Tucked into a small triangular green at the corner of Sienkiewicza and Wesoła streets stands a bronze wild boar, life-size, head down, looking ready to charge. He commemorates the legend of the city's founding and explains the otherwise mysterious fact that "Kielce" sounds like the Polish word for "tusk" (kieł, plural kły). The legend is invariably retold in school textbooks; the boar himself is a 21st-century addition that has quietly become a meeting point for locals.
Nothing more to it than that — a five-minute stop on a walk down Sienkiewicza, but a useful one if you want to feel like you understand where you are. Children love to climb on him, and he is genuinely sturdy enough to take it.