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Hidden gemLandscape parks
Wałbrzych
Książ Castle stands on a rocky spur above the gorge of the Pełcznica River, and it is this mountain-like landscape within the city limits of Wałbrzych that Książ Landscape Park protects. Its 3,155 hectares hold deep ravines, beech woods, t…
Hidden gemCastles
Wałbrzych
For most of the 20th century Old Książ (Stary Książ) was thought to be a sham ruin – a folly invented for the Hochberg family's romantic park. Only archaeological research in the 1990s confirmed that beneath the 18th-century "stage set" li…
Old towns & squares
Wałbrzych
On top of a corner house on Wałbrzych's Market Square sits an anchor – in a mountain town hundreds of kilometres from the sea. It symbolises the old trading links between Wałbrzych (German: Waldenburg) and lands overseas. The town's oldest…
Viewpoints
Wałbrzych
For years Borowa was a summit with no view – and an underrated one too: the neighbouring Chełmiec was included in the Crown of Polish Mountains because, when it was measured, the instruments had been placed on a tower. Only a correction sh…