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Cycle route: Grodków - Tarnów Grodkowski - Przylesie Dolne - Jankowice - Czeska Wie? - Micha?ów - Osiek Grodkowski - G??bocko - Kopice - Grodków

designation:

Cycle route: Grodków - Tarnów Grodkowski - Przylesie Dolne - Jankowice - Czeska Wie? - Micha?ów - Osiek Grodkowski - G??bocko - Kopice - Grodków

short description:

A cycle route leading through places full of historical monuments, including the unique ruins of the palace in Kopice.

detailed description:

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.

Accessible:

Bike

lend equipment: Yes
Animals allowed: Yes