The best family-friendly hikes and walks in Rezerwat Czaplowizna

As a rule, the patronage over a place of worship and the associated parish community is entrusted to one of the many people whom we venerate as blessed or saints due to their exemplary Christian life. Here, however, we encounter – in my experience, something very rarely found – the patronage of God's Mercy. In the dawning third millennium, Pope John Paul II enriched the church calendar with a corresponding feast, which goes back to the visions of the Polish nun Faustyna, whom he beatified. In a homiletic aid, the following text is found: „One of the particularly precious pearls from John Paul's rich heritage is the ... Sunday of Divine Mercy. In the great Jubilee Year 2000, the Holy Father, on the octave day of Easter – White Sunday – reintroduced the feast of Divine Mercy for the whole Church. The origin of this feast is closely linked to the life story of Karol Wojtyła and can therefore be described as something of his personal gift to the Church of the 21st century.“

The temple was built in 1932 in the village of Wólka Dobryńska, in the Zalesie commune, in the Biała Podlaska district. It was originally named after St. Stanislaus Kostka. The church was built thanks to the efforts of Father Franciszek Michalik. It was designed by the architect Mr. Mazur. The builders of the temple were carpenters Józef Kozerski, Antoni Lewczuk, Wiktor and Antoni Arseniuków, Julian Romaniuk. In 2009, the building was moved by the Arche SA company to its current location. Thanks to the support of the president of this company, Władysław Grochowski, the church was restored. On May 13, 2010, on the Sunday of the Ascension of the Lord, the then bishop of Drohiczyn Antoni Dydycz consecrated the temple, giving it the name of Divine Mercy. During this ceremony, a plaque commemorating the founder was placed in the church.

A very pretty river and a bridge on whose balustrades you can rest (sometimes in the shade).

The wooden house situated on the Bug River is a spatial manifestation of Open Form – an idea that Oskar Hansen made the axis of his architectural, artistic and didactic work. Since 2014, the house has been under the care of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, and at the end of 2017 it became a branch of the Museum. Source: https://archiwum.artmuseum.pl/pl/muzeum/szumin

The famous Szumin appreciated the great contribution to the cycling, travel and photography community of our colleague Michał aka Powsinogi, that he decided to name a street after him! Heartfelt congratulations!

is located near the Palace

At the beginning of May 2014, thanks to the efforts of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, the wooden house of Zofia and Oskar Hansen in Szumin was opened to the public. Located in Mazovia, in the picturesque old riverbed of the Bug River, it is a spatial manifesto of the idea of Open Form, which Oskar Hansen, a Polish member of Team 10, made the axis of his architectural work. The house, built since 1968, fully expressed these ideas, being one of the few works of the Hansens realized in accordance with their wishes, without the restrictions imposed by the socialist construction industry. The time-space architecture, smoothly connecting the interior and the exterior, contained within itself the element of change, easily adapting to the changing needs of its users. Built as a frame for life, it comes alive with the presence of people. The special atmosphere of the house is co-created by traces of the activities and passions of its inhabitants - didactic instruments placed around the house for learning the basics of composition; a steel structure from the 1977 Venice Biennale with vines climbing up it, and a wooden dovecote which Zofia Hansen considered to be her husband's most perfect work.

In addition to the fishing grounds near Szumin, Wywłóka is a mecca for Mazovian anglers from the surrounding area. From the stories of anglers we have met, pike, zander, asp and perch are the most desirable fish in these fishing grounds (although of course these are not the only fish that can be found there). But fish are a magnet, not only for anglers who fish for them here at different times of the year, also in winter, from under the ice. There are many more people willing to fish in this fish kingdom, in the form of numerous species of waterfowl, including such ornithological rarities as corncrakes, curlews, black-tailed godwits and sandpipers. In the vicinity of Szumin and Wywłóka, one can observe almost exemplary effects of the meandering of the Bug, which leaves behind old branches and small "lakes". These areas are subject to flooding in spring; backwaters are created that facilitate the movement of fish. That is why it is here, on the "bużyska", as the old riverbeds of the Bug are called, that you can observe many anglers trying to catch the golden crucian carp, which they call the "Japanese carp", or the tench, which likes to hide in the mud, in small, often overgrown reservoirs.