Attractions and Places To See around gmina Iwonicz-Zdrój - Top 20

This impressive two-story wooden building was built between 1876 and 1880. Covered terraces, arcades, balconies... you can probably guess that it was once a luxury hotel for high-end guests!

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One of the most impressive buildings in Iwonicz-Zdrój (Podkarpackie Voivodeship) is the Bazar villa. Located in the center, on the promenade, the wooden building appears on almost all souvenirs from the spa town – it is its showpiece. The two-story building was built between 1876 and 1880, with a plan similar to the letter H. It was founded by Michał Załuski, owner of the Iwonicz estate from 1860. It was during his lifetime that an iodine-bromine salt works was built, and a railway line was built 12 km away. During Michał Załuski's reign, Iwonicz had 19 villas with six hundred rooms for spa guests. The ground floor of Bazar once housed a post office and telegraph office, and later shops. The upper floors were occupied by luxurious rooms. The hotel featured an indoor swimming pool, terraces, balconies, and arcades supported by columns. In one corner, a three-story tower was erected on a square plan, topped with a gazebo on poles, serving as an observation deck. Source and more: https://proszewycieczki.wordpress.com/2020/12/25/iwonicz-zdroj-bazar/

Karol Wojtyla, better known to many as "Pope John Paul II", was born in Wadowice, Poland, in 1920 and was elected as the successor to the head of the Catholic Church after the death of Pope John Paul I in the "Three Popes Year" of 1978 - to the surprise of almost everyone. As a young man, he had experience of dictatorships under the Nazi regime of German-occupied Poland and later under communist rule. During the so-called "Cold War" at the time, his support for the freedom movement, especially in the countries of Eastern Europe, and his part in the fall of the so-called "Iron Curtain" that separated the Western European states from the Eastern Bloc was correspondingly great and passionate. Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II) died in the Vatican in 2005 after a long illness.

On the Zaśpit hill there is the third temple dedicated to Saint. John of Dukla, also known as the Church in the Forest. The history of this place began with a brick temple built in 1769 on the initiative of Maria Amelia Mniszchowa née Brühl after the beatification of the saint. After the ceremonial consecration, accompanied by salvos from 24 mortars, a procession took place from the Dukla parish church to the Zaśpit hill. Unfortunately, both the chapel and the hermitage burned down in a fire in 1883. In 1887, thanks to the foundation of Cezary Męciński, a new wooden chapel was built. The third neo-Gothic brick chapel, still present today, was built in the years 1906-1908 thanks to the efforts of the guardian of the Bernardines of Dukla, Ambroży Ligas. The project was created by a Saint Bernard named Kamil Żarnowski, and the polychrome depicting the life of Blessed John was painted by Władysław Lisowski. The neo-Gothic oak altar was made by Kazimierz Konieczkowski from Strzyżów.

The "Golden Well" is the name given to the site with the chapel of St. John of Dukla above a spring on the trail from Dukla to Cergowa. This site, also accessible via the nature trail from Cergowa, is, according to local tradition, associated with the hermit's life of St. John of Dukla, born around 1414. He founded a well here, dubbed the "Golden Well." The Golden Well remains a pilgrimage site, and indulgence masses are held there on the third Sunday of July.

A beautiful place to reflect and think.

A beautiful place for walks.