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Będzin
Not far from Będzin Castle, in the Gzichów district, stands a palace whose drawing rooms revealed ancient commanders – Hannibal, Pompey and Scipio Africanus – only during restoration work in the late 20th century. The Mieroszewski Palace o…
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gmina Dobiegniew
For half a century the neo-Gothic palace in Mierzęcin served as an orphanage, a state-farm office and a kindergarten, then stood empty and decaying. It was rescued by the Polish company NOVOL, which bought it on 9 July 1998 – today it is a…
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Miasteczko Śląskie
Beside a forest track in Bibiela, a village district of Miasteczko Śląskie, stands a hunting lodge built in 1890 by the Henckel von Donnersmarck family, owners of the surrounding forests. Almost a century later it gained a second life in a…
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Warszawa
The Palace on the Isle in Royal Łazienki (Łazienki: "wah-ZHEN-kee") is Warsaw's most photographed palace and one of the top things to do in the Polish capital. Set on an artificial island in Łazienki Park, it was the summer residence of St…
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Piechowice
This Baroque palace on the Kamienna river was both a residence and a linen bleachery: on the ground floor, cloth belonging to Jelenia Góra merchants was soaked in vats, then spread on the meadows to dry. According to the owners, King Frede…
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Radzyń Podlaski
The Potocki Palace in Radzyń Podlaski (say RAH-jin pod-LAH-skee) is one of the most beautiful Rococo residences in Poland: the work of the architect Jakub Fontana with sculpture by Jan Chryzostom Redler, set in a park with a canal and pond…
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Jarocin
The Radoliński Palace in Jarocin (pronounced "yah-ROH-tseen") is a castle-like Gothic Revival mansion with battlements and turrets, set in a historic park in the middle of a small town in western Poland. It was designed by Friedrich August…
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Rozkochów
Above the entrance to Rozkochów Palace you can still see the date 1734 and a cartouche with the arms of the family that owned the estate for almost a century. For decades this Baroque residence in the Walce district of the Opole region cru…
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Lubartów
At the northern edge of Lubartów, on the axis of the avenue leading towards Kozłówka, stands a Baroque palace that two of the greatest architects of the Polish Baroque worked on: Tylman van Gameren and Paweł Antoni Fontana. The façade is c…
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Jelenia Góra
The Schaffgotsch family moved to Cieplice in 1675, after their former seat, Chojnik Castle, burned down following a lightning strike. A century later fire also destroyed the Cieplice manor — and so the palace with an 81-metre façade came i…
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Jelenia Góra
When fire destroyed Chojnik Castle in 1675, the Schaffgotsch family needed a new seat – and found it at the foot of the same hill. Work on the palace in Sobieszów began in 1705; according to the European Route of Castles and Palaces, it wa…
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Grodków
A white Gothic Revival palace with corner towers and stepped gables stands in a historic park near Grodków, beside ponds fed by artesian springs. Its owners included a Prussian field marshal rewarded for the wars against Napoleon and a cou…
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Zabierzów
A few minutes from Kraków airport, among the old trees of a five-hectare park, stands a palace where King Henry of Valois spent the night in 1574 and where Archduke Charles and Zita – later the last imperial couple of Austria – were guests…
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Kobierzyce
In Biskupice Podgórne, just outside Wrocław in the Kobierzyce municipality, you can trace two country houses. The white palace with an onion-domed tower, visible from afar, dates from the late 19th century – the national heritage register…
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Bobrów
From a distance it looks like a château on the Loire: a brick mass with one of the tallest towers in the Jelenia Góra Valley rises above a bend of the Bóbr. Up close you see walls that decayed for decades without a roof — its tiles were st…
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Tarnowskie Góry
Two towers with onion domes, a mansard roof and an attic crowned by figures of a hunter, a worker, a farmer and a fisherman – Brynek Palace is one of the grandest magnate residences in Upper Silesia. It owes its present eclectic form to Co…
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Bytom
All that remains of the palace locals called a castle is one neo-Gothic annex with battlements and a low mound covering the remains of the main building. While the annex was being rebuilt in 2019–2020, workers came across a crypt and the r…
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Chocianów
Above the Baroque body of Chocianów Palace rises a massive square tower with a Rococo helm roof and lantern. It is the only part to survive from the Gothic castle of the dukes of Świdnica-Jawor, around which the Redern family built their 1…
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Ciążeń
The late Baroque palace of the Bishops of Poznań in Ciążeń on the Warta is one of the largest and most interesting Rococo ensembles in Greater Poland. The three-storey building with a mansard roof, a gallery and an annexe stands in a park…
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Dobrzyca
Dobrzyca Palace (say "dob-ZHIH-tsah") is an elegant Neoclassical country house in the Greater Poland region of western Poland, built in 1798–1799 for General Augustyn Gorzeński, an aide to Poland's last king, Stanisław August. Designed by…
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Miękinia
On the Bystrzyca river, a dozen or so kilometres west of Wrocław, a tower and jagged gables rise out of the riverside woods: this is Gałów Palace. Today it is a complete ruin, yet the crumbling façade still carries the coats of arms of its…
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Izbicko
Izbicko Palace (German: Stubendorf) burned at least three times, and after each fire it came back in a different style. The residence, which dates back to the 16th century, survived a Neoclassical rebuild, looting during the Third Silesian…
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Kalety
From 18 to 20 November 1900, Emperor Wilhelm II himself shot pheasants in the forests around Zielona, and the hunts started and ended at Count Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck's hunting lodge. After the war, foresters' workshops reduced the…
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Kopaszewo
In 1831–1832 the poet Adam Mickiewicz stayed several times with the Skórzewski family in Kopaszewo, and according to the National Heritage Board parts of his epic "Pan Tadeusz" were written here. The Neoclassical palace of 1800–1801 stands…