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Churches & monasteries
Żagań
The neo-Gothic Church of the Holy Cross stands in the north-eastern part of the palace park in Żagań, right by a bend of the Bóbr river. Outside it catches the eye with a facade of fieldstone granite and dozens of colourful coats of arms;…
Museums
Żagań
On the night of 24–25 March 1944, 76 Allied airmen crawled through a tunnel more than a hundred metres long beneath the wire of Stalag Luft III in Żagań. The breakout went down in history as the Great Escape and inspired the 1963 Hollywood…
Palaces
Żagań
The palace in Żagań was begun by Albrecht von Wallenstein, the Thirty Years' War commander who also brought the astronomer Johannes Kepler to the town. Completed by the Lobkowicz family, the residence blends French and Italian palace featu…
Churches & monasteries
Żagań
In the monastery library in Żagań, two people standing in opposite corners of the room can talk in a whisper while anyone in the middle hears nothing. This is the work of a so-called whispering vault, one of the curiosities of the former A…