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Polish candidates for the world’s eighth wonder

Polish candidates for the world’s eighth wonder. Park-and-palace complex in Puławy It is worth to visit the following: - The Czartoryski family residence

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Polish candidates for the world’s eighth

wonder

Park-and-palace complex in Puławy

It is worth to visit the following: - The Czartoryski family residence-The Gothic House-The Sybil’s Temple-Greek House-Marynka Palace

Park-and-palace complex – former residence of the Czartoryski family occupying c.32 ha, constructed more than

200 years before according to the concept of Izabela Czartoryska in landscape-English style.

Kazimierz Dolny

KAZIMIERZ DOLNY – small town located in the Vistula estuary. Its history reaches back to the beginnings of the Polish State. In the XIVth century the town was founded by king Casimir the Great; its most magnificent period falls to the XVIIth century.

Today Kazimierz Dolny is a well-known tourist-and-holiday centre with numerous monuments (ruins of the castle, gothic, renaissance and baroque churches, renaissance tenement houses, villa of Maria Kuncewiczowa). The pearl of Polish renaissance. A venue beloved by artists, painters in particular.

Kozłówka

The palace was built in the first half of 18th century for Michał Bieliński. Its architect was Jozef II Fontana. It represents the characteristic type of baroque suburban residence.Its architecture is original - a merger of European art with old Polish building traditions. In 1799, the Palace was bought by the aristocratic Zamoyski family. It currently hosts a Zamoyski family museum.