Perfectly preserved, sumptuous late-Renaissance magnate residence from the turn of the 16th century. It has four corner towers and a lovely courtyard with two-storeyed arcades which, with their slender columns supporting graceful arches, look very Italianesque. Inside, a museum of interiors and a hotel. Set in a pleasant, well kept park with flower terraces and fountains. >>>>
The village has a unique skansen - an open-air museum of oil industry. Possibly the world's first oil well was sank here in 1854. Well-preserved 19th century facilities include two early oil wells, drilling derricks and tools, hoisting machinery and wooden barracks. One of the buildings contains a small oil industry museum with a collection of kerosene lamps. >>>>
The late-Renaissance palace and park complex in Krasiczyn is acclaimed as one of the finest of its kind in the country. The square construction with four corner towers is built around partly arcaded courtyard. The place is richly ornamented with an open-work attic, stucco works and wall-paintings. Part of the palace can be visited. A hotel was arranged in the 19th century building standing in the landscape park (20 hectares) with rare species of trees and shrubs.
>>>>
Leżajsk's main attraction is the 17th century Bernardine church and monastery surrounded with defensive walls with towers. Throngs of tourists and pilgrims arrive to visit the vast late-Renaissance basilica which shelters a miraculous icon of the Madonna and Child from the second half of the 16th century as well as the famous baroque organ (late 17th c.), one of the finest in Poland. Organ concerts are held regularly in summer and the International Organ Festival is held here every May. Leżajsk also has a historical town hall and burgher houses from the 18th century.
>>>>
Very well preserved Łańcut palace was built in the early 17th century and later remodeled a few times. It is surrounded by a system of fortifications with bastions. The palace museum with interiors from the period between the 17th century and the early 20th century has heaps of paintings, sculptures and objets d'art of all sorts. The annual music festivals are held in the splendid ball room. The museum of coaches arranged in the former stables and coach house has one of Europe's largest collections of carriages. The palace is surrounded by a landscape park (19th c.) and just outside the park stands the 18th century synagogue.
>>>>
The city of many cultures with many secular and sacral historical buildings. Originally Gothic and now predominantly baroque cathedral hosts a miraculous, alabaster figure of Our Lady from the 15th century. The Przemyśl Fortress is Europe's third largest stronghold of this kind after those of Antwerp and Verdun, representing the highest achievement of military art from the 19th and 20th centuries. The fortifications were composed of 42 forts arranged in two rings, the outer line was constructed 8-12 kilometers from the city limits. The preserved fragments of the fortress are a great tourist attraction.
>>>>
The oldest part of the city still has its original medieval urban layout. The castle houses the regional museum with a fine collection of icons. Poland's largest skansen, considering the number of exhibits, was arranged 1.5 kilometers north of the centre. It is also Poland's best open-air museum with about 100 traditional buildings (18th-20th cc.) such as farm, windmills, mills and Orthodox and Uniate churches. It provides insight into the culture of ethnic groups from Polish-Ukrainian borderland, once living in the eastern Carpathians and the Carpathian foothills.
>>>>
The Bieszczady is a wild and scantily populated mountain region of thick forests and high open meadows known as połoniny. The most spectacular part of the region is occupied by the Bieszczady National Park and constitutes the habitat of big birds of prey and mammals. The park is a constituent of the international Biosphere Reserve of Eastern Carpathians. Excellent grounds for winter sports, hiking trips and horse rides. The Beskid Niski Range incorporates the Magura National Park. Old wooden Orthodox and Uniate churches greatly beautify the landscape of the region.
>>>>
>>>>
