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Łęknica
The Muskau Arch is a horseshoe about 40 km long, pressed into the ground by an ice sheet on both sides of the Lusatian Neisse — it is sometimes described as the only terminal moraine on Earth visible from space. For decades lignite, clay a…
Technical monuments
Łęknica
The Babina Former Mine Geo-Trail near Łęknica (pronounced "wenk-NEE-tsah") is a free forest trail past dozens of colorful lakes that formed in the pits of an old lignite mine on Poland's western border with Germany. It lies within the Musk…
Nature
Łęknica
The colourful lakes of the Muskau Arch are best explored on the "Former Babina Mine" geotourism trail between Nowe Czaple and Łęknica. These are not natural lakes but flooded pits and subsidence hollows left by a lignite mine that operated…
Gardens
Łęknica
Muskau Park (Park Mużakowski in Polish, pronounced moo-zhah-KOV-skee) is a vast 19th-century English-style landscape park straddling the Neisse River on the Polish–German border. Of its 728 hectares (about 1,800 acres), 522 lie in Łęknica,…
Castles
Łęknica
The New Castle in Bad Muskau stands a few hundred metres across the border, but you can walk to it from the Polish town of Łęknica through the park – it is the centrepiece of Muskau Park (Park Mużakowski), inscribed on the UNESCO World Her…