Chopin`s Masovia

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Chopin`s Masovia

Chopin’s
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Preface
Frederick Chopin’s biography
The Fryderyk Chopin Institute
Warsaw
¯elazowa Wola
CHOPIN’S MASOVIA
The Town of Sochaczew
Frederick Chopin School of Music
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16 The Museum of The Sochaczew Region and The battle of The Bzura River
17 The Narrow-Gauge Railway Museum in Sochaczew
18 Our Castle
19 Sochaczew Commune
21 Brochów Commune
22 Sanniki Commune
24 I³ów Commune
25 Kampinos Commune
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TOURIST TRIPS ALONG CHOPIN’S MASOVIA
A walk along the Lime Tree Alley - ¯elazowa Wola – Sochaczew
Along the trail of Frederick Chopin’s baptism - ¯elazowa Wola – Brochów
Welcome to Iùów Community - ¯elazowa Wola – I³ów
Sanniki Chopin Adventure - ¯elazowa Wola – Sanniki
Welcome to Kampinos - ¯elazowa Wola – Kampinos
Motorboat and canoeing trails
Tourist trips across Chopin's Masovia
Tourist trails map
PLACES WORTH VISITING
Chopin Hotel
Wolkas Agrotourist Farm
Motorboat Marina
Chopin Off-Road
Roman Kusz carriage driving team
Bon Voyage Restaurant
Golden Beehive Reastaurant
Bolek’s Inn
“Hit” Apartments
Souvenir Shop in Ýelazowa Wola
Small Catering in Ýelazowa Wola
e-Sochaczew.pl
Town Culture Club
Chopin’s Music Masovian Festival
Tourist Information
Important Addresses
Mazovia Regional Tourist Organization
Acknowledgements
Local Tourist Organization Mazovia Chopin
Publication has been financed by the Local
Government of the Mazovia Voivod at the project
“Development program and promotion of the
tourist product Mazovia Chopin” running by the
Regional Mazovia Tourist Organization.
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Preface
We are giving into your hands a guide to Masovia – land full of
impressive landscapes and picturesque willows, with the
atmosphere saturated with Chopin’s multicolor music scale.
¯elazowa Wola, Brochów, Sanniki, Sochaczew and Warsaw are
the places where you can still find mementos of the life and works of
that outstanding composer.
Frederick Chopin’s everlasting music, regarded by many as the
most wonderful phenomenon in the world’s history, has enchanted
people in every corner of the globe. Eminent composers as well as a
great numbers of music lovers, for whom it still represents the most
perfect, universal and timeless message, are subject to its charm,
despite their cultural differences.
We want to share with you the magnificent achievements of that
outstanding composer. Both classical music lovers and tourists
preferring active ways of spending time will find something to
satisfy their needs in our rich and diverse offer. Under the
“Frederick Chopin” brand you can find many attractions not only
for music-lovers. Visiting places connected with the life and works
of the great composer as well as other forms of spending leisure
time, such as canoeing, carriage rides or walks along nature paths in
the Kampinos Forest constitute only a few items in the wide
repertoire of our suggestions for guests.
And we do it all with one purpose in mind – to provide you with
unforgettable experiences and impressions.
Welcome to Chopin’s Masovia!
A portrait of Frederick Chopin
Ary Scheffer, lithography (1849 or later)
Deposit of Frederic Chopin Society in
F. Chopin National Institute
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Frederick Chopin
Telling the story of
Frederick Chopin should begin
in ¯elazowa Wola, where the
composer’s French-born father,
Nicolas, worked as a tutor at
countess Ludwika Skarbek’s
manor. At that time her
household was governed by the
count and his wife’s relative
Justyna Krzy¿anowska, whom
Nicolas Chopin married in
1806. The Chopins lived in the
left backhouse of the countess’
manor and that was where
Frederick was born on March
F. Chopin portrait by E. Delacroix, copy by
L. Wawrynkiewicz – (photo A. Ring and B. Tropiùo)
1st 1810. He had three sisters:
Deposit of F. Chopin Association in F. Chopin Museum
in F. Chopin Institute
an elder one called Ludwika
and two younger ones: Izabela and Emilia.
In the autumn of 1810 the family moved to Warsaw, where
Nicolas Chopin was employed as a lecturer of French and French
literature in Warsaw Lyceum (Königlich-Preußisches Lyzäum zu
Warschau).
From the earliest years of his life Frederick had a very close
contact with music, which could be heard all around the family’s
house – his mother used to play the piano and sing, whereas his
father accompanied her, playing the flute or violin. Little
Frederick’s extraordinary talent revealed very early. At the age of
six, Chopin started to learn how to play the piano under the guidance
of Wojciech ¯ywny, who very quickly noticed the boy’s outstanding
musical skills. The following year Frederick made his first attempts
as a composer. As a “child prodigy “ he also made performances for
the Warsaw’s aristocracy and at charity events.
In 1822 Frederick Chopin stopped taking lessons from
Wojciech ¯ywny, as the teacher was no longer able to teach his
disciple, owing to the fact that the latter was already more skilful
than the master himself. From then on, Frederick received lessons of
music theory and composition from professor Józef Elsner.
In the autumn of 1826 Chopin started attending the Warsaw
Conservatory from which he graduated in July 1829. After that he
left with a group of friends for Vienna, where he gave several
brilliant performances.
The success of his first visit to Vienna encouraged young
Chopin and his family to organize a tournee on a larger scale. In the
months preceding Chopin’s departure from Poland, he gave many
concerts, mainly in the National Theatre in Warsaw. The composer
left the capital on 2nd November 1830, unaware of the fact that he
was never to return to his homeland.
A few days after Frederick’s arrival in Vienna he received
a message about the outbreak of the November 1830 Uprising.
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Despite his desire to come back to
Poland, he stayed in Vienna owing to
his frail health.
In the autumn of 1831 Frederick
left for Paris, where he met many of his
fellow countrymen. He was welcomed
by eminent Polish exiles, took part in
their assemblies and performed at
charity events for poor emigrants. As a
Bisson Louis-Auguste: Chopin sitting
prominent pianist, he was greatly
[photograph A.Ring and B. Tropiùo]
Deposit of Frederick Chopin Association in
appreciated by the artistic circles of
F. Chopin Museum in F. Chopin Institute
Paris and became a highly esteemed piano teacher amongst Polish
and French aristocracy.
During the composer’s stay in Paris he thought more and more
frequently of starting a family and creating his own home abroad.
Unfortunately, Frederick’s marriage with Maria Wodziñska did not
come to be. Owing to his poor health, he was not considered a proper
candidate by the girl’s parents.
In 1836 Chopin met a famous French novelist, a divorced
mother of two children, Aurora Dudevant (better known by her
pseudonym George Sand). They spent the winter of 1838/39 in
Spanish Mallorca in Valdemossa Monastery in the mountains.
There, owing to bad weather conditions, the symptoms of
pulmonary tuberculosis that Frederick had been suffering from
became more severe. Despite his illness, the composer worked very
intensely. During that period, he created many outstanding
compositions: 24 Preludes Op. 28, F-dur Ballad, Scherzo cis-moll.
After the couple’s return from Mallorca they went to Marseille,
where Chopin received proper medical treatment and care. Then
they visited Genoa and finally settled in Sand’s estate in Nohant in
central France. Until 1846, it was Chopin’s regular holiday resort
and the place of intensive composing activity. For the winter he
used to return to Paris, where he was still greatly appreciated. He
gave piano lessons, took part in artistic life of the city and was
involved in publishing activity. Since his departure from family
home, it was the happiest period of his life, as well as the one most
fruitful artistically. Chopin and George Sand had strong feelings
towards each other. However, in July 1847 their relationship came
to an end.
The departure from the lover as well as grievous personal
experiences connected with Frederick’s father and Jan
Matuszyñski’s (composer’s closest friend) deaths, took a heavy toll
on the artist’s mental and physical health. He hardly composed at
that time, which resulted in the fact that until his death he only wrote
a few miniatures.
In April 1848 Frederick visited England and Scotland. His
intensive lifestyle, countless journeys, numerous concerts and
climate unfavorable for the lungs caused deterioration of the artist’s
health. On the 16th November 1848, despite severe illness and
fever, he gave his last concert for Polish emigrants in London
Guildhall. A few days later he returned to Paris.
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On the 17th October 1849, after a long
lasting illness, the composer died in his
apartment at Place Vendome in Paris. He
was buried at Pere-Lachaise cemetery in
Paris. The pianist’s heart, according to his
wish, was taken by his sister in an urn to
Warsaw. There it was sealed within a pillar
of the Holy Cross Church in Krakowskie
Przedmieœcie street, beneath an inscription
F. Chopin monument in ¯elazowa
Wola – photograph J. Wasilewski
from Matthew VI:21: “For where your
treasure is, there will your heart be also”, engraved on
a commemorative plaque. Only after regaining independence,
Warsaw’s citizens placed another plaque with an inscription “Here
rests Frederick Chopin’s heart”.
Nowadays F. Chopin is regarded as the greatest Polish
composer and his ever-living music surprises the listeners with its
outstanding sound. His works refer to Polish musical tradition and
are full of patriotic values.
The distinguished composer’s music is known worldwide.
F. Chopin has been proclaimed abroad to be one of the most
prominent impromptu masters.
His compositions, such as nocturnes, mazurkas or preludes, are
saturated with individual features as well as Polish folklore. They
enchant the listeners with their timbre and innovative harmony.
Pianists and music lovers all over the world have been inspired and
ravished by the tenderness, mysteriousness and dynamics of the
great master’s music for almost 200 years.
Frederick Chopin’s works speak up with universal language
integrating nations of many cultures…
Based on source material by Natalia Sukiennik
Sonata h-moll op. 58, edition autograph, National Library Collection
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Frederick Chopin National Institute
Fryderyk Chopin Institute, established in 2001 in accordance
with the decision of Polish Sejm, deals among others with scientific
research, popularizing the knowledge about Frederick Chopin and
his music, publishing activity, organization of concerts, festivals
and conferences, as well as collecting the great composer’s heritage.
It also runs the Chopin Information Centre on the Internet.
Besides, the Institute maintains the Fryderyk Chopin Museum
situated in Ostrogski Castle in Warsaw. Its branches are the
Chopins’ Drawing Room in Warsaw and Frederick Chopin’s
Birthplace in ¯elazowa Wola. The museum’s collections, involving
manuscripts, printed matter
and iconography, constitute
the world’s richest collection of Chopiniana.
In 2010 Fryderyk
Chopin Institute will
organize celebrations of the
200th annivers ary of
Chopin’s birth, as well as
the 16th International
Chopin Piano Contest. The
Institute has already started realizing investment
projects which should result
in the creation of Chopin
Tourist Trail in the jubilee
year. Chopin Centre,
situated in a new building in
43 Tamka Street, opposite
Frederick Chopin Centre at 43 Tamka Street from its
Ostrogski Castle, next to the
north-eastern side with a reflection of Ostrogski Castle
(the author of the design: Stelmach and Partners Ltd.)
Chopin Conservatory, will
also be established in Warsaw.
The works aiming at a complex modernization of Fryderyk
Chopin Museum will finally be completed. The park in ¯elazowa
Wola will undergo a complex renovation with a view to adopting the
place, visited every year by over 100 thousand tourists, to the 21st
century standards.
Fryderyk Chopin Institute
9 Pi³sudski Square
Warsaw 00-078
+48 22 826 10 90
www.nifc.pl
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Warsaw
Fryderyk Chopin Museum in Warsaw - photo: archive NIFC
Fryderyk Chopin Museum
Fryderyk Chopin Museum in Warsaw is inseparably associated
by his art’s lovers with Ostrogski Castle. The decision to rebuild the
palace (the history of which dates back to the 16th century) from the
World War II damages was taken in 1949, at the 100th anniversary
of Chopin’s death. The shank of that pre-war palace complex, a real
pearl of baroque-classical architecture, was restored on the basis of
the original design made by Tylman from Gameren. In 1953 the
renovated building was opened as Frederick Chopin Society – an
organization continuing the pre-war Chopin traditions. The
museum assembles over 5 thousand inventory items and is the
world’s largest existing collection of Chopiniana. Frederick
Chopin’s autographs, which are in the possession of the museum
(including the collection from National Library) were enrolled on
the UNESCO world’s list of cultural heritage. Since 2005 the
museum as well as its branches – The Chopins’ Drawing Room and
Frederick Chopin’s Birthplace in ¯elazowa Wola - have been run by
Fryderyk Chopin National Institute.
