Top 5 Natural Monuments around Gniewoszów

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Behind the gate, the forest awaits. The spot on the side of the road is easy to miss

A gorge up to 20 meters deep, covered with maples. The Krypianka River flows deep inside. The place is located in the Krępiec reserve in the Kozienice Landscape Park.

Kamień is located on the edge of the Kozienicka Forest, one kilometer from the Vistula proglacial valley. From time immemorial, people have been intrigued by how such a large stone ended up in this place. Nowhere within a radius of several kilometers will you find a larger stone, and here is such a giant. People told all kinds of strange things about him. They say that it took its name from the great treasure of Sieciech buried in the area. The treasure of Sieciech began to be discussed again in the 1970s. Someone used explosives to crush the stone and break it into tiny pieces. Who did it and why? Could Sieciech's treasure be hidden under this huge boulder and finally extracted using explosives? We don't know the answers to these questions. Small parts of the beautiful stone have survived to this day. However, it attracts tourists who, following the blue trail, chip off small fragments of stone as souvenirs.

A very nice place that starts with a portal made of huge tree trunks. There is an inscription 'I am Your Forest' engraved on the trunks. Next to it there is a complete hut and a place for a bonfire, and behind the hill there is a forest path, which I will probably visit next time.

The castle and park complex in Klęka is an example of a German country residence built in the second half of the 19th century. Century was built on the territory of the part of Greater Poland that remained under Prussian rule. Modeled on contemporary Berlin villas, the palace draws on the concept of Palladian architecture and corresponds aesthetically and functionally with the landscape park to the north and east of the palace. There is also a coffee machine at the museum entrance!

The reserve is a valuable refuge for water and marsh birds. bittern, white-tailed eagle, lesser spotted eagle, green fox, white-winged tern, crane, greylag goose, and in the nearby alders - eagle owl. The population of the grebe is one of the largest in Poland (Wikipedia). There are a couple of tables with benches. At the end of May, countless mosquitoes attacked me. In fact, I stopped for a moment and flew on.

Czarnolas is located on the Radom Plain in Zwoleń County, Policzna Commune, approximately 40 km from Radom. In the years 1975-1998, this town belonged administratively to the Radosko Voivodeship. From the mid-15th century, it was owned by the Kochanowski family for three generations. Since 1576, the place of permanent residence and creative work of Jan Kochanowski. In 1961, the Jan Kochanowski Biographical Museum was established in the 19th-century Jabłonowski manor house (a branch of the Jacek Malczewski Museum in Radom). In addition to memorabilia of the poet, his collection includes many works of art dedicated to Kochanowski. On the poet's estate there is a park with ponds and a neo-Gothic chapel with the tombs of the Jabłonowski and Lubomirski families from the 19th century. The park preserves numerous linden trees, hornbeams, exotic tree species and an oak - a natural monument. In place of the famous linden tree, mentioned in the poet's works, there is a 19th-century obelisk with the symbolic sarcophagus of Ursula - the poet's daughter and the bust of Piotr Kochanowski - his nephew. A monument to Jan Kochanowski, made in 1980 on the 450th anniversary of the poet's birth, was erected in front of the Museum. It is a 240 cm high bronze sculpture by Welter.