Kurozwęki - Kurozwęki

Kurozwęki
Kurozwęki. Palace complex
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Country	Poland
Region	Holy Cross province
Population	840
Area code	( 48) 15
Postal Code	28– 200
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Kurozwęki - village in Poland, located in the southern part Świętokrzyskie voivodeship, in you will say Staszowski, in the commune of Staszów by the river Czarna Staszowska, 7 km northwest of Staszów. Until 1870, the town was a town.

Characteristic

Geographical location: 50 ° 35′25 ″ N 21 ° 06′05 ″ E

In the years 1975-1998, the village administratively belonged to the Tarnobrzeg Province with its seat in Tarnobrzeg.

The palace (once a castle) in Kurozwęki is about 600 years old, but one day has gone down in its history in a special way. It was Sunday, June 10, 1887 and he visited the Kurozwęki estate on that day King Stanisław August Poniatowski, returning from a meeting with the tsarina Catherine the Great. Maciej Sołtyk, the voivode of Sandomierz, gave a festive dinner in honor of the king. Outstanding guests were gathered in the great hall, and numerous mutual toasts were raised. Later, a ball was held in honor of the king, unlike the palace; the ruler, who had a unique influence on women, not only because of his position, but mainly because of his male sex appeal, danced with almost all the ladies. He kidnapped even a very elderly voivode to dance. Stanisław August stayed in Kurozwęki for the night, and the next day he had many meetings, he also went to visit the surrounding area - the village estate. We know the details of the visit thanks Adam Naruszewiczwho wrote them in Stanisław August's journey planner.

100 years later he was visiting Kurozwęki Stefan Żeromski. The first time as a student, at the invitation of the estate manager, later as a famous writer when he wrote Ashes. The village and its surroundings must have inspired his imagination, because it appeared in several of his works, also in "Popioły" - as Grudno.

As befits a centuries-old history, the palace has its own legend. Supposedly there is to be a hidden treasure here. It is guarded by Piotr from Kurozwęki. Many daredevils have already tried to get this treasure, but no one managed to outsmart the guard. When he realizes that someone has come here for gold, he will lure him to a goblet of wine seasoned with a mysterious herb. Upon awakening, the greedy visitor will remember nothing. There will only be ... a headache.

Drive

By plane

Rzeszow

By train

Rzeszow

By car

From Staszów, Kielce and Sandomierz, we can get to road no. 765.

By bus

Kielce

By ship

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Communication

Communication from Świętokrzyskie Province is from Kielce

Worth seeing

• The palace and park complex is located in the low north-west part of Kurozwęki. These include: a palace, an eastern pavilion called an outbuilding, a western pavilion called an orangery, a stables building with a columned portico added at the beginning of the 19th century, guarded by two lions, as well as fragments of an English landscape park, which are left with magnificent plane trees.
  • "The Palace and its Treasures". The interiors of the Kurozwęki palace are open to visitors with a guide who will familiarize tourists with the history of the palace and the families living in it, as well as with current curiosities. The tour includes the first floor of the palace - a ballroom, lounges, an observation deck, cloisters and an 18th-century chapel, as well as a courtyard and a museum - "Treasures and memorabilia of the Popiel family and paintings by Józef Czapski".
  • "Dungeons full of secrets." The tour includes a courtyard, a dungeon full of fairy tales and legends, and cellars with the history of the palace. A museum room has been organized in the palace cellars, where you can see reproductions of knights' weapons and relics found during the removal of rubble and cleaning up the castle cellars since 2000.
  • Mini zoo and playground. The admission ticket includes a playground for children and admission to the mini zoo (llamas, donkeys, rabbits, raccoons, Cameroon sheep, locust sheep, ostrich, goats, Vietnamese pigs, wild boar, ponies and birds of various species).
• A granary from the beginning of the 19th century.
• Cemetery church, filial pw. st. Roch from the 18th century, rebuilt in 1919 and the fence of the cemetery with a gate,
• The monastery complex of regular canons, erected from around 1470 to the 17th century, rebuilt in the 19th century:
  • parish church Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
  • church cemetery fence with two gates.
  • monastery, now the "Caritas" plant,
• Parish cemetery from the 19th century with specimens of old trees.

