Hey! I would like to get out of warsaw for the day on Saturday and dont really know where is a good spot to go. I will be driving so ideally leave in the morning, drive for 2 hours or so see a nice town or area, then drive back in the evening.
You can go to £owicz, I went there with my 3rd class and remember old women doing pisanki and wycinanki, a village where everything was painted, even the well. I thought that was very cool.
£owicz was a residence of Polish primates. When they were regents of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the town became a temporary "capital" of Poland during interregnum. As a result, it has a bishop and a basilica despite its small size. The ruins of a former bishop's castle can be found on the outskirts and the town has an important ethnographic museum and skansen with traditional houses. Napoleon Bonaparte is believed to have stayed in a house on the main square and the town was at the centre of the largest battle of the German invasion of Poland, the Battle of the Bzura River.
Near the town is the first welded road bridge in the world built across the river Słudwia Maurzyce in 1929. It was designed by Stefan Bryła of the Warsaw University of Technology in 1927.
The town also has Muzeum w £owiczu (Museum in Lowicz) exhibiting Polish art and historical artifacts from the region. An open air 17-hectare site outside of town displays a collection of historical structures depicting traditional Polish village life.
