Tripto Guide
19 places. The best places, landmarks and ideas for exploring the region. Open a place to see all details.

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## A land of ponds and wetlands The Barycz Valley is a broad nature region along the Barycz River, stretching across Lower Silesia and southern Greater Poland. Its best-known part is the Milicz Ponds, one of Poland’s most valuable wetland…

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Alpacas at the Brick House are a small-scale animal experience at an agritourism farm in Koruszka near Milicz, in the heart of the Barycz Valley. The hosts have kept alpacas since 2013 and organise meetings and guided walks. This is not a…

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The Carp Days in the Barycz Valley are an autumn programme devoted to Milicz carp, nature and local traditions. From September to November, restaurants, fish farms, guides and organisations invite visitors to events in towns across the val…

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**The wooden Church of Saints Fabian and Sebastian in Krotoszyn**, also known as St Roch’s Church, is one of the town’s oldest and most distinctive monuments. Built around 1572 as a hospital church, its Greek-cross plan and central dome se…

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In the village of Nowy Zamek in the Milicz municipality, on the shores of the Milicz Ponds, operates Hubertówka — a restaurant with guest rooms specialising in game and fish cuisine. It is a typical address for the Barycz Valley, a region…

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**The Colourful Carp Trail** runs through the Barycz Valley on the border of Lower Silesia and Greater Poland. It is not one continuous footpath but a dispersed route connecting attractions, monuments, fishponds, educational sites, fisheri…

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**The Evangelical Church in Zduny** is a Baroque-Classical landmark built between 1789 and 1792. The former Protestant church is distinguished by its spacious, clear form and an interior with two-level galleries supported by Ionic columns.…

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**St John the Baptist Church in Zduny** is one of the most interesting Baroque monuments in southern Greater Poland. It stands on slightly raised ground north-west of the market square, surrounded by a wall and a former churchyard. ## Buil…

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On the Small Market Square of Krotoszyn stands the late Baroque church of Sts. Peter and Paul — a former Trinitarian church built in 1767–1774. The foundress was the hetman's wife Ludwika née Mniszek-Potocka, and the design came from Karol…

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The parish of St Lawrence in Koźmin Wielkopolski was erected in **1318**, and the present brick church was built in **1462** thanks to Hińcza of Rogów, then owner of the Koźmin estate. This three-aisled basilica is counted among the more i…
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The Christmas Bauble Museum in Milicz occupies part of the **Creative Multifunctional Facility (KOM)**, built on the site of a former bauble factory. It is one of few institutions in Poland devoted entirely to glass decorations — the colle…

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A classicist palace by the Barycz river, built in **1797–1798** to a design by Karl Geissler for Joachim Karl von Maltzan, served the Maltzan family until the end of the Second World War. Today it houses a forestry secondary school, yet th…

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Above the Barycz valley in Żmigród stretch the ruins of the residence of the Hatzfeldts, one of the wealthiest families of Silesia. The complex owes its present shape to the Baroque rebuild of **1706–1708**, carried out by the Wrocław arch…

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Above the market square in Krotoszyn rises a slender, **octagonal tower in the Baroque style** — the most recognisable element of the local town hall. The building itself has two boundary dates: the masonry structure was erected around **1…

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The white, single-storey town hall in the middle of the market square in Zduny is one of the oldest monuments of this town in Greater Poland. The present building was erected in **1684** on the site of an earlier half-timbered structure th…

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The cycle path along the former narrow-gauge railway is a **20.3-kilometre**, 2-metre-wide asphalt trail in the Barycz Valley, running from Sułów Milicki through Pracze and Milicz to Grabownica by the Milicz Ponds. It was laid on the emban…

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The Barycz Valley is flat and its rivers are calm and slow, so kayaking trips here are recommended above all to beginners. The Barycz is among the slowest rivers in Poland: its average gradient is a mere **0.035%**. Besides the Barycz itse…

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The castle in Koźmin Wielkopolski, a small town on the Orla river in the Krotoszyn area, is a knightly stronghold from the second half of the 14th century, rebuilt many times and today housing a school and a museum. The masonry structure o…

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By the Barycz river, in the park of Milicz next to the Maltzan palace, stand the ruins of a castle whose history goes back to the 12th century. The walls are not open to visitors, but the spot is worth a stop — a witness of medieval diplom…