Lesko - town hall, castle, synagogue and Jewish cemetery

The central building of the city is the town hall, the seat of the local government. The town hall in Lesko is a one-story building covered with a high roof with a clock display. It was built in 1896 in an eclectic style, combining features of various historical architectural styles. The windows are finished with cornices typical of the Renaissance period. In turn, the ground-floor facade of the building refers to the classicist style. The soaring roof also looks original. It brings to mind the soaring finials of Gothic temples. Above the entrance, there is the Lesko coat of arms from the period of the former owners of the town - Kmita.

Another spectacular building in the city is the Kmita Castle. The building is situated on a slope above the San River and today it houses a 3 * hotel, a restaurant and a small conference center. The historic object is still of interest to archaeologists, so often more archaeological excavations can be seen in the castle area.

The Leska synagogue is one of the best preserved Jewish cultural sites in southern Poland. It was built in the years 1626-1654 on the site of an old synagogue. In 1838 the gables, roof and interior were rebuilt. During World War II, the Nazis completely devastated the interior of the synagogue. After renovation in the 1980s, the synagogue was turned into the Art Galleries of the Bieszczady Group of Artists. In 1995 there were plans to establish a Museum of Galician Jews in the synagogue, however, the opening never took place.

The original interior of the interior has not survived to this day. Inside, the Aron Kodesh binding has been preserved, in the form of two columns topped with a triangular gable. It is a simplified copy of the ark from the Golden Rose synagogue in Lviv. In the center there was originally a cast-iron arbor bimah. The planes of the walls are divided by two cornices into three storeys. Between the cornices there are semicircular recesses for quotes from the Torah.

Due to the age of the preserved tombstones, the Jewish cemetery in Lesko is considered to be one of the most valuable necropolises in Poland. Over an area of approximately 3.2 ha, over two thousand tombstones have survived. In the archives, the cemetery is mentioned for the first time in 1611, when two peasants sold "four plots of land to Lesko Jews."

Legend has it that it is the resting place of Sephardic rabbis expelled from Spain and Portugal in the 16th century, but historians do not confirm this thesis.