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Saturday day trip outside Warsaw, any suggestions?


Mark_2me 1 | -  
19 Aug 2008 /  #1
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.

Can anyone help?
loco polaco 3 | 352  
19 Aug 2008 /  #2
Kazimierz Dolny.
Jezioro Zegrzyńskie
Puszcza Kampinowska (P.N.)
Wilanów
Lori 4 | 118  
27 Aug 2008 /  #3
Kazimierrz Dolny is one of my favorite places. I wouldn't say Wilanów is out of town. It's truly part of Warsaw, or are there two Wilnów locations?
krysia 23 | 3,058  
27 Aug 2008 /  #4
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.

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