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Czorsztyn
On one shore stand the ruins of Czorsztyn Castle, on the other Dunajec Castle in Niedzica, and between them lies water that as recently as the 1990s was a valley of villages and fields. Lake Czorsztyn is a reservoir on the Dunajec River, s…
Churches & monasteries
Czorsztyn
From the outside it is a modest 1980s church with a steep roof and a small bell turret. Inside, though, it keeps mementoes of a world that vanished under water: furnishings from the church of Stare Maniowy, flooded when Lake Czorsztyn was…
Landmarks
Czorsztyn
When water began to fill the Dunajec valley in the 1990s, the old village of Maniowy, part of Kluszkowce and the summer-resort quarter of old Czorsztyn vanished beneath Lake Czorsztyn. Some of their buildings survived – taken apart beam by…
Landmarks
Czorsztyn
More than 1,500 km of routes and over 250 wooden monuments – Catholic and Orthodox churches, bell towers, manor houses, villas and open-air museums – make up the Wooden Architecture Route in the Małopolska region. Eight of them are UNESCO…
Castles
Czorsztyn
Czorsztyn Castle (say "chor-shtin") is a romantic medieval ruin perched on Castle Hill, about 50 meters above Czorsztyn Lake in Poland's Pieniny Mountains. For centuries this royal Polish fortress watched the Hungarian border and the Dunaj…