Cycle route: Grodków - Tarnów Grodkowski - Przylesie Dolne - Jankowice - Czeska Wie? - Micha?ów - Osiek Grodkowski - G??bocko - Kopice - Grodków
Cycle route: Grodków - Tarnów Grodkowski - Przylesie Dolne - Jankowice - Czeska Wie? - Micha?ów - Osiek Grodkowski - G??bocko - Kopice - Grodków
A cycle route leading through places full of historical monuments, including the unique ruins of the palace in Kopice.
The route starts in Grodków. Departure from the market square toward the Elsnera street à 100 m by a dirt road à turn toward Tarnów Grodkowski (the oldest historical monument standing there is the St Michael’s church built in 1776; a fragment of the church wall, built in the 16th century) à direction toward Przylesie Dolne (St Peter and St Paul’s church built in the 16th century) – under the flyover of the highway to Jankowice (parish church of the 17th/18th century, a classical manor built in 1800, next to the manor house there are farm buildings surrounding the farm courtyard, dating back to the mid-19th century) à from Jankowice we go toward Czeska Wie? (Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish Church) à next Micha?ów – turn toward the dam – by concrete road (worth visiting: parish church; palace; evangelical church built in 1276; around the church the Gothic wall has been partially preserved – inside the wall there is a Late Renaissance tombstone with a bas-relief of a child) à later on we pass under the highway toward G??bocko (natural monuments) à to Osiek Grodkowski (there is a parish church dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, built in the 16th century; ruins of a palace, palace gate, built in the 18th century; remains of a landscaped park in the palace complex; a shrine with a statute of St John Nepomucene; palace buildings of the 18th century; palace menage, built around 1800; palace granary – 17th century; palace barns and stables, built around the 17th/18th c; the palace of the 18th century) à next village on the route is G??bocko; Mrs Alfreda Drozd lives there, at number 29 - she runs a private museum and an open-air ethnographic museum (skansen) à we visit the skansen and we rest in the “Le?na Przysta?” Recreation Centre (“Forest Haven”) (with an option of swimming/bathing) à we go back to ?elazna (St Joseph’s church of 1780) à from G??bocko straight to D?bina (forester’s lodge) à we arrive in Kopice (ruins of a palace built in the 19th century, a palace landscape park with many natural monuments; 19th century farm buildings, a palace bridge, palace shrine, sepulchral chapel of the Schaffgotsch family, the Holy Cross parish church à in Kopice we finish sightseeing and we go back to Grodków, where the road ends.
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