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The Zmieniów Square in Skórzec is an unusual attraction for fans of the Polish series "Zmiennicy". On the square there is a replica of a yellow Fiat 125p taxi with the side number 1313, placed on a platform as a monument. The car has been partially restored and painted yellow, referring to the original vehicle from the series. For road cyclists, it is an interesting point on the route through Mazovia, with convenient access by asphalt roads and the possibility of combining sightseeing with a visit to nearby towns.

Next to it are benches and a shelter for rest.

The belfry next to the church is "younger", it was placed here in 1951. There is a certain story associated with the bells. During each wartime turmoil, the church bells were melted down to make cannons. In 1794, the bells from the previous church were given to the Kościuszko insurgents. Also during the November Uprising, the parish offered its bells to the Polish army. The next bells were requisitioned in 1915. The Germans stole them for the last time in 1941. The current bells were consecrated in 1957 and bear the names of Jakub and Franciszek.

The church is of log construction, with three naves separated by cast iron columns and a chancel separated from the main nave. There are two chapels on its sides. In the years 1907-1910, i.e. during the renovation, the church also gained two sacristies. It was then that the ceiling was covered with illusionistic paintings with rich ornamentation. The interior is well lit with natural light thanks to the fact that the main nave is higher than the side naves, and the windows were placed above their roofs. The ceiling of the church makes a huge impression above all. It is covered with illusionistic paintings and coffers with rosettes. It is impossible to tell what is painted and what is real. In the chancel there are three beautiful, oak, twentieth-century altars. In the main altar there is a painting of the Assumption of the Mother of God. The Rococo altars in the chapels from around 1770 are also beautiful. In the right one there is a painting of the Blessed Virgin Mary Immaculate Conception, while in the left one – an eighteenth-century sculpture of the Crucified Christ, once surrounded by worship. This is evidenced by the numerous votive offerings hanging around the cross. The organ prospect also comes from that year. The church's equipment also includes two beautiful, historic feretrons, two Rococo confessionals, a baptismal font in the shape of a chalice and eighteenth-century paintings from the school of Szymon Czechowicz. One of them – the Coronation of the Blessed Virgin Mary decorates the wall of the presbytery, and the other – the Crucifixion of the Lord Jesus is hung next to the organ.

The Church of the Holy Trinity in Żeliszew Podkościelne was built of pine wood on a rectangular plan in the years 1770-1777. The first church in Żeliszew existed already in the first half of the 16th century, but it was burned down during the Swedish Deluge. The parish of the Holy Trinity was established in 1769. The current church was built thanks to the foundation of a local heir. In 1906, most of the village residents converted to Mariavitism - it was then that they occupied the church. A year later, by court order, they had to leave the temple.

The palace was composed of neo-Gothic, neo-Romanesque, and oriental elements. Built of brick and plastered, set on an irregular, elongated plan with an irregular shape. The building has a basement, two-storey in part with a residential attic covered with a hipped roof with sheet metal surfaces. The palace's body is strongly segmented and consists of cuboid elements. The building is dominated by a three-storey tower topped with a battlement and a Lombard frieze placed under the crowning cornice. Basically, the body consists of six juxtaposed bodies. The body most protruding to the front is also the main axis placed asymmetrically. It is preceded by a massive porch pierced by a Tudor arch, which houses the main entrance to the palace. Above it is an open terrace surrounded by a stone balustrade. Terrace doors finished with a pointed arch and tracery decoration. All the elements were composed as pseudo-towers. They were flanked on two sides by smooth corner pilaster strips and topped with a prominent crowning cornice, under which a Lombard frieze runs, above which a battlement was placed. On one of the side elevations, a pillared portico of the side entrance was squeezed between two tower masses. Window openings of various sizes and shapes.

The Cisie-Zagrudzie park and palace complex. The house was built at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries at the behest of the Twardowski family. The estate, originally called Cisie, was owned in 1783 by Dominik Przeździecki, the starost of Mińsk. In the 19th century, the estate passed into the possession of the family of the founders of the palace, and in 1909 it belonged to priest Stanisław Szaniawski. In the interwar years, the estate was in the possession of Jerzy Konopka. In the late 1920s, the estate belonged to Stanisław Klawe and the land amounted to 160 hectares. In 1927, the next owner was Józef Maria Mielżyński, who two years later passed it to Jerzy Konopka. Baron Jerzy Konopka (1887-1954) of the Nowina coat of arms, married since July 1914 to Maria Ludwika Sokołowska (1890-1944) of the Korab coat of arms, was the last pre-war owner of the Cisień estate and lived here in the years 1929-1944. After the end of World War II, a primary school and then teachers' apartments were placed in the palace. The palace was abandoned in the 1980s. In 1999, the building was taken over by a private owner. Currently, the house remains abandoned and is in poor technical condition. Around it are the remains of a park, in fairly good condition.

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