The best gravel rides around Podkowa Leśna

Dworek and park, a nice place to rest

There's a large tree growing by the café behind the palace. I remember it being a rare species, and I think it's a Ginkgo biloba. Such a specimen is unique in Poland. It might be a tulip tree, though. I can't remember exactly, but I think someone might be interested in this tree, especially if they're as interested in plants and trees as she is.

A moment ago, a beautiful, plump Doe was standing here looking at me. When I stopped, she ran away.

Beautiful and quiet place. The area has an interesting sculpture, squeezed between streams and ponds. Interesting history and two manor houses, separated by 40 years. Built by a father and son, famous doctors. I was enchanted by the silence and atmosphere of this place

Feel the nature, it's worth taking your time there.

The manor house was built around 1930 according to the designs of the architect Witold Pokrowski, commissioned by Dr. Mateusz Chełmoński. In the 1990s, the manor house was owned by Piotr Stefański, the grandson of the founder of the manor house. Wooden and plastered manor house, set on a rectangular plan, with a regular shape, the building set on a stone foundation, single-storey, partially basemented, with a residential attic covered with a mansard roof with slopes covered with ceramic roof tiles. On the slopes of all four elevations there are extensions. On the longitudinal elevations they are topped with triangular gables, on the side elevations they are covered with a pediment roof. The front elevation is composed of 3 wide axes, of which the middle one in the form of a four-column Tuscan portico. On the garden elevation on the axis there is a terrace and a four-column Tuscan portico supporting the balcony of the first floor. The interior layout is two-bay with a hall and a living room on the axis. The whole is composed in a manor style with clear elements of classicism.

The reserve covers a significant part of the forest located east of Skuły, approx. 12 km east of Mszczonów. It was established in 1984 on an area of 316.92 ha, and has a landscape and forest character. It covers most of the Skuły-Wschód forest range, located in the Skuły forest district. The reserve is an exceptionally valuable natural object in the landscape of Central Poland. Its values are evidenced by: the diversity and richness of deciduous forest communities of a natural character, sites of valuable and interesting species of flora and fauna, an island site of beech beyond the range boundary, a large number of old, monumental trees and landscape values. There are four types of forest complexes here: subcontinental oak-hornbeam forest, ash-alder riparian forest, elm-ash riparian forest, and currant alder forest. Fragments with old stands have an almost primeval, primeval character. Fertile and moist habitats provide excellent habitats for various plant species, about 400 species have been counted. Protected plants that deserve special attention include: the common ginger, the common twayblade, the wood nestling, the Fuchs orchid, the spotted orchid and the cowslip. The biggest attraction of the reserve is the globeflower.

The current palace was built between the tower and the early Baroque palace (currently non-existent) and received its current form at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries after a classicist reconstruction carried out by Kazimierz Krasiński, the Crown Campiander, according to the design of Jakub Kubicki. At that time, a columned porch with a terrace in front of the main entrance was also built. The expansion of the palace complex was later continued by Józef Wawrzyniec Krasiński, who created a landscape park around the palace that exists to this day and rebuilt the small castle in the neo-Gothic style, which is the remains of the former Radziejowski tower. Over the following decades, Radziejowice was visited by people of culture, including Juliusz Kossak, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Lucjan Rydel, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Józef Chełmoński, Stanisław Masłowski.