The Chopins’ Drawing Room
The Chopins’ Drawing Room was arranged in the former
Chopins’ dwelling in the left wing of Czapski-Krasiñski Palace. The
Chopins moved there from their flat in the left backhouse of Casimir
Palace (Pa³ac Kazimierzowski) in 1827, after Emily’s (Frederick’s
youngest sister’s) death. In the apartment in 5 Krakowskie
Przedmieœcie street, Frederick lived for the last three years of the
Warsawian period. That is where, in a so called “room upstairs”,
discreetly isolated from the rest of the world, he could find peace
and quiet, indispensable for studying and composing. That is also
where concert and first public presentations of Frederick’s works
took place, after completing his studies with Joseph Elsner in
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Warsaw Conservatory.
The interior of the room
was reconstructed on the
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basis
of an epoch sketch
presenting the salon in the
Chopin’s apartment. The
author of the sketch was
Antoni Kolberg, Frederick’s
schoolmate and friend. After
Chopin’s departure from
Poland Kolberg drew the
sketch and then sent it to Paris
as a memento from home.
The drawing room
comprises an exhibition of
furniture, contemporary to its
inhabitants, instruments from
the first part of the 19th
The left wing of Czapski/Krasiñski Palace at 5 Krakowskie
century as well as portraits of Przedmieœcie,
the seat of Chopins’ Drawing Room, a branch of
F. Chopin Museum (Fine Arts Academy, 2nd floor)
Chopin’s family and teachers and views
of localities from the 19th century.
Frederick Chopin Monument in £azienki Park
The monument by Wac³aw Szymanowski, unveiled in 1926, is
one of the most beautiful and widely known images of the Great
Composer. After its damage
during World War II, the
monument was carefully
reconstructed and situated by a
pond near the main gate of
£azienki Park next to the Aleje
Ujazdowskie. Sunday Chopin
concerts have taken place nearby
the monument since 1959. They
are organized from the beginning
of May to the end of September.
The Holy Cross Church
The Holy Cross Church
contains an urn with Frederick
Chopin’s heart which, in
F. Chopin Monument in Ùazienki Park in Warsaw by
Wac³aw Szymanowski – photograph by L. Karpi³owski
accordance
with the composer’s wish, was brought to Poland from
France. After 96 years, having undergone many vicissitudes, the urn
was permanently placed in Holy Cross Church. We can read the
information about it on a commemorative plaque placed on the left
of the nave. Above the plaque with an inscription “On the 17th of
October 1945 Frederick Chopin’s heart returned to Warsaw” there is
a small bust of the composer by Leonardo Marconi.
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Krakowskie Przedmieúcie, Holy Cross Church, photo: L. Karpi³owski
The Visitants’ Church
When Chopin was a secondary school student he used to
attend Sunday masses in the Visitants’ Church. As a student of
Warsaw Conservatory he would often improvise there on the
organs. He also took part in numerous performances of the school
orchestra and choir as well as soloists.
The Church contains a plaque, situated above the church main
door, near the entrance to the choir, with an inscription saying: “ To
commemorate Frederick Chopin, who played the organs in this
church in the years 1825-1826 as a secondary school student in
Warsaw”. The historical organs are in the church to the present day.
The Fryderyk Chopin Museum
in The Fryderyk Chopin
Institute
1 Okólnik St., Warsaw 00-368
tel. +48 22 826-59-35
The Visitants’ Church - photo: L. Karpi³owski
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¯elazowa Wola
The central point on the map of sites connected with Fredrick
Chopin - the great composer’s birthplace. It is a village situated near
Sochaczew, 54 kilometres west from Warsaw.
F. Chopin’s birthplace in Ýelazowa Wola - photogtraph by J. Wasilewski
The manor house in Ýelazowa Wola, which once used to belong
to Count Skarbek and his wife, has frequently changed owners
during its several-hundred-year history. Many times it has
undergone rebuilding and restoration processes. An obelisk with
a medallion of Frederick
Chopin was placed in 1894 in
the area of the park surrounding
the manor to commemorate the
c o m p o s e r ’s p r e s e n c e i n
¯elazowa Wola. All the actions
aimed at giving a proper rank to
the composer’s birthplace were
effectively held up by the
World War I and the occupant’s
actions. Only in the 1920s the
building in ¯elazowa Wola
gained the status of the
monument of great importance
for the Polish culture. Soon,
thanks to the actions of
Frederick Chopin Society in
Warsaw and Chopin Committee in Sochaczew, it was
F. Chopin Monument - photograph by J. Wasilewski
possible to buy the manor from
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its private owner. The renovation and
rebuilding of the manor started in
1930.
Many years’ efforts put into the
manor’s arrangement were obliterated by the World War II. The unique
collection of historical objects, which
had been donated by the local society,
was all but stolen. Finally after the
World War II it was possible to
reconstruct the building and arrange it
in the traditional Polish manor’s style.
The official opening of the manor
took place in 1949, at the 100th
anniversary of the composer’s death.
Since 2005, Frederick Chopin
Institute has been the patron of the
building.
F. Chopin monument – photograph
by J. Wasilewski
Frederick was born in ¯elazowa
Wola on the 1st of March 1810, but the family did not live there
long. Soon after Frederick’s birth they moved to Warsaw to settle
there permanently.
Despite them having moved out, ¯elazowa Wola was the
Chopins’ frequent place of rest. Numerous memorials assembled in
the manor, such as the 19th-century furniture, decorative fabrics,
engravings and musical instruments, although not belonging to the
Chopin family, perfectly express the atmosphere of those times. In
the area of the park surrounding the manor there are four
monuments of the composer, including the best known one – the
bronze figure of Chopin by Józef Gos³awski. The unique
atmosphere of the manor and its surroundings is complemented by
the beauty of the landscape park, designed and created by professor
Franciszek Krzywda-Polkowski. It fascinates visitors with the
ampleness of three thousand rare plant species and varieties.
At the suggestion of an outstanding Polish pianist and
pedagogue, professor Zbigniew Drzewiecki, Chopin concerts take
place regularly in ¯elazowa Wola. The seasons of summer
performances are opened every year on the first Sunday of May and
they finish on the last Sunday of September. For over 50 years
audiences from all over the word has arrived in ¯elazowa Wola to
admire performances of both polish and foreign artists as well as
laureates of international piano contests. The special atmosphere of
the concerts and the sounds of music coming from the manor,
combined with the charming and mysterious park, attract the
listeners and make them return to ¯elazowa Wola every year with
great relish.
F. Chopin’s Birthplace in ¯elazowa Wola
15 ¯elazowa Wola
Sochaczew 96-503
Phone number: +48 46 863 33 00,
Fax : +48 46 863 40 76
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The Town of Sochaczew
Sochaczew is situated in the direct vicinity of Ýelazowa Wola,
some 60 kilometres from Warsaw. Is was there that in 1830 in gen.
Piotr Szembek’s military camp F. Chopin gave one of his last
concerts preceding his departure from the homeland.
The most famous monument of the town are the remains of the
St. Mary of the Rosary’s Church and the Museum of the Sochaczew Region - photo: A. Wierzbicki
Dukes of Masovia Castle, located on the Bzura River. It was there
that the king Casimir Jagiellon made his important decisions
concerning the country. It was also a place of stay of the two Polish
kings: Jan Olbracht and Stefan Batory. The castle was destroyed in
the course of numerous warfare operations, such as the Swedish
Deluge of the 17th century and Koúciuszko Insurrection (at the end
of the 18th century).
Another important monument in Sochaczew is the Town Hall,
built in classicistic style, dating back to the first half of the 19th
century. Situated in the northern part of Plac Koœciuszki
(Koœciuszko Square), it is now the seat of The Museum of The
Sochaczew Region and The Battle of The Bzura River. The
Museum assembles a rich collection of items coming from the times
of World War II. Among the architectural monuments of the town
centre are also the 19th century market halls called “Kramnice”
situated in a characteristic arcade.
The old history traces can also be found in local cemeteries. On
the grounds of Sochaczew St. Lawrence’s Parish necropolis two
tomb chapels survived: one neogothic (from the turn of 19th and
20th centuries) and the other a Byzantine orthodox one (from before
Dukes of Masovia Castle Ruins - photo: Town Council archive
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Koúciuszki Square, photo: A. Orczyk
1914). There is a Jewish cemetery nearby – a place devoted to
memory of Sochaczew Jews (the burial place of the famous
Sochaczew saintly rabbi – Abraham Bornstein). The military
cemetery in Trojanów commemorates the heroism of
approximately 3700 soldiers of “Poznañ” and “Pomorze” Armies
who were killed in the Battle of the Bzura River in September 1939.
In Sochaczew we can also find rich architectural monuments,
such as Garbolewski family manor dating from the first half of the
19th century, surrounded by a park - now the seat of the F. Chopin
National School of Music of the first and second degrees. There is
also a long story connected with the manor in Gawùów, built in an
eclectic style in the end of the 19th century (now the seat of a Social
Nursing Home).
Tourists visiting Sochaczew are provided with lots of
attractions by the Narrow–Gauge Railway Museum, with the
largest collection of rail vehicles in Poland as well as in Europe. The
Museum’s greatest attraction are the extremely popular trains,
which run between Sochaczew and the Kampinos Forest in the
summertime.
Sochaczew Town Council
16 1-go Maja Street, Sochaczew 96-500
phone number: +48 46 862 22 35, fax: +48 46 862 26 02
e-mail: [email protected],
www.sochaczew.pl
F. Chopin monument in the Traugutta Street park, photo: T. Wàtor
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F. Chopin School of Music
F. Chopin State School of Music of the first and second degrees
has been an important landmark in the cultural map of Sochaczew
for 30 years now. The school is situated in a historical 18th century
manor. It gives education to 320 students under the guidance of 50
teachers. The school cooperates with both Polish and foreign
conservatory professors.
The school’s activities are organizing numerous concerts by
soloists and orchestras – string chamber soloists, brass and
big–band ones as well as by choirs. Numerous performances of the
school’s students constitute a musical setting for many town and
county celebrations.
State School of Music - photo: T. W¹tor
The school organizes contests such as International Chopin
Festival in Masovia, All–Poland Violin “Janko Muzykant”Contest,
Sochaczew Chamber Sessions, All-Poland Spring Flute Festival
and Sochaczew’s Young Cellists’ Sessions.
For some years now, the school has cooperated with
schools of music in Germany, Belgium and Sweden. The school’s
beautiful location in the surroundings of a charming park gave rise
to the idea of open-air concerts, ones extremely popular amongst
music lovers. Both the school’s students and guests invited perform
on the “summer scene” on Sunday afternoons.
The school cultivates the music traditions of F. Chopin its patron. Recitals by young pianists in ¯elazowa Wola organized
during Sochaczew Days in June constitute a permanent part of the
town’s cultural events calendar.
A permanent exhibition devoted to F. Chopin is currently under
preparation.
F. Chopin State School of Music of the first and second degree
2 G³owackiego Street Sochaczew 96-500
phone number/ fax : +48 46 862 29 62
e-mail: [email protected]
www.muzyczna.e-sochaczew.pl
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The Museum of The Sochaczew
Region and The Battle of The Bzura River
The Memorial Museum is
home mostly to exhibits dating
from the time of World War II,
presented on the permanent
“Battlefield 1939-1945 – When
the battle of Bzura raged on...”
exhibition. The most important
part of the exhibition is firearms,
Former Town Hall building, The Museum of The
Sochaczew Region – photo: Town Office Archives
equipment, uniforms and
documents of Polish Army soldiers who took part in the battle of
Bzura and the defense of Sochaczew in September 1939. Apart from
September 1939 mementos, the exhibition also shows weapons,
uniforms, documents and photographs depicting Sochaczew and its
environs during the Nazi occupation, the belongings of
Cichociemni (“the Silent dark ones”) paratroops and Sochaczew
region inhabitants who fought on the various fronts of World War II.
