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Hidden gemMuseums
Duszniki-Zdrój
Lower Silesia once had around 100 paper mills. Only one survived — in the spa town of Duszniki-Zdrój, on the Bystrzyca Dusznicka river. Since 1968 it has housed the Museum of Papermaking, and handmade paper is still produced in its vat roo…
Hidden gemMountains & peaks
Duszniki-Zdrój
Emperor Joseph II, future US president John Quincy Adams and the young Fryderyk Chopin all once stood on the summit of Orlica. This border peak (1,084 m) is the highest point of the Polish part of the Orlické Mountains (Góry Orlickie) and…
Hidden gemTechnical monuments
Duszniki-Zdrój
It was meant to run the length of the Sudetes, from Zittau to near Opava – about 300 km of mountain road. Only two sections were ever built, and the longer one is the Sudeten Highway (Autostrada Sudecka), today regional road 389 from Polsk…
Historic sites
Duszniki-Zdrój
The Chopin Manor in Duszniki-Zdrój (say "DOOSH-nee-kee ZDROO-y"), formerly the Spa Theater, is an elegant white pavilion in the spa park of a small resort town in southwestern Poland. In summer 1826 a 16-year-old Frédéric Chopin gave a cha…
Other
Duszniki-Zdrój
The hostel's name comes neither from a legend nor from a map: a stuffed mouflon head with massive curled horns hangs in the dining room. The PTTK "Pod Muflonem" ("Under the Mouflon") hostel stands at 690 m on the slopes of Ptasia Góra (745…
Ski resorts
Duszniki-Zdrój
Zieleniec Sport Arena (say "zhyeh-LEH-nyets") is the largest ski resort in the Kłodzko Valley and one of the most popular in Poland. It sits at 800–960 m (2,600–3,150 ft) on the eastern slopes of the Orlické (Eagle) Mountains, right on the…