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Dziś chcemy zachęcić do zobaczenia jednego z najpiękniejszych polskich dworów - dworu w Łopusznej (wieś koło Zakopanego w pobliżu Gorców). Dom został zbudowany w 1970 roku przez byłego konfederata barskiego - Romualda Lisickiego. Przez pewien czas należał do Leona Przerwy-Tetmajera - wuja słynnego pisarza Kazimierza Przerwy-Tetmajera. Do II wojny światowej dwór był własnością rodziny Lgockich, ale po 1945 roku majątek podzielił los wielu innych dworów i został przejęty przez skarb państwa. To niemal doprowadziło do ruiny Łopusznej, ale w latach 70. dwór został przejęty przez Muzeum Tatrzańskie i przywrócono mu dawny wygląd.

Enough about Warsaw. Today something about Łódź - the third largest Polish city.

Name Łódź means a boat, but it's not entirely proved, that city name origins are connected to the boat. It is possible that name "Łódź" came from surename or from "loza" what means willow.

In small village - Szymbark (in Poland of course) there is upside-down house. Just watch the film

Not only Holland have windmills. In Poland nowdays there are few or none working windmills but in the past, there were many.

First info about windmills in Poland has been dated on the second half of the XIII century. This is permission to build a windmill by monks from monastery in Biały Stok issued by prince Wiesław from Rugia.

Lot of windmills were destroyed during wars (especially during the second world war). Some of them burnt in fires, becouse they were mainly build of wood.

Now the few which have left are dying on the fields. Sometimes there are carried to the museums. Some of them even are restored to its original look and private investors build in them restaurants or hotel, but this happens very rare.

Anyone interested in Poland windmills should visit this page: Windmills in Poland (in Polish language only:( ). On this page here there is an interactive map with windmills which can be seen nowdays in Poland.

Windmil in Lublin

Today panoramic photos of polish cities. Cities in Poland are different from the huge, urbanized cities in i.e. USA, Germany or Great Britain. In Poland cities grow more in breath rather than to the top. Big skycrapers are rare view reserved mainly for the centrum of capital city - Warsaw.

Many Polish cities were destroyed into the ground during the last World War. Especially Warsaw, which over 90% was ruined. This was and still is Polish curse, that country is placed in the middle of Europe and is affected by almost every war. In Poland there are almost no places which are 'really' old towns. For example Warsaw Old Town, which is on UNESCO list, was totaly rebuild from a scratch.

So have a look on panoramic photos what left and was rebuilt after many wars in Poland.

Old (rebuild after II World War) town in Warszawa (Warsaw). In right coner is castle.

Wrocław near Polish-German border.