It also hosts the documentation pertaining to sodiers killed in the
battle of Bzura river. On the Museum courtyard, there is a constant
open-air exhibition of Polish Army military equipment, e.g. the
barrel of 75mm M 1897 field howitzer and a bridge pontoon used in
the battles of Bzura. Temporary exhibitions present – among others
– contemporary Polish art, Polish and world ethnography,
Sochaczew region archaeology and historical monuments. Together
with Sochaczew Polish Scouting and Guiding Association (ZHP)
Headquarters, the Museum organizes the annual September
Mazovia Battle of Bzura Trails Rally (Mazowiecki Rajd Szlakami
Walk nad Bzur¹), as well as – in cooperation with Polonia Militaris
foundation – an open-air show – September 1939 Battle of Bzura
Reenactment in Brochów. The Museum conducts research of the
town’s and the region’s
ancient and modern history
and publishes its own research
papers.
Text by Maciej Wojewoda
Museum open: Mon, Thu
and Sun 10 AM – 4 PM, Wed
and Fri 10 AM – 3 PM . Ticket
prices: full-fare PLN 6.00,
reduced fare 4.00pln
Museum of the Sochaczew Region permanent exhibition
– photo: Museum Archives
The Museum of The Sochaczew
Region and The Battle of The Bzura River
2 Koœciuszki Square, Sochaczew 96-500
tel./fax +48 46 862 33 09
e-mail:[email protected]
www.e-sochaczew.pl/muzeum
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The Narrow-Gauge Railway Museum
The railway would always inspire emotions and give out a
certain aura of charm. Today’s railways are colourful, fast and
silent, but the real railway’s beauty is the locomotive spewing forth
steam and smoke, the carriages with their wooden benches, the
wheels resounding on the
rails...
Is there such a railway
yet? Where do we look for it?
There is! Right here, in
Sochaczew.
Not far from the modern
railway station, the NarrowGauge Railway Museum is
Narrow-Gauge Railway Museum – the platform
located, in which the most
- photo: J. Orczyk-Mizioùek
numerous narrow-gauge carriages and wagons collection in Europe
has been gathered. From over 230 original vehicles, 130 are shown
in the exhibition part. One might see here antiquities such as a retro
railway train with hundred-years-old carriages and a Krauss
locomotive made 1882 (!), snow ploughs, a fireless locomotive,
railway-converted automobiles or a horse-pulled railway cart.
There are also exhibits which had their share in our country’s
history: the draisine in which Marshall Piùsudski used to have his
rides on the railway tracks through the vast Bia³owie¿a Forest and
the gen. Jaruzelski’s saloon cart. In the halls of the Museum,
numerous mementos of Sochaczew railway and the already gone
narrow-gauge railways are shown.
It is from here, from Sochaczew toWilcze Tu³owskie, that the
antique museum train cruises, pulled by an old 1930 locomotive.
In the summer season from May to October, on given weekdays
the “Puszcza-bis” train is conditionally put in motion, whereas from
June to September the schedule “Puszcza” train goes every
Saturday regardless of the passenger turn-up and weather. The train
carries passengers to the edge of the Kampinos Forest, wherefrom
tour guides take the tourists for a walk along the forest paths. After
the walk, it is possible to have a rest in Osada Puszczañska by the
campfire near the £asica river.
It is well worth taking such a trip to the rhythmic pounding of
the wheels of the antique train, going through the vast Masovia
fields with a speed 15km/h - in no hurry at all. Along the preserved
18-kilometre route, one is able to behold the
beautiful landscape, the picturesque Bzura river,
as well as to smell the smoke and steam of the
locomotive and, finally, to have a rest on the
bosom of the forest nature.
Narrow-Gauge Railway Museum
in Sochaczew
7 Towarowa Street, Sochaczew 96-500
tel. +48 46 8649341 tel./fax +48 46 8625975
Museum exhibition locomotive
– photo: C. Kopczyñski
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Our Castle
The „Our Castle” („Nasz Zamek”) Society for Historical
Reconstruction of Sochaczew is an organizaton representing and
gathering the local community with the aim of reconstructing, basing on
all available scientific research, the local keep. The organization deals
both with promoting the idea of historical reconstruction of the castle
and raising and organizing funds for it. The aim is realized by – among
others – building up the
enviroment of castle and
town history passionates,
cooperation with the local
self-government and The
Museum of The Sochaczew
Region and The Battle of The
Bzura River, as well as by
organizing and/or supporDukes of Masovia Castle ruins – photo: £. Wojtczak
ting historical reenactment
events promoting the very interesting history of the region.
Despite its relatively short existence, the “Our Castle” society can
be proud of several successes, among which there ae:
- inspiring the town authorities to finance two rounds of
achaeological excavations on the castle hill,
- collecting old castle bricks, thanks to which the first ever serious
conservation and restoration works have been conducted on the castle,
- organizing during the annual „Sochaczew Days”– in cooperation
with the Principality of Draconia reenactment society – a historypromoting event, during which it is possible to visit a mediaeval village
and see fighting shows as well as a presentation of the vision of
Sochaczew castle reconstruction. The “Our Castle” society cooperates
with reenactment group societies:
2nd Battalion 18th Infantry Regiment historical reenactment
group – Sochaczew reenactment group centered on reconstructing the
WWII realities with special emphasis put on the September campaign
and the Battle of Bzura.
Principality of Draconia – reenactment society focusing mainly
on reconstructing the daily and festive life of 10th and 11th-century
Polish and Rus’ nations in their advent, as well as on various aspects of
the 13th-century existence of
Masovian and Rus’ men-at-arms
and ladies-in-waiting.
„Our Castle” Society
41/30 Ýeromskiego Street
Sochaczew 96-500;
tel: +48 604 369 632;
www.naszzamek.esochaczew.pl
13th-century knights in combat – photo: C. Kopczyñski
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Sochaczew Commune
The commune of Sochaczew is situated in the western part of
Mazowieckie voivodship, 55 km from Warsaw and 90 km from
£ódŸ.
Sochaczew Commune Office building – photo: J. Wasilewski
The commune’s main tourist attraction, visited by crowds of
travellers from Poland and the whole world, is the ¯elazowa Wola
manor house, where on March 1st 1810 the greatest Polish
composer was born. The Frederick Chopin Birthplace House has
the form of a traditional Polish manor house. It is furnished with
decorative embroidered cloths, furniture, metal engravings and
musical instruments of the composer’s epoch. The park around the
manor house, built by Franciszek Krzywda-Polkowski between
1931 and 1937, enchants with its beauty of over 3 thousand unique
plants species and varieties. The diversity of forms and
compositions used was –
according to the maker’s vision
– to equal the refined forms of
Chopin’s music. The quiet and
picturesque interior of the park
and the sounds of Chopin’s
music resounding from the
manor bring about a most
exquisite aura and climate.
There are four monuments to
the composer on the territory of
the park.
Since 1954, by initiative of
professor Zbigniew Drzewiecki, an outstanding Polish
pianist and pedagogue, Chopin
concerts have been held in
¯elazowa Wola. The season of
The Bzura river – photo: T. Fijoùek
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summer performances with
the participation of Polish
and foreign artists – winners
of internaional piano
competitionas – is opened
every year on the first
Sunday of May and closed
on the last October one.
The Frederick Chopin
Birthplace House in
¯elazowaWola is a division
o f Wa r s a w F r e d e r i c k
¯elazowa Wola concert – photo: W. Wójcik
Chopin museum, which is
run by the National Frederick Chopin Institute.
There is an antique alley of trees leading from ¯elazowa Wola to
Sochaczew – one of the many monuments of nature on the territory
of the commune. Apart from it, one can list 7 more manor parks,
most of which were created on the verge of the 19th and 20th
centuries.
The commune has established a partnership cooperation with
Treviso province and Riese Piox commune in Italy. The aim of the
cooperation is cultural exchange and the promotion of ¯elazowa
Wola.
The commune is also a convenient tourist base for trips into the
very attractive neighbouring regions, such as Arkadia and
Nieborów, Niepokalanów, Brochów or the Kampinos National
Park, to which one may take the antique narrow-gauge rail from
Sochaczew.
Sochaczew Commune Office
115 Warszawska Street, Sochaczew 96 - 500
tel. +48 46 864 26 00, fax +48 46 864 26 02
e-mail: [email protected];
www.gmina.esochaczew.pl
¯elazowa Wola park – photo: K. Lewandowski
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Brochów Commune
The commune of Brochów
(50 km from Warsaw) is
situated in the protection zone
of Kampinos National Park.
The Kampinos Forest has
witnessed many a historical
event – this is why there are
numerous Places of National
Memory and Unknown Soldier
The church of Brochów – photo: E. Kraszewska
Tombs to be found on its
territory, as well as natural reserves and walking and cycling routes.
The commune’s most prized monument of history is the the ss. Roch
and John the Baptist parish church – a unique gothic-renaissance
style structure, comprising in itself both the sacral and defensive
character. The basilique often hosts foreign tourists – mostly due to
its connection with Frederic Chopin, as it was here that his parents
were joined in marriage and the composer himself baptised. In the
summer season, there are Chopin music concerts held within the
church, given by famous and outstanding pianists. There are two
roads leading from ¯elazowa Wola to Brochów: via Sochaczew (ca.
10 km) or via the village of Mokas (ca. 8 km). One of the commune’s
attractions is also the narrow-gauge railway. The tourists have long
been very fond of the Sochaczew-Brochów-Wilcze Tu³owskie
antique railway train trips, taking them as far as the borders of the
Kampinos Forest. On the territory of Brochów commune,
monuments of manor architecture of classicist period can also be
found, such as the Manor House of Tu³owice (private property) built
ca. 1800 for Franciszka Lasocka and awarded the Europa Nostra
medal in 1998. Another tourist attraction is located in the village of
Górki – a small ethnographical museum, one telling of the Masovia
countryside and its traditions - commonly known as Cha³upa
Goszcza (the Goszcz Cottage), called so because of its owner and
creator, Henryk Goszcz. In Œladów, Famu³ki £azowskie,
W³adys³awów, Karolinów, Miszory, Kromnów and Piaski
Królewskie there are unique cemeteries, left here by the Olenders –
evangelical faith people from Holland, who lived here for many
centuries.
Since 2002, tourists from all over Poland and Europe have come
to Brochów to witness the greatest open-air military event, one
taking place exactly here – the historical 1939 Battle of Bzura
Reenactment.
Brochów Commune Office
Brochów 125, Brochów 05-088
Tel/fax. +48 22 725-70-03,
+48 725-70-51
www.brochow.pl
Tu³owice manor house
– photo: Brochów Commune archive
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Sanniki Commune
The commune of Sanniki, situated 84 km from Warsaw, 90 km
from ÙódŸ and 30 km north-west from Sochaczew, is an active
Chopin centre and the heart of local folklore. The greaest tourist
attraction of Sanniki commune is the Frederick Chopin Park and
Sanniki palace – photo: Sanniki Commune Office archives
Palace Complex . The palace owns its present-day neo-classicist
decor and shape to the architect W³adys³aw Marconi. The Sanniki
adventure with Chopin began in summer 1828. It was here that
young Frederick Chopin spent his holidays at his school-mate
Konstanty Pruszak’s place. There is no doubt that the tradition-rich
Sanniki region inspired and fascinated the young musician with the
melody of native songs and the colours of its rites. On the front wall
of the palace there is a plaque commemorating the stay. Since 1981,
Chopin concerts have been organised in the Palace on every first
Sunday of the month, February to October. Those concerts, together
with poetry, fill the rooms of the palace with an exquisite and unique
atmosphere of romanticism and nostalgia. In the Palace interior,
there is a concert hall and a small museum to commemorate the
great composer. The ones keen on Chopin themes will surely be
interested by the famous Chopin researcher Mateusz Gliñski Music
Library.
