Attractions and Places To See around Brochów - Top 20

Comfortable, functional, easily accessible to all travelers, safe, and renovated in a way that highlights its historical beauty – this is the neo-Renaissance PKP station today, which has undergone comprehensive modernization. The station, built in 1901-1902, has been adapted to modern standards of passenger service while maintaining its architectural values. The brick elevation of the monument, along with the details found on it, has been renovated. The window and door joinery has been reconstructed following the historical model, and the roof covering has been replaced, covering the station with titanium-zinc sheet metal. An interesting feature on the building's facade is the placement of a stylized clock in the upper fanlight of the main entrance. The entire visual effect achieved thanks to the reconstruction has been emphasized by new illumination.

The first bridge over the Bzura in Kamion was built in 1915. It was a wooden structure of a temporary nature. After 9 years, the bridge was destroyed during the flood in 1924. It was rebuilt in the same year, but the ice embankments (elements protecting the bridge from flowing ice floes) were not made until the following year. The war that began in 1939 caused the destruction of five spans, which were later repaired by the Germans. Military operations in 1945 and the flowing ice floes in 1947 destroyed the bridge again, but in 1947 it was rebuilt by the State Road Bridge Reconstruction Directorate over the Vistula and Bzura near Wyszogród. In this form (during the last reconstruction it received steel girders) the bridge survived until 2010, when the flowing ice floes damaged it so much that vehicle traffic had to be significantly limited (to 3.5 tons and max. 2 m wide. The reconstruction, or rather construction from scratch, was carried out in the "Design and Build" system. It turned out to be necessary to rebuild the drainage, technical infrastructure devices and build traffic safety devices. The structure has four spans, is 160.5 m long and 9 m wide and has a load capacity that allows for the movement of vehicles weighing up to 80 tons. The contractor completed the work on October 30, 2012, while the ceremonial handover of the new bridge to the residents of Kamion and the Sochaczew district took place on January 2, 2013. The total cost of the works in Kamion amounted to PLN 14.7 million. The subsidy in the amount of PLN 6.8 million came from government funds for the removal of the effects of flooding, which was allocated by the Mazovian Voivode Jacek Kozłowski. The remaining funds in the amount of PLN 7.9 million were provided by the local government of the Mazovian Voivodeship.

It is a Gothic-Renaissance three-nave basilica, the result of the reconstruction of the original Gothic church, flanked by three large, cylindrical towers – two in the western corners, framing a wide narthex, and one above the presbytery apse, with a gallery in the tower above the presbytery. The barrel vault is decorated with a coffered network of repeating rectangular motifs and covered with rich polychrome. A two-story tunnel porch with embrasures runs around the church. The church was founded by Jan Brochowski of the Prawdzic coat of arms – a Warsaw soldier and owner of the village – and his family; it was built between 1551 and 1561 by the renowned mason Jan Baptista of Venice, active in Mazovia (he built or rebuilt churches in Brok, Płock, and Pułtusk, among others). The church's defensive character is emphasized by its three towers, which dominate the surrounding area like the castle's towers. It was also rebuilt later, including after 1655, thanks to the efforts of Albert Adrian Lasocki. It was during this time that the brick bastion walls surrounding the church grounds were built. Remnants of the moat still survive on the Bzura River side. Inside, above the side aisles, is a long porch, which allowed for a connection between the towers. Typical of the style of John Baptist of Venice is the barrel vault with a grid of decorative coffered ribs in the form of circles and rectangles.

A "Ryś" type steam locomotive manufactured by the First Locomotive Factory in Poland in Chrzanów in 1947. Since 1989 it has been placed as a monument in front of the PKP Sochaczew station.

On the southern edge of the village of Górki grew a magnificent 170-year-old pine tree, whose branches hung down to the ground. On these branches, the Cossacks hanged the insurgents who had escaped into the forest after the Battle of Buda Zaborowska (April 10, 1863) and were captured in this area. During the fight, the commander of the insurgent unit, Major Walerian Remiszewski, sent some of the unarmed insurgents into the forest. After defeating the unit, the Russians chased the escapees, and those captured without trial were hanged. A pine tree struck down by lightning on April 1, 1984 lies next to a small monument in the form of a boulder in honor of the Insurgents of 1863. Traces of the severed branches, from which commemorative crosses were made, are visible. Next to it, on a hill, there is a field chapel in the form of two wooden roofs-tents with figures of saints (by Małgorzata Tomaszkiewicz) and a stone altar table. The whole is crowned by a high wooden cross.

place of baptism of Frederic Chopin

How can you not recommend this place? A beautiful and unique church, I finally managed to see it, unfortunately there was a funeral going on.

It is impressive, on the side of the memorial there is a rest area and a bus stop