century church. The current building has a distinctive roof covered with sheet metal.
The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Archangel Michael is one of the oldest wooden churches in the south of Małopolska. Initially built in the 15th century, it was completely renovated and enlarged in the 17th century (bell tower, arcades, defensive rampart) after a devastating Tatar invasion. Abandoned after the Second World War, the building was restored in the 1980s and consecrated again in 2000.
The Church of St. Michael the Archangel is one of Poland's wooden churches listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Dating from the 16th century, the current building dates from 1791. Abandoned after the Second World War, the church was renovated in 2004-2005. The only unchanged element of the original church is a fragment of polychrome representing a curtain supported by angels and empty cartridges.
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