History and traditions
Town history
Cieszyn, a town on the borders of Poland and the Czech Republic, can pride itself on a long and complex history.
Cieszyn superlatives
Although now it only has (together with Czech Cieszyn) just over 63 thousand residents, and both towns occupy the area of 62 square kilometers, it is often said, in both towns and quite humorously that the town was divided by a border because it was too big to be contained in one country.
