City hall and tower - Regional Museum

The Gothic city hall tower is located in the middle of the market-place. Until the last war it was surrounded by a lower building occupied by fire-brigade. The 8-floor tower, in lower part on a square plan, transformed in the middle of its height into octagon, is covered with an octagonal roof, with a metal-sheet wind vane on the top. At the ground level there are two doors for regular use and another door leading to the tie with the new city hall building. Wooden ceilings between floors, supported on solid beams are connected by means of wooden stairs. On the northern side of the old tower a new city hall building was built, connected to it by means of a low, glazed tie. The city hall is a monumental soc-realistic building not well-matched to the proportions of old structures. Entrance façade, on the side of collegiate, is accentuated by a shallow, wide three-axis break finished by a triangular top with a clock. The Museum can be visited daily, except Mondays and after-holiday days - from 10.00 till 16.00, on Sundays and holidays 10.00-14.00.

City defense wall

From old city walls only two fragments were maintained till today: the so-called "tower" at the W. Gomulicki square and the wall section included in the western part of the St. Peter and Paul church sacristy. "Tower" is an open bastion, made of brick and finished with crenels. Its present shape was influenced by reconstruction in 70s and 80s of the 19th century as well as renovation after the World War II which reconstructed main firing ports.

Castle - Polonia House

Former castle of the Płock bishops, nowadays the Polonia House, is located on a small, man-made hill surrounded on its southern part by Narew and its arm. The present structure, in which only surrounding walls and a part of architectonic details have remained, is a two-floor and three-floor building with entrance - flanked with two cylindrical small towers - through an arcade bridge, on the south-eastern part of the market-place. The entirety is dominated by a simplified replica of the city hall tower - reconstructed view tower. The castle can be visited with a guide. Those who want to taste the regional cuisine can visit the castle restaurant "Karmazynowa" and the others can go to the confectionery shop in the arcade between spans of the bridge leading to the castle.

Collegiate

The temple of a collegiate rank - third in the diocese - was established in Pułtusk by the bishop Paweł Giżycki. It was built in 1443-1449 in Gothic style, then re-built in 1554-1561 in Renaissance style. The temple has three aisles, two lower aisles maintained their Gothic style, the third one - much higher - is an example of the Mazovian Renaissance. The interior of the chapter is decorated with Renaissance mural paintings by Italian and Polish masters of the famous Cracow school. They were discovered accidentally under thick layer of plaster, in 1935 during renovation works. The entire basilica - this name was given in 1974 - has Baroque decorations.

Collegiate bell-tower

In the north-eastern corner of the market-place, at the outlet of M. Konopnicka Street to the market-place there is a massive body of the collegiate bell-tower. The tower was built in 1507. Its original shape is unknown as it was completely transformed. It is only known that it used to be a non-plastered prism on a square plan with sharp-arch windows.

St. Mary Magdalene Chapter

Placed in the southern end of the market-place, next to the castle, the St. Mary Magdalene Chapter is a rotunda, covered with a copula finished with a lantern, with its presbytery on a square plan. According to documentary sources the church was founded in Pułtusk by the bishop Wit Chotela. Archeological studies led in 1986-1987 in the closest vicinity of the present chapel shown that from 8th to 17th century there was a cemetery in this place. The present form - after several renovations - does not show the original body of the 16th century’s temple.

Former Holy Virgin Mary Church - State Archives

The building of the former Holy Virgin Mary Church is located next to the bus station, between Pany Marii Street and Zaułek Street. The building is within the co-called Old City. In 6th-7th centuries, and from 12the century there was a colony where perhaps the town was located - in 1275 for the first time. At the beginning of 12th century there was a wooden temple here. Another church under the invocation of the Holy Virgin Mary was built here - from brick - in the 40s of 13th century. In the 16th century, under the bishop Erazm Ciołek, it was replaced by the present structure, under the same invocation.

St. Peter and Paul Church (post-Jesuits, post-Benedictine)

Placed at the P. Skargi Street, the church has space configuration typical for Jesuit architecture of 17th and 18th centuries. It is not as large as Jesuit temples in Cracow, Lublin, Poznań or Vilnius, it is rather similar to Święta Lipka, Kaunas, Piotrków Trybunalski or Kalisz. The Jesuits who at the beginning of their existence were mainly engaged in education of the youth, were brought to Pułtusk from Braniewo in 1565 by the bishop Andrzej Noskowski in order to establish a college that would replace the existing collegiate school.

St. Joseph Church and post-Reformation convent