Nearest neighborhood

• Baranów Sandomierski is a town located 37 km east of Kurozwęki, with city rights in 1354. a castle built at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries following the pattern of Wawel, according to the design Santi Gucci, late renaissance church Beheadings of St. John the Baptist from the beginning of the 17th century, expanded in the 19th century,
• Bogoria is a town located 17 km north-east of Kurozwęki, formerly a town, founded in 1616. baroque church Holy Trinity from the 17th century,
• Golejów located 2 km south-east of Staszów with holiday and camping centers. It consists of several dozen karst mid-forest lakes which, thanks to the remnants of the peat bottom and gypsum rocks, are extremely friendly to people due to their healing properties. An ideal place for swimming, sunbathing, walking, fishing, mushroom picking,
• Grabki Big village situated 11 km from Kurozwęki. There is an original late-baroque palace on a central plan with an octagonal high hall and several lower annexes from 1742. Francesco Placidi. Next to the palace, there are two free-standing tower pavilions,
• Klimontów - 32 km north-east of Kurozwęki, founded around 1240, city rights in the years 1604-1869. Worth seeing, among others church of st. Jacek from 1617-1620 and the Dominican monastery from 1620-1623, the baroque collegiate church of st. Joseph, built on an ellipse plan from 1643-1650, designed by the architect Lawrence Senes, one of the most original 17th-century buildings in Poland and a brick synagogue from 1851,
• Abbots - a town 42 km north of Kurozwęki, one of the oldest cities in Poland, city rights granted by Leszek Czarny in 1282. Romanesque collegiate church St. Martin of Tours from the 12th century, the monastery of Fr. Bernardines and the Church of Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary from the 15th century, the underground tourist route was created on the basis of the 15th / 16th century merchant cellars, nearly 450 m long, running on three levels under the Opatów market square, the Warsaw Gate from the 16th century, the only one of the four gates from the city's former defense system and a tenement house with arcades on the market square in Opatów - currently the town hall, from the 16th century
• Pacanów lies in between Tread and Połaniec, 26 km south of Kurozwęki, he received city rights from Bolesław the Chaste in 1265 (he lost them in 1869). See you, among others church of st. Martin, built in the 16th century on the foundations of a Gothic temple, with the miraculous Crucifix of the Aging Jesus Christ. In the square, we can see a dedicated monument Koziołek Matołek (the annual European Fairy Tale Festival takes place here).
• Rakow - a village located 12 km north-west of Kurozwęki, a former town founded in 1567, in the 16th - 17th centuries it was the seat of arian with the famous Rakowska Academy. To visit, among others 2 historic churches St. Trinity and p.w. St. Anna, the so-called "Monastery". Not far from here is the Chańcza reservoir on the Czarna River,
• Rytwiany - a village on the Czarna River, south-east of Staszów, 12 km from Kurozwęki. In the past, a famous center of Sarmatian culture. See you, among others an early baroque post Camaldolese monastery complex with the Hermitage of the Golden Forest and the church of Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary from the first half of the 17th century, ruins of a Gothic castle from the 15th century built by the Bishop of Kraków, Wojciech Jastrzębiec, the Radziwiłł palace (now a hotel), chapel, school, river mill - former Radziwiłł buildings,
• Staszów - a poviat town located on the Czarna River, 7 km east of Kurozwęki, with municipal rights from 1525. See you, among others gothic church of st. Bartholomew, erected in the first half of the 15th century with a tower added in 1610 and the Renaissance chapel of Our Lady of the Rosary of the Tenczyński family, in the market square there is a brick town hall with stalls erected in 1738 and several tenement houses from the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.
• Szydłów - a town located 8 km west of Kurozwęki, a former town founded in 1329 by Władysław Łokietek, one of the few towns in Poland with preserved medieval architecture - a complex of city fortifications and the city's Gothic urban layout. See you, among others defensive walls surrounding the settlement, medieval buildings of the center with a knight's hall, a treasure house (with a museum in it) and the Kraków Gate, the church of st. Władysław from the 14th century, a gothic belfry rebuilt from a city tower, the church of All Saints from the 15th century, ruins of the late Gothic hospital church Holy Spirit from the 16th century and a baroque hospital, synagogue from the 16th century
• Wiślica - a city (from January 1, 2018) located 50 km south-west of Kurozwęki, a well-known early Piast stronghold, seat of the castellany, obtained city rights at the beginning of the 14th century. the famous gothic collegiate church Nativity of NP Mary built in 1350 with the relics of two Romanesque churches from the 12th and 13th centuries and the "Orants" plate from 1170, the church of st. Lawrence from 1535, house for vicars and canons from 1460 of the foundation Jan Długosz - the oldest gothic residential house in Poland, the belfry from 1460–1470, funded by Jan Długosz.
• Wiśniowa - a town located 16 km west of Kurozwęki, approx. 10 km from Staszów along the valley of the Kacanka River. See you, among others baroque church of Transfiguration of the Lord from 1680, inside which an urn with a heart Hugo Kołłątaj. Also the Kołłątaj Palace, where the Hugo Kołłątaj Memorial Chamber is located, surrounded by a park with numerous trees - monuments of nature.
• Sandomierz

work

Kielce

Science

Kielce

Shopping

Kielce

Gastronomy

The restaurant in the palace offers traditional Polish dishes and the only bison dishes in Poland.

Parties

Accommodation

There are 6 comfortable rooms in the palace, 2 luxurious apartments in the former gate tower and in the attic, and in the stylish interior of the outbuilding.

contact

Security

Kielce

Tourist information

• The palace is visited from April to September from 10.00 am to 6.00 pm, and from October to March - from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm. Fun in the maze (July – October) is interesting. Admission is paid, ticket prices vary depending on the visiting program: admission to the site costs PLN 3 (normal) and PLN 2 (reduced), the program "Dungeons full of secrets" additional PLN 5 and PLN 4, program "The Palace and its treasures" - 9 zlotys and 8 zlotys, trips in the western wagon "Safari Bizon" - 8 zlotys and 7 zlotys. A combined ticket for all attractions costs - normal PLN 19, and reduced - PLN 15.
• There is also a stud of Arabian horses in Kurozwęki (apparently the oldest in Poland) and an American bison breeding farm. The current owner, after buying the family property from the State Treasury, brought a herd of bison, 20 heifers and 2 bulls to Kurozwęki from Belgium in December 2000, and now the herd has grown to over 80 heads and is constantly growing, it is the only American bison breeding in Poland . It is likely to be liquidated by an administrative decision, the revocation of which is sought by the owner.
• The green tourist trail Chańcza - Pielaszów with Chańczy down Pielaszow.

Trip

Kielce

See also

• Swietokrzyskie Mountains, Pascal Publishing, Paperback Pocket Guide.
• Poland is amazing. Holy Cross province, Demart publishing house, (with a mini nature guide).