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Castles
gmina Niegowa
As recently as the 1990s, all that remained of Bobolice Castle was a ruin on a limestone crag. Today King Casimir the Great's fortress once again has a roof, a tower and battlements, the result of a ten-year private reconstruction that ope…
Castles
gmina Niegowa
On a limestone ridge above the village of Mirów, the castle walls grow straight out of the rocks. The ruins look as if someone had joined natural rock towers with masonry – and that is exactly how this stronghold was built. Mirów Castle da…
Nature
gmina Niegowa
The Northern Jura Geopark is not a single spot on the map but a scattered geotourism area in the northern part of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, including the area around Olsztyn near Częstochowa. The Polish Geological Institute has publis…
Mountains & peaks
gmina Niegowa
Between the ruin of Mirów Castle and the rebuilt fortress of Bobolice runs a rocky ridge where the Trail of the Eagles' Nests leads quite literally over the tops of the limestone outcrops. In one of the caves here, the unassuming Stajnia (…
Museums
gmina Niegowa
The Old Mill – Museum of Old Crafts (Stary Młyn) in Żarki ("ZHAR-kee") is a hands-on museum set in a nearly century-old electric mill in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, a limestone region of southern Poland known for its ruined castles. Ins…
Fortifications
gmina Niegowa
On top of the Zamkowa limestone rock in Łutowiec (Niegowa municipality) there once stood a small medieval stronghold. Today all that remains is a fragment of wall on the summit of the outcrop and barely visible traces of a rampart and moat…