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  • Lublin - European Capital of Culture 2029

    2024-09-25
    2029-12-31
    Published: 25/09/2024

    Lublin has been named the European Capital of Culture for 2029! This unique award signifies a host of interesting initiatives, projects, and cultural events, as well as extraordinary promotion of the city on the international stage.

     

  • Carnaval Sztukmistrzow 2024

    2024-07-25
    2024-07-28
    Published: 25/07/2124

    Lublin

    Carnaval Sztukmistrzow is a time of great shows bordering on theatre and new circus located in the city space.

     

  • Night of Culture 2024

    2024-06-01
    2024-06-02
    Published: 31/05/2124

    Lublin Since 2007, local cultural institutions, organisations and artists have been joining forces to create this unique festival. Cultural events, concerts, exhibitions, performances and much more await in Lublin on this special night. Fabulous art installations will once again take over the stree ...

Stawy Echo w Roztoczanskim Parku NarodowymIt is the oldest nature protection area in the Lubelskie Region. It was formally established in 1974 but its origins go back to the 16th c. when Chancellor Jan Zamoyski, owner of the Zamoyski Estate, set up a nature reserve called 'Zwierzyniec.' It was a vast area of woodland populated by deer, boars, wolves, lynxes, wildcats and Tarpan horses. Today the Polish pony – a descendant of the Tarpan which has its refuge here, is the symbol of the Roztocze National Park.

The park was established in 1990 in the western part of Polesie. It shelters the unique nature and landscape of the Łęczna-Włodawa Lake District featuring wetlands, meadows, peat-bogs and forested tundra-like areas.

A capital of the Roztocze Region with the seat of the management and the Educational Centre and Museum of the Roztocze National Park. It is a perfect starting point of numerous tourist routes. In the past Zwierzyniec was an important centre of forestry and hunting in the Zamoyski Estate. The most interesting historic sights are the Classicist buildings of the Zamoyski Estate Management from the first half of the 19th c. including the palace, a brewery and a coach factory, and a late-Baroque Church of St. John of Nepomuk with illusionistic polychromes by Ł. Smuglewicz, built in the years 1741-47. In the local park lies a boulder from Hamernia commemorating the 1711 plague of locusts. There are also two swimming areas near Zwierzyniec – the Rudka reservoir and the Echo Ponds.

The city was founded in the XVI century by Crown Hetman Jan Zamoyski. Designed by an eminent Italian architect Bernardo Morando, the city-fortress was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1992 as an architectural and urban complex.

Kazimierz Dolny is a favorite place of the painters, photographers, and filmmakers. It owes its fame to the great harmony of the landscape, combining the nature of the Lesser Poland Gorge of the Vistula River with wonderful architecture. The castle and a stone tower, that once guarded the Vistula crossing, come from the period of the foundation of the city by Casimir the Great. The greatest development of trade took place in the 16th and 17th centuries. During this period, the city was expanded in the Renaissance style, the Parish church and the church of St. Anne were erected, as well as the tenement houses of the Przybyła and Celej families, and numerous granaries. By the Vistula river there is a port and a walking boulevard. The Kazimierz Landscape Park surrounds the town. It is a perfect place for walking the paths leading through loess gorges and high slopes with viewpoints over the panorama of the Vistula river.

Lublin is one of the most attractive cities in Poland, awarded with the Polish Tourist Brand title. Original in over 70% architecture of the Old Town attracts the visitors from all over the world. Lublin Old Town with its well-preserved, mainly Renaissance buildings with traces of Gothic, Baroque, and Classicism, was honoured with the title of Historic Monument along with the Castle Hill and part of the city centre. The city's multicultural, over 700-year history is confirmed by numerous monuments. Among the most valuable ones is the Chapel of the Holy Trinity, with the walls covered with 15th-century Russo-Byzantine paintings. This amazing place, just like the walls of the Dominican Basilica, remembers the conclusion of the Polish-Lithuanian Union in 1569. The aforementioned objects have been honoured the European Heritage Label.

The Zamoyski Museum in Kozłówka is one of the most beautiful and popular Polish palace museums, located in the vicinity of the Kozłowiecki Landscape Park. The museum is housed in a palace and park complex, which was founded in the first half of the 18th century, and rebuilt at the turn of the 19th and 20th century by Count Konstanty Zamoyski. The interiors in the style of the Second Empire have been perfectly preserved.

Picturesquely located by the Uherka River near the Ukrainian border, Chełm is famous for the unique in Europe chalk tunnels. The labyrinth of corridors winding under the city was the result of chalk excavation from the XVI to the early XX century. The underground route has been made available to visitors, and became a unique tourist attraction and permanent place of residence of Bieluch the Ghost.

Biała Podlaska was once a property of the Radziwiłł family, associated primarily with the magnificent castle complex from the XVII-XVIII century and the valley of the Krzna River, a picturesque tributary of the Bug River.

Visitors will be interested in the Museum of Southern Podlasie, presenting the collection of Bazyli Albiczuk's works and one of the largest collections of Russian icons from the XVII and XIX centuries in Poland. The capital of the Southern Podlasie is a great place for those seeking architectural monuments and those interested in history. The most interesting are: