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Kwiatkówek
On the road from Łęczyca to Tum, in the village of Kwiatkówek, stands a thatched farmstead that preserves the rural world of the Łęczyca region around 1900. Its oldest resident is a wooden post mill built in 1820 – older than the period th…
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Zwierzyniec
In a wooden granary built in 1762 lie fragments of Mars and the Moon – and next to them the only meteorite ever found in the Roztocze hills, discovered by the farm's owner himself. Guciów Farmstead in the Wieprz valley, in the Zwierzyniec…
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Ropa
In 1934, 335 carts loaded with axle grease, lubricants and oils set off from a single Lemko village in the Low Beskids. For decades the people of Łosie lived from travelling trade, reaching as far as Lithuania, Latvia, Hungary and Transylv…
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Częstochowa
A white, single-storey house with a tall tiled roof and a wooden porch sits in Staszic Park below Jasna Góra, looking as if it had been moved here from a village. In fact it was never a farm: it is an exhibition pavilion from 1909, designe…
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Podzamcze
The Kraków-Częstochowa Upland has its share of spooky tales – of a black dog, of a white lady and of a water demon. In Podzamcze, right next to the ruins of Ogrodzieniec Castle, they have been gathered under one roof. The Castle of Legends…
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Gliwice
Despite its name, Piast Castle was never a ducal residence. The building on Pod Murami Street in Gliwice grew out of two medieval town-wall towers, served for centuries as an arsenal, prison and farm, and today houses a branch of the Gliwi…
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Toruń
The Living Museum of Gingerbread (Żywe Muzeum Piernika, roughly "ZHIH-veh moo-ZEH-oom pyer-NEE-kah") in Toruń is a private, hands-on museum where you don't look at display cases, you make gingerbread yourself. In a 19th-century brick grana…
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Ślemień
The museum in Ślemień calls itself the youngest open-air museum in Poland – it opened in August 2012. On more than 6 hectares beside the road to Kocoń stands a village of the Żywiec Beskids assembled from original buildings moved here from…