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Warsaw
surroundings:
Fredric Chopin route (FD): visit of the Ostrogski Palace-
the seat of Fredric Chopin Society, which
houses a collection of letters, memories, portraits
of Chopin and his family; visit to his birthplace-manor
home in Zelazowa Wola (53 km from Warsaw). Situated
in the heart of a romantic park, Chopin’s family home
restored and arranged in the epoch’s style has been
transformed in a small museum dedicated to the work
of the great composer. Every Sunday (starting from the
1st May until Sunday preceding Chopin’s death on 17
October 1849) two concerts are held.
Łowicz-a small town famous for its Masovian Folklore
Museum in Sromow (10 km from Łowicz) created by a collector
of folkloric art and artisan-Julian Brzozowski. The
museum houses a beautiful collection of regional costumes
and paintings.
Nieborów-a village located 80 km from Warsaw and a few
km from Lowicz famous for its magnificent Baroque palace
built at the end of 13th century by Tylman van Gameren
for cardinal Radziejowski. The palace is built on the
plan of a rectangle with two towers on the sides. The
towers are covered with Baroque cupolas. Today the palace
houses a museum of interior decoration from the 17th
to 19th centuries. On the ground floor one's attraction
is drawn to the Roman Corridor with its stone antique
sculptures and sarcophagi. In the entrance hall, covered
with Gothic barrel vaults dating from the 16th century,
there is the most valuable historic object of the palace-the
marble bust of Niobe. The rooms on the second floor
are the most beautiful in the Nieborów palace. A stairway
with walls covered with Dutch tiles made around the
year 1700 leads to them. The palace is surrounded by
a beautiful park.
In the neighborhood of Nieborów there is Arkadia-a beautiful,
romantic landscape park (established in 1778 by Princess
Helena Radziwil), which covers an area of 44 hectares.
The central element of the Arkadia Park is the Temple
of Diana, built in 1783 on the edge of an artificial
pond.
Excursion to Kazimierz Dolny (FD)-the village of the
artists, where one can admire the late Renaissance facades,
ancient houses of grain merchants, a parochial church
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