The magnet that drags the folklore and folk art lovers to Sanniki
is the annual „Sanniki Sunday” organized on the first Sunday of
June. The main point of the festival is the performance by the
“Sanniki” Song and Dance Ensemble, presenting the regional,
unique costumes and repertoire based on the old folk songs and
dances of the Sanniki region.
In Sanniki it is also worth to
see the 19th century neoclassicist Holy Trinity Church.
One of the oldest places in
the commune, mentioned as
early as 1341, is Osmolin,
which had city rights in 14621869.
There is a 15th century St.
F. Chopin monument in the manor park of Sanniki
– photo: Sanniki Palace archives
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Martin the Bishop
parish church
preserved there. The
mark of history can
also be seen in the
village of Lwówek,
founded by German
and Dutch settlers at
the turn of the 18th
and 19th centuries.
One can see a former
house of prayer built
by the evangelical
community of the
Bohemian Brethren
(at present a catholic
church) and the large
thatched houses, ones
so typical of Dutch
building traditions.
Another memento of
the settlers of the old
Osmolin parish church – photo: Sanniki Palace archives
is also the cemetary
located on a small hill, full of characteristic inscription-adorned
tombstones.
Sanniki Commune Office
169 Warszawska Street, Sanniki 09-540,
tel. +48 24 277-78-10, fax +48 24 277-78-15
www.sanniki.bip.org.pl
Sanniki Palace
142 Warszawska Street, Sanniki 09-540,
tel. +48 24 277-78-13, fax +48 24 277-78-15
e-mail: [email protected],
“Sanniki” Song and Dance Ensemble - photo: Sanniki Commune Office archives
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I³ów Commune
The commune of I³ów lies 40 km from P³ock and ca. 80 km from
both Warsaw and £ódŸ.
The northern part of the commune adjacent to the Vistula River,
together with the hillocks of Karoliñska, Antoniñska and Rakowiecka
Kêpa as well as with the Zakrzewskie Islands are a protected landscape
area and belong to the protected zone of Gostynin-W³oc³aw Landscape
Park, at the same time being a
frontline of the Kampinos Forest.
There, one can meet nearly-extinct
plants and animal species, such as
White-tailed Eagle, Great Cormorant,
Ringed Plover or Peregrine Falcon.
The commune’s most beautiful
monument of nature is the
pedunculate oak of the Pieczyska
I³owskie village. Uroczysko Rzepki
nature reserve is also worth
mentioning, where – among others – a
I³ów parish church – photo: I³ów Commune
Office archive
nesting place of Black Strork can be
found, as well as Gilówka and Za³usków Range (Uroczysko), where the
eldest trees of the forest can be seen.
The tideland area of Vistula is under special environment protection
and has been included into the NATURA 2000 programme.
In the commune of I³ów, just like in the other corners of Masovia,
we meet the traces of World War II history. The mementos of battles that
used to rage here are the tombs of the cemeteries of I³ów, Brozów and
Gi¿yce.
A monument of architecture well worth seeing is the gothic Ss Peter
and Paul parish church of 1439 in Gi¿yce. The interior of the church is in
the neo-baroque style, and in the gilded altar there is a painting that was
brought here by the Society of Jesus members in the 16th century –
Madonna with Child, also known as the Madonna of Gi¿yce.
Another tourist attraction of Gi¿yce is the brick palace of the 17th
century, rebuilt in 1875. In 1945, a People’s University took up its
residence in the palace, and now it hosts a State Orphanage. The palace
is surrounded by a vast park, established in the 18th and re-composed in
the 19th century.
In Brzozów, there is the St. Andrew Parish Church Complex, built
1852-57 – a brick structure of clearly-visible neo-romanesque and neogothic characteristics. One also ought to mention the I³ów Holy Cross
Exaltation parich church complex, built 1781. The church burned down
in the course of warfare actions of 1915, was rebuilt in the mid-war
period and burned down again in 1969. The consecration of the re-built
temple was held in 1976.
I³ów Commune Office
2 P³ocka Street, I³ów 96-520
tel. +48 24 267 50 80;
fax +48 24 267 50 81
www.ilow.pl
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I³ów countryside, by the Vistula
– photo: I³ów Commune Office archive
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Kampinos Commune
The commune of Kampinos
lies in the protection zone of
kampinos National Park.
Established 1959, the Kampinos
Park is the only European
natural reserve of such a size and
b o r d e r i n g a l a rg e u r b a n
agglomeration (i.e. Warsaw). In
2000, UNESCO proclaimed it to
be a World Biosphere Preserve
Museum at Granica
– photo: Kampinos Commune Office archive
and a European bird refuge.
On the Park’s and commune’s territory, there are numerous tourist
routes and their marking makes it easy to visit the most beautiful corners
of the Kampinos Forest.
The village of Granica – a picturesque forest hamlet, situated ca. 3
km from Kampinos village – is an outstanding starting point for walking
and cycling trips. There is also a Jadwiga & Roman Kobendz Museum
and Didactic Centre of Kampinos National Park here, with a permanent
naturalistic exhibition (visited with a tour guide) and an open-air
museum in which examples of old ‘forest’ architecture have been
collected. Not far from there lays a war cemetery with the tombs of the
soldiers form the 7th Wielkopolska Mounted Riflemen and 14th
Jaz³owieccy Uhlan regiments, fallen in battles of September 1939.
When visiting Kampinos, it is worth visiting the St. Mary
Assumption parish church, erected 1773-1782 to the design of a
Warsaw architect named Lobe. The temple is built of pinewood from
the Kampinos Forest, in the Polish baroque style on a rectangular basis.
Its interor design deserves special atention: there are the main altars
renovated in 2002, and the early 17th-century and much revered
“Mother of God with Child” – the “Lady of Kampinos” painting. Across
the street from the church, there are two impressive oaks – monuments
of nature, given the names of two great Poles – cardinal Stefan
Wyszyñski and Frederick Chopin.
An interesting monument of architecture of Kampinos is also the
classicistic manor house of the second half of the 19th century, now a
private property.
The commune of Kampinos is a very attractive tourist site and base.
It is not far from here to Niepokalanów –
the working place of Maximilian Kolbe,
to ¯elazowa Wola and other sites
connected with Frederick Chop
Kampinos Commune Office
3 Niepokalanowska Street
Kampinos 05-085
tel. +48 22 725 00 40;
fax. +48 22 725 04 44
www.kampinos.pl
St. Mary Assumption church
– photo: N. Piwowarczyk
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Tourist trips across
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A walk along the Lime Tree Alley
¯elazowa Wola – Sochaczew
Getting there
From ¯elazowa Wola you should take the No. 580 road to
Sochaczew, going along the antique Lime Tree Alley straight into
the town centre.
Antiquities
1. Dukes of Mazovia Castle ruins of the
14th century
2.The Museum of The Sochaczew
Region and The Battle of The Bzura
River
3. Market halls of the first half of the 19th
century
4. Jewish cemetery
5. Narrow-Gauge Railway Museum
6.The Repsz Family Watermill by the
Utrata River
7. The Garbolewski family Manor house
Memento of Polish Nation’s Rebirth
– photo: A. Orczyk
and Park
(at present – F. Chopin State School of Music)
8. Boles³aw Krzywousty monument, commemorating the duke’s
death in Sochaczew in 1138
9. Kosciuszki Square
10. St. Dominic Square
11. Sochaczew’s most ancient street – Farna Street
12. Trojanów district parish church
13. Gaw³ów manor house
National Memory Sites
1. Cemetery of soldiers fallen in the Battle of Bzura 1939, Aleja
600-lecia Street
2. St Laurence parish cemetery, Traugutta Street – tombs of
soldiers fallen in 1939.
3. Monument - (Christ sculpture) commemorating the regaining
of independence in 1919 – at the
St. Laurence parish church
Wildlife
Sochaczew is situated along the
natural banks of the picturesque
Bzura River. There are vast and
clean woods nearby the town –
parts of the Kampinos National
Park complex.
Panorama of the Bzura River
– photo: J. Orczyk-Mizio³ek
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Expressly for tourists
On the way to Sochaczew…
While going down the road leading form ¯elazowa Wola to
Sochaczew, in the district of Chodaków one may visit the Repsz
family watermill on the Utrata river, operating in the place since the
16th century. During World War II, the place was – among others – a
headquarters of local Polish Armia
Krajowa (the Home Army) structures.
On the way to the town centre, a
monument well worth seeing is the St.
Mary the Virgin’s Nativity Church in
the district of Trojanów – a one-nave
baroque construction, erected 1783.
Not far from there, a cemetery of
soldiers fallen in the Battle of Bzura is
located. 3693 soldiers of “Pomorze”
and “Poznañ” armies are buried there.
Sochaczew Park – photo: T. W¹tor
Hisotrical monuments in the town centre
Going down the town’s most ancient street – Farna Street – one may
get to the main market square – Koœciuszki Square. In the northwestern part of the Square, The Museum of The Sochaczew Region
and The Battle of The Bzura River is situated in the former town hall
of the 19th century. In the Museum, a very interesting collection of
World War II militaria is presented, among many other exhibits.
From the Dukes of Masovia Castle Ruins to the Market Halls
From Koœciuszki Square we may head south and enter the
Podzamcze area, where the homesteads at the foot of the castle used
to lie. Upon an elevated hill overlooking the Bzura River, the
remnants of the 14th-century Dukes of Mazovia Castle can be seen.
They are the oldest surviving monument of the town’s history,
giving evidence to the many centuries of its existence.
Not far from there, at the bank of the
river, there is a marina and a canoe
rental. From here, one may take a
canoe ride down the river to
Plecewice, Witkowice and further on,
down to the Vistula River.
At the foot of the Castle Hill, there is
the Band-shell with an amphitheatre.
It is here that on every second
weekend of June the greatest festival
of the town is held – the “Sochaczew
Days”, during which one may see
concerts and performances given by
the most renown artists of Poland and
worldwide.
The amphitheatre and the
Boles³aw Krzywousty monument
– photo: £. Majewski
concert band-shell are surrounded by
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the Town Park with a monument to Frederick
Chopin. Not far from the park, there is the St.
Dominic Square, where the Dominican
Sisters Convent used to stand in the past – the
one in which the garrison lead by gen. Piotr
Szembek once stayed. It was on his initiative
that in 1830 in Sochaczew one of the last
concerts by Frederic Chopin had been held
before the composer left the country.
Trojanów church
– photo: Town Office archive
In the centre of the town, in Warszawska
Street, we can also see the antique Market Halls constructed 182833. Built in the classicistic style, they draw attention by their
charcteristic arcaded passageway.
I. Garbolewski Manor house and Park
It is also worth the time to visit the
I. Garbolewski antique manor house and
park. The manor house was built ca. 1800
in a typical fashion of classicistic Polish
manor architecture. At present, the
Frederick Chopin State School of Music
of the 1st and 2nd degrees resides here –
one that has already contributed to the
place’s history with its 30 years of
tradition. In May and June, open-air
Antique train – photo: L. Karpi³owski
concerts very popular among musiclovers are held here.
The Narrow-Gauge Railway Museum
We finish our sightseeing trip of Sochaczew in the Narrow-Gauge
Railway Museum, not far from the main train station. The Museum
hosts the greatest Polish and European collection of narrow-gauge
railway vehicles. In the summer season, the Museum’s greatest
attraction are the antique train rides to the Kampinos Forest.
Cultural Events
We would also like to encourage you, Ladies and Gentlemen, to visit
Sochaczew during many an interesting event taking place in our
town, such as the Sochaczew Days, the Sochaczew Laurel –
painting exhibition, Sochaczew Music Workshops, Masovian
Flexwing Championships or the Motocross Competition.
Koœciuszki Square – photo: T. W¹tor
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Along the trail of Frederick Chopin’s baptism
¯elazowa Wola – Brochów
Getting there
Variant one – 8 km
Starting from ¯elazowa Wola, turn into the road to Mokas just
behind the car parking. Go through the village of Mokas and on the
Brochów-Stojec crossroads turn left. Keeping to the road and
following the signs, reach the voivodship No. 750 road crossroads.
Drive straight through the crossroads – the towers of Brochów
basilica are to be seen from afar.
