The State Museum at Majdanek.  A German concentration camp that operated from October 1941 to July 1944. According to the latest research ca. 80,000 prisoners lost their lives there. In November 1944 on the grounds of the former camp, a state museum was established with a mission to preserve the memory of the victims of the Nazi occupation during World War II.
Contact:
ul. Droga Męczenników Majdanka 67
20-325 Lublin
Tel.: +48 81 710 28 33,
E-mail: centrum@majdanek.eu
www.majdanek.eu

The Open Air Village Museum. While strolling around the museum it is easy to imagine that you have gone back in time. There you will find well-preserved historic farmsteads, wooden churches, windmills and cottages with original interiors and agricultural equipment. The museum is divided into regions: Lublin Upland, the Roztocze, the Vistula River Region, Podlasie, Lublin Polesye and the Bug River Region, and into manor and town sectors.
Contact:
Al. Warszawska 96
20-824 Lublin
Tel. +48 81 533-85-13 lub +48 81 533-31-37
E-mail: skansen@skansen.lublin.pl
www.skansen.lublin.pl

The Botanical Garden. The scenic location and the botanical diversity of the garden give a fantastic impression. Situated on a partially forested loessial hill, the place features collections of about 1,600 species of trees and bushes, 3,000 types of garden plants and 1,600 species of greenhouse plants. There is also a historic manor of the Kościuszko Family, which was once frequented by Thaddeus Kosciuszko.
Contact:
ul. Sławinkowska 3
20-810 Lublin
e-mail: botanik@hektor.umcs.lublin.pl
www.garden.umcs.lublin.pl

Zemborzycki Lake. This impressive artificial water reservoir was created on the Bystrzyca River in the years 1970-1974 through joint free work of the local community. It is a perfect place for rest and relaxation offering cycle paths, outdoor swimming pools (Sunny Wrotków Resort), water ski lifts, water sports, Nordic walking, angling and other attractions. If you prefer less active ways of relaxation, take a gentle stroll around the lake or lie on the grass and enjoy the beautiful scenery.

St. Agnes’ Church
The church was erected in the first half of the 17th c. by the Lviv route for the Augustinian order. Partially destroyed during the Swedish invasion, it was reconstructed in the second half of the 17th c.

It is a three-nave, not oriented church with a small chancel terminated in a semicircular apse. It has many characteristics of the Lublin Renaissance style: a barrel vault with lunettes, stucco ornaments adorning the vault, vestry and refectory, and the façade facing the town.

The polychromes from 1899 covering the interior of the church were restored in the 1960s. The main altar was made from oak wood in a Baroque style. At the altar there is an 18th-century painting of St. Augustine with St. Monica and Our Lady of Solace and a painting of St. Agnes – the patron saint of the church.

St. Nicholas’ Church
Legend has it that the first temple here was founded by Mieszko I in 986. The present church was built in the first half of the 16th c. on an escarpment towering over the Czechówka river valley. Owing to the rector of the parish, priest W. Turobojski, it was rebuilt in the Lublin Renaissance style in the first half of the 17th c.
The nave and chancel were roofed with a barrel vault decorated with stuccos, which was built by the Lublin mason Piotr Traversi. The Classicist façade, church turret, church-porch and the bell tower were added at the end of the 19th c.
At the Baroque high altar dating from the second half of the 18th c. stands a late-Renaissance statue of St. Nicholas – the patron saint of the church. The Rococo side altar was made for the Dominican church in Lublin in the mid-18th c. in Sebastian Zeisel’s workshop in Puławy, but it was moved to St. Nicholas’ Church at the turn of the 20th c. The oldest element of the interior is a 17th-century wooden rood on a beam spanned under the chancel arch. The pulpit and the font were made at the beginning of the 20th c. in Wilhelm Hess’s Lublin scales factory.

St. Adalbert’s Church
Designed by Rudolf Negroni, the church and the adjacent convent building designated for St. Lazarus hospital were built in the first half of the 17th c. As a hospital church, it was located outside the city walls on the site of an old wooden chapel and hospital from the second half of the 16th c.

The church features all characteristics of the Lublin Renaissance – it has no towers, only one nave, the chancel slightly narrower than the nave and terminated in a semicircular apse, and a barrel vault with stucco latticework and lunettes.

