A town situated by the historic route leading from Brest to Małopolska, in the past famed for salt-works and breweries, and later for the bristle trade and industry developed by local Jews. Historic commercial architecture with narrow streets and arched buttresses has been preserved. The oldest historic building is St. Nicholas’ Church, originally built as a Gothic temple and reconstructed after the fire in 1752 in the Baroque style. At the main altar hang paintings from the Szymon Czechowicz school of painting, probably the work of Łukasz Smuglewicz.