Variant two - ca. 10 km
From ¯elazowa Wola, take the voividship No. 580 road in the
direction of Sochaczew. Driving along the Chopin Street, already
within the town limits, and on a roundabout next to Frederic Chopin
School turn right into No. 705 road to Œladów.
The well-marked No. 705 road gets the tourist to a village of
Plecewice (located within the Brochów commune limits)
wherefrom Brochów itself is not far away.
Monuments of Architecture
1. Ss. Roch and John the Baptist
parish church of Brochów – the
place of Fredercik Chopin’s baptism.
2. Tu³owice manor house, built ca.
1800 for Franciszka Lasocka – an
example of classicistic manor
The Cottage of Henryk Goszcz
– photo: Sochaczew Town Office archive
architecture.
3. 19th-century cottage in Górki, property of Henryk Goszcz – an
image of Masovian countryside of the past.
National Memory Places
1. Monument in Œladów on the bank of Vistula, commemorating the
Nazi crime committed on 18th September 1939 upon civilians,
inhabitants of a number of villages of the commune and Polish
Army soldiers.
2. Memorial stone and plaque, commemorating cavalry brigadier
general Stanis³aw Grzmot-Skotnicki, fallen in the Battle of Bzura
(19.09.1939).
3. Mound-memorial in Janów, honouring the sodiers fallen in
September 1939 Battle of Bzura in the Brochów region
The Bzura River – photo: E. Domañska
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Wildlife
The commune of Brochów, all its territory situated in the protection
zone of the Kampinos National Park, gives many opportunities of
having a rest on the bosom of nature. Cycling and walking routes,
marked and prepared to be used in summer as well as in winter, lead
from Brochów commune into the very heart of the forest.
Expressly for tourists…
1. Narrow-gauge Sochaczew-Tu³owice railway
An especially interesting way of visiting the Commune of Brochów
is the trip by antique museum narrow-gauge railway. The narrowgauge railway used to reach the commune as early as in 1922. By
1923, it already reached deep inside the Forest, up to the village of
Piaski Królewskie, whereas in 1924 – to Wyszogród. The train
carried both passengers and cargo freight. Regular train cruises
ceded on November 30th 1984, but – thanks to the efforts of
railway-lovers – the Narrow-Gauge Railway Museum has been
founded. Within the Museum’s activites, tourist train rides to the
edge of the Forest are organized.
2. The Olender Trail
The Olender Trail - the cemeteries left over the evangelical faith
settlers from Holland - is an offer of active
rest. On the territory of the commune,
seven evangelical cemeteries ae to be
found: the two best-preserved ones in
Œladów and Famu³ki £azowskie, the
remaining ones in W³adys³awów,
Olender cemetery in Œladów
Karolinów and Miszory, Kromnów and
– photo: M. Jakubowski
Piaski Królewskie. In 2007, the objects were cleared of the
overgrowing bushes, the surviving graves uncovered, the area of the
cemeteries marked. Information and direction boards and signs
have been set up to point the tourists in the right direction and show
the ways from the main routes.
3. Battle of Bzura Reenactment
Every year in the first half of September, the Commune of Brochów
is host and one of the main oganizers to Battle of Bzura
Reenactment. The Reenactment shows the episodes of September
1939 campaign taking place by the banks of Bzura in the vicinity of
Brochów. The event always moves both the participants and the
spectators to strong emotions: as early as some days before the
actual event, historical reenactment group pitch their camps in
Brochów and the battlefield is
prepared. On Sunday afternoon, the
main part of the event begins,
involving pyrotechnical effects,
hundreds of soldiers, numerous
military vehicles as well as cavalry.
Battle of Bzura Reenactment
– photo: Brochów Commune Office archive
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Sanniki Chopin adventure
¯elazowa Wola – Sanniki
Getting there
The village of Sanniki lies at he No. 577 route, 26 km from
Sochaczew and 34 km from ¯elazowa Wola.
There are two routes to choose from for the visitors. The first one
leads from ¯elazowa Wola to Sanniki via Sochaczew by No. 577
voivodship road. The other route goes through picturesque I³ów and
S³ubice – along the Vistula River valley by voivodship No. 575 road
Monuments of Architecture
Sanniki church
– photo: Sanniki Commune Office archive
1. Frederick Chopin Palace and
Park Complex –Frederick Chopin
Memorial Centre, concert hall,
Chopin memorial museum,
Mateusz Gliñski Music Library.
2. Antique neo-classicist Holy
Trinity church of Sanniki.
3. St. Martin the Bishop parish
church of Osmolin.
4. Osmolin parish church division
in Lwówek – fromer prayer house,
built 1857 by the Bohemian
Brethren.
Memorial to Polish soldiers murdered during World War II, in
Osmolin.
Wildlife
In the palace park, one may find a F. Chopin monument, beautiful
alleys of lime and chestnut trees as well as examples of pyramidal
elms. Some of the trees have
been proclaimed monuments of
nature.
Sanniki
Palace park – photo: Sanniki Palace archive
We drive into Sanniki by Warszawska street. About 2 km from the town limits, one may see the
Frederick Chopin Palace and Park Complex. Inside the palace, there
is a concert hall, Chopin memorial museum, and Mateusz Gliñski
Music Library. In the park by the palace we find a F. Chopin
monument, beautiful lime, chestnut and hornbeam alleys and
examples of pyramidal elms. Some of the trees have been
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proclaimed monuments of nature. Apart from seeing the park and
palace iself, we advise listening to a music and poetry concert and
visiting the accompanying painting exhibition.
The magnet drawing to Sanniki is the annual „Sanniki Sunday”
event, held every first Sunday of June. Within it, attracions such as
fairs of folk-art, books, sculpture and painting and folk ensemble
concerts are offered.
Vis-a-vis the Palace and Park Complex, there is an antique
neoclassicistic Holy Trinity church.
It is also worth trying the food of the local cuisine in Bolek’s Inn
(Karczma u Bolka), located 100 m from the palace. We recommend
that from the very rich menu, a most tasty dessert be chosen –
Chopin’s Dream (Marzenie Chopina – according to the local
legend, the composer’s favourite one).
The guests are also recommended to meet with the Sanniki region
folklore by visiting the permanent exhibition in the Communal
Culture Club in Sanniki. While visiting Sanniki, one may take part
in numerous events organized by the Centre, such as national
evenings, exhibitions, varnishing-days, meetings with actors and
writers.
Osmolin
Having been acquainted with the attractions of Sanniki, one should
visit one of the oldest commune’s settlements – Osmolin, where the
St. Martin the Bishop parish church with its 19th-century-dated
polychromes stands. It is also worth seeing the memorial of Polish
soldiers murdered during World War II, unveiled 1957. While in
Osmolin, one may also visit the ecological farm producing health
food.
Lwówek
Here, the division of Osmolin
parish church is to be found. It
is a former prayer house, built
in 1857 by the Bohemian
Brethren. In Lwówek, a
number of houses typical for
the Dutch architecture have
been preserved with their
characteristical thatched
roofs. On a small hill nearby
Olender cottage – photo: Sanniki Palace archive
the village, the evangelical
Bohemian Brethren cemetery is situated.
Ecological farms
Tourists interested in ecological agriculture are advised to visit
a number of ecological farms found on the territory of our
Commune. In Staropól and Szkarada villages, it is possible to buy
ecological products and get to know the technology of their
production.
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I³ów Commune welcomes
¯elazowa Wola – I³ów
Getting there
Driving the No. 577 voivodship road from Sochaczew, one should
reach Gi¿yce (on the territory of I³ów commune) and then head
towards Brzozów Stary, wherefrom a straight road goes to I³ów
itself.
Monuments of history
1. Antique I³ów village Marketplace
(at present a square).
2. I³ów parish church complex:
- brick church of 1781
- brick bell tower of the first half of 19th
century
- enclosing wall with 4 brick shrines
3. Ss. Peter and Paul parish church
Brzozów church
– photo: I³ów Commune Office archive
in Gi¿yce
4. Palace and park complex in Gi¿yce.
5. St. Andrew parish church complex in Brzozów:
- brick church erected 1852-1857, renovated in the second half
of 19th century
- brick bell tower erected 1852-1857
- brick enclosing wall erected 1852-1857
1. Memorial obelisk, commemorating the death of two Armia
Krajowa „Cichociemny” paratroopers, fallen in Brzozów during
a skirmish with the Nazis.
2. Mass graves of World War II soldiers in the cemeteries of I³ów,
Brzozów and Gi¿yce.
Wildlife
The northern territory of I³ów commune includes the Vistula river
valley. The sandbanks elevated
above the water level are the
characteristic landscape
feature here. The land captivates with its beauty, as its
character is a natural one,
unchanged by the hand of man.
Here one might encounter
endangered plants and animal
species, enlisted into the Polish
Red Books. The land has been
Vistula valley – photo: A. Stañczak
given special protection within
the frameworks of NATURA 2000 programme.
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We would like to offer you
a nice ride, starting from
¯ e l a z o w a Wo l a , t h e
birthplace of F. Chopin,
and across the commune
of I³ów. Driving from the
direction of Sochaczew by
Gi¿yce palace – photo: A. Stañczak
voivodship No. 577 road,
we enter the I³ów commune in the village of Gi¿yce. Here we can
see the oldest church of Sochaczew powiat (district) – the church of
Ss. Peter and Paul. In Gi¿yce, the most interesting non-sacral object
is also to be found – the Park and Palace Complex.
Driving on along the road, we get to Brzozów Stary, where a place of
interest is the St. Andrew church. On the nearby cemetery, there is
the section of September 1939 soldiers; the grave of AK units
soldiers and the tomb of two “Cichociemny” paratroopers.
From Brzozów it is recommended to head towards I³ów, where the
famous I³ów fairs and markets have been held for over 500 years.
Here we can also see the chracteristic antique urban layout of the
marketplace (now turned into a town square) and the beautiful
antique I³ów parish church complex. The local cemetery 17th
century shrine is a very interesting object as well.
I³ów commune has its border on the Vistula, and that is where we are
also headed. In Pieczyska I³owskie, we can see the oldest and the
most impressive tree – a pedunculate oak, comparable with the
famous “Bartek”. The tree, which is the greatest and the most
spectacular monument of nature on the territory of the commune, is
undoubtedly the pride and joy of I³ów and an excellent tourist
attraction. Around the oak, we can behold the beautiful Vistula
valley sights and the picturesque hillocks of Antoniñska, Karoliñska
and Rakowiecka Kêpa. We go further on, towards the Uroczysko
Rzepki range, and next in the direction of Budy I³owskie, where we
can admire the lush vegetation of the land.
It is in these green corners of the land that we say goodbye to the
commune of I³ów and go back – via M³odzieszyn and Chodaków
district of Sochaczew - to ¯elazowa Wola.
Vistula valley – photo: I³ów Commune Office archive
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Kampinos welcomes
¯elazowa Wola – Kampinos
The commune of Kampinos lies in the north-western part of Mazowieckie voivodship, about 35 km from Warsaw city limits.
Getting there
From ¯elazowa Wola, one can get to Kampinos by No. 580 state road.
Monuments of history
1. Kampinos parish church, built 1773-1782
2. Kampinos National Park Jadwiga & Roman Kobendz Museum and
Didactical Centre in the village of Granica.
3. Ethnographical park (Granica open-air museum).
4. St. Dorothy antique church in Zawady.
5. The remnants of Bromierski and Karnkowski mansion in Zawady.
6. Antique Frederick Chopin Lime Tree Alley in Zawady.
1. Military Cemetery in Granica..
2. 1863 insurgents tomb at the Kampinos church.
3. Classicistic mansion of the second half of the 19th century, built
for Adam Broniec (private property). During the Insurrection of
January 1863, Zygmunt Padlewski insurgency headquarters stationed
here.
Wildlife
The commune of Kampinos is but a part of a vast macroregion of central
Poland lowlands, called „the land of great lowlands”, and the Kampinos
National Park is one of the most important nature refuges of Poland. The
Park is of an unstabilized character and is subject to dynamic
development, conditioned mainly by climatic environment and soil
structure.
