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Castles
WaĆbrzych
KsiÄ ĆŒ Castle (pronounced roughly "kshonzh") in WaĆbrzych is the largest castle in Lower Silesia and the third-largest in Poland, after Malbork and Wawel. Perched on a rocky spur above a wooded gorge in southwestern Poland, it was home to tâŠ
Landscape parks
WaĆbrzych
KsiÄ ĆŒ Castle stands on a rocky spur above the gorge of the PeĆcznica River, and it is this mountain-like landscape within the city limits of WaĆbrzych that KsiÄ ĆŒ Landscape Park protects. Its 3,155 hectares hold deep ravines, beech woods, tâŠ
Hidden gemTechnical monuments
WaĆbrzych
The last cart of coal came up from the Julia mine on 20 September 1996, and less than two decades later the site reopened as one of Poland's largest industrial heritage centres. At the Old Mine (Stara Kopalnia) in WaĆbrzych you are often gâŠ
Hidden gemCastles
WaĆbrzych
For most of the 20th century Old KsiÄ ĆŒ (Stary KsiÄ ĆŒ) was thought to be a sham ruin â a folly invented for the Hochberg family's romantic park. Only archaeological research in the 1990s confirmed that beneath the 18th-century "stage set" liâŠ
Churches & monasteries
WaĆbrzych
The Guardian Angels Church in WaĆbrzych (say "VAHW-bzhikh"), formally the Collegiate Church of Our Lady of Sorrows and the Holy Guardian Angels, is the main Catholic church of this former coal-mining city in Lower Silesia, southwest PolandâŠ
Churches & monasteries
WaĆbrzych
WaĆbrzych's oldest church is also one of its smallest. The little Church of Our Lady of Sorrows on Plac KoĆcielny holds a PietĂ before which pilgrims have prayed for centuries. Since 3 May 2010 Our Lady of Sorrows has been the official patâŠ
Museums
WaĆbrzych
The Porcelain Museum in WaĆbrzych (roughly "VAH-wb-zhikh") is a small but rewarding museum in Lower Silesia, southwest Poland. Set in the neoclassical Alberti Palace in the city center, it displays more than 10,000 pieces of Silesian and EâŠ
Gardens
WaĆbrzych
The WaĆbrzych Palm House (WaĆbrzych is pronounced roughly "VAH-wb-zhikh") is a historic glasshouse built in the early 20th century by the aristocratic owners of nearby KsiÄ ĆŒ Castle. Under its glass dome grow date palms and more than 250 plâŠ
Gardens
WaĆbrzych
The WaĆbrzych Palm House (say "VAHW-bzhikh") in the LubiechĂłw district is a historic glasshouse built by Prince Hans Heinrich XV von Hochberg, lord of nearby KsiÄ ĆŒ Castle, for his wife, the British-born socialite Daisy, Princess of Pless.âŠ
Fortifications
WaĆbrzych
Half a kilometre of concrete corridors and halls cut 50 metres beneath Poland's third-largest castle â and nobody knows to this day how big the whole complex really is. The KsiÄ ĆŒ Castle Underground is an unfinished Nazi German project fromâŠ
Old towns & squares
WaĆbrzych
On top of a corner house on WaĆbrzych's Market Square sits an anchor â in a mountain town hundreds of kilometres from the sea. It symbolises the old trading links between WaĆbrzych (German: Waldenburg) and lands overseas. The town's oldestâŠ
Viewpoints
WaĆbrzych
For years Borowa was a summit with no view â and an underrated one too: the neighbouring CheĆmiec was included in the Crown of Polish Mountains because, when it was measured, the instruments had been placed on a tower. Only a correction shâŠ