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Zabierzów
The chapel in the manor park at Karniowice was consecrated on 12 May 1624, when the village belonged to Jerzy Pipan — a doctor of medicine and law, a Kraków city councillor and a lecturer at the universities of Kraków and Padua. Today the…
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Łopuszna
Łopuszna Manor House (Łopuszna is pronounced roughly "wo-POOSH-nah") is one of the finest surviving wooden manor houses of the Polish gentry, a whitewashed single-story home with a tall shingled mansard roof, set at the foot of the Gorce M…
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Modlnica
For twelve years the ethnographer Oskar Kolberg lived in the white Konopka family manor in Modlnica, just outside Kraków, working on further volumes of his monumental "Lud" ("The People"). Today the classicist residence, with its columned…
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Samborzec
The manor house in Skotniki, in the Samborzec district south-west of Sandomierz, is a rare example of a fortified noble residence of the "alkierz" type: a single-storey main block with four corner pavilions, a tall broken roof covered with…
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Żytno
In the 19th century Henryk Sienkiewicz and Jacek Malczewski are said to have visited, after the war village children went to school here, and then for years the building fell into ruin. Żytno Manor House – a classicist residence from 1819…
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Warszawa
Łazienki Królewskie (roughly "wah-ZHEN-kee kroo-LEV-skyeh"), or the Royal Baths Park, is Warsaw's most beautiful park and the former summer residence of Poland's last king, Stanisław August Poniatowski. Spread over about 76 hectares (190 a…
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Dukla
The Historical Museum in the Mniszech Palace in Dukla is housed in a late-Baroque magnate residence, one of the best-preserved palaces in southeastern Poland. Its "entre cour et jardin" layout, between a forecourt and a garden, is unique i…
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Żory
Not so many years ago, rain poured through the holes in the roof of Baranowice Palace and the walls were soaking up damp. Today the restored residence on the edge of a park with ancient oaks is a cultural centre, gallery and workshop venue…
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Kielce
The Palace of the Kraków Bishops in Kielce (say "KYEL-tseh") is the finest historic building in this central Polish city and is often described as the best-preserved early Baroque palace from the first half of the 17th century anywhere in…
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Choroszcz
The Branicki Palace in Choroszcz (ho-ROSHCH) is a Baroque summer residence that stands on an artificial island surrounded by canals, a short drive from Białystok in northeastern Poland. It was built for the powerful hetman Jan Klemens Bran…
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Kadyny
Kadyny Palace (Kadyny is pronounced roughly "ka-DIH-nih"; German: Cadinen) is a Baroque manor house from 1688 on the shore of the Vistula Lagoon in northern Poland, which in 1898 passed to the German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II and became hi…
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Morąg
Dohna Palace in Morąg (MOH-rong, the "ą" is a nasal vowel) is a Renaissance and baroque residence of the Dohna noble family, built in the 16th century, and since 2025 it has housed the Museum of Upper Prussia. The palace stands in the town…
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Świerklaniec
The palace in Nakło Śląskie looks as if it had been lifted from the English countryside: Tudor-style neo-Gothic, stepped gables and a slender tower raised in 1891. It was built by one of Upper Silesia's richest industrialists, Count Hugo I…
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Brzesko
The last owner of this palace died in Kenya, where he and his wife ran a small tea room – and his ashes only came back to Okocim in 2017. The neo-Baroque "New Palace" of the Goetz family, founders of the Okocim brewery, was built in 1898–1…
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Kłodzko
More than a hundred rooms, some 6,000 m² of floor space and sgraffito from 1560 scratched into wet plaster: Gorzanów near Bystrzyca Kłodzka is one of the largest and oldest residences in the Kłodzko Land. It has never burned down or been d…
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Zielona Góra
Roofless palace ruins with trees showing through empty windows, and the vast park of a former Duchess of Sagan: Zatonie, now part of Zielona Góra, is one of Zielona Góra’s most popular places for a walk. The palace burned down in 1945 and…
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Łódź
The Izrael Poznański Palace in Łódź (say "WOODGE") is the grandest factory owner's residence in Poland and the best place to see how a 19th-century textile boomtown made its fortunes. Locals call it the "Louvre of Łódź." Today it houses th…
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Jankowice
Jankowice Palace, about 20 km west of central Poznań, began life as a strikingly modern villa built for a Swedish diplomat. Today it is a municipal cultural centre with an 18.5-hectare park that is open around the clock. Between the palace…
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Jedlina-Zdrój
In 1944 the construction of the Riese complex in the Owl Mountains was run from this white palace in Jedlina-Zdrój: it housed the Organisation Todt's construction headquarters, and the building itself bore the code name "Villa Erika". Toda…
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Kłodzko
When the last tenants moved out of Kamieniec Palace in 2004, the building was being vandalised and stripped. Today this 18th-century Baroque residence in the Kłodzko Valley, near the spa town of Polanica-Zdrój, is a hotel with a restaurant…
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Wieliczka
Locals also call it the Saltworks Palace, and with good reason: its story has revolved around salt from the start. It was built in the 1780s by the brothers Jan and Piotr Konopka, merchants in the salt trade; later it housed mine officials…
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Czechowice-Dziedzice
On Zamkowa Street in Czechowice-Dziedzice stands a Baroque palace with Rococo stucco work, built by the Kotuliński family and later embellished by the Counts Renard. It is one of the most carefully restored residences of the former Duchy o…
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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…
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Kłodzko
Ławica is the lowest-lying village in the Kłodzko Valley, strung along a steep bank above the Nysa Kłodzka river right where it enters the Bardo Gorge. Above the former farmyard rises an eclectic palace with a five-sided tower, remodelled…