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Technical monuments
Kowary
The Podgórze Uranium Mine (pod-GOO-zheh) in Kowary is a former uranium mine in Poland's Giant Mountains where ore really was extracted in the 1950s — and where you now explore the tunnels by the light of miners' lamps. Highlights include a…
Amusement parks
Kowary
The Lower Silesian Monuments Miniature Park in Kowary (ko-VAH-rih) is an open-air display of 1:25 scale models of the castles, palaces, churches and old towns of southwest Poland. In one stroll you can see Książ Castle, Vang Stave Church,…
Mountains & peaks
Kowary
People have lived on the Okraj Pass, at 1,046 m above sea level, for more than three hundred years – the first huts were put up in 1690 by exiled Habsburg officers. Today's PTTK hostel is a timber complex from 1975, right next to the road…
Technical monuments
Kowary
Sztolnie Kowary (SHTOL-nyeh ko-VAH-rih, "the Kowary Adits") is an underground tour through the former Liczyrzepa uranium mine in Kowary, a small town at the foot of Poland's Giant Mountains. On a one-hour guided walk you follow tunnels whe…