The pride of Kampinos National Park is a
small shrub called Leather Leaf (Chamaedaphne calyculata) – a relic of the Ice Age.
When venturing through the park, one may
also ancounter a number of trees – Nature
Monuments (the status has been awardad to
about 1015 examples), and among other rare
species one should list Prunus Acida, Betula
Obscura (Black Birch) and Linnaea Borealis
(Twinflower)
Kampinos church
– photo: N. Piwowarczyk
Granica
The trip from ¯elazowa Wola to Kampinos is best started at the
forester’s lodge in the village of Granica. There is an organized
place of rest for tourists here, including a camping field, a car park
and – in the tourist season – a small bar. One can light a campfire
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here, have a ride in a horse chaise, or a sledging cavalcade in winter.
It is also worth visiting the Jadwiga & Roman Kobendz Museum
and Didactic Centre with its permanent naturalistic exhibition. One
should see the open-air exhibition in front of the Museum, devoted
to Polish national parks and the open-air museum – example of the
old “forest’ architecture. Then, there is a walk along the Third
Millennium Alley where, since 1999, the highest state officials have
planted young oaks, and one must not forget to honour the fallen
soldiers of the 7th Wielkopolska Mounted Riflemen and 14th
Jaz³owieccy Uhlan regiments, fallen in September 1939 and buried
on the local military cemetery.
Kampinos
From Granica we head towards Kampinos, where St. Mary the
Virgin Assumption church, built 1773-1782, is located. It is in this
antique church that one can see the much-revered “Mother of God
with Child” – the “Lady of Kampinos” painting. Across the street
from the church, there are two impressive oaks – monuments of
nature, given the names of two great Poles – cardinal Stefan
Wyszyñski and Frederick Chopin.
Zawady
Straight from Kampinos we may go to the village of Zawady, where
a neo-gothic church, erected 1889-1905, is found. In one of the four
altars of the church, we can see the copy of the Czêstochowa
Madonna painting - made on Cordovan (a special kind of leather)
most probably in the 18th century.
£azy
From Zawady to £azy – a village by the so-called King’s Trail
(Trakt Królewski) between Kampinos and ¯elazowa Wola – there
goes the Frederick Chopin Lime Tree Alley. In £azy there are the
remains of Bromierski and Karnkowski mansion from the second
half of the 18th century. East from £azy, there is an exceptional
Masenka range with its small pond surrounded by pinewood.
Picturesque landscape and clean air attract people to visit Kampinos
Commune at any time of the year. Natural assets are joined here with
numerous tourist
attractions.
Ganica open-air museum – photo: N. Piwowarczyk
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Motorboat and canoe routes
All watersport-lovers are
invited to Bzura and Vistula
marinas, located near the Chopin
places of interest. Canoeing
tourists are recommended to take
a canoe ride from Sochaczew to
Suchodó³ in the vicinity of I³ów,
via Plecewice, Brochów and
Canoeing trip – photo: P. ¯ó³towski
Kamion. Motorboat sport-lovers
can take a cruise down the Vistula from Suchodó³ to Nowy Secymin
Suchodó³ Vistula marina – how to get there
First reach the village of I³ów. Next follow the No. 575 road to
P³ock. Some 200 m behind I³ów turn right onto Suchodó³ (on the
crossroads there is a “Suchodó³ 7 km” sign). Before Suchodó³ turn
right towards the Vistula River (on the crossroads you will see a “Do
przystani wodnej” – “To the marina” sign).
Sochaczew - Suchodó³ canoeing route
The canoeing ride begins in Sochaczew, on a marina next to the
castle ruins. Going down the river, one may get to Plecwice marina
(it is possible to organize a camping there). Further down the river,
on the right one can see the 16th-century Ss. Roch and John the
Baptist parish church of Brochów – the baptism place of F. Chopin.
The church is a Europe-wide unique construction, comprising in
itself the defensive and the sacral functions. Bzura flows into
Vistula in the vicinity of Kamion village. Having passed the bridge
of Wyszogród, one should continue the canoe ride down the Vistula
river. The trail is marked either by buoys or poles – looking
downstream, the green buoys/poles are on the left-hand side of the
trail, the red ones on the right. Alongside the river there are also
information signs, giving the information about the current
kilometre of the water trail we are on. In order to get to Suchodó³
marina, having passed sign
599 one should yaw left off
the trail (going round the
island on its left-hand side)
and then take the second
channel left. Going straight
on down the channel, one
gets to an embankment. At
the bank turn right and go
downstream for about 200 m
, to the marina itself.
Vistula bank – photo: P. ¯ó³towski
At the marina there is
a small bar, a camping field, a watersport equipment rental and a car
park.
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Suchodó³ – Nowy Secymin motorboat route
One may launch a motorboat yacht at the Suchodó³ marina. To
begin the cruise, one needs to go round the hillock of Kêpa
Antoniñska near the marina and head for the water trail buoys.
Please note that Kêpa Antoniñska is a bird nesting place nature
reserve – while approaching and passing the place, it is forbidden to
disturb the quiet or cause waves. Having reached the water trail
599th kilometre sign, one should head upstream. 10 km further, on
the left, one can admire the high river bank of Wyszogród. It is worth
visiting the antique church and the Franciscan monastery there.
From Wyszogród, we go upstream to Czerwiñsk nad Wis³¹ (“upon
Vistula”). The town is overlooked by one of Poland’s most precious
monuments of architecture – the Czerwiñsk Abbey romanesque
complex. The cruise can be finished on the right-bank bridgehead in
Nowy Secymin.
Bzura – photo: P. ¯ó³towski
MAP LEGEND
C
B
D
A
E
D
C
B
A
Canoeing Route
A – Castle Ruins in
Sochaczew
B - ¯uków
C – Plecewice
„Motoprzystañ”
marina
D - Brochów
E - Suchodó³
Marina
Motorboat route:
A - Suchodó³
Marina
B - Wyszogród
C - Czerwiñsk nad
Wis³¹
D - Œladów
E - Nowy Secymin
Map of Bzura river in the vicinity of Sochaczew
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Tourist routes and trails
in Chopin’s Masovia
For the active tourists, we offer numerous ways of sightseeing
in the Western Masovia, including many tourist trails going through
the Vistula valley and the primeval territories of the Kampinos
Forest. Tourists may choose the areas of their trips according to their
way of locomotion – by walking, cycling, automobile or water
trails. Lush nature will provide city dwellers with a refuge and rest
from their daily rush.
Masovian willows - photo. Archiwum UG w Sannikacu
Trails of interest include:
s
Main Kampinos Forest Trail (Dziekanów Leœny - Wiersze Tu³owice - Brochów) 55.8 km
s
Main Northern Edge Trail (Tu³owice - Grochale Nowe Modlin) 41 km
s
Kampinos Cycling Trail (around the National Park) 144.5 km
For the ones keen on the region’s monuments and history,
we advise the following routes:
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In the Wake of Jagie³³o - 69 km - variant I - (route: Leonów Sochaczew)
s
In the Wake of Jagie³³o - 73 km - variant II - from Sochaczew
to Czerwiñsk nad Wis³¹
One may rest actively with the family during the:
s
Tadeusz Krawczyk Family Cycling Raid around the Powiat
of Sochaczew
s
picnic-trip, to which one can get by an antique train from
Sochaczew to „Osada Puszczañska w Tu³owicach” (Tu³owice
Forest Hamlet) - 42 km
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Music-lovers are advised to visit the places where Chopin’s
music still sounds:
by Sochaczew „Chopin Trail to Brochów” - 36 km
s
s
from Sochaczew to a concert in ¯elazowa Wola - 17 km
s
by Educational Trail (prepared for youth from all school
types) aimed at giving a closer look at the great composer’s person
as well as places he used to visit in Masovia.
¯elazowa Wola Countryside - photo: T. Fijo³ek
In the wake of the local legends one follows the route:
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Where Zab³ocki did his trade on soap - 44 km - (route:
Sochaczew - Rybno - Gi¿yce - M³odzieszyn - Sochaczew)
And for those willing to try the local cuisine and ecological
products, there is:
s
Cookery Trail – a gourmand’s weekend
These are only some from amongst our proposals. All the routes
and trails, as well as their full descriptions, can be found on the
website
We encourage you to make use of our proposals and enjoy the
beauty of Masovian land.
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Tourist Trails Map
Along the trail of Frederick
Chopin’s baptism
Getting there: variant I – Mokas village – No. 750 road – Brochów; variant
II – No. 580 road – Chodaków district No.705 road – Plecewice –Brochów.
Monuments: St. Roch and St. John the Baptist parish church; Tu³owice
mansion; 19th c. Cottage in Górki
1 ¯ELAZOWA WOLA – BROCHÓW
Sanniki Chopin Adventure
Getting there: No. 577 road – Sochaczew – Sanniki; No. 575 road – I³ów
– S³ubice - Sanniki
Monuments: F. Chopin Palace and Park Complex; antique neoclassicistic
Holy Trinity parish church; Osmolin parish church; Osmolin parish church
division in Lwówek.
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3 ¯ELAZOWA WOLA – I£ÓW
I³ów Commune welcomes
Getting there: No. 577 road – Sochaczew – Gi¿yce – Brzozów Stary –
I³ów
Monuments: Antique Market of I³ów; I³ów parish church complex; Ss.
Peter and Paul parish church in Gi¿yce; Palace and park complex in
Gi¿yce; St. Andrew parish church complex in Brzozów.
Kampinos welcomes
Getting there: No. 580 road – Kampinos
Monuments: Kampinos parish church of 1773-1782; classicistic mansion
of 19th c.; Kampinos National Park Museum and Didactical Centre in
Granica; Third Millennium Alley; St. Dorothy church in Zawady; Frederick
Chopin Lime Tree Alley in Zawady; 1863 Insurgents tomb in Zaborów
Leœny.
4 ¯ELAZOWA WOLA – KAMPINOS
5 ¯ELAZOWA WOLA – SOCHACZEW
A walk along the Lime Tree Alley
Getting there: No. 580 road – Sochaczew
Monuments: 14th c. Dukes of Masovia Castle Ruins; The Museum of The
Sochaczew Region and The battle of The Bzura River; 19th c. Market Halls;
Narrow-Gauge Railway Museum: Garbolewski Mansion and Park
(F. Chopin State School of Music ); Boles³aw Krzywousty Monument;
Koœciuszki Square; Trojanów parish church.
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Places worth visiting...
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Chopin Hotel
Chopin Hotel kindly invites
all the visitors who value
comfort and high services
standard in conjunction with
accessible prices and nice
atmosphere. The Hotel offers 76
places in single, double and
three-person rooms and an
apartment. The rooms are airconditioned and equipped with satellite TV, permanent free Internet
connection, telephone and bathroom with shower.
For our guests’ convenience, we accept credit cards as well as
Euro payments. There is also a currency exchange point in the hotel,
and it is possible to use the hotel safe.
The hotel restaurant
will please even the most
refined taste. The airconditioned ballroom is an
excellent place to organize
both formal parties and
smaller banquets. During
the summer season, an
additional attraction is the
quiet grill patio, available to
all our guests.
The hotel also provides three spatious fully-equipped
conference rooms: the BIG ROOM able to host up to 250 people, the
MEDIUM ROOM of up to 80 people and the SMALL ROOM for up
to 30 people. Conferences and trainings organized in Chopin Hotel
are always a warranty of success.
Additional leisure facilities:
Swimming pool – the place to relax and have a rest after a hard
day’s work.
Steam sauna – high temperature improving blood circulation
and regenerating the vital forces.
Chopin Hotel awaits!
Chopin Hotel
21 Traugutta Street,
Sochaczew 96-500
tel. +48 46 862 59 95,
fax +48 46 862 59 99
e-mail:[email protected], www.hotelchopin.pl
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Wolkas Agrotourism Farm
45 km from Warsaw, at the
edge of the Kampinos Forest,
5 km from ¯elazowa Wola, in the
village of Wólka Smolana, there
lies the Wolkas agrotourism
farm, warmly inviting all those
looking for both nature and
luxury. Wolkas offers 22
sleeping places in excellently
furnished two- and four-person
rooms with bathrooms, satellite TV and radio Internet access. Our
offer includes daily boarding, based on locally-produced ecological
ingredients, such as bread, butter, cold slices, eggs and milk.
