Attractions and Places To See around gmina Łowicz - Top 20

After a wonderful bike ride, I reached the church in Pszczonów – a truly historic site, as it was the setting for the adaptation of Reymont's novel "Chłopi" (The Peasants). The interior of this church, rich in history – dating back to the 15th and 16th centuries, with numerous renovations and Baroque polychrome – gained a new dimension thanks to the film adaptation. In the 1972 film adaptation, directed by Jan Rybkowski, alongside excellent actors – Władysław Hańcza (Maciej Boryna), Ignacy Gogolewski (Antek Boryna), Emilia Krakowska (Jagna), Krystyna Królówna (Hanka) – residents of Lipce Reymontowskie, Pszczonów, and Słupia also appeared as extras. They brought costumes, props, interiors, and the dialect of bygone times – making the adaptation incredibly authentic and vivid. This is a story truly worth seeing, especially since "The Peasants" is not only one of the greatest Polish novels but also a work by Nobel laureate Reymont – full of rich literary and social context and a profound portrayal of the countryside. The film adaptation captures its spirit and the vibrant folk culture; it is a true tribute to national tradition and the life of the ancient countryside.

In the northern part there is the so-called Primate's Gate from the mid-17th century with the Jastrzębiec coat of arms designed by Tomasz Poncino and the former dean's office, currently the seat of the Bishop of Łowicz. The western frontage is built up with a complex of canonries from the 16th-18th centuries with numerous foundation plaques. In the southern part there is a Renaissance tenement house of the Cebrowski family, their distinguished representative was Andrzej Kazimierz Cebrowski, a pharmacist, doctor, author of the first chronicle of the city "Annales Civitatis Loviciae". On the side of the courtyard at ul. Aptekarska there are Renaissance cloisters. For several centuries, the market square served a commercial function - since the Middle Ages, markets were held there - weekly and annual famous fairs. Once in the middle of the market square there was a Gothic, brick town hall, demolished around 1830. The market square is also a place of historical events. On the market square, on 24-25 October 1790, Tadeusz Kościuszko inspected the 9th Crown Infantry Regiment, and on 18 December 1806, Napoleon Bonaparte stopped in one of the tenement houses on his way to Warsaw after his victory at Jena and Auerstadt. There are two monuments on the market square: to the Sons of the Łowicz Region from 1927 and to Pope John Paul II unveiled in 2000.

Founded in 1778 by Helena Radziwiłłowa. The architectural and garden setting was developed by Szymon Bogumił Zug with great personal involvement and participation of the duchess. Architectural ideas were sketched by Jan Piotr Norblin and Aleksander Orłowski, which were implemented until 1797 by Zug, and later by Henryk Ittar. The duchess began to establish the garden in the spring of 1778, but she continued to develop and compose it for over twenty years, until her death in 1821. The first buildings to be built on the shore of the great Arcadian pond, which was dammed in 1781, were the Cascade and the Cottage by the Waterfall (1781), and a little later the Temple of the High Priest (1783) and the Temple of Diana (1783-1785) with a ceiling by Norblin depicting the Morning Star, and the Aqueduct (1784). In the years 1785-1789, a symbolic Tombstone of the Duchess was built on Poplar Island with an ambiguous Latin sentence Et in Arcadia ego, modeled on the Tomb of Jean Jacques Rousseau in Ermenoville, as well as the Grotto of the Sibyl built of field stones, the rustic Cottages of Philemon and Baucida, the Stone Arch, the Corner of Melancholy, the Gate of Time, the altar circle on the Island of Offerings. In the 1990s, the expansion of Arcadia continued under Zug's direction. At that time, the House of the Murgrave adjacent to the Stone Arch and the Gothic House above the Grotto of the Sibyl were built. In the last years of the passing century, the interior of the Etruscan Cabinet was decorated in the Temple with a neoclassical interior and paintings by Michał Płoński and Aleksander Orłowski. Around 1800, the Duchess turned towards the aesthetics of a romantic garden. At that time, the garden in Arkadia expanded from the small and previously closed area of the sentimental park to the surrounding vast fields located behind the Skierniewka River, freely incorporating viewing axes and new buildings into the vast space of the surrounding natural landscape. The Duchess's bold intentions from that time were implemented in Arkadia by a young romantic visionary, an extremely talented architect of the new generation, Henryk Ittar. At that time, the Tomb of Illusions (1800) was built on the Champs Elysees located behind the river, the Roman Circus (1803) and the Amphitheatre (1804). A little later, the folk Swiss House was built, concealing fairy-tale "crystal interiors" (1810), which the Duchess located among the buildings of the Arcadian village.

Stanisław Klicki was a cavalryman, a division general of the Kingdom of Poland, a participant in the fight for independence and the commander of the staff in Łowicz. The palace was built on his orders, and he wanted it to become a place where various military memorabilia could be collected.

Historic palace in Nieborów, designed by Tylman van Gameren on behalf of Michał Stefan Radziejowski. The palace belonged to the Radziwiłł family from 1774 to 1945. After World War II, it became a branch of the National Museum in Warsaw.

The parish in Pszczonów was probably established at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries, certainly before 1366. From the records of the Gniezno Chapter we learn that the metropolitan archbishop of Gniezno, Jarosław Bogoria Skotnicki, having established the wójt in Pszczonów and having sold it in 1366 to a certain Tomasz, obliged him to pay the local priest a tithe according to the guidelines. In the 15th century, the metropolitan archbishop of Gniezno, Jakub of Sienna, the primate of Poland (1474-1480), built a second church, dedicated to All Saints and St. Dorothy, virgin and martyr. The church in Pszczonów is known from the film adaptation of Reymont's "Chłopi" - it was there that Maciej Boryna and Jagna were married.

An interesting place to visit, with various dining options around

GARDENS IN NIEBOROW AND ARKADIA - OPEN EVERY DAY (in the event of difficult weather conditions, the Museum reserves the right to close the gardens without prior notice) GARDENS IN NIEBOROW AND ARKADIA January - March every day / 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. free admission April - September every day / 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Mondays / free admission** October - December every day / 10:00 - 16:00 Mondays / free admission** (October) free admission (November - December) PALACE 1st March - 26th April Monday - Sunday / 10:00 - 15:00* Mondays / free admission** 31st March - 1st April (Easter) - palace closed ********************************* May Day (27th April - 5th May) and Corpus Christi (30th May - 2nd June) / 10:00 - 17:00* ********************************* 15-18th August / 10:00 - 17:00* ********************************* 6th May - 30th September Monday - Thursday / 10:00 - 15:00* Friday - Sunday / 10:00 - 17:00* Mondays / free admission** ******************************** October 1 - November 30 Monday - Sunday / 10:00 - 15:00* Mondays / free admission** November 1 (All Saints' Day) - palace closed ********************************* December 1, 2024 - February 28, 2025 museum exhibitions closed for cleaning MANUFAKTURA MAJOLIKI April 27 - September 30 Monday - Sunday / 10:00 - 18:00 Mondays / free admission** ******************************** October 1 - October 31 Monday - Sunday / 10.00 - 16.00 Mondays / free admission** *********************************