Pszczyna Castle — the building that local tourism materials call a palace — is the centrepiece of the town and the reason most visitors come. The current neo-baroque and neo-rococo structure was extensively rebuilt in the 1870s to designs by French architect Hippolyte Destailleur, giving it a grandeur somewhat out of proportion to the small town that surrounds it. The family that commissioned the work, the von Hochbergs, were one of the richest aristocratic dynasties in 19th-century Europe.
The castle is now open to the public as a museum and contains one of the best-preserved aristocratic interiors in Poland. Many original pieces survived — furniture, porcelain, weapons, tapestries — because the family was able to protect some contents before fleeing in 1945. Audio guides are available in English and German and are worth picking up for the historical context they provide.