Wolkas offers many facilities: a 12x6 m swimming pool,
jacuzzi, sauna, tennis court, beach volleyball field, badminton field,
children playground, ATV route, bar, home theatre, karaoke and
dancing place. And in winter time:
winter garden lit by fotovita lamps –
400 m2, natural ice skating rink,
sledging cavalcades.
Wolkas also organizes company
parties, trainings, meetings, namesday
and first communion parties, stag and
hen parties.
In Wolkas Agrotourism Farm, the
weather is always good. Even when it
is cold and damp outside – fotovita lamps can well substitute for the
sun.
Wolkas extends an especially warm welcome to all the lovers of
rock music.
Wolkas Agrotourism Farm
Katarzyna Ma³achowska
34a Wólka Smolana
Brochów 05-088
Tel. + 48 22 725 75 14; +48 792 200 244
[email protected]
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Moto-Przystañ
MOTO-PRZYSTAÑ company deals with organizing canoeing
rallies along the rivers of Masovia. The main routes of company’s
operation are the rivers of Bzura, Rawka and Skrwa. MOTOPRZYSTAÑ is situated in the village of Plecewice, by the Bzura
river, about 5 km in a straight line from ¯elazowa Wola. There, a
canoeing marina and a place
where one may take a rest by
the water are to be found.
There are about 50 canoes at
the customers’ constant
disposal. In case of
organizing larger rallies,
there is even a possibility of
increasing the number. It
should be added that a free of
charge, safe car park is
available for both private cars and buses. The company provides
security equipment, water life-guards as well as canoeing
instructors. Individual tourists receive their service and large tour
rallies are organized, even for groups of up to 100 people.
One may spend one’s time pleasantly in the Plecewice marina –
there is a volleyball field available, as well as fireplaces, barbecues
and roofings where one may find shelter in case of bad weather.
MOTO–PRZYSTAÑ is an excellent place for open-air, integration
and business or company events and parties, birthdays and family
reunions.
Within the range of services offered, MOTO-PRZYSTAÑ can
both arrange a few hours’ canoeing rally and organize even a dozen
days’ rally of varied difficulty levels. The company adjusts to its
guests’ wishes and renst the equipment both in the MOTOPRZYSTAÑ and in any location designated by the customer,
organizing canoes and crew transport. The rally may begin at any
place along the rivers within the company’s scope of operation –
detailed list available on the company’s website. We have special
routes for tourists visiting Brochów and ¯elazowa Wola, allowing
for an excellent overview of the picturesque, charming Masovia
landscapes which once inspired the Great Composer – Frederick
Chopin.
MOTO-PRZYSTAÑ
78 Plecewice
Brochów 05-088
fax +48 22 725 79 53;
tel +48 503 721 850;
+48 602 467 127
email:[email protected]
www.motoprzystan.pl
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Chopinowski Off-Road
„Zebra Off - Road
Family Team” is an offroad rally passionates
group, offering exciting
rallies around the vicinity
of Sochaczew and the
surrounding countryside.
Apart from organizing
off-road car rallies for the
already-experienced offroaders, „Zebra Off-Road
Family Team” group also
deals with advertising tourist off-road. Knowing the area
thoroughly, they show theme routes connecting many of Masovia’s
characteristic points: monuments of history, historically important
places, beautiful landscapes, as well as the places connected with
famous people: Chopin, Che³moñski, Kolbe, Krzywousty…
The Off-Road offer is available for the duration of the whole
year. From the earliest days of spring well until the very end of
autumn, off-road rallies are organized, whereas in winter – sledging
cavalcades.
It is an unusual possibility to have one’s active rest in a good
company – both for rally-lovers, automobile passionates and all
those who constantly seek thrills of adventure.
Zebra Off-Road Family Team
Patrycja – e-mail:[email protected]
Bartek – e-mail:[email protected]
www.4x4.e-sochaczew.pl
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Roman Kusz
Carriage driving team
One of regional attractions
is a hippic centre specialising
in carriage driving, run by
Ma³gorzata and Roman Kusz
in Helenka, near Sochaczew.
Roman Kusz is a multiple
Poland and World champion in
two-horse carriage driving. In
their stables in Helenka, he
prepares carriage horses both
for sport and leisure.
Roman Kusz’s centre offers rides in a luxury eight-person horse
carriage called glasslando and a wagonett type vehicle for a larger
number of passengers. The rides around ¯elazowa Wola,
Sochaczew and their vicinity constitute one of the greatest
attractions for tourists and local inhabitants. The construction of
vehicles allows for a comfortable ride regardless of weather or
season.
Roman Kusz centre
extends its offer both for
individual recipients as well
as corporations.
Roman Kusz
1a Helenka
M³odzieszyn 96-512
mobile: +48 606 329 682
www.kuszroman.pl
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Bon Voyage Restaurant offers Polish and
international cuisine
delicacies. The restaurant
is located only 4 minutes’
drive from Frederick
Chopin Museum in
¯elazowa Wola, at the
Warsaw-Poznañ road. The
customers of Bon Voyage
are travellers both Polish
and foreign. The restaurant
has hosted, among others, a delegation of Vatican officials, Polish
music and film celebrities as well as prominent politicians.
Bon Voyage restaurant also offers organization of family
parties, service of organized trips and
business meetings in a separate room.
52a Ko¿uszki Parcel
Sochaczew 96-500
tel. +48 46 861-97-60,
+48 501 658 698
Golden Beehive Restaurant
Golden Beehive is the
perfect place to have a rest,
eat well and spend the time
among the ones closest to us.
Food from all the corners of
the world offered in the
restaurant attracts both
tourists and local towns
inhabitants. The venue of
Golden Beehive gives
numerous possibilities of
organizing business, social
and family meetings. Additionally, Golden Beehive customers have
at their disposal the nearby
tennins court and football field.
Golden Beehive Restaurant
53b K¹ty
Sochaczew 96-500
tel.+48 792 732 943;
+48 660 732 943
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Bolek’s Inn
Bolek’s Inn is located in Sanniki, 100
m from the Frederick Chopin Palace and
Park Complex. Bolek’s Inn has a wide
choice of dishes and foods to choose
from for the tourists visiting Sanniki. The
chef-recommended specialty is the
„Marzenie Chopina” (Chopin’s Dream)
dessert. The Inn also organizes a wide
range of parties and provides complex service, including a music
band. Moreover, the Inn offers catering services for open-air parties
prepared – among others – in the Park and Palace Complex in
Sanniki. It also organizes outgoing parties in the customer’s venue.
We kindly invite all the Sanniki visitors to pay a visit to Bolek’s
Inn and taste our cuisine’s specialties and the dessert
recommended.
Karczma u Bolka
171 Warszawska Street
Sanniki 09-540
mobile: +48 509 102 955; +48 509 102 940,
www.karczmaubolka.pl
Hit Apartments
„Hit Apartments” is a new hotel
object of the economy class, located
in the antique Warsaw district of
Praga. Not far from our place, there
are the places connected with
Frederick Chopin. In our offer you
may find comfortable hotel rooms
with bathrooms. We give at our
clients’ disposal 12 single, 39 double
and 2 triple rooms. In our offer, there are also the fully-equipped
living apartments.
Our facilities include a modern restaurant, a massage cabinet
and an underground garage. For the ones interested in visiting
¯elazowa Wola, Brochów, Sanniki and other places connected with
Frederick Chopin, we offer the rental of various car models in
diversified promotional prices.
Apartamenty Hit
33 Ks. I. K³opotowskiego Street
Warsaw 03-720
Tel. +48 22 618 94 70, +48 695 069 200,
Fax. +48 22 818 07 75
www.hit.warszawa.pl
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Souvenir Shop
A visit to the antique
¯elazowa Wola manor house
and the surrounding park is best
finished with making oneself
and the relatives a souvenir,
reminding of the stay in the
place of birth of the worldrenown composer. Numerous
publishings, CD discs, films,
tourist maps, folk handicraft
and childrens’ toys – all these
you can find in the souvenir
shop located not far from the
Park entrance. Next to the shop,
a parking is offered for car tourists – open Saturdays and Sundays,
from 9 AM till the last customer.
Alicja Siekierska
10 ¯elazowa Wola
Sochaczew 96-503
tel. +48 46 863 31 48
Small Catering
„Cafe Bis” bar located opposite the
¯elazowa Wola park entrance kindly
invites all the tourists visiting the
frederick Chopin place of birth to try the
dishes served.
The Small Catering offers you
a wide range of catering services...
It is here that you may taste the
excellent Polish food, have a drink of outstanding coffee, and on
warm summer days try our specially-prepared tasty ice-cream
dessert.
Our professionally trained staff do all in their power for the
visitors, both Polish and from abroad, to be glad of the services
offered and for the time spent in such a place of importance that
¯elazowa Wola manor is to be long and well-remembered.
„Cafe Bis” invites and welcomes.
Ma³a Gastronomia
Rafa³ Milczarek
Sochaczew 96 - 503
¯elazowa Wola
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e-Sochaczew.pl
For 8 years now, we have been the comakers of Sochaczew reality.
Giving reliable information, encouraging
public debate, promoting civic activities,
supporting non-governmental orgnizations.
“e-Sochaczew.pl” society is an NGO,
conducting projects on the territory of
Sochaczew town and powiat which aim at
local democracy development and building civic society.
The Society administrates the www.e-Sochaczew.pl webportal,
where local self-government, media, NGO etc. information is
given, as well as the town informer (local news, buses and trains
timetables, cultural events programmes, cinema timetables,
chemist’s shops emergency services, ads, unique teleadressing
institutions data).
Via the Internet webportal, 60 institutions of different kind and
character cooperate with the Society, supplying information on
culture, society, self-government, church parishes and sport.
We invite you to visit our website
www.e-Sochaczew.pl
Town Culture Club
with ,,Mazowsze” cinema in Sochaczew
Venue to be used:
s
for conferences and meetings (show room for 360 people,
smaller one for 100 people)
s
possibility to organize concerts, movie shows and artistic
ensemble performances
s
the Centre is a co-organizer of Masovia Chopin Festival, taking
place every November in Sochaczew School of Music.
Miejski Osrodek Kultury - Town Culture Club with
,,Mazowsze” cinema in Sochaczew
101 Chopina Street
Sochaczew 96-500
tel./fax +48 46 863-25-72 or +48 46 863-26-72
e-mail:[email protected]
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Masovian Chopin Festival
On the 16th of October 1993, on the eve of the 144th
anniversary of Frederick Chopin’s death, in Sochaczew the
Voivodship Chopin Auditions (Wojewódzkie Przes³uchania
Chopinowskie) were first organized. The event grew year by year,
gaining rank and prestige. In the recent years, Masovian Chopin
Auditions have become an all-Polish event. They turned out to be an
exceptional event commemorating the Great Polish Composer.
The change of name from Auditions to Chopin Festival mirrors
the real character of the competition, held under the patronage of the
place revered throughout the world – Frederick Chopin’s Birthplace
in ¯elazowa Wola.
Since 2007, the competition will be enriched with various
elements of the international formula.
The aims of Masovian Chopin Festival are:
s
giving support to, and promotion of talented musical school
students from all over Poland,
s
promotion of Frederick Chopin musical artworks countrywide
and abroad,
s
safekeeping and giving aceess to knowledge about Frederick
Chopin’s life and art,
s
giving the chance to meet the International Chopin Competition
participants,
s
exchange of experience between students and their tutors, jury
members with the teachers – worshops, music meetings.
The organizers of the competition are the Town Culture Club
and F. Chopin State School of Music in Sochaczew.
