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Dęblin is a town located at the mouth of the Wieprz River and the Vistula River, known for the famous Polish Air Force Academy. In the XIX century it was the tsarist stronghold Ivanogrod, with a citadel and seven forts, next to which the governor of the Kingdom of Poland, Ivan Paskiewicz, founded a trade and crafts settlement. Places worth visiting include a palace and park complex erected by the Mniszech Family in the XVIII century, located in the southern suburb, a wooden church, an XVIII century former Uniate Church, and the "Balonna" military cemetery. ...

Dołhobyczów is a large village in the Volhynia Upland. It features a park and palace complex erected in the XIX century by the Rastawiecki Family and later owned by the Świeżawski Family (now partially ruined), a Neo-Gothic parish church with a tower, which is a smaller copy of a tower of the Church of Our Lady in Cracow, and a 1910 brick Orthodox church with well-preserved historic polychromes. ...

An agritourism village in the Wołyńska Upland on the Bug river, a former town on the royal route from Mazovia to Kievan Rus, with a ford and a port on the Bug. The small-town buildings have preserved, including the neo-baroque church of St. Trinity church from the second half of the XIX century and a Ruthenian-Byzantine five-dome church from the beginning of the XX century. ...

A village on the Ciemięga river on the Nałęczów Plateau. The parish church of st. John the Baptist has preserved. The present shape of the church was acquired in the second half of the XVI century. In 1563, the temple was taken over by the Arians and only in 1610 it returned to the possession of the Catholics. At the beginning of the XVII century, the church was rebuilt, gaining the features of the Lublin Renaissance style, probably under instructions of the guild mason Jan Wolff. The new vault was covered with stucco decorations in the form of torus mouldings. It is a single-nave temple w ...

Emilcin is one of the most mysterious towns in the Lublin region. The village located near Opole Lubelskie is surrounded by the history of a close encounter of the third kind. ...

Fajsławice is one of the most pleasant places in Spring and Summer. Unprecedented anywhere else in Poland, the concentration of herbal crops and the peak of the growing season provide the senses of smell and sight with unforgettable impressions. More than 800 ha of fields in the Fajsławice area are sown mostly with herbs. The undisputed "king" of the local crops is thyme, but very often you can find lemon balm, marjoram, sage, caraway, St. John's wort, dill, basil, more and more often aromatic lavender, and over 20 other species of herbaceous plants. Through the power of aesthetic sensations ...

A former town founded in the XVI century by the Lublin Voivod Mikołaj Firlej, presently a popular holiday resort near Firlej and Kunów lakes, surrounded by fields and pine forests. The old wooden architecture of the village dates back to the turn of the XX century, and the wooden church - to the end of the XIX century ...

Gardzienice is a small village picturesquely situated on the Giełczew River, 30 kilometers south-east of Lublin. The palace and park complex, once belonging to the Orzechowski, Czarniecki, and Potocki families, is the seat of the "Gardzienice" Centre for Theatre Practices, creating unique performances based on archaic and ancient Greek motifs. ...

Gnojno is the northernmost place in the Lublin voivodeship. The village is located in a picturesque land, known as the Podlasie Bug Gorge, within the borders of the landscape park of the same name. Hilly mesoregion on the border of two countries and three voivodeships, divided by the Bug river, is famous for its extraordinary silence, pristine nature, and perfect conditions for anglers. Gnojno is also famous for the nearby viewpoint, which presents one of the most beautiful panoramas in the Lublin region. From the top of a dozen meters high slope, washed by the waters of the meandering Bug, on ...

A village upon the Vistula River located between Puławy and Dęblin, the site of a lost battle of the Polish army against Swedish invaders in 1656 and of the 1672 confederation of the Polish nobility under the leadership of Stefan Stanisław Czarniecki (nephew of Hetman Stefan Czarniecki). The main historic monuments include the late-Renaissance parish church from 1628-36, featuring elements of Dutch Mannerism, and the House of Loreto decorated with sculptures of the prophets, which was modelled on the design of the Santa Casa in Loreto and built in the years 1636-38. Another place worth visi ...