Inside the church there are three late-Renaissance altars, which were originally set in the Holy Trinity Royal Chapel. At the high altar hangs a 1661 painting by S. Janowicki depicting the Coronation of Our Lady.

The convent was often referred to as a Jewish house because in the 19th c. it offered accommodation to poor Jewish people.

Church of Our Lady the Help of Christians

This brick church situated by the Lviv route was erected in 1635-1649 on the site of a wooden church of St. Lawrence. It has typical features of the Lublin Renaissance – one nave, orientation and a narrower chancel terminated in a semicircular apse on the eastern side.
The adjacent monastery of the Franciscan Order was built on oak piles at the end of the 17th c. After the Franciscans abandoned the building in 1817, it served as a storehouse and a military hospital.
In the first half of the 19th c. the property was bought by Antoni Domański and used as a cloth factory, and later as a soap and candle factory. In 1927 the successive owner, Tadeusz Weisberg, a Jew who converted to Catholicism, donated the monastic buildings to the Salesian order.
The present structure of the church is the result of restoration works done in the first half of the 20th c. which introduced the division of the building into three storeys.

Wincenty Pol Manor
This wooden manor house, built at the end of the 18th c., displays typical features of Polish architectural style of that epoch. It was originally located within the premises of the Firlejowszczyzna farming estate in Łęczyńska Street. In 1804 it became the property of the Austrian clerk stationed in Lublin Franz Pohl - father of Wincenty Pol, a renowned poet, geographer and traveller, author of ‘Song of our land.’
Wincenty Pol was born in the townhouse in 7 Grodzka Street and spent his childhood years in the manor in the Firlejowszczyzna estate.
After the fall of November Uprising in 1831, the Pol Family left for Lviv and sold the estate. In 1860 Lublin residents in joint effort bought the manor and gave it back to the family; however, some time later it changed hands again. In the years 1969-72 the building was relocated onto a small hill in Kalinowszczyzna Street, next to the Old Jewish Cemetery. Presently it is a branch of the Lublin Museum.

Church of St. Elijah the Prophet
The church and the monastery of the Carmelite Order were built in the mid 18th c. in a Baroque style in Biernackiego Street, on the site of an old wooden chapel.
In the 19th c. the monastery became the property of the order of the Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God, who opened there the hospital of St. Lord of God –presently a voivodship hospital. Nowadays the monastery belongs to the Carmelite Order.

Cemetery in Lipowa Street
The origins of the cemetery are connected with an ordinance of the Police Committee of Both Nations from 1792 ordering relocation of overcrowded church graveyards outside the city.  The new cemetery was located on the premises bought from the Birgittine Order on the western outskirts of Lublin. The area was planted with linden trees and many locals started to call the place “the cemetery under linden trees.” The name of the street – Lipowa (Linden) Street - stems from it too.
The necropolis is generally divided into Roman-Catholic, Orthodox and Evangelical sectors. There is also a military graveyard with a columbarium, where an urn containing soil from the place of tragic death of the Lublin poet Józef Czechowicz is buried. Numerous distinguished people of merit to Lublin and Poland are buried in the Lipowa Cemetery i.e. Hieronim Łopaciński, Idzi Radziszewski, Karol Rudolf Vetter, Emil Plage and the Hess Family.
Many gravestones found in the cemetery are truly works of art. Beautifully sculpted and decorated with intricate reliefs and inscriptions, they represent the highest level of stone work craftsmanship. One of the examples is the 1888 tomb sculpture commemorating the Bobrowski Family from Snopków by the renowned artist Bolesław Syrewicz.
Railway Station
The railway line connecting Lublin with Warsaw and Kovel was opened in 1877 and called the Nadwiślańska Railway. A journey from Warsaw to Lublin took 7 hours then.
The railway station was located far from the inner city, on industrial premises in the village of Bronowice – the place chosen by Feliks Łodzia Bieczyński, the chief engineer of Lublin Governorate. In 1877 an outstanding edifice of the train station was built according to the design by W. Lanci. The building was remodelled in the 1920s in the style of Eclecticism.  Series of renovation and reconstruction works done in the 20th c. have given the railway station its present appearance.
Bobolanum
The building was erected in the 1920s for the Missionary College of the Jesuit Order according to the design by the Lublin architect Ignacy Kędzierski. The place is often referred to as “Bobolanum” – after the name of St. Andrzej Bobola, a Jesuit and patron saint of Poland.
Presently the building serves as a Military Hospital.