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The nearly 350-year-old mizar in Zastawek reminds us of the Tatars who lived in the Bug and Krzna rivers areas in the first half of the XX century. In 1679, King Jan III Sobieski granted these lands to the Tatar officers as a payment of outstanding pay for the service of the Commonwealth. They had their own religious community with a mosque and a cemetery in Studzianka, the no longer existing cemetery in Małaszewicze, and a cemetery in Lebiedziewo-Zastawek. On the latter, over 50 tombstones from the XVIII-XX centuries have been preserved. Some of them have legible inscriptions in Polish, Russ ...

A small village in the Łęczna poviat, near the mouth of the Bystrzyca to the Wieprz River, is extremely interesting. The palace and park complex is located on a hill with a beautiful view. The complex includes the ruins of a XVI century castle, a XVII century Baroque castle chapel designed by Tylman van Gameren himself, a storehouse from the middle of the XIX century, XVIII century baroque outbuilding, baroque entrance gate and the ruins of a classicist orangery from the mid XIX century. ...

An old village upon the Chodelka River where archaeologists have reconstructed parts of the excavated 7th-century settlement – the palisade with the gate and a few huts – and created an archaeological museum with a centre for experimental archaeology and workshops. The host of the place, the Nadwiślańskie Museum in Kazimierz Dolny, regularly organises here ‘Meetings with archaeology.’ ...

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- ...