Miejski Osrodek Kultury Town Culture Club in
Sochaczew
8 ¯eromskiego Street
Sochaczew 96-500
tel./fax. +48 46 862 25 02
www.esochaczew.pl/mok
Frederick Chopin State
School of Music of 1st and
2nd degrees
2 G³owackiego Street
Sochaczew 96-500
tel./fax. +48 46 862 29 62
[email protected]
www.muzyczna.e-sochaczew.pl
photo: Town Office Archives
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Tourist information
SOCHACZEW TOWN
Educational Trail "Frederick Chopin in Masovia" (for schools)
Zespó³ Szkó³ w Sochaczewie im. F. Chopina
99 Chopina St., Sochaczew 96-500
tel. 46 863 37 77 (Piotr Walda); mobile 696 595 649
"Chopin" Hotel
21 Traugutta St., Sochaczew 96-500
tel. 46 862 59 99
e-mail: [email protected] / www.hotelchopin.pl
Hostel
4 ¯eromskiego St., Sochaczew 96-500
tel. 46 862 25 73
"Chopin" Restaurant
21 Traugutta St., Sochaczew 96-500
tel. 46 862 59 99
"Saint Tropez" Restaurant
24b Traugutta St., Sochaczew 96-500
tel. 46 862 24 37
"Wiktoria" Restaurant
16 Reymonta St., Sochaczew 96-500
tel. 46 862 12 39
"Caffe u Helmuta"
4 ¯eromskiego St, Sochaczew 96-500
mobile 600 185 079
"Akwarium" Pizzeria
¯eromskiego St, Sochaczew 96-500
tel. 46 862 88 88
"Malibu" Bar
17 Rozlaz³owska St., Sochaczew 96-500
mobile 515 094 861, 515 094 862
Club 77
60b Warszawska St., Sochaczew 96-500
mobile 608 088 099
"Fresco" Pizzeria
9 ¯eromskiego St., Sochaczew 96-500
tel. 46 862 41 00
"Cynamon"
7 Polna St., Sochaczew 96-500
mobile 501 431 405
"Staromiejska" Restaurant
4 Partyzantów St., Sochaczew 96-500
tel. 46 862 41 81
Bar na Rozdro¿u
11 P³ocka St., Sochaczew 96-500
tel. 46 863 58 70
"Da’Grasso" Pizzeria
5 Kraszewskiego St., Sochaczew 96-500
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tel. 46 862 22 77
"Pinokio" Pizzeria
60 Kochanowskiego St., Sochaczew 96-500
tel. 46 862 17 79
"Rzym" Pizzeria
28 Al. 600-lecia St , Sochaczew 96-500
mobile 504 347 392
SOCHACZEW COMMUNE
"Sonata" Hotel
34 Chrzczany, Sochaczew 96-500
tel. 46 862 31 92
www.hotel.sonata.oit.pl
"Leœne uroczysko" Agrotourism and Restaurant
57 Ko¿uszki Parcel
tel. 46 861 94 93; mobile 509 249 136
e-mail: [email protected] / www.lesne-uroczysko.prv.pl
"Tramex" Bar & Motel
14a Dachowa St., Sochaczew 96-500
tel. 46 863 59 36, 863 52 87
e-mail: [email protected] / www.tramex.com.pl
"Z³oty Ul" Restaurant
53b K¹ty, Sochaczew 96-500
mobile 792 732 943, 660 732 943
52a Ko¿uszki Parcel, Sochaczew 96-500
tel. 46 861 97 60, fax. 46 861 97 61; mobile 501 658 698
e-mail: [email protected] / www.restauracja-bonvoyage.pl
BROCHÓW COMMUNE
Moto-Przystañ
Canoe rental, camping place, football field
78Plecewice, Brochów 05-088
tel./fax. 22 725 79 53; mobile 503 721 850, 602 467 127
email: [email protected] / www.motoprzystan.pl
Private Ethnographical Museum – Henryk Goszcz
3 Górki, Brochów 05-088
tel. 22 796-55-39
Osada Puszczañska "Tu³owice"
48 Tu³owice, Brochów 05-088
tel./fax. 22 725 70 33
e-mail: [email protected] .
WOLKAS Agrotourist Farm
34a Wólka Smolana, Brochów 05-088
tel. 22 725 75 14; mobile 501 442 002
e-mail: [email protected] / www.chopincamp.pl
I£ÓW COMMUNE
Marina in Suchodó³ near I³ów
Water equipment rental, camping field, bar, yacht slip, car park
11a W³adys³awów, Sochaczew 96-500
[email protected] www.ekoturyzm.pl
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"Z³oty Wiek" Guest House
7 £ady, I³ów 96-520
tel./fax. 24 277 40 71
Agrotourist Farm - Teresa Bluszcz
44 Gi¿yce, I³ów 96-520
tel. 24 277 49 26
Agrotourist Farm - Bo¿ena Kaminska
14 £ady, I³ów 96-520
tel. 24 277 43 86; mobile 607 656 072
Agrotourist Farm - "U Edyty" Kamiñski Miros³aw
16 £ady, I³ów 96-520
tel. 24 277 40 11, 24 277 43 87; mobile 668 954 778, 696 291 971
Goœciniec Almara - Iwona Wojtczak
13 Budy I³owskie, I³ów 96-520
mobile 601 330 029, 601 335 791
"Przy Kominku" Bar
Wszeliwy, Brzozów 96-521
mobile 693 839 939
Arkadia Pub
9 Rynek Staromiejski St., I³ów 96-520
mobile 506 376 505
SANNIKI COMMUNE
Agrotourist Farm – Barbara Wieczorek
11 Warszawska St., Sanniki 09-540
tel. 24 277 62 67
Agrotourist Farm - Emil Wiankowski
tel. 24 277 63 68; mobile 509 484 647
Agrotourist Farm - Krystyna Igielska
6 Wólka Niska, Sanniki 09-540
tel. 24 277 67 18
Eco-farm - Miros³aw Rojek
20 Staropól, Sanniki 09-540
tel. 24 277 61 48
Eco-farm - Mieczys³aw Miko³ajczyk
Szkarada, Sanniki 09-540
tel. 24 277 63 15
Eco-farm - Eugeniusz Dylicki
Sielce, Sanniki 09-540
tel. 24 277 61 76
Ecological Farm - Gra¿yna G³adoch
9 Osmolin, Sanniki 09-540
tel. 24 277 74 33
"Karczma u Bolka"
mobile 509 102 955, 509 102 940
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KAMPINOS COMMUNE
"Myœliwski Dworek" Agrotourism - Agnieszka and Tomasz Sieczkowscy
17 Chopina St. Kampinos 05-085
tel. 22 725 00 17; mobile 693 334 380
www.agroturystyka.pl/mazowieckie
"Nad Utrata" Agrotourism - Barbara Szu³czynska
2 Podkampinos and 6 Podkampinos , Kampinos 05-085
tel. 22 796 23 85; mobile 601 919 894, 601 796 003
www.agrokampinos.pl
"Pasikonik" Agrotourism - Zofia Modrzejewska
9 Pasikonie, Kampinos 05-085
tel. 22 725 06 25; mobile 691 963 612
www.agroturystyka.pl/mazowieckie/modrzejewska
"U Krystyny" Agrotourism - Krystyna Modrzejewska
tel. 22 725 06 24; mobile 501 519 263
www.mazowsze.wodr.gov.pl
"Otulina" Agrotourist Farm - Joanna Konecka
1 Kirsztajnów, Kampinos 05-085
mobile 501 725 747
e-mail: [email protected] / www.otulina.com
Agrotourist Farm - "Lidia i Tadeusz Go³êbiowscy"
tel./fax. 22 725 06 27; mobile 502 961 572
www.agroturystyka.pl/mazowieckie/podswierkami
Guest rooms - Halina Brzezinska
16 Chopina St (Post office building), Kampinos 05-085
tel. 22 725 03 73
Important Addresses
Voivodship Marshal Office – Tourism Department
35 Okrzei St, Warsaw 03-715
tel. +48 22 59 79 500; fax. +48 22 59 79 502
Masovian Regional Tourist Organization
10a E.Cio³ka St., rooms 221 and 201, Warsaw 01-402
tel. +48 22 877 22 70; tel./fax. +48 22 877 20 10
Warsaw Tourist Information Office
e-mail: [email protected] / www.warsawtour.pl
Tourist Information – tel. +48 22 94 31, 474 11 42
The Fryderyk Chopin Museum in The Fryderyk Chopin Institute
1 Okólnik St., Warsaw 00-368
tel. +48 22 826-59-35
The Chopins’ Drawing Room
5 Krakowskie Przedmiescie St., Warsaw
(Academy of Fine Arts building, Graphics Faculty, 2nd floor.)
tel. +48 22 320-02-75
Sochaczew Poviat Starosty Office Department of Culture, Sport and
Tourism Promotion
69 Pi³sudskiego Street, Sochaczew 96-500
tel. +48 46 864 18 30; +48 46 864 18 33; +48 46 864 18 38
e-mail: [email protected] ; www.powiat.sochaczew.pl
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Mazovia Regional Tourist Organization began its activity in the year
2006. The main role of our organization is to develop tourism in the Mazovia
Province and to organize the cooperation between all individual tourist
institutions. Our main duties are promotion of general tourist information
such as maps, brochures etc., organization of tourist exhibitions, study tours
and study presses. As main goals, among others, following were set creation
of the image of Mazovia as a tourist attractive region, integration of
territorial, economic and professional autonomies of Mazovia Voivod,
supporting the formation of local tourist organizations, acting to improve
tourist infrastructure, accumulation of financial founds for a tourism
development. Organization is working together with local government of
Mazovia Voivod, others local governments, Local Tourist Organizations,
cultural institutions and private business. In the first year of the activity,
Mazovia Regional Tourist Organization published “Strategy for Tourism
Development for Mazovia Region 2007 – 2013”. Organization is supporting
local tourist products and regional system of tourist information and
incorporating it into international management of “it” system.
01 402 Warsaw, Ciolka 10a street
Phone 022 877 20 10, phone/fax 022 87722 70
www.mazowsze.mrot.pl
Acknowledgements
We would like to sincerely thank all of you who were invited at the
preparation of the tourist product Mazovia Chopin, especially
representatives of the City of Warsaw, Sochaczew, local government of
Brochow, Sanniki, Sochaczew, Ilow, Kampinos, Fryderyk Chopin National
Institute and local business.
Especially we would like to thank of Marshall of the Mazovia Voivod
and Mazovia Regional Tourist Organization as well as to representatives of
the Fryderyk Chopin National Institute
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Local Tourist Organization
Mazovia Chopin
At the district of Western Mazovia has been establishing Local Tourist
Organization. An important field of the Organization is tourist promotion of
the Fryderyk Chopin artistic activity and tourist attractions of the region. In
order to see everything of importance we would like to invite you to take a
trip along specially prepared routes. If you like visiting Fryderyk Chopin
historical places, beautiful parks, palaces, monuments we invite you to visit
Mazovia Region.
Local Tourist Organization takes you through the most interesting parts
of our country. In our offer, you can find cultural events, historical places,
museums, tourist routs, attractions of countrysides, recreation programs.
Our offer and trip from Warsaw through Zelazowa Wola, Sochaczew,
Brochow, Sanniki, Plock and Sierpc gives an opportunity of admission to
many beautiful places.
The main goals of the Local Tourist Organization
- Increasing number of tourists
- Modernization of the tourist infrastructure
- Integration of the tourists sectors
- Promotion of the Region
- Creation of new projects that will help our region
1 Maja 16 street, 96-500 Sochaczew,
phone 046 862 27 30 in. 360, fax 046 862 26 02
E-mail: [email protected], www.mazowszechopina.pl
Publisher:
Cio³ka 10a Street, 01-402 Warsaw
1-go Maja 16 Street, Sochaczew 96-500
Assignment Editor:
Jadwiga Orczyk-Mizio³ek
Text editing:
Aneta Kisielska, Martyna Mikulska, Anna Sobkowicz
Graphical layout and printing:
INTER...TEST
6 Mieszka 1-go Street, Sochaczew 96-500
tel.: +48 46 862 96 57, 046 862 83 64
[email protected], www.it3.pl
Translation:
Micha³ Go³kowski
12 S³owiañska Street, Sochaczew 96-500
mobile: +48 694 616 954
ISBN: 83-917520-3-8
WARSZAWA, 2008 rok
Wydanie